The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1922-01-05

Phoenix Lodge, F. & A. NJ, will hav,
an important meeting this, Thursday
evening. The ladies of the Baptist
church will furnish the supper.
A still alarm was given last THURSDAY
at $50 p. m. for chimney fire in the
John +. Chapman house on Cedar street.
1t was difficult to manage, but was final
ly controlled without damage.
Waldo Lodge and Aurora Rebekah
Lodge. l. 0. o. r., will hold joint in
stallation of officers next Tuesday ever
ing. making very interesting ceremony.
All members of the order are cordially
invited to be present.
This, Thursday, afternoon the members
of the social committee of the Women's 8
Alliance and any others who may wish to
sew. will meet at the home of Mrs. JAS
c. Durham, Church street, at 2.30
O'Clock. More sewing is to be done for
the children at the Girls Home.
The Travellers Club will meet next
tuesday with Mrs. Robert +. Dunton
The program will include the following
papers: Colon and Panama. by Mrs.
Chas. M. Craig; The Disease Battle of the
lsthmus, Miss Mabel r. Mathews; Is 1t
Worth Whilei Mrs. Charles S. Bickford
The engagement of Daniel N. McInnis
of New London, Conn.,, and Miss Gladys
Elliott of Somerville. Mass, has been an
nounced. Mr.. McInnis is teacher of the
Commercial Department of the B. H. S.,
and Miss Elliott, a senior at the Boston
University. The wedding will take place
in the early summer.
Mr.. and Mrs. Edmund P. Brown, two
good authorities on birds, reported see
ing mocking bird on their lawn We'd
nesday noon. The bird has long white
feathers in it's tail and white spats on its
wings. If it is seen about town by any
one telephone call to Mrs. Brown or to
Edmund Wilson in the city building or to
the Journal Office will be greatly appre-
ciated.
A NATIONAL RECORD. The jewelry
firm of Chase & Doak, one of the best
known in New England, and one of two
with a national record of continuous bus
mess, has been dissolved. Mr.. George r..
Doak retires and Frederick T. Chase will
continue the business at the old stand,
| uvhara he hos hooD c;pca n hoy The OF or.
was opened at its present site in 1924 and
and was acquired by Timothy Chase, the
present owners grandfather, in 1926, and
has been held in whole or part in the
Chase family ever since. Hiram Chase
succeeded his father and in later years
took his son into partnership under the
firm name of Hiram Chase & Son. In
1897, Messrs Doak and Chase formed the
partnership recently dissolved. The store
is known tar and wide for it's square
dealing, good goods and excellent work
manship and its present owner will con.
tinue its high standing as he is borI
and bred jeweler and graduate optome-
trist. The Unitarian clock, one of the
oldest in the State, and known as the
town clock, was designed and made in
part by Timothy Chase in 1896, and MI
Chase has as souvenirs, treatise on
clock and watch making of the date OF
1926, and bills, gear, cutting machinery,
etc, used for that purpose, as well as the
original sign of Timothy Chase. Mr.
Doak retires on account of Ill health and
will take a much needed rest before he
undertakes Other work. Ia all these
wears of close busine.s f-endship
ties there has never east OIL
friction or hard feeling ooak en-
tered the store in 1871 an sed 2 In
years apprenticeship. Fof o~ah?r time
he clerked for ii. E. Mcdonald in Ma
sonic Temple block. Late in 1874 ne
went to Vinalhaven and was in business
for himself until he returnedhere in 1897.