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Image 7 of The Republican journal (Belfast, Me.), February 6, 1902

k FINEST MOUNTED CAVALRY i hern Trihare to the Blk Horse Company indebted U Gen I illey uni tor copies of the Huirle i y Edwin Eibby Post i Alt tair J an 22nd and 23d and a h we quote the following Generals Utice Portland Me Gen J P I illeyMy Dear herewith a letter which ie 1 haw no doubt that the li 1st Me 1 avalry As now you wen captain of the i Frank li Cutler of Enion my s as lieutenant I have writ o giving him your address him that 1 have lorw arded his a It may be of interest to you eat with him ours very ti lth Gkokoi M s eiders Jan 51902 on of MaineHear SirIt mg time since the Civil War as N il We people in Virginia ething of the many ups and downs lour years of war There was a avaliy from your State known u k Horse company the finest iipany 1 saw during the war I thought of writing to know if in are living as I never heard of May 1 sias thev were just then hard lighting in the valley of We were

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Image 6 of The Republican journal (Belfast, Me.), February 20, 1902

ADDRESS OF WELCOME j To Waldo District Lodge of Good Templars at Brooks Feb 8 190 BY MARCELLlS J BOW Officers and Members of Waldo District 1 odge of Good Templars Brothers and Msters By virtue ot official request it be comes my pleasant duty to welcome you m visitors upon this occasion to the home f Brooks lodge It is well known that for many years w e have sustained here one of strongest and most enthusiastic lodges to be found not only in the county but in the Mate ui members are alive and interest ed in the success of our own lodge and that ot Good Templarism wherever dispensed They are anxious to advance the order and t uphold the principles upon which it is founded They are read to unite almost as one person upon any subject of vital im portance Uur meetings are largely attended and harmoniously conducted and you may rest assured that it is with the greatest pleasure that we welcome you our neighbors and friends to our pleasant lodge home which has become endeared to us by the many pleasant associations of the past While i w ih that the honor of

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Image 6 of The Republican journal (Belfast, Me.), February 27, 1902

Register of Deep Water Vessels SHIPS Abner Coburn arrived at Cape Town l C 11 Dec 5 from Port Townsend A G Popes D Pi vers sailed from San 1 ramieo Dec d Vi Queenstown A J Puller sailed inm Newcastle N S Y J C 11 fol Honolulu Ai v in A v 1 iueton sailed from Sail Fraie see Dec 27 loi Queenstown bangalore 1 daiicliaid ai l ived at Port Townsend Oct 21 Huii Nagaski K DSuttonI P Putmansailed from II iogo Iec o hi New Yoik ton George thus C McClure sailed iroiii Pei t 1 ow nsenu i ct 7 Horn Cheinainus lor Port Pii ie Gov Pobie Iron Kverett AY ash Sept 1 for Sxdney s AY ai l ived at t ape Tow n Jan n 11eiii P 11de arrived at Sun Fiancisco1 June l fiom Paltimoie Luzon Park sailtd from Newcastle N S 1 ec fol Manila Alary L ushing Newcastle N S AA foi Ponoluiu spoken Dec lat 31 S Ion 159 K Aiantie Liagum P t Nichols sailed from llong Kug Oct go lor New York passed St Helena J an 13 Pumtai A N Planthard ailed from San Francisco

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Image 7 of The Republican journal (Belfast, Me.), March 20, 1902

TOWN REPORTS mil is indebted to Miss Grace s and the K F Iillsbury Printing of town reports from which allowing extracts BROOKS nai estates23829700 ells 201 I i 21 627473 1 county tax 111110 schools 106963 _h schools 24585 t books 4030 ii school houses 8292 i of poor 52851 it expenses 41193 ug taxes 14700 i md bridges 100085 merits 2259 nice of Memorial day 3500 t 98490 568058 balance 59415 2360256 2092343 bt 267913 f debt during tlie year 145917 mking fund as per i 253189 inking fund as Feb 3338761 ii i s no bo resident157692 00 late resident 63467 95 nonresident 398094 00 3146 00 it ion022999 95 on 5410H 1300 47 i 776 04 polls 208 rate of ol2 ex pent 737 op 7 icers 66175 1363 id 1002 66 load 1062 05 33 75 bools 1719 20 320 00 124 84 poor 346 7 6203 73 22o 2o 1218 51 801 69 linber of Miliolars 32u in sum fall term IT1 winter term I common schools of high J ACKSON f highways 5702 Imuse repairs mo 08 of schools 70002 1 books 4MS5 beers 17011 ilaneous expenses loo7 port of poor 5000 ment

