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Library of Congress1908

Image 6 of The Republican journal (Belfast, Me.), August 20, 1908

v __ Early Incidents Of the Civil War THE STORY OF THE FRIGATE CUMBERLAND BY CAPTAIN JOHN O JOHNSON OF LIBERTY ME To the Editor of The Journal A few years ago 1 wrote a series of ar ticles relative to the U S Navy which were published in The Journal and which I have reason to believe were well received by the intelligent read ers of your valuable paper Many who read those articles are like Pip in Dick ens Great Expectations continual ly calling tor more and this is my ex cuse for again troubling you to read my poor manuscript and to correct the bad spells Though 1 have not the personal knowledge of the events I am about to describe that 1 had in relation to those of which I have previously written yet circumstances made me very conversant with my present sub ject which is the old US Frigate Cum berland a sailing ship that was very much in evidence before and at the be ginning of the war of the rebellion and which was sunk by the rebel ram Merri mac at Newport News April 8 1802 Since that time she seems to be

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Library of Congress1909

Image 6 of The Republican journal (Belfast, Me.), March 18, 1909

Nearly Three Centuries Of Temperance Agitation and Legislation in Maine16361909 BY FRANK W GOWEN NO 5 At the Grand Lodge session of the Maine Good Templars in Bangor in the spring of 1875 Mr George E Brackett of Belfast was elected Grand Secretary and he served the Grand Lodge in this capacity something over thirty years and at the time he retired from this office two years ago was the oldest Grand Secretary in point of service in the world Bro Brackett was one of the ablest and most popular Grand Secre taries the order has ever had in Maine and his name is widely known and hon ored For many years he has published the Maine Temperance Record and in all his noble work for our order and the cause of temperance he has been ably assisted by his wife In 1881 Hon T R Simonton of Cam den was elected Grand Chief Templar and as he was an able speaker his ser vices were in much demand throughout the State in addressing public meetings in the interest of the order Then came Mr B C Torsey of Winthrop who made a very excellent officer He was also a

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Library of Congress1909

Image 2 of The Republican journal (Belfast, Me.), April 29, 1909

THE REPUBLICAN JOURNAL BELFAST THURSDAY APRIL 29 1909 __it_ PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY BY The Republican Journal Publishing Co CHARLES A PILSBURY Editor and Business Manager Subscription Terms In advance 200 a year 1 00 for six months 50 cents for three months Advertising Terms For one square one inch length in column 50 cents for one week and 25 cents for each subsequent insertion THAT SURPLUS REVENUE The question was recently asked in a Maine paper as to the amount per capita received by this State in 1838 from the surplus money under the Jackson ad ministration It was referred to in a sketch of the life of the late Mrs Salome Sellers of Deer Isle and at that time the enquiry was made as to amount dis tributed It was given by one person as 100 per capita while others united in the opinion that it wjs less than 10 The latter conclusion we believe to be cor rect although we have not been able to ascertain the exact amount The history in brief of this distribution of money by the national government is as follows The distribution of the treasury sur plus among the States in preference to

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Library of Congress1910

Image 7 of The Republican journal (Belfast, Me.), March 17, 1910

TO FIGHT A WORM dollars has been contributed 1 Rockefeller for the exter t the HookWorm have now proven that the condition and listless inani rt ds of thousands of South s caused by an intestinal Worm is only one of fifty W ms that are known to in intestines Many cases ubles blood impoverish ral debility and weakness Worms True of Auburn Me in advance of his time this in 1851 and gave to Trues Elixir which posi Worms axative is needed Dr 1 ould be taken It is not Tonic Laxative ever devis hitclr pvtipU all animal om the system Worms here Dr Trues Elixir is is syrups or carthartic t take Dr Trues Elixir thing that is asked of a also insures the expulsion tern of all pernicious ani exists there specially are frequently and fretful from no other rms Dr Trues Elixir althy strong and well finds himself listless and v does not know what is ith him Cannot seem to into the days work has tew days treatment with ir will correct these con RENTISS FARM IN TROY Hxpert Says of the Stock the beautiful stallion Mars red on the Dolloff Farm itr and bought

