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Image 8 of The Republican journal (Belfast, Me.), May 21, 1903

the old reliable r J w rvjm POWDER Absolutely Pure r is NO SUBSTITUTE SEARSPORT LOCALS Miss Nancy Ford of Boston was in town Tuesday Mrs Frudence Putnam is in town for the summer Mrs Ned Meyers left Saturday by boat for New York Mrs Harry Perry left Saturday by boat for New York Miss Hope Curtis is spending a few weeks vacation in town Miss Blanche Harding of Lowell Mass is at home for a few weeks Capt Nathan Carver of Boston arrived by steamer Tuesday morning Mrs Clara Leonard of Boston is visiting her parents Mr and Mrs J Hamilton Miss Lora Cyphers and Mr W Clark of Frankfort called on friends in town Sun day Frank Curtis is spending a short vacation with his parents Capt and Mrs Frank Curtis Sell Kittie Lawry Capt Charles Closson sailed Tuesday morning for Kockland w ith kiln wood A party of our young people attended the promenade concert in Belfast Wednesday night May loth Miss Inez Dolliver arrived Friday called here by the illness of her grandmother Mrs Emily simonton Kev and Mrs T I Williams are attend ing the commencement exercises at the Theological Seminary Bangor We notice the

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Image 7 of The Republican journal (Belfast, Me.), May 28, 1903

jf GODWINS EASTER iiNUIKILOW turknktt 1 i in walked rapidly down Vat h t the street and with i look shut the pate be i was not one to linger at i parting and today Mrs caving ihe borne of fifty vu have heard the sad said a voice at her M i turned and looked into Id friend and neighbor who stood leaning on I mug white hair blown wind lames she inquired vc been so taken up with i sli cares that I have not j ml in the village for the 1 story of a good man bad one left to fill his red lames Wilson Xo ns having dealings with Margaret We know if in sheeps clothing it to tell me that Henry said Mrs Goodwin in He stopped at my a bis way home from and lie told me that lie r in bis life I must see f it I ns laded blue eyes took neighbors confusion now 1 wouldnt Mar i that neerdowell of a re 1 would run my poor drop a tear on his hand ruing Margaret and i ottered off stood where lie let t her ic snow that was

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Image 7 of The Republican journal (Belfast, Me.), June 4, 1903

founty Correspondence Deferred from last weekJ 1 Thayer of Belfast ere idayState Lecturer oliire at Victor Grange buiar1 veiling June 3dMiss i as arrived home for the lieasant reception was 1 Mrs Beebe at the par lay evening About one resent The evening was ntercourse and singing r mi were servedMrs seriously ill Mrs It i t last is in town Memo 1 observed at the M E miber of veterans were f ip u m arrived home from 1 i siia_Iapt W CHard days last week with his ids barge the George charging coal in lrovi J lieagan and Mrs ted relatives in Winter i Mrs Mary Smith enter i nb May 20thGeorge me sick with asthma 1 the Misses Maud and uikfort were the guests last Saturday and Suu i rusts here last Saturday did a lot of damage to frud trees Mrs Mary Ilufns I land man called in Stockton Springs II Clarke have gone to j _selden Clarke has l where he lias employ i Clarke visited her j 1 in Butter City Sun il and Raymond How n Bucksport last week j i has returned home j he lias had employ rant visited friends p

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Image 7 of The Republican journal (Belfast, Me.), June 25, 1903

probate court j is an abstract of the business ate Court for Waldo County ime P Drinkwater Lincoln K Drink water appointed livid V Morey Belfast will ua C Morey appointed ex ivderiok A Knowlton Bel oved Elizabeth A Knowlton itrix pliraim A Pitcher llelfast Fred W Pitcher of New pointed executor li F llun luia B Nichols Searsport Ellen C Nichols appointed v with the will annexed iliiah A Say ward Burnham I Frank J and Fred W Say 1 executors mli M Pease Belmont will licit G Morse appointed ex iicoln A Webber Searsport Mr appointed administrator all B Ellis Belfast Fred uitli Framingham Mass ap strator H F Dunton agent hi McG Kandall Belfast R pointed administrator vo M Mason Monroe Wal ppointed administrator Iucy A Derrick Belfast El desthn Wadlin and Frank P nted trustees first and final utor allowed Win li and Frank l Spinney Spinney appointed guar llizael McKeeu Belfast allow _muted to the widow ailaee J Cuuniiigham Swan i f pf 22150 grauted to the Kiln M Williams Searsmont i to sell personal estate ad inventory returned uniel B Williams Searsmont i to sell personal estate ad inventory returned Ralph Devereux Jr Sears