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Image 7 of The Republican journal (Belfast, Me.), March 27, 1902

1 hei SECRET DIDNT KEEP lU Married on le Sly Helen 4ity Hud Wedded to Herbert Stmiellt Calif Times Feb S 11102 like ot Los Angeles loved ukei ot Pasadena and so married but they didnt tell and relatives about it and it they would keep their i lev months Like other Lis however love will out I ime known yesterday that daughter of 1 B Duke pro the Vestlake Hotel in this allied January goth under iNtte circumstances to Iler Karl Barker a student at st itute w ho iives w iUi his ei Mrs James Barker on 1ohtes avenue Pasadena I Hikes mother and father are mi and lited having come to fourteen years ago from Term and Helen who was Kentucky lias the inherent d dash of the typical Sputh Inited with that beauty is a antic adventure which site confessed to her close marking on different oeca he would do something some day standing this warning how prised Iter friends and firm it g the young man who is mrse in mining engineering uts polytechnic school ui tier attractive appearance duly possesses ipiaiities of heart that have made her one st popular in her set and

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Image 7 of The Republican journal (Belfast, Me.), April 17, 1902

I MOUNTAINS OF OREGON tirape and Other Beautiful i u aeade Bane Mounts Hood I Helen Uie Springfield Republican jive passed their lives t i l Washingtons birth iutlissolubly associated i ice with cold winter id naked trees and agen filiation But even in a Naturelover though iay prohibit woodland amis and realizes with eh that life is still there ati tlie snow or ice or1 tae pulsing current still but lelt and realized To iheied ill by a glorious witn the air warm and meadow lark singing pti ol Ins cheery little inspiration to a tender It in mined to climb lort i 11joy tlie mild sunshine limy spring air view the uriy and gather some i e beautiful Oregon ml them 8501 miles to Mass cars landed me at the i t where the long flight the top of the heights evergreen whose dark much delight in this climate Step by step iw ith plenty of resting way the summit was it with the exertion of i step is a delight With f building the long flight has been content to let and the overarching mon 11 rest are there in all their tidiness and beauty Ail cssgrown

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Image 7 of The Republican journal (Belfast, Me.), April 24, 1902

NEWS OF THE WEEK Ivink Matters Ilev Joshua M pastor of the Grace M E vh Bangor has received and ac l a call from St Johnsbury Ver 11 id will probably leave Bangor nurse of a few weeks to assume uto rate the re Mr Frost lias unently successful in bis pas tor e line street and Grace M E i in Bangor and his going away neatly regretted lie has de make the change chiefly for i lit of his health At the request ol the members of it Methodist Church society or Rev M Frost has re nal his acceptance of the pas St Johnsbury Vt and will n Bangor continuing in charge Grace ChurchJames Hart tears died in Appleton March i nail was a eceiau 01 me tr having been a member of t gild Maine Kattery and the tine Infantry He was a lnem Havid Ksancy lost A U I Heals of Auburn commander Maine Division Sons of Veter decided on June lth and tilth an and liar Harbor as the place ng the annual encampment of i r divisionHigh priced beef icting our Maine farmers into wing more extensively There be an interest in

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Image 7 of The Republican journal (Belfast, Me.), May 1, 1902

K AkY NEWS AND NOTES ii in tlu Atlantic Monthly ndes the closing chapters ot i aides Bvlow Hill Katrina m i dys Harden and Jennette i liances Poetry is fur lan Messer Richard Buri ardson and others the ig with the entertaining i lub as usual i ntispiece in color by i i showing desert and in A riona side by side e beginning in tlie May promised series on The f u Bay Stauuard i ilustrauons ot which hawing Iiv Mr Parrish deals with the large as itle known regionnat imate population irri i ot ti e people etc el opens the May At tret ally studied and i iperecond Thoughts n t ot Anarchy He I pvt iii a dispassionate iid not have been possi i a rlier when MeKin utrd He points out the ngth of anarchism in some ot the elements gfl her witli other facts ousidered in reference seagiou of Hie year is Frank leslies Popular 1 i w ith a thoroughly out ei idled with stories of shes tramps and other did dedicated to sport to in joy of living C H is oft with The Iord of i di iig tale of

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Image 6 of The Republican journal (Belfast, Me.), June 5, 1902

