The Republican journal., 1922-11-23
The News of Belfast


Wednesday evening, Nov. 2oth, by Har-
vey Foust, and so per cent of the net pro-
ceeds will be given to the Waldo County
Hospital Good music.
The Universalist League met Thursday
at the home of Mrs. Sherman G. Swift,
Cedar street, when pl ms ana work for
the Christmas sale, which will be held
early in December, were in order.
The fire engine was called Friday to
the residence of Amos Clement John
street, for a slight blaze that had caught
on the roof by sparks falling from the
chimney. There was no damage.
The present term of school is long
one of eighteen weeks and will close Dec.
22nd. The other terms for the present
year will be correspondingly short, clos
! ing early in the summer to allow for
work on the new building.
Last Sunday evening DR.. and Mrs.
Harry L. Kileore, MIR. and Mrs. Allan NJ.
Howes, Mr.. and Mrs. Virgil L. Hall and
MIR. and Mrs. Norman A. Read took din
ner in party at the Windsor Hotel. By
chance the date fell on the anniversary
of Mr.. and Mrs. Howes' wedding. Later
all autoed to Searsport.
The quota for the garments to be furn..
ished for the Near East relief by he
Waldo County Chapter of the Red Cross
is 800 garments. To date the committee
in charge with Mrs. Ben. Hazeltine chair
man has been able to send only 100. If
any one can furnish suitable garments
they may call Mrs. Hazeltine or Mrs.
Essie P. Carle.
The date of the regular meeting of the
Alliance to be held in the North Church
parlors has been changed from Thursday,
Nov. 2Srd, to Tuesday. Nov. 28th. This
is to accommodate the speaker of the
afternoon, Mrs. George c. Bosson, Jr.,
who comes here from Eggemoggin to be
the guest of her cousins, Mr.. and Mrs.
Elmer A. Sherman, for Thanksgiving.
miss Eleanor Giffith of South Portland
supervisor of the Maine State Public
Health Dep srtment of the Red Cross, ar
rived Tuesday evening for short official
visit. With Miss Sadie NJ. Nickerson, R.
N, the district nurse, she was the guest
of Mrs. Ben. Hazeltine, the local chair
man, Tuesday at tea, At meeting in
the rooms on Main street, in the evening
she spoke in most complimentary terms of
the snIendid service
The Maine Industrial Accident Com
mission were in session in the City Clerks
office Tuesday morning and The journal
is indebted to Major Arthur E. Thayer,
clerk of the commission, for the brief
summary of business that was transacted:
John Phillips, employed on the Memorial
Bridge by Cyr Brothers, was granted
compensation for seven weeks for in
iuries caused while at work. Minot
Stearns, injured while at work for the
Peiepscot Company, had his case con-
tinued by agreement. Frank Doucette,
victim of an sccident at the Penobscot
Coal & Wharf Co.'s plant in Searsport,
was allowed compensation for perma-
nent injury to one of his arms.
Four men were before Judge Clyde r.
Chapman of the Municipal Court recent
ly to answer to warrants charging them
with stealing coal from the R. R. Co. at
the depot. Six people were caught stealing |
the coal, which seemed to them to be
public property. One of the men made
his escape and one was a woman. A
warrant was issued for. her arrest, but |
was not enforced. The people were poor
and some had illness in their families. |
All claimed it was their ist offence, but |
the coal has been disappearing for some
time. Judge Chapman sentenced each |
man to ten days in jail, but suspended |
their sentences on their promise not to
take any more coal. The six people were
caught in little over one hour by one Of
the regular NJ. C. R. R. detectives.
The annual meeting of the Waldo Trus
Company was held Tuesday forenoon
when the following were elected:
Trustees-J. w. Blaisdell, Belfast, Jas
]. Clement, Montville, Chas r. Coombs,
Belfast, William .Farwell, Thorndike, w.
H. Hall, Belfast, A. E. Kilgore. Brooks,
Amos w. Knowlton, Hampden, 3. H.
Nudge t, Belfast, A. M. Shibles, Knox
station, NJ. L. SluaR, R. D. Southwolth,
H. H. Stevens, E. D. Tapley. N. H.
White, Boston, ] H. Howes. Belfast.
Executive committee: Messrs Blais-
dell. Clement, Coombs, Hall. Mudgett,
Slugg, Southworth, Stevens, Howes
president, DR.. E. D. Tapley; vice presi
dent, M. L. Slugg; treasurer, Charles H
Hubbard; assistant treasurer, Henry
Smith. Total assets, 5000, 700; total de
posits, $736, 600 Gain in deposits during
the past year, 22.4 per cent; gain in de
positors during the past year, lI.2 per
cent.
BELFAST ARTIST NOT To EXHIBIT In
BANGOR. The Bangor Daily News says
locally of the well known Belfast water
color artist: sThe exhibit of water color
.,;nt;ros tn have been given under the