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Library of Congress1910

Image 6 of The Republican journal (Belfast, Me.), June 30, 1910

County Correspondence SOUTH MONTV1LLE Miss Gertrude Peavey of Brook i visiting her aunt Mr G F Randall Mrs John Goodell of Howard R 1 is visiting her broth er O W Ripley Mrs Kate Rich of Win throp Mass has been spending a few days with her brother G W Prescott Mrs Ed ward Ramsey and son Lawns of North port were guest of her niece Mrs 1 S Bartlett last week Mrs E A LMnslow is in Camden fora few days visiting her sister Mrs 0 P Fuller NORTH SEARSMONT Miss Grace Proctor of Medtield Mass is spending her vacation with her parents Mr and Mrs F 0 Proctor Miss Edith Wilson who has been teaching in Gardiner Me is at home for s short vacation Fourteen mem ber from VNtor Grange attended Pomona held in Lincolnvilie June 21st Miss Margie Poland spent Saturday and Sunday with her mother in Montville Mrs Hattie Poland spent the weekend with her sister Mrs C G Heminway in the village Miss Mildred Wentworth and Clarence Paul of Morrill spent Sunday in AppletonMiss Amy Wilson of Belfast spent Sunday with Mr and Mrs M C Wilson FREEDOM Mr and Mrs Charles Denico have

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Library of Congress1910

Image 6 of The Republican journal (Belfast, Me.), July 7, 1910

County Correspondence 1 Deferred from last week HALLDALE The school here closed June 24th The pupils net absent during the term wese Maynard Susie and Asa Hall Absent onehalf day Hazel Hall and Hattie ClarkMiss Eva Hop kins of Lowell Mass is visiting her aunt Mrs E 1 Hall There is much complaint of pota toes rotting in the ground Many have planted their ground over NORTH STOCKTON SPRINGS Mr and Mrs Henry Littlefield and family Mr and Mrs Howard Littlefield and Mr and Mrs Fred Lane and son Amos attended the wedding reception of Mr and Mrs Charles Kenney at the home of the brides parents Mr and Mrs Daniel Dunaver Sunday Mrs Linda Partridge Miss Bertha Partridge and Mr Herman Partridge visited relatives in Swanville last week_ Miss Beatrice Eames is visiting her brother Mr Jacob Eames and wife at the villageMrs William Smith and Miss Helen Calderwood left Friday for a weeks visit in Unity and ThorndikeMrs Alberta Kenney and children of Hallowell vis ited her sister Mrs Blanche Littlefield last weekMrs Flora Marden visited Miss Amy Lane recently PROSPECT FERRY Mrs L D Berry and son Harry and Mrs C G Carley and daughter Hazel went

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Library of Congress1910

Image 3 of The Republican journal (Belfast, Me.), August 4, 1910

THE old navy JOHN 0 JOHNSON OP LIBERTY bVCAP IV E editor of the Journal T last letter 1 said that our pre k m Vtuation upon the Great Lakes carKUS our borders adjoining Can upon uu the time of the two great naval uon Lakes Erie and Cham r a i ihose victories of much more PS to us than would seem on Before the battle on Lake Hull of the American army Er nously or traitorously and 1 surrendered Detroit and Sir Isaac Brock a major j h il I eng the British forces I can learn but little Af r lt v silenin relation to if Michigan calls it an ler while others call i the military authori alled it a traitorous story records that he ourt martial found ed to death but was nt Madison and sub iovemor of Michigan had published a book to the world that he treason Such was the Erie and it was even hamplain at the time torv for the British force under General hold in Northern New sessions along all the at jeopardy United States had no tin Lakes The only to the government had brocks forces at De cent