CAMP COMPANIONS iV 1 A THOMPSON For years it lias been a source of much pleasure to rue to watch and study the habits both serious and play ful of wild animals and under no con dition have I found this to be so possi ble as sitt ing in ones camp with open duoi lid lire out 1liis is also greatly facilitated by a system of baiting Fur instance you wish to study the habits id the rabbit W hen going out to the settlement some day just gather a iitth clover and when you return scatter it in front of the camp or better still when you cut some white birch rirewood in the spring of the year gut her the tops hie It are generally ml ut buds and throw them about the dOi vard At eve the little bunnies will be browsing almost within your reach ami such mumming and capering lint k o dotl t move See those lug y slapat oil And just see those biu earsslick out to catch the lainiest sond Now move your chair the least bit and see t eui scurry in every tlirec ion ouy to unit back again

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Image 6 of The Republican journal (Belfast, Me.), August 28, 1902

JOHN DOYLEMATCHMAKER When Louise Doyle entered the office ol Delancey A Griffin architects in the humble capacity of copyist the soul of her lather rosein angry rebellion Two years previous John Doyle had retired from the grocery business with a tidy income a substantial brick resi dence and chronic rheumatism When ever the malady loosened its grip Doyle wandered back to the scenes of his com mercial achievements IIis successor always gave him cordial welcome and a comfortable chair back of the cash iers booth was at bis disposal When too lame to walk as far as the store be consoled himself by playing innumer able games of pinochle in the lear of simpsons cigar store just across the street It was from a disastrous defeat at pinochle that he came home to hear that Louise was going to business I hc moment was inauspicious 1 never heard tell of such tonifool isIums My girl going to chase down town mx days in the week like the daughters of that noaccount Tom aundciv People will be questioning m credit next And she wont make enough to pay for the new feathers and fixings shellwant to say nothing of the shoe

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Image 6 of The Republican journal (Belfast, Me.), September 11, 1902

LITERARY NEWS AND NOTES Medical Talk is the name of one of the most recent of popular medical magazines for the home It is now in its fourth y ar Medical Talk under takes to interpret to the people what is going on in the medical world as re vealed by the numberless medical jour nals intended tor the doctors only It brings to the household important facts hidden from the people by medical technicalities It deals in a popular way with such questions as vaccina tion sanitary laws cremation dietary rules and all drugless methods of heal ing disease Sample copy sent free by the Medical Talk Publishing Co Co lumbus Ohio The September number of Table Talk Philadelphia gives considerable space to the subject of Canning written by women of practical experience This information is timely as the season is now at hand for that kind of work in the home The illustrated dishes are an attractive feature of this house keeping magazine Each month it gives a number of them to show just how the dis will look when the recipe is carried out Table Talk is the exponent of good living it teaches exhaustively the art

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Image 6 of The Republican journal (Belfast, Me.), October 2, 1902

WAIF OF THE OCEAN Bottle Thrown into Indian Sea Found off Cape Cod Floated for Twenty Eight j Year Ceorge T Maddox of Brockton Mass j is closely connected with the tale of a sea drifting bottle that lloated twenty eight years The bottle was thrown overboard in the Indian ocean from the vessel Hattie K Tapley inl74 Mad dox was third mate The bottle was recently picked up off t ape Cod It was intact with its lit tle message still preserved telling the whence what where of the bottle That was twentyeight years ago when Maddox was barely of age The bottle was washed from the In dian ocean to Cape Codfrom the far east to the far west from old world waters to New Ingland shores It has taken Ceorge T Maddox with vivid memory back to his younger life over the Indian ocean from his present days of furni ture selling in Brockton It is a strange story that lias thus come up out of tiie sea Tales have been told and retold ot bottles thrown from sailing vessels and picked til years later in faroff parts of the work These stories have been taken wit

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Image 6 of The Republican journal (Belfast, Me.), November 27, 1902

CONCERNING THE CROW Ae a Pet or Pest Something About Bon Hassan Perhaps a little more might be said about the despised and troublesome crow We have one that has been with us a year and a half He was caught when old enough to fly and could feed himself and is not as tame as some we have seen But Ben Hassan that is his name will come when called and can see a piece of bread in your hand five or fifty rods away A crow can no doubt see as plainly fifty rods away as a man can two feet away from any object But Ben objects to come nearer his best friends than thirty feet and will keep a greater distance from a stranger unless he is in the lieu house where he has a spate barrel with a motherly old hen which left her quar ters and took up her abode with Ben Generally Ben is more of an expert than a person about liens He know s good and bad hens and hens with chickens and the rooster Some of the hens look just alike to a person but Ben knows them all He

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Image 6 of The Republican journal (Belfast, Me.), December 4, 1902

