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Image 7 of The Republican journal (Belfast, Me.), October 17, 1901

MYSTIC GRANGE FAIR Mystic Grange held their annual fair at Helmont Centre Oct 2nd The weather was not all that could be wished but quite a ovd was in attendance and a good time as enjoyed by all The awards of prem i in the various departments were made i follows CATTLE ie yoke three year old steers Everett nnell 1st Albert L Marriner 2nd Hoy Marriner 3rd ne yoke two year old steers Oscar kins 1st Herbert Donnell 2nd Jersey cows F L Batchelder 1st 2nd I 3rd ne heifer two year old W S Foss 1st i ne heifer one year old G W Marriner F L Batchelder 2nd ne line Jersey heifer two years old A onnell 1st also had four generations of sey cows and heifers DRAFT HORSES ii draft horse a nice drawing pair Geo gilt 1st POULTRY Leghorn chicks Everett Donnell 1st yniouth Bock chicks Howard Elms 1st nett 1 hmnell 2nd ekin ducks Carl Brewster 1st SHEEP AND SWINE est flock of lambs W S Foss 1st L F Vnwood 2nd Kamboiilett ram Oscar Shibles 1st uck Y S Foss 1st L IS Marriner Ernest Piper 3rd st flock sheep Ernest Piper 1st

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Image 7 of The Republican journal (Belfast, Me.), October 24, 1901

VACATION ON CAPE COD Lo on a narrow neck of land Twixt two unbounded seas I stand Quaint Cape Cod Even its name has i ilavor of oddity about it which illus j dates the grim humor of the Pilgrim I delegation selecting it Fishing in its neighboring waters the party decided i it the first fish caught should give tie to the new found cape and up j on the bottom speedily whisked a jnodly codand Cape Cod was im irdiately christened into existence arcely more than live miles in width any part it extends out from the uinland or upward of sixty miles d curves inward sixty more its in land sliores washed by the waters of c of the most picturesque bays known the world while its outer coastline esents a harrier to the broad Atlantic lieli rolls in magnificent surfbeats eaiust it On the Atlantic side the n ation of which I write was spent It goes without saying that in choos ig the cape for a summer vacation ne is governed by a thorough love for ocean its changing moods its vast ess and 1 know of no better place on our coast to satisfy

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Image 7 of The Republican journal (Belfast, Me.), October 31, 1901

AN ENTIRE CITY EXCITED OYER A SEEMING MIRACLE John Hunter Blind and Helpless from Paralysis Now Sees Walks and Works FACT5 VERIFIED BY THE HAYOR AND OTHER PROiTINENT MEN An Investigation by the San Francisco Examiner Demonstrates the Absolute Truth of a Cure that Almost Parallels the Miracles of OldIts Full Significance to all Nervous Sufferers The town of Chico in Butte County i al in in a state of excitement over a racle so marvelous as to be almost beyond belief The local papers have given columns to the discussion of a case that with all reverence might justly be nupared with the miracles of old for here a man who was blind and lie sees speech es and he talks powerless to move and he nlks and works Pronounced incurable i later than the spring of last year he is is week shingling a roof and repairing a building So widespread became the fame of this miracle of modern times that a Sail Fran sco Examiner representative visited Chico ml made a thorough investigation of the ise Every scrap of evidence was sifted i id the most searching Inquiry served only establish the truth of a cure that

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Image 6 of The Republican journal (Belfast, Me.), November 21, 1901

LITERARY NEWS AND NOTES The contents of the New England Magazine for November are a3 follows Sherburne Farms by Henry L Hazel ton When Me and Ed Got Religion by Fred W Shibley Isaiah Thomas the Patriot Printer by Frank R Batcliel der A Political Conspiracy by Epes W tSargent Ye Ancient Inns of Boston Town by Frederick W Norcross Self ishness by Charles H Town An Archi tect of the Old School by Henry T Bailey Manda a story by Jeannette Pemberton WashingtonGreene Cor respondence A Castle in Spain by Frederic lteddale Is there a decadence of New England Agriculture by Charles S Phelps The English Com monwealth by Burdett Hart For seventyfive years The Youths Companion has been published every week as a family paper In these sev entyfive years the papers constancy to a high standard has won the confidence of the American people It has kept pace with the growth of the country Its stories its special articles its edito rials its selections represent all that is best in American life For 1002 the foremost men and women of the Eng lishspeaking world have been enlisted as contributors The work of an un precedented number of