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Library of Congress1910

Image 7 of The Republican journal (Belfast, Me.), August 18, 1910

Tgiectrie Plants That Make Money for Farmers hroUrh an old pasture on the Prf ared Van Wagenen Jr at iro p Xew York flows a very ifyerfU l hich one can easily step 1 1 water is high A little rosstu from the house is an old prhal rjng about three acres Siar rn tiny sawmills dotted lilt long P jht years ago I began to 1 to get this power to the it vuld do a little work t Wagenen My first i 5 i carry it there by belt vf proved that the fric D i t up the five horse power f t trio power easily trans tie loss was the only solu 151 i ked with many who un m niv and its engineering most of them laughed at jr hu1 a small installation construct a million would have been whole flS ce hut a small plant to f an be controlled by a i i wire was evidently a i good ileal of studying the plans were made nig so small the most water had to be ob r a imiciuvii ujjiigiu ht wooden case build if where it would get f d the fifteenfoot

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Library of Congress1910

Image 7 of The Republican journal (Belfast, Me.), August 25, 1910

orrespondence purred from last week and two children Marian Jcrn1 Atlantic Mass arrived Monday 5ts 0f Mrs Annie Bunker rt r kf r left Saturday for a short Yotts _Mr and Mrs Ray t r v1 Brighton Mass are visit Mr and Mrs E G Coombs W Pr es Wood of Forest Hills ft Saturday for a visit with y Kdith WymanMiss Ger ton is visiting her mother Miss Josephine Johnson s the guest of Miss Beulah 3 Moody left Friday for a v Harry Hull returned to Mr Wyman Warren of luirday for a visit with his Point Comfort Mr W v ton Center Mass arrived t visit with his family stville Kdith and C aro Murray of Pitts n of Fall River Mass fords last Thursday and Knowlton wife and son ted Preston Rowell last Kid opened his new home He invited fifteen of his mem and ice cream was triven the name of Hill o la Carll celebrated her h Mrs Abbie Daniels of this town is visiting Brown of Warren and ont Edith Cushman of m My rick and Delbert M ay and Edgar Sawyer at Frank Cushmans last oth and wife visited es Hummer of

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Library of Congress1910

Image 2 of The Republican journal (Belfast, Me.), October 20, 1910

AN AUTO RIDE I To Boston and Back in a Packard Cr The writer recently enjoyedhere may be added all the superlatives to be found in the dictionarya trip to Boston and return in a Packard touring car The ride was one for pleasure and the rough places in the Maine roads of which there are many were gone over at low speed and at no time was the rate too rapid to prevent full enjoyment of the scen ery So parts of two days were taken each way to cover a distance that could easily have been made in one The route both going and com ing was through the towns and cities of Bel mont Searsmont Appleton Union Waldoboro Damariscotta Newcastle Wiscasset Bath Brunswick Freeport Yarmouth Portland Scarboro Saco Biddeford Kennebunk Wells York Kittery Portsmouth Newhuryport Lynn Cambridge and Boston I may have skipped a town or two but those named will indicate the route taken The start was made from Belfast at 7 a m on the coldest morning of the coldest day of the season The party were clad in winter clothing but fur coats would not have been amiss The wind was blowing a gale

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Library of Congress1910

Image 7 of The Republican journal (Belfast, Me.), November 17, 1910

The Hoop Pole Man the Maine Forests tor Materia HeVot W anted by Others hoop pole man makes ever than his brother the gunr T1 hoop pole man follows f of the loggers 0ci growth as the young called These spring j tting stumps of great tP man takes a horse with He cuts the poles and them to camp by day the pole man fashions aw shave sitting he re and pulling at his poles are sold round who trims his own the hoops receives two it for the finished prod The hoop pole busi ady work but the even after all with the the crackle of the ble of story telling pending outside looks lows at the light and is ears and wishes he r up 1 poles are sold each h red chalk a little some time in certain ns did a snug busi es But nowadays any that have been sometimes the canny ends that bear the man sold his hoop marked them and Then the seller it stole the poles them to another iif barrels It may that the city man tricks If this en nan could have got n re he would have and

