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Library of Congress1903

Image 6 of The Republican journal (Belfast, Me.), May 7, 1903

The Belfast Club of Boston THE FIRST ANNUAL MEETING APRIL 24th A SUCCESS A LIST OF THtSE PRESENT Friday evening April 24th at Hotel Vendome the first meeting of the Bel fast Club of Boston was held The event proved a far greater success than any one anticipated There were about 115 people present and many came hun dreds of miles for the sake of renewing old friendships and of joining the club There were representatives from Spring field Worcester New Bedford Provi dence It I and a few were from Bel fast Ninetyfive people were enrolled as members of the club The recep tion began at 030 the receiving group comprising these ladies Mrs Annie I McKeen Mrs Henry C Daniels Mrs Annabel Knight Mrs Mary K Dahl Miss Cora A Fames Miss Mary E Pierce Miss Flora A Burgess and Mrs John A Savage It was pleasing to see some of the older members of the party renew old friendships made 40 or 50 years ago and to hear them relate anec dotes of their younger days spent in Belfast The reception was very in formal and not much time had elapsed before both old and young were

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Library of Congress1903

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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Library of Congress1903

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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Library of Congress1903

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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Library of Congress1903

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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Library of Congress1903

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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Library of Congress1903

Image 6 of The Republican journal (Belfast, Me.), September 3, 1903

Literary News and Notes The article on Joseph Pulitzer in Everybodys for September is pecu liarly illuminative of the mans charac ter and his ideals of newspaper making In the light of his present extraordi nary endowment of a College of Jour nalism at Columbia it affords an inter esting index to The line of thought of which that is the culmination Herbert Maxwells notable discussion of Animal Intelligence in The Month ly Review is reprinted in The Living Age for August 2 In lighter vein and perhaps even more attractive to lovers of outdoor lite is Edmund Selouss charming sketch Terns in the Nurse ry from The Saturday Review Three noticeble articles on literary topics of perennial interest appear in current numbers of The Living Age In the number for August 22 Charles L Eastlake writes of Thackeray Aug ust 2 contains Augustine Birrells re view of New Editions of Charles Lamb and September 5 an article from Walter Frewen Lords dashing pen on Charles Reades Novels Ir Holmes writes Thomas Bailey Aldrich in the August Century had an odd liking for ingenious desk accesso ries in the way of pencil sharpeners paper weights penholders etc The latest contrivances

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Library of Congress1903

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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Library of Congress1903

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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Library of Congress1904

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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Library of Congress1904

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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Library of Congress1905

Image 6 of The Republican journal (Belfast, Me.), March 23, 1905

LETTER FROM FLORIDA r The Hotel Royal I oinciana Maine Per sonals etc Special correspondence of The Journal Palm Beach Fla March 121905 One of the first questions which the visitor to Palm Beach asks and one that is never tiring to the traveler is that as to the size and dimensions of the Hotel Royal Poinciana and it may surprise some of my northern friends to learn of the size of this enormous hostelry The usual questions are How many will it accommodate How long is the building How many rooms does it contain In reply were most interesting The exhibits in fruit and vegetable lines were as fine as it was possible to have them and while Florida has been visited by a severe freeze they did not seem to be materi ally affected One of the largest catches of Spanish mackerel made here in a long time was that of yesterday when the fishermen who were out with nets captured a school in which there were thousands and they were dragged to the shore by the barrel Just previous to this catch a large ninefoot shark had been killed and pulled out on the shore and the

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Library of Congress1905

Image 6 of The Republican journal (Belfast, Me.), March 30, 1905

Maine FolfcsAbroad A Word for the Belfast Club of Boston Maine Reunions in Brockton and Worces ter Mass To all Belfast People Abroad and at Home The reunion of the Belfast Club of Boston March 10th was a most delightful affair and while it is still fresh in our minds I wish through the medium of The Journal to catch the ears and hearts of some of our older Belfast people who have res ided in Boston and its suburbs for 25 years or more and no doubt have in some instances lost interest in the old home on the shores of the Penobscot As a general thing as we grow older our thoughts turn to the home of our youth and we become more or less ret rospective and live over the good times and happiness we enjoyed there We feel now that the club member ship is on a sound foundation that we can hold what we have but we want to see a generous increase before another year The older ones probably reason something like this there would be few if any that they know and that they are too old etc We are never too old

