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Library of Congress1905

Image 6 of The Republican journal (Belfast, Me.), June 22, 1905

WALDO DISTRICT LODGE IOG T A most interesting and profitable session of the Waldo District Lodge was held with Belfast Lodge No 30 Saturday June 17th The meeting was called to order at 11 a m by District Chief Templar Tolman H Fernald and the following officers responded to the roll District Vice Templar Mabel Rose District Secretary Elizabeth L Brackett District Superintendent J T Ella Pillsbury District Sentinel I W Cottrell The appointments for vacancies were as follows District Counselor E R Knowlton District Treasurer Emma I Huxford Chap lain Lora Maxcy Past District Chief T M J Dow Marshal I W Cottrell Deputy Marshal Minnie L Knowlton Guard Lewis Godding The degree was conferred upon eight condidates During the noon recess dinner was served by the local lodge in the con venient dining room adjoining the hall The afternoon session convened at l oclock when the reports of officers and committees were received The state of the order in the county was given by the secretary as materially unchanged but that new interest was being manifested in some localities The address ot the District Chief Tem plar was able and exhaustive and by unanimous vote was ordered to

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Library of Congress1905

Image 6 of The Republican journal (Belfast, Me.), September 21, 1905

PROBATE COURT Following is an abstract of the business oi the Γιobate Court for Waldo county September term 1H05 Estate of Nancy A Downs late of Win terport lora SI Kneeland appointed ad ministratrix Estate of Slary Bobbins late of Belfast petiti m for administration filed Estate ot Ethoia V Frost minor Belfast Orlando E Frost of lielfast appointed guardian Estate ol Ida Yeaton of Knox Wilson P entworth of Knox appointed guardian Eitate of Benjamin I Campbell late of Palermo petition for allowance Med Estate of William A Lassel late of Burn ham petition for allowance granted Petition for adoption of Mary E Turner by Flora E and Artemus Turner of Paler mo granted Estate of Cyrus True late of Searsport warrant and inventory tiled Estate of Statira R Keene late of Bel fast warrant and inventory tiled Estate of Meliitable Wentworthof Waldo warrant and inventory filed Estate of Lydia L Blake late of Sears litont warrant and inventory filed Estate of James F smalley of Belfast warrant and inventory tiled Estate of Augusta Wells of Belfast war rant and inventory filed Estate of Frank 11 lianton late of Free dom first and final account presented Estate of Boyton

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Image 6 of The Republican journal (Belfast, Me.), September 28, 1905

THE MONROE FAIR The races and matters in general at the Monroe fair were reported last week Following are the premiums awardee POLLED ANGUS Herd pure blood A J Kenniston llermon Corner 1st Hull A J Kenniston llermon Corner 1st Herd dairy cows A J Kenniston 1st Cow with stock A J Kenniston 1st E I Allen llermon id Heifer 3 years A J Kenniston 1st E L Allen id T Heifer 2 years and under A J Ken niston 1st E L Allen id Heifer 1 year E L Allen 1st A J Kenniston id Heifer calf under one year E E Allen 1st A 1 Kenniston id HOLSTEINS Bull A J Clark Winterport 1st Bullcalf F L Bicker 1st Heifer P M Elwell Brooks 1st and 2d Heifer l year and under1 2 1 E Ricker 1st Heifer calf under one year 1 M Elwell 1st and id SHORTHORNS Herd pure blood A E Murch 1st Eli West Monroe id Bull Eli West 1st Bull 2 years and under 3 i Shields Winterport 1st Bull l year and under 2 Eli W est l st Bull calf under l year 11 M Lane Frankfort 1st and id _