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Library of Congress1911

Image 7 of The Republican journal (Belfast, Me.), January 5, 1911

fAPT OKUM I Tarry Topsides of Th ropsm in the Boston Globe through the cabir schooner Tarry Top Von Siind Me at anchoi I ti hist evening wher cth o r tin quarter rai 3jeIial eurwav J G untenance of Captain fc celebrated marinei charioted by the a red in the gangway cring hail and a nc below glad t see m the reporter who it Captain Okum at these many years tde looking old lady knitting said Captain Okum Globe man Ive told tin one that puts of me in th paper hat no anger dwelt f the pictures said he Sorry I Ye see mothers It a aboard Women i at his joke and the locker a finely j s a sundried fish one you never set pr duced a jug of th old place at f said on the table and in a mood for an n The reporter at the comfort the table whose ed in the lamp i t earins asked grin Never 1 Tarry afore did i it this way We iinr and mother So when one lives out some lied Wabanin went slowly over traveler over a ii 11 says Come turkey with

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Library of Congress1911

Image 7 of The Republican journal (Belfast, Me.), August 3, 1911

jSEP TO LEAVE HIS VESSEL Mazerill Stays by the Dismasted r E Ayer His Wife and Baby ueJ ff Cape Cod The Schooner Ited into Boston Sunday 1 rJight of terror on a waterlogged iflt7 iTed vessel Mrs Jennie Mazerill jo of the twomasted schooner ife I n f Bangor and her 14monthsold i A Albert were brought to Boston iby tie steamer Bunker Hill which M the schooners boat off Cape I bert Mazerill and the crew of turned to the lurching craft after b 1 inferred the woman and child to l r Mrs Mazerill lost most of her when she reached the deck of the Eie t and her baby were drenched iit It was a terrible night and we choner would capsize any mo hl M Mazerill She was given hot t ourishing food and was placed k ts in one of the staterooms eatt in bed when the Bunker Hill her berth on the south side of T ar at 1030 a m was caught in the furious north Friday and the lurching and t he seas caused her to spring a he was wallowing about in a wild ght when the mainmast toppled it

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Library of Congress1911

Image 6 of The Republican journal (Belfast, Me.), December 7, 1911

or Cat calls for quidVf yAo treatment Dont try experiments M Ivl I Bu I You are safe and sure with the oldreliable ri j f JOHNSONS Limmenti avopyv Liniment ghMMUi Used over 100 years for Rheumatism Swellings f Pills Stiff Joints Wounds Used inwardly for E _ I Colds Sore Throat Croup Bowel Troublesr a 1 s 25c and 50c Bottles At all Dealers System CO LITERARY NEWS AND NOTES The December Womans Home Com panion is a specially illustrated and beautified Christmas number It con tains aside from the usual illustrations a great many pictures in color Stories are included in greater number than usual and several of them are extraor dinary presentations of the Christmas spiritfull of action and the best kind of sentiment Some of the contributors of the fiction are Jeffery Farnol Mary E Wilkins Freeman Norvell Harrison Owen Oliver and Hulbert Footner Among the articles in the December Wide World Magazine is one entitled A 200000000 Treasure Hunt which deals with the recent excavations in i Jerusalem by British explorers for the j purpose of recovering the buried riches of the Jewish kings It is written by A Resident of Jerusalem and is illus

