The Republican journal., 1922-02-23

parties held in Odd Fellows hall, with
music by McKeen's orchestra, came off
last Thursday night. They are under the
direction of a committee of men and
pleasant times are the result.
Howard Edmund Wilson, son OF Mr.
and Mrs. Leste A. Wilson of Poor's
Mills and B. II. S. graduate, now jun
Tor at the University of Maine, is a mem
Der of the debating team. While student
here he won a championship in an inter-
High school debate.
The ladies of the Methodist church
have postponed their public supper in
their vestry advertised for Wednesday,
Feb. 22nd, to Friday, Feb. oath. Tickets
will be so cents and the menu will in
clude cold meats, baked beans, salads,
cake, cream pie and coffee.
Eugene l.. Spear, manager of the local
telephone office, appeared down town
Monday with two clutches. He was
pitching hay from his barn scaffold and
jumped on what he thought was pile of
hay, but found himself landed six feet
below on the barn floor. He escaped
with a slight sprain of his rieh ankle.
The WatervilIe correspondent of last
Fridays Kennebec journal has the fol
lowing of interest to our readers: "Mr
and Mrs Mahlon Brann of Al Benton
Avenue are the proud parents of baby
girl, born Wednesday morning, February
18TH The little miss has been named
Patricia Isabelle. Mother and daughter
are doing splendidly." Mrs. Brann was
formerly Miss Hattie, daughter of MIR.
and Mrs Frank A. Luce of Liberty, and
well known in Belfast.
Judge John H. Sullivan of Searsport,
after reading The Journals report of Mrs
c. w. Lancas ter's prize Plymouth Rock
hen producing a four ounce egg, says of
his own prize bird: Il have hen which
has Just produced an egg weighing five
ounces and measuring 8 by IL inches.
The hen is Barred plymouth Rock,
the University of Maine strain, and dur
ing the past year has laid fourteen of
these extra size eggs"
Rev. George S. Mills of Bennington,
VT, a former pastor of the North Con-
eregational church, said in personal
note which he sent with an obituary of
Miss Ellen ID. Townsend, printed on an
other page in this issue: "You may have
received other notices of Miss Town
sends death, but | am sure her many
former friends in Belfast will wish to
know about the great esteem in which
she was held in other places"
The journal is indebted to Charles H.
Fleming of Bridgeport, Conn, for clip
ping from one of that city's dailies giving
finely illustrated story on the once ia
nous Locomobile Company, now practi-
cally a thing of the past, Mr.. Fleming
was a former Belfast boy, has been a
prominent business man in Bridgeport
many years and was one of the first to
use the famous and then entirely new
cars in 1900. This company has to it's
credit many of the devices used in auto
construction of the present day.
A special from Portland, under date of
Feb. 18th, has news item of interest to
many OF our readers as James H. Howes
was chosen member of the committee
mentioned. Stockholders of the Maine
Central railroad at a special meeting to-
day voted that committee of Is be APP
pointed to cooperate with the manage
ment in considering the relations between
the Sandy River and Rangeey Lakes
railroad and the Maine Central. 1t will
report at the annual meeting in April.
The directors recently voted to pay the
interest due the first of this month on the
bonds of that road. The committee also
was authorized to consider, in coopera-
ton with the management, the general
railroad situation due to the crisis
brought about by the war and the re
turn of the railroads by the federal gov
eminent to private management"
Victims of Francis B. Duffley. who was
located in this city for some time several
years ago, will be interested to learn that
he has been sentence to serve year in
Bangor Jail While here Duffley con-
Quoted quite business in the surround
ing towns by taking o. ders for charging
pictures. Reports of his dishonesty were
current then, but no action was taker
against him. He was constant church
poer and in two of the Belfast churches
sang in their chorus choirs. He also
made friends readily. Last week he was
before Judge John A. Peters of the U. S.
District Court, charged with defrauding
relatives of Grand Army veterans on the
pretence of furnishing them with accu-
rate war records. Judge Peters sentence
ed him on an old indictment to serve one
year in the Bangor Jail and on later
case he was given like sentence, the
terms to run concurrently. Duffley now
claims Newport as his home. Roscoe 5.
Littlefeld of Belfast was on the second
Jury of the Court at its Bangor session.
Mrs. Loren Cross, who with Mr.. Cross