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Library of Congress1905

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

The Increased Cost of Living One of the most interesting problems of to day is tlie rise in the cost of liv ing Itaffects everybody and accord ingly there is no one for whom it has not a keen interest While the poor suffer most owing to the great increase m the prices of bare necessaries the rich are likewise made uncomfortable Mr Midas for example does not enjoy paying 50 per cent more for a diamond necklace than the jeweler would have asked for the same article four or five years ago To most people the situa tion signifies in effect a considerable reduction of income and the individual who feels it most perhaps is the sal aried man whose wages remain un changed while their purchasing power is seriously diminished Young Mr lienedick let ns say has just taken the adventurous leap into matrimony He earns only a moderate satorv hut enough as he and his little wTTe have figured it out to maintain a comfortable home on a modest scale Having saved a few hundred dollars sufficient to build a house with a view to the eventual acquisition of full own ership in the propertyon the instal

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Library of Congress1905

Image 6 of The Republican journal (Belfast, Me.), November 23, 1905

PROBATE COURT Following is an abstract of the busines of the Probate Court for Waldo county No vein her term 1905 Estate of Isaiah F Allen late of Liberty Charles N Alien of Moutville appointed ad ministrator e t Estate of Joseph k Barker late of Iioj Sarah A Barker appointed admmstratnx Estate of Annie T Field late of Belfast Herbert T Field appointed executor Estate of James 11 staples late of Stock ton Springs Gladys E Staples appomte administratrix IT Estate of Ira M Getchell late of biut Mantle E Getchell appointed executrix Estate of Catherine B Conant lateof Bel fast Kittie F Rigby appointed executrix Estate of Leonard P Berry late of Lib erty Mary L Berry appointed executrix Estate of Grover C and Frank Dunton minors of Belfast Charles E Dunton ap PffieBof May Richards of Searsport TeificatBeedofadoaptionVJsued to Georg A an 1 Carrie Young of Unity to adopi Florence B Reynolds and to change hei name to Florence B oung Certificate of adoption issued to Lhailei A and Anna E Means of Unity to adopi Eunice K Reynolds and to change liei name to Eunice R Means Estate of Grover C and 1 rank Dunton minors

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Library of Congress1905

Image 7 of The Republican journal (Belfast, Me.), December 28, 1905

IS COURTESY DEAD AVhen we note the wave of brutal dis regard of the everyday amenities of life shown by the young man of ac knowledged respectable parentage the question naturally arises what is the i isi of this lapse of decency of con t and who is to blame for its begin g and growth ie mother of a family is usually lited with possessing the influence t makes a home what it is and of trolling the drift of action or be or of the children This is to a large measure truebut the dominat ii_ and virile force of the father breaks and overrides especially in his rcible influence with the son who tes listens and absorbs the words acts and general conduct of his male parent Everybody knows that the average young man of today is a careless un mannerly boor both in public aud in society and it is time the root and rea on of this evil should be reached and nearly shown up so that in a glaring limelight of open criticism they will be shamed into takiug up again the normal conditions of true manhood iet us then look at the fathers

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Library of Congress1906

Image 6 of The Republican journal (Belfast, Me.), March 29, 1906

NOTES FROM FLORIDA A Good Catch of Bluefish The Razorback Hog Orange Groves Moving South The Season Nearing its Close Correspondence of The Journal Palm Black Florida March 19 1906 A few days ago 1 went fishing with some friends Mr Leroy IIiscock anti his father who own the trim little launch Helen and as it was my first fishing trip in Florida you may he assured that the fact 1 came out high line was most gratifying 1 was awak1 ened from slumbers by my friends in 1 the early morning hours and crawlii g out of bed pulled on my clothes anil was soon breakfasting with them Af ter such a breakfast as befits a good fisherman we left on the little boat for a trip up the lake mid were soon on the fishing grounds The catching of blue fish here is considered a great sport and we landed a good catch We used a bright piece of lead with a bit of red flannel and while the hook was larger j than a mackerel jig it was on similar lines The fish bit readily and as we did all the fishing by trolling we bad to

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Library of Congress1906

Image 6 of The Republican journal (Belfast, Me.), April 5, 1906

u___ NEW IDEAS FOR HOME DECORATION HOUSEHOLD LETTER FROM JEANETTE VAN REYPEN Vkw York March 31 1906 It is said that the leader of New York society Mrs Astor never permits any change in the furnishings of her homes Once built and suitably fitted they are finished as permanently as the woodwork or walls of the house As wear makes renewals necessary articles are replaced in exact duplicate though to do this often involves fresh importation and great additional expense This is extreme conservatism but itcertainlv makes for repose and no one can be in touch with the best decorators here without realizing that the pendu lum is swinging toward simplicity and permanence in the selection of household belongings _ b 6 fashion harnessed Fashion has been put in harness and made to work not drive the busy women who preside over the household and who are responsible for its well The servant problem which is ever present and the need for time to devote to reading study and to social intercourse have combined to create a demand among intelligent women for furnishings and decorations that are not only pleasing to the eye but permanent and practical as well Even

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