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Image 7 of The Republican journal (Belfast, Me.), July 2, 1903

ffiiAR SONGS aSD their authors Ml kindly light i mj Xewman was born in 11 iii and his ninetyone years ivtars of love and truth med as a priest in the Epis 1 nii824 and in the follow friend Dr Whately having l head of St Albans hall Ki by him selected as his lie was one of the most imencing and carrying on ixford movementthe if which was to counteract unanizing as the dissenting i the time by restoring and notice what Xewman and obeyed to be catholic char knglish church With this menced in 1818 the series Oxford tracts to which i one of the chief contrib i i M8 lie also became editor Critic In October 1854 lied into the Roman Cath i step which was immedi od byi the publication of a Development of Doctrine ward Xewman repaired to after some preparation tod to order in the Roman 1848 on his return to ablished a branch of the of the Oratory of St I which he was himself superior In 1852 he was tor of the Catholic uni ished in Dublin and in nude a cardinal by Tope Vi wiiian was a voluminous tinted books numbering

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Image 7 of The Republican journal (Belfast, Me.), July 9, 1903

11 Bisected Ship Half of Vessel Cut in Two by an l1ietr Sailed on and Distanced a Liner cut in two by an iceberg ivliat we were 7 t say so daylight the skipper coll iding himself of a mouthful We were cut right square after that th ship was two berg hit us amidships It aii from port to starboard 7 to tell th tale today long after wed left th 0 that we had a lively time u re 20 in all Th ship was luitehman full rigged an at she got her name from t that a feller wrote about across th sea in th air an niched by a storm all dur ired years or so that she t this boat in th story 1 into the sky one day an iown again an th men on to angels an drank beer they wanted ever after ship was named after this tu 1 guess she was just v though she didnt fly up Howsoever the story c r had herself cut in two rj like ours did remarkin we got a little coast o Maine when we t One mo min I look ind saw a

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Image 8 of The Republican journal (Belfast, Me.), August 20, 1903

County Correspondence SEARSPORT LOCALS Albert Nichols is visiting friends in town Mr Harry Blake left Wednesday for Bos ton Miss Addie Hubbard left for Boston Sat urday Mr Bert Morrison is spending a short va cation in town Mr William Putnam and son Will left Wednesday for Boston Miss Eva Clement left Saturday for her home in Boston Rev Charles Whittier of Bangor spent Sunday in town Miss Jennie Salvage left for New York by boat Saturday Mr Maurice Dolliver was in Bangor for a few days last week Edward Porter left Saturday for a short visit in Providence R I Miss Rose Roulston of Boston is visiting Mr and Mrs N Roulston Dr S Calderwood of Boston was in town for a few days last week Mr Amos 1 Carver of Brooklyn N Y is in town for a few days Miss Emeliue Nickels is ths guest of Lap ami Mrs E D 1 Nickels Albert Fowler of Ames Iowa is visiting Ins aunt Mrs Geo Sargent Mr Charles Nichols ami family of Port land spent last week in town Mrs Nina Hadlock and son of Boston are the guests of Capt D S Goodell Will Prescott ami his

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Image 6 of The Republican journal (Belfast, Me.), August 27, 1903

UP IN MAINE SAYINGS AND DOINGS IN THE PINE TREE STATE WIALM IN AN ALDER SWAM A Waldo county man sends the Ban go r News a story about a neighbor of his who is making money from an al der swamp which has an area of no more than ten acres The land was low and mucky and very wet Except for large crops of mosquitoes the prod ucts of this piece had been hardly worth recording The purchaser paid two dollars an acre for the lot or 20 in all and at once took possession by fitting up and moving into an aban doned farm house which stood on a knoll at one corner of the swamp the only dry piece of land in the pur chase He proceeded to map oft his tract in true forestry style planning to cut one acre every year and to proceed in that ratio until at the end of ten years he should come back to his origi nal lot In this manner he has kept at work cutting his alders in June and trimming out and peeling the larger and crooked sticks to be made into rus tic furniture during

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Image 6 of The Republican journal (Belfast, Me.), September 24, 1903

JIRS ELIZA BECKETT HUNNEWELL llah Attended Campiueetlns fr 73 year Mrs Eliza Beckett Hunnewell whose pleasant home is on the corner of Charles and Park streets in this city where she and a sister ftnd niece live together is supposed to bear the palm for constant and regular attendance upon the campmeeting of the Metho dists in eastern Maine Mrs Ilunnewell began when these annual gatherings were held in Liucoln ville and afterwards went to Bucksport yearly until 1848 when a campmeeting was held at Islesboro at which a com mittee was appointed to select a per manent location East Xorthport was chosen and in J une of the following year the Wesleyan Grove Campmeeting Association was formed land purchased on a shore site and tlie place named Xorthport Camp Ground Mrs Ilunnewell was present at the organization and the first camp meet ing in the new grove and has beer a zealous participant in all the services there ever since This year therefore will round out the 73d of this camp meeting devotees uninterrupted service in these first temples of the Lord Mrs Ilunnewell was born in Orono Xov 12 1814 Her father was William Beckett a captain of