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Image 6 of The Republican journal (Belfast, Me.), November 28, 1901

60 YEARS OF DANCING prof J C Whitten is Light on Hie Feet at 80 Boston Sunday Globe In the northern part of the city of Belfast Me there lives a pleasing character in the person of Prof Jere miah C Whitten well known through the State as a dancing master and ex pert violinist and even at an advanced age the envy of all the country lads around as well as his city contempora ries Young at the age of nearly 80 years is Prof Whitten wiio is yet in the dizzy whirl of fashionable dances and still skilfully handles his violin in a manner which produces those rich tones of music known to the musician The subject of this sketch was born in Freedom Me the son of a farmer and mechanic and in that town his early days were passed At the age of 18 years after having taken a thorough course of study in Freedom academy he left home to teach school following that occupation several years From nis mother be inherited rich musical gifts and under her direction he began a study of music taking his first lesson on the violin from her the mother

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Image 7 of The Republican journal (Belfast, Me.), December 19, 1901

NEWS OF THE WEEK Maine Matters The State as sessors havecommiLied the semiannual i tax on the savings hanks and loan and building associations of the State This commitment was 17 higher than the dune commitment and the total tax for the year will be 500723 as i against 448827 for 1900 an increase of j 51905 This increase is partly due to the increase in the number of deposits and to the sale of government bonds exempt from taxation and the invest ment of the proceeds in securities which are taxableAt the head of a party of about 50 of his followers Rev 1 V Sanford of the Holy Ghost and i s band with headquarters at Shiloh sailed from Boston on the steamer New England Dec 4th bound for England The travelers will do evangelistic work for some time before proceeding to the Holy LandA verdict of murder in the first degree was returned at Dexter Dec 4th against Henry Lambert the voung French Canadian guide and woodsman charged with the murder of the Allen family at Shirley last May after one of the longest criminal trials in the history of the State The jury was out less

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Image 7 of The Republican journal (Belfast, Me.), December 26, 1901

NEW YORK TO BOGOTA A Maine Boya Trip to the South Am Capital Perched Hlpli n I he A mien it Feels to Bide Straignt I p ami U the Back of An Ornerv Mule Bogota Colombia Sept 23 1 My dear KatherineI have bi tending to write you for some as I have thought that as the Colombia is in some respects a one a few of its details might be terest From New York to Cartl the journey was a very pleasai After that the Deluge We pleasant though uneventful i to Jamaica passing San Salva the fourth day out Cape Ma the extreme eastern end of Ci the fifth day and reaching King the morning of the sixth The steamer on which I sailed K gston three days thus a lion opportunity of seeing somethin inuca In addition to seei sights of Kingston I made a i to Liustead in the Bog Walk for the purpose of making a v typical Jamaica pen or plaj company with an Amerieai become acquainted with on from New York I enjoyed thi Jamaica very much To me i long jump from New York to I c I had never visited

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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.), May 29, 1902

VOPLE Belfast Young Home I Mil 11 21 1902 Jg when we awoke rut soon cleared oft in having the finest ill here and Athens to nmere on board in good ft six hours later than d time of departure That ii in this part of the world where time seems to count as merely made to kill Sunday Vl a good rest and on account of p extreme cold were not on deck all y but saw the site of ancient Troy mu the Asiatic shore It was beautitul coming through the Dardanelles about sunsVt At the town of this name we stopped to land a freight of artichokes and beans and to have our health certi ficates approved We awoke at six the next morning to find ourselves about to drop anchor in the llosphorus oppo site the sevenhilled city of Constantine with the star and crescent on all sides t was a little cold and dither foggy so we did not hurry to see lie entrance in to the harbor which has been so enthu siastically descrilied by many Gradu ally however the minarets appealed through the vapors one by one and the domes of the mosques

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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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