The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1921-05-26

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i The B. II. S. base ball nine went to
Thomaston last Wednesday and lost to
the Thomaston High by a score of 10 to
IL. They made the trip by auto.
Miss Florence M. Brown, who has been
in charge of the Western Union Tele-
grab office in Waterville the past winter,
is spending a two weeks vacation with
her parents, Mr.. and Mrs. Lewis A.
Brown. June first she will enter the
Belfast office as manager.
A Naval officer was in Belfast Satur-
day in search of Joseph Davis, son of
Mr.. and Mrs. Henry Davis, of this city,
who was at home on a vacation without
proper leave of absence. Young Davis
had good Army record in the recent
war and has been in the Navy for some
time.
Some of Belfast's wide-awake citizens
are planning to have a program for July
4th that will be of sufficient interest to
keep people at home A meeting of rep
resentatives of different branches of in
terests was held last Wednesday even
ing at the law office of Buzzell & Thorn
ton. Plans are not yet fully arranged.
Miss Gladys Ruth Brigham of Somer-
vile, Mass, very well and favorably
known in this city, recently presented in
Moore Hall, Somerviile, "Robie Takes a
Look, +" an original comedy of two acts,
with epilogue requiring sixty young peo-
pie in the cast, introducing twelve must
cal numbers in which large chorus and
twenty children took part 1t was a
benefit to the Auxiliary of the Somer-
vile Y. M. Z. A.
The house in Northport on the back
road near Temple Heights, formerly
known as the Briggs place and owned
later by Albert W. Hassan of this city,
was burned to the ground last Thursday
1t has been unoccupied for several years.
A truck from the Belfast Trucking Com
pany reached the place in time to save
of the fire until they reached the place
Charles 0. Dickey of Northport and a
crew of men did good work in keeping
the fire, which had made rapid Roadway,
from reaching the heavy growth of tim
Der nearby.
referee insurance case occupied all
J day last Wednesday at the county court
house and was to determine the value of
the farm buildings of Carroll H. Clements
OF Monroe. The buildings were recently
burnei and were insured for $1,000 each
IN the Liverpool, London & Globe and the
. Springfield Fire and Marine Insurance
!, Companies. Messrs. VIM. Fl. CULVER of
Portland and H. C. Buzzell of Belfast ap
peared for the companies; with Judge
Eliery Bowden of Winterport and Mr..
Robert F. Dunton of Belfast for Mr..
Clements. The referees were Messrs. A.
I. Nickerson of Searsport, Henry l..
Withee of Rockport and Frank l. Mort
land of Searsport. There were a large
hubioSl Va "ltHCSSCS duu lOullllo "OTh.
The referees reserved their decision,
James H. Howes of this city was elect
ed president of the Maine Retail Dry
Goods Association at its annual session
in Portland last Wednesday. Mr.. Howes
is one Of Belfast's most dependab Bile bust
ness men, and with the exception OF a
short clerkship in Boston after finishing
his studies at the Bryant & Stratton Bus
mess College he has been in active life
here. While in his teens he entered the
grocery store of A. A. Howes & Co., and
soon after became a member of the firm.
About twenty years ago he bought out
George w. Burkett's dry goods store and
today has one of the best equipped and
Mr.. Howes' activities are not confined to
his own store as he has for several years
been the president of the Belfast Savings
Bank, one of the most reliable in the
State, is director of the Waldo Trust
Company, we'll founded banking house
with branches in Unity, Brooks and Cas-
tine. He is also the treasurer and one of
the trustees of the First Parish (Unitar-
lam church. Without the slightest os
tentation he always does more than his
part in all public andcharitable organiza-
tons. This year he is president of the
local Chautauqua events. His residence
on High street is one of the most attrac-
tive in Belfast; he also owns cottage at
North Shore, Northport, and one at
Pitchers Pond. His friends are looking
for him to be instrumental in having the
Dry Goods Association meet in Belfast
in the near future.
The BAND CONCERT AND CONFETTI
BALL. The Band benefit in the Armory
was one of the most pleasing of the Sea-
sons social events. 1t was under the d.
rection of Mrs. Cecil Clay, who also de-
signed the artistic and unusual decora-
tons. The hall was a bower of branches
of apple blossoms placed here, there and
everywhere with the stage front solid
mass of bloom, relieved only by several
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