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Image 6 of The Republican journal (Belfast, Me.), October 1, 1903

Literary News and Notes The stories of the worlds great cor porations are so full of interest m every detail that they read like ro mances The greatest corporation in the world is undoubtedly the billion dollar teel Trust and its story which appears in The Cosmopolitan for Octo ber forms one of the most important chapters of American business history John Burroughs is to contribute to The Century for 1904 a number of arti cles on Current Misconceptions in Natural History giving his views as to what he believes to be errors ot ob servation record or deduction on the part of contemporary writers on nature subjects The echoes of Mr Burroughs article on a similar topic which appear ed in The Atlantic last spring are still reverberating and in this series Mr Burroughs will take up the subject more fullv publishing his matured opinions as to instinct the alleged teaching of young animals by their parents tlse play of animals and kin dred themes Thackerays most important Ameri can letters are to see the light in the November and subsequent numbers of The C entury Magazine They cover both the first and second visit of the novelist to

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Image 6 of The Republican journal (Belfast, Me.), February 18, 1904

The Medicine that Lydia E Pinkhams 8L aMmoTwlenu Vegetable Compound ism Sterility How shall a mother who is weak and sick with some female trouble bear healthy children YS1 How anxious women ought to be to give their children the blessing of a good constitution I vS Many women long for a child to bless their home but because of some debility or displacement of the female organs they are barren Preparation for healthy maternity is accomplished by Lydia E PinkhanTs Vegetable Com V pound more successfully than by any other medicine because it gives tone and strength to the parts curing all displacements and inflammation I Actual sterility in woman is very rare If any woman thinks she is sterile let her write to i Mrs Pinkham Lynn Mass whose advice is given free to all expectant or wouldbe mothers The Ijj medicine that instantly asserts its curative powers in the ills of women is I Lydia E Pinkhams Vegetable Compound Read these Two Remarkable Cures Dkab Mbs Pinkiiam During the early part of my married life I was very delicate in health I had two miscarrages and both my husband and I felt very badly as we were

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Image 6 of The Republican journal (Belfast, Me.), March 3, 1904

Relative Strength of Russia and Japan Now that hostilities have actually be gun in the Far East it may be of in terest to compare in a general way the resources of the two countries involved If this comparison be made without reference to the probable theater of war and the conditions hedging about the movement of forces thither the combatants seem very disproportionate ly matched The Russian empire com prises about oneseventh of the land surface of the globe Including intern al waters it covers an area of 8660305 square miles and its population is esti mated at about 120000000 inhabitants ot which 2005016 square miles and 106 264166 inhabitants were in 1000 com prised in European Russia It lias an annual revenue amounting to about 000000OOO and expenditures some what in excess of that sum The Rus sian army on a peace footing numbers about 1100000 men and oil a war foot ing about 0600000 men The navy is understood to comprise about 40000 officers and men 1 apan the island empire comprises an area of liil10s square miles including Formosa and tlie Pescadores Its popu lation including the islands specifical ly named numbered 47000Ono inhabi tants Its

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Image 6 of The Republican journal (Belfast, Me.), June 23, 1904

CONCERNING CALIFORNIA OBSERVATIONS AFTER FIFTY YEARS RESIDENCE IN THE GOLDEN STATE To the Editor of The Journal Your reporter wished me to give him an interview as a representative from California I am very sorry that my time is so limited I cannot do so but I have been so warmly received by the old friends of fifty years ago and their descendants that I cannot refrain from sending you this communication hop ing it may be of some interest to your numerous readers California has an extent of nearly ten degrees from north to south and as it extends from N W to S E its length is about SOO miles with an average width of 225 miles Its productions climate and scenery are more varied than on the Atlantic side of the continent You will notice in the very heart of this great State the Sacramento Valley drained by the Sac ramento river from the north and the San Joaquin river from the south This valley is more than 400 miles long and fifty miles wide and comprises 12SOO OOP acres It is enclosed on the north by the Siskiyou mountains on the east by the Sierra Nevada

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Image 6 of The Republican journal (Belfast, Me.), June 30, 1904

