The Republican Journal: Vol. 90, No. 52
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I T Journal. NO. RSf>AY, DECEMBER 20, 1918. FOUR CENTS m^frwTob. — ___ of the Com- of the items to be considered in service to in C. f. U. Convention earnings to the stockholder* service W. WATER CONTROVERSY. have been and the in offset for taxes. We PERSONAL PERSONAL. Christmas pany: that the City should city trust, church should be supplied by gravitation from therefore, that the bill will be approved Waldo county was very well represent- for Mr. and Mrs. J. Lee Patterson and lit- ^gb-fipOM Boyd Lake; and action should be taken payment at an early date. Jerry E, Hayes has returned home from con- As a was held ed at the recent State W. C. T. U. controversy has again arisen be- to bring As to the method heretofore used for tle son have returned from Lubec. these parts before the next State Legislature a business trip to Manset and Bar Harbor. w tween the sewers