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Library of Congress1905

Image 6 of The Republican journal (Belfast, Me.), December 7, 1905

MONTREAL AND QUEBEC Impressions of These Canadian Cities by an American Tourist Leaving Belfast on the 120 p m train Sept 27th we arrived in Portland at 635 and after a short stop there took a sleep er for Montreal over the White Mountain Division Well now a sleeper is all right but it proved to be a waker for me and I had a good chance to study the sky all night as I laid beside a window In the mean time others were sleeping 1 could tell this by a peculiar sound coming from some of the berths near me We were sidetracked at St Johnsbury Vt for a while waiting for the through train from Boston to Mont real We had been riding head towards the engine but after we were coupled on to the Boston train and started 1 said to my wife good Lord they are taking us to Moutreal feet first and so it was Well we were up and dressed early and had a good view of the country as we went speed ing along toward our destination We noticed that it was good farming land and very level for miles before we

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Library of Congress1905

Image 7 of The Republican journal (Belfast, Me.), December 21, 1905

GRANDJANYON A Womans Impressions and Description ot that Natural Wonder Correspondence of The Journal Fort Apache Arizona October The next morning after a shower I saw a most wonderful effect produced as the mist rose and formed in little cloudlets drifting and wandering in and out among the turrets and pinnacles uch as though it possessed a will of its wn and on some errand intent Many were tlie cameras in evidence attempt ng to catch some small portion of the inusual sight A drive of two and a half miles along the rim took us to Rowes Point where the most advantageous view can lie obtained It is a huge peninsula utting out a half mile into the canyon md some places but a few feet beyond the carriage wheels at each side was a sheer declivity which made a cold chill run up my spine as I anxiously watched every movement of the well trained horses From this point one has an minterrupted view of 70 miles up and iown the canyon Lying below at the i ight was the battleship Iowa a stone formation of striking resemblance Then there is Vishmes Temple Senti lel Point Point Havi

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Library of Congress1906

Image 7 of The Republican journal (Belfast, Me.), January 4, 1906

BELFAST IN 1905 Continued from Page Sixth DEATHS January Lucy May Nickerson aged 22 ra A Pitman aged 54 John C Norton aged 82 John Parr aged 60 Mary 1 Carr aged 57 lu uarj v h M Holmes aged 65 unit E Sleeper aged 66 Evtlena C Moody aged 71 Emily Shales aged 86 Varies K Harrison aged 54 I mlnna Brown aged 70 i iiia 1 A rinMiong aged 55 hauiel L Pitcher aged 70 ircii Mimner G Erisbee aged 22 ge H Webb aged 80 nnie L hanmn aged 65 ii ive 11 Cooper ageo 66 _ Ellen 1 Whitten of Montville aged 4S n abort W Edgecoaib aged 49 pril Infant daughter of Mr and Mrs W il Kimball f iiaries A Hopkins aged 48 icy A Conner aged 55 V ait ha II Wording aged 86 Rebecca i Wood aged 76 Charles V Cobbett aged 7i t th v Brown aged 88 i Hannah T Philbrook aged M ay 7 EovisaC Lampher aged 80 oia H Erisbeo aged Marx V turti aged ih 17 John B Walton age 14 Vilbley G Spence aged 61 I iv Sarah Beilin aged JOMar L urti ag d I

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Library of Congress1906

Image 6 of The Republican journal (Belfast, Me.), March 22, 1906

THE VOLUNTEER NAVY A Foolhardy Expedition Inspired by Act ing Master Smith who was not in it Smith Makes his Exit from the Service IX In my last l stated that we had re turned to our old cruising ground off Matagorda Texas where things for a time resumed their old phases with a few exceptions Alter witnessing the brilliant exploits on the Mississippi Acting Master Smith of whom I have previously spoken became more and more convinced that he was it and finally arrived at the conclusion that he could put down the remainder of the Rebellion all bv himself He appeared to liken himself to Alexander the Great and to be looking for worlds to con quer On the other hand we likened him to Don Quixote a man who would charge a windmill hut Smith did not seem to he able to get a Sancho Rauza to iollow him He was more frantic to do something to distinguish himself than ever before and at last thought he had the opportunity And by rea son of this the executive officer Mr Dean and myself and thirtytwo men came very near being captured and the chances of being killed

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Library of Congress1907

Image 7 of The Republican journal (Belfast, Me.), January 24, 1907

TThnagree with you Probably poe tr Dr Shoops Health Cof doe 1 oifee is a clever conibiua I Ul cereals and nuts Not a Cl 4 P L I coffee remember in Dr VVeilth foffee ye lts ad is Closely Old Java and Mocha use i1vu stomach heart or kidneys 11 ffiv drinking try Health Cof Mime nourishing and satis c even for tlie youngest child f Montgomery Searsport R 11 i liellast I new nurse come that I en 1 Uei mild asked Mr Stiles a eplied Mrs Stiles but she I he had nothing but blue f and blue you know is Chios Iiuks for boys 1 t Because the stomach j f the essential digestants c lives are not properly bal it is this undigested food vss and painful indiges Indigestion should be Kodol is a solution of It digests what you eat t ileticiencies of the diges i nfoims to the National Pure Law Sold here by R H hat make is your automobile 10 JandorfLichenstein I iiownWittenmeyerBur j Billhover Gee Thats 1 I 11 of before Probably the names of the different i lve worked on it since I D Tribune Mtively be stopped in

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Library of Congress1907

Image 6 of The Republican journal (Belfast, Me.), July 11, 1907

PENOBSCOT PARK A BANGOR AROOSTOOK SUMMER RESORT The newest excursionist resort in all Maine is Penobscot Park in Stockton tiarbor Nature was wonderfully lavish with her charms and attractions when ahe fashioned the country round about Stockton harbor but it remained for the pushing of the Bangor Aroostook railroad down into that territory to the very waters edge to put all these nat ural delights within easy reach of ex cursionists Last year hundreds of parties great and small visited Stock ton harbor and declared that their out ing was one of the most instructive and enjoyable trips they had ever takeD This year the excursion facilities of the place will be added to considerably and it is safe to say that no other resort in Maine will offer a more genuine good time to its visitors than will Penobscot Park Stockton Harbor Stockton Harbor 33 miles by rail from Bangor is the seaport terminal of the Bangor Aroostook railroad Hera are truly gigantic wharves At Cape Jellison the alongshore dock measures 1750 feet with two others measuring 1600 by 200 and 1100 by SO feet giving a total waterfront wharfage of about 7000 feet Here too is the largest

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Library of Congress1907

Image 6 of The Republican journal (Belfast, Me.), July 25, 1907

A MESSA6EJE0 MAINE From Vermont and New Hampshire Li cense Making More Drunkards and Criminals At the recent New England Institute of the AV C T U at Hampton Beach N II Rev J H Robbins superin tendent of the Nea Hampshire Anti Saloon League spoke on the Dangerous Possibility He said There are in Maine calling for re submission the same two classes that we had in Vermont and New Ilamp shire five years ago calling for license laws 1 The men who want the liquor traffic licensed for their own profit or convenience men who are interested in the traffic as dealers or patrons For that class we have no message There is no common ground from which to start Between this classthe various allied liquor interestsaud the real temperance forces of the entire coun try there is uncompromising war The whole liquor problem and fundamental temperance principles are involved in this war The true temperance forces make no concessions and enter into no alliances with the liquor interests in town city tate or nation On the one hand it is a fight to give the bever age liquor traffic legal standing rights permanency and power On the

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Library of Congress1907

Image 6 of The Republican journal (Belfast, Me.), August 29, 1907

MY MISSION I live for those who love me Whose hearts are kind and true For the heaven that smiles above me And awaits my spirit too For all human ties that bind me For the task my God assigned me For the bright hopes left behind me And the good that I can do 1 live to learn their story Who suffered for my sake To emulate their glory And follow in their wake liards patriots martyrs sages The noble of all ages Whose deeds crown historys pages And times great volume make 1 live to hold communion With all that is divine To feel there is a union Twixt natures heart and mine To profit by affliction Reap truth from fields of fiction Grow wiser from conviction And fulfil each graud design I live to hail that season By gifted minds foretold When man shall live by reason And not alone by gold When man to man united And every wrong thing righted The whole world shall be lighted As Eden was of old I live for those who love me For those who know me true For the heaven that smiles above me And awaits my spirit

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Library of Congress1907

Image 6 of The Republican journal (Belfast, Me.), October 31, 1907

Literary News and Notes In their November issue the editors of Modules have more than justified the recent raise in the price of the magazine The articles are varied and vital and there is a new note of dis tinction in the fiction George Keu uaus article on criminal government should arouse the public conscience It tells of conditions which every citi zen of this democracy should know a gang of criminals in municipal con trol fostered vice as a moneymaking scheme debauching the social and business life of a great city beginning with prominent ard respectable citi zens from whom bribes were exacted and ending with the street children who dropptd a penny in the slot and saw indescribable vicious pictures li censed by the robber government The gifted Kate Douglass Wiggin in The Old Peabody Pew which she has just written has shown an understand ing of the hearts of honest countrybred God fearing folk It is a love story with a happy ending in which the auth or pictures life iu a New England ham let where plain living high thinking and the gossiping habit struggle for su premacy No story will more quickly turn the reader

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Library of Congress1907

Image 6 of The Republican journal (Belfast, Me.), December 5, 1907

Literary News and Notes Holman Day the well known Maine author is getting out a new book en tilled King Spruce which is to be published by Harper Bros The story w liich is appearing serially in the New England Magazine is a most interest ing one and deals with life and doings in the Maine wools and in the opinion of the writer is the best sustained and the highest iu literary quality of any of Mr Days novels The December issue of the Atlantic is a peculiarly interesting magazine There are seven important articles each very brilliant of its kind The leader is entitled The Future of our Navigable Waters and is written by John L Mathews who has been mak iug a special study of the subject An Art Museum for the People by Frank Jewett Mather treats of the best practical arrangement of exhibi tions for public use Agnes Deans Cameron writes on Wheat the Wiz ard of the North a striking article telling of the enormous immigration to the newly utilized fields of western Canada There is abundant fiction of the usual high Atlantic standard and the poetry is of a strictly Christmas character One

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Image 7 of The Republican journal (Belfast, Me.), December 26, 1907

Heres Good Advice 0 S Woolever oue of the best kiin 1 merchants of Le Raysville N Y g If you are ever troubled with piles apniJ Buck leus Arnica Salve It cured me of them for good 20 years ago Cures everv sore wound burn or abrasion 25e at r H Moodys drug store An old Georgia negro having told a f that he had been in three wars was asked to name them when he replied I wu2 cook in de Confedit war an after freedom broke out 1 was married two times n You know as well as any one when you need something to regulate your system your bowels are sluggish your food di tresses you your kidneys paiu take Hollis ters Rocky Mountain Tea It always re lieves 35 cents Tea or Tablets R II Moody HeYou know if you worry about everv little thing its bound to affect your health His ifeYes I know Thats one of the things I worry aboutTown aud Country lhis is the season of decay and weaken ed vitality good health is hard to retain If youd retain yours fortify your system with Hollisters Rocky Mountain Tea the surest

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Library of Congress1908

Image 7 of The Republican journal (Belfast, Me.), January 2, 1908

irroTsiitFT F nii ani WellThird Remedy Winslows Soothing Syrup has been c over sixty years by millions of r Uieir children while teething J it success It soothes the child V the gums allays all pain cures and is the best remedy tor Diar uPeasant to the taste Sold by m every part of the world rents a bottle Its value is iu tiuarauteed under the Food 7 ct June 30th 1906 Serial mber 1098 I tor religious weeklyA funny to my head anil 1 made a joke 1 II 1 print it in Chief serenely ertamly not wmll he extremely undignified for jokes When you want to print tealemX Y Weekly Hank Foolishness attacked by a cough or a cold or i throat is sore it is rank foolish any other medicine than lr v Discovery says C 0 El npire Ga I have used New seven years ami I know it is the jv on earth for coughs and colds all throat and lung troubles in are subject to croup but New t quickly cures every attack the world over as the King of 1 lung remedies Sold under guar 11 slnodys drug store 60c and II ial

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Library of Congress1908

Image 6 of The Republican journal (Belfast, Me.), June 18, 1908

County Correspondence KOCKPORT The graduation exercises of the High school took place last Friday evening the program being as follows Salutatory Elsie M Andrews Pictures in the Fire Myttie A Dowe bistory Lena C Linnell The Development of Our Country Jesse T Carroll prophecy Oliver E Libby val edictory Yesterday and Tomorrow Erma L Orbeton Music was furnished by a chorus of 18 High school girls The graduates will make a trip to Washington D C during the summer SMS Sarah Haskell aud Mrs Georgia Hobbs of Camden were guests of the Mo Farland sisters June 10thMr and Mrs Eben Cobb and son Maurice are attending commencement at Kents Hill Their son Harold 1 is one of the graduating class Kev C H Bryant is attending com mencement at the E M C Seminary BucksportWin Wood has gone to Ban gor to build a house for J L BeanDr A Millett attended the Maine Medical As sociation in Bangor last weekMrs Kuth Lamb is spending the summer with her daughter Mrs Lucy A Beau Misses Lydia and Esther Farnbam of Boston have hired the Dyer cottage at Lake Quautaba cook and will spend the summer there Miss Lvdia has spent

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Image 6 of The Republican journal (Belfast, Me.), June 25, 1908

County Correspondence BWKNHAM The Twitchell Corner base ball team played the Pittsfield atheletic team on the latters grounds last Saturday p tn The score was 16 to 17 in favor of Pittsfield Fred Fletcher has moved his gasoline en giueto the Joshua Reynold Hill socalled where he will use it for sawing spool bars Porter Kimball made a business visit to St Albans Saturday Mrs Hannah How den of Troy visited her brother Mr Geo Wyman of this place SundayeAn un usually large acieage of potatoes has been planted in this vicinity this season JACKSON Mr and Mrs Woodcock of Belfast were the guests of Mr and Mrs Mahlon Hatch last Thursday night Miss Brewster State organizer of the W 0 11 gave a stir ring temperance lecture Monday night at the Good Templars hail She tisiied the schools in town Tuesday and gave a short talk to the pupils on temperanceV IV 0 T U was organized in this town Monday by Miss Brewster with sixteen chatter members It is hoped to have more at the m x meeting _Miss Pearl Chase is visiting n Belfast Mr and Mrs E A Carpenter visited his sister Mrs Fred right last

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Library of Congress1908

Image 6 of The Republican journal (Belfast, Me.), July 2, 1908

International Road Congress President Roosevelt Names Commissioners to Represent the U S Government Washington D C June 22 1resi dent Roosevelt lias directed that this Nation be strongly and officially repre seuted at the International Roads Coi gress to be held at Paris the week be ginning October 11 and credentials have been issued naming Logan Waller lage Director of the Office of Public Roads of the U S Department of Agri culture Chairmau of the Commission The other members named are Colonel Charles S liromwell of the United States Corps of Engineers now serving as Superintendent of Buildings and Grounds of the District of Columbia and Clifford Richardson of New York an eminent chemist and one of the worlds acknowledged authorities on bituminous road building materials This coming Congress which will be attended by distinguished delegates from every country in the world is re garded by highway engineers and ex perts as probably the most iniportant ever summoned for the discussion of an economic question Its need is the direct outgrowth of the advent of the automobile for while thousands are ignorant of the fact the solt tires ol the modern motor car are the greatest menace the hard

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