How Women Should Rest Stop Work in Time The Afternoon Wap Regular Out Door Exercise Change of Occupation a Form of Rest Necessary 1 ecreation and Relaxation By CHRISTINE TERHUNE HERRICK Autlior of Crudle aud Nursery First Aid to the Young Housekeepers Housekeep ing Made Easy What to Eat In City Tents Etc Copyright ISM by Christine Terhune Herrick The time seems to have come when American wemen have to be taught to rest They have learned nearly everything else but resting is some thing a good many of them have never had time to acquire There is a saying that Providence looks after the lame and the lazy The implication is apparently that the healthy and the industrious know how to take care of themselves The fact remains however that they seldom do They go until they drop and never seem to have the least idea that they are overdoing until they give out en tirely One of the first things to he learned about resting is that it is like some other remedies for the ills of this life It is worth twice as much if taken at an early stage as it is if delayed until the

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Image 6 of The Republican journal (Belfast, Me.), July 7, 1904

Literary News and Notes Five complete stories and one serial provide the reader of the July Cosmo politan with an unusual monthly al lowance of magazine fiction and the stories all have a marked heart interest They are the work of Virginia Yeaman Remnitz Clara Morris Gen Charles King Maravene Kennedy T W Han shew and H G Wells One of the leading features in the July Cosmopolitan is found in its se ries The Great Industries of the Unit ed States this article treating of cot ton from its plantlife all the way through the mills to the finished pro ductelaborately illustrated with twen tyeight photo engravings This series in The Cosmopolitan should be read by every schoolboy It is an easy means of getting a thorough knowledge ef the great industries of the country for both young and old There is delightful summer reading in the July number of The Twentieth Century Home Such light and timely topics as salads summer drinks and womens farming are treated in enter taining fashion and even the fiction has most of it a distinctly summer set ting A charming example of the lat ter is a short story by Zona Gale

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Image 6 of The Republican journal (Belfast, Me.), November 3, 1904

A BATTLE OF SONGS How a Contest Between Yankae Prisoners and a British Crew Ended I have been in a number of full fieriged naval actions myself and in many more scrimmages said a vener able manofwars man the other day so I am entitled to know something about the subject but I am free to con fess that the strangest tight on the high seas I ever heard about was one in which my father took part when be was a prisoner in the War of 1812 My f ather when a young man enlisted on the American privateer Prince de Neufchatel which as you may know was one of the most famous privateers in oursecond war against Great Britain She belonged to the estate of Mrs Charrten of New York and on Octobei U 1814 while under the command of a Hebrew named J Ordronaux beat ofl the boats of the English frigate Eudy mion with a loss of 49 killed 31 wounded and 30 prisoners to the enemy a total loss of 116 men or more than half of the number of the attacking party It was when the Prince de Neuf chatel arrived in Boston after

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Image 6 of The Republican journal (Belfast, Me.), December 22, 1904

MORE WALDO COUNTY HORSES The Pearl Brook Farm String From Turf Farm and Home Last week we noticed some of the horses at Pearl Brook farm owned by Mr M B Smith of Hartford Conn but were not able to mention them all The string is headed by the well known stallion Marston C 219 three years old by Piedmont 219 dam Maiden 223 by Electioneer weighs 1250 lbs stands 10 hands and can brush a two minute gait This is a great horse and is getting some very high class colts They also have in the stud the elegant stallion Directum Poster by Directum dam by Gen Washington This colt is only three years old stands 153 and weighs 1085 lbs can step fast on the trot and is a desirable horse to breed to A very handsome colt on this farm is the three year old thoroughbred stal lion Handunder by the great sire Hindoo sire of Handspring etc This colt is a golden chestnut stands 15 2 12 and weighs 1000 lbs has a trial mile in 141 and is as clean and racy looking as a greyhound Mr Smith uses him as a pacemaker and will

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Image 6 of The Republican journal (Belfast, Me.), December 29, 1904

A Letter and its Result So thats the way the land lies is it asked Ivy Lyle The sensitive face under the big roselined sunliat was very white Her lips quiveied a little The bands that held the vagrant sheet trembled 1 thought said the girl to herself I hadnt begun to carein that way I was only becomingattracted But the shockthe disillusion When she had started out an hour ago for her usual brisk morning walk along the crisp shelving sands she had been one of the most indifferent light hearted of girls She was done with college and the two years of foreign travel that had succeeded school as a sort of polishing process She had per fect health and misty di earns of all the veiled future held in its keeping She had aesthetic tastes and her skill in athletic sports was the admiration of her less vigorous girl friends She had been having a beautiful time down at this gay unconventional resort on the Michigan coast And nowwell tem porarily it seemed that her pleasure was spoiled And in her heart she knew that she must have been beginning to think too much of the man

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