RAY THOMPSON Wrote Novel While Employed In Sew Mill One of the most unique personalities in the Maine newspaper field today is Hay Thompson the genial editor of the Westbrook Gazette Following the sea in his youth writing a novel in a saw mill in his early manhood At fifty Mr Thompson bright and original as when he edited the Richmond Bee on which he did his first newspaper work of importance is still in harness and many of his friends predict even better work than his past successes yet to come Ray Thompson was born in Gardiner Maine in 1852 His father died during Rays infancy but he was cared for by the best of mothers to whom he was very much attach eji and whom he always speaks of as his best friend Mrs Thompson died in 1887 after see ing her talented son achieve a large degree of success in his chosen pro fession With her young son Mrs Thompson came to Richmond in 1859 when Ray was but seven years of age Ray Thompson made Richmond his home until 1894 when he sold the Richmond Bee of which he was proprietor to Dunham Alden Young Ray

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Image 6 of The Republican journal (Belfast, Me.), December 11, 1902

CAPTAIN JOHN M HARDY Master of Schooner Kadlant 28 Tears Aye said skipper John M Hardy as liewhipped over the end of a piece of rope he was splicing on board the trim little schooner Radiant I have been 28 years in the coasting trade from ISoston arid New York ports east Yesn thats better than the average says be and he turns the rope over and looks longingly over the deck of the old schooner which has so long been home to him The old schooner Radiant and her jovial old commander past three score years have few equals in points of con tinuous service and the companionship of the two has been both pleasing to the shipper and the goodhearted old captain t apt lonn ju iiaruy now nearing three seor and ten years was born in Peer Isle the son ot Joseph P and Polly llaskell Hardy and until the age of 4 years resided there when the fam ily removed to Winterport where they had a little home and did a bit of farm ing in connection with their seafaring His father followed the sea but little yet there was in Capt Hardy the love of

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Image 6 of The Republican journal (Belfast, Me.), February 5, 1903

Alls Well That Ends Well A STORY OF FOURSIDED LOVE I He looked for the most part straight in front of him as they walked across the held side by side His forehead w as puckered his mouth set his peculiarly youthful face paler than its wont Life he said is such a huge re sponsibility Unconsciously his voice took the dog matic tone which so often characterized it in the performance of his clerical du ties Life is such d serious matter 1 do not think we half realize its tremendous seriousness Talkingofertigers said she His voice dropped to one of surprise almost of irritation Wliat do you mean he asked I havent grasped the connection she said It is only when I am in pain that I feel like that Plainly he was seriously affected for he even ignored her frivolous aside Oh what is it she asked There must be something she continued Has the vicarhere she smiled al though unwillinglyhas his reverence been insisting on the fifteen minutes limit for your sermon again You couldnt neglect your mother for any one she said bravely No he admitted no thats true bo you are forced to make

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Image 6 of The Republican journal (Belfast, Me.), April 23, 1903

NEWS OF THE WEEK Maine Mattehs Forest Commis sioner Edgar E Ring is now engaged in making official visits to tlie wild land i counties of the State for the purpose of making arrangements with suitable persons to act as tire wardens under the j provisions of the new law passed by the legislature the past winter This law provides that he shall thoroughly police the timber lands in tbe unorganiztd townships of the State so as to protect them from tires Wardens will he eu1 gaged at S2 per day for such time as they may he actually employed and as sistants may be summoned at any time who shall be paid 15 cents an hour tori the service renderedThe State lays j claim to the oldest twins living in New England and probably in tlie l nited States The Maine twins are Calebs j Haskell one of the most prominent I citizens of New Gloucester and Mis 1 Judith P Bradbury who is now living j in Box bury Mass They were born in j New Gloucester August 1 1M4 iheir parents Caleb and Judith Collins lias1 keli had twelve children of whom ten I grew to maturity

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Image 6 of The Republican journal (Belfast, Me.), April 30, 1903

Literary News and Notes Marjie of the Lower Ranch is the attractive title which lias been given to the story which lias hitherto been an nounced as A Ranch Romance by a Real Ranch Girl J lie 0 M Clark Publishing Company will issue this book in September Miss Cairo M Clark who is at the head of this re markably successful bouse will be the guest of Miss Frances Parker the author of Marjie on her fathers ranch in the Rears Paw Mountains Montana in May The Columbia Club of Portland which has been studying ttie Maine writers this season recently listened to a sketch of the life of Kate Putnam Osgood of Boston one of the sweet singers who went out from the historic old town of Fryeburg including a des cription of the beautiful village which was her home and the Saco valley as a setting to the famous war time poem Driving Home the Cows which was given in closing by Mrs K S Osgood whose husband is a cousin of Kate Put nam Mrs Hiram L Cox was hostess Tiie Open Air Number of Leslies Monthly justifies its name by some re markable outofdoor articles

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