The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1922-04-06
The News of Belfast

u. Ae meeting of tn Round Table of the
~ ith church has been postponed one
week
The Universalist League will meet
this, Thursday, afternoon with Mrs.
Samuel Racklff
The Hospital Club and Aid will meet
next Tuesday at 2 D. m, with Mrs. Cecil
Clay for business session.
The meeting of the North church Guild
scheduled for next Monday evening will
be postponed for two weeks.
The Lend a-Hand Club will meet this,
Thursday, afternoon with Mrs. Ross w.
Cunningham, Upper High street.
The Girl Scouts of the Universalist
church, Mrs. Basil Hen, leader, will
meet in the vestry Monday at 80 D. m
The Colonial Hotel at Nassau, N. P..
which recently burned, is where Hart L.
Woodcock, the well known Maine artist,
was spending the winter.
1t is SAID that 80 years ago Sunday
eight feet of snow fell here, and it lasted
for two days, so that the present rec
ord of foot is not so much after ALL
Orrin }. Dickey has rented his cottage,
The Birches, at Temple Heights, NORTH
port, for the coming season to MIR. and
Mrs. A. F. Schmidt and family of B rook
lyn, ~ York.
The Unitarian Alliance will hold it's
last meeting of the season at the home of
Mrs. James H. Howes this, Thursday,
afternoon when Mrs. Fred T. Chase will
read paper on "Some Famous Old New
England Trees"
The funeral of James A. Sprague took
place at his home IN Belmont Wednesday
at D. m. He was born in Belfast, Oct.
"a, 1872, the son of Emery and Mary
tShibles) Sprague, but had lived at Halls
Corner, Belmont, for about 72 years.
A stated assembly of King Solo non s
Council, R. & S. NJ, was held in Masonic
Temple Tuesday at 4 o'clock. All of the
degrees of the council were conferred in
full form, and K. |. Morris L. Slugg, Dep
uty Grand Master made his official visit
A banquet was served at 6 80 p. IN.
The April term of the Supreme Judicial
Court will convene at the Court House
i'll this city Tuesday, April 18th, with
Justice George NJ. Hanson of Calais, per-
siding. Cecil Clay of this city is his
stenographer. The report is current tina t
several interesting cases will be tried.
Belfast relatives have received news of
the sudden death of Mrs. Herbert L.
Cobb of West Medford, Mass. which oc-
CURED at her home early Thursday morn
ing, March 30th. Mrs. Cobb was a ma
tive of Brooks, a daughter of E. o. STAN
tia and cousin of A. b. Stantial of Bel
fast
The remains of Chandler W. Ellis, a for
mer Prospect resident, arrived here last
Saturday night from Lowell, Mass,
where he died March 3lst. His age was
SO years, 10 months and 20 days. He
was stone cutter by trade and had
many friends in his home town and in
this vicinity.
The m thod of handling the fires by
still alarm and the chiefs call will be
more fully appreciated when the follow
ing report of Chief Engineer S. S. L.
Shute is read "For the year Just past the
Department has answered in all % calls,
% of which have been bell calls, 10 for
still alarms to chimney fires and brush
fires"
There will be a meeting of the Belfast
Chamber of Commerce this, Thursday,
evening TO meet Edwin l.. Iurreli, who is
here IN the interest of the State of
Maine Publicity Bureau. Its headquar-
tiers is IN benoit block, Portland. The
purposes are we'll known and all mem
bers are urged to be present and take a
part in the matter.
By request the Peirce school will re-
peat at the Colonial Theatre next oatur-
day afternoon the children's operetta,
THE Meeting of the Nations" so well
presented recently at the Armory.
Those who attended before will want to
see 1t again and all who did not have
that privilege should avail themselves of
this opportunity. The schools share of
the proceeds will be applied to their seat
fund Manager Clifford has arranged for
an educational picture to be given also.
The admission is 25 cents with Is cents
for children under ~ years.