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Library of Congress1911

Image 6 of The Republican journal (Belfast, Me.), December 21, 1911

Stockton Springs Trust Company STOCKTON SPRINGS MAINE We have grown in Deposits over 42 and in accounts about 100 since April first last We respectfully solicit your banking business j We offer you the most modern banking facilities and the strongest connections in and out of Maine Deposits or withdrawals may be made by mail as well as in person We can now legally accept acounts in the names of two persons payable to either or the survivor Statement of Condition December 12 1911 of STOCKTON SPRINGS TRUST COMPANY RESOURCES Demand and Time Loans 1197089 Loans on Mortgages of Real Estate 817396 Loans on Collateral 77000 Stocks and Bonds 5410500 Expense Account 174904 Furniture and Fixtures 870C0 Cash Deposited in other Banks 744178 Cash on Hand 237970 Real Estate Owned 100000 8846037 LIABILITIES Capital Stock2500000 SurPlus 200000 Undivided Profits 292571 Demand Deposits 3L23659 Savings Deposits 2729807 _ 8846037 I We pay 4 h per annum on savings accounts Deposits received on or be fore the 12th of any month will draw interest from the first day of the same month Dividends payable on and after the first day of January and July H R HICHBORN President DIRECT0RS FRANK S BENSON

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Library of Congress1912

Image 6 of The Republican journal (Belfast, Me.), February 22, 1912

KITTYS RETURN She trailed slowiy uown the stairway in her velvet gown It was peachy hued with old lace at throat and wrists She moved with an indolent grace and held her head with its heavy masses ol dark hair a trifle haughtily The crim son lips were unsmiling and the eyes deeply blue under the long lashes looked distantly coid Sherrod watching her as she came slowly down to him felt a contraction of his throat and a sense of disappoint ment vaguely accusatory She re minded him in her new stateliness of an old painting he had seen in an art gallery in Florence The Marchioness the velvet gown with its clinging folds j accentuated her graceful slenderness and the long train lent dignity to her little figure Sherrod caught his breath 1 as he watched her hungrily He had 1 not remembered that she was so beauti ful She had always been to him the very essence of all that was lovely and gracious anil sweet and he had known her beautiful But he had never pic tured her with this regal air He felt i bewildered and somehow defrauded And then just as she reached the

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Library of Congress1912

Image 6 of The Republican journal (Belfast, Me.), March 7, 1912

A REPUBLICAN STATE CONVENTION WILL HE HELD IN CITY HALL BANCOR Wednesday April 10 1912 AT 2 OCLOCK P M For the pm pose of selecting six candidates for electors of President and Vice President of the United States and four delegates at large and four alternates to attend the National Re publican Convention to be held in the City7 of Chicago in the State of Illinois on Tuesday the 18th day of June 1912 Also to formulate and adopt a declaration of principles or platform for the election next en suing to elect a State committee a district committee for each Congressional district and a county committee for each county Also to transact any other business which may properly come before it The basis of representation will be as fol lows Each city town and plantation will be entitled to one delegate and for each 75 votes cast for the Republican candidate for Governor in 1908 an additional delegate and for a frac tion of 40 votes in excess of 75 votes an ad itionai delegate Vacancies in the delegation of any city town or plantation can only be filled by a resi dent of the county in which

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Library of Congress1912

Image 7 of The Republican journal (Belfast, Me.), April 25, 1912

bounty Correspondence Deferred sWVihase Hon A E Nickerson Mr r ckerson and Mr A T Nickerson at J Republican State convention in tvveek_Miss Augusta Nickerson ieion spent the latter part of the of1 tn lltr parents Mr and Mrs J W I he A S met with Mrs J NiC ast Thursday and reelected the utticers for the ensuing year oi Church is now in order and will SF as soon as the shingles can be he schools began Monday With eachers 1 and 2 Miss Wood mi 3 Miss Nellie Rose 8 and mrtshorn 7 Miss Alice Nicker Nickerson is very sick i has been quite sick but is im LthpokT Mrs Wm Dihvorth have arrived v and will probably stay all sura V i F Hills who has been very measles is getting better Clar till sick with them aiso Willie f1 klrenSchooner W H Jewell x I Mar posts for RocklandSchools i v April 22d Miss Mary Kelley I Cove Capt Wm Patterson hood has gone to Bangor for a Mrs Annie Herrick has ar ii Bangor where she has been mother since last December xrk has been operated upon in a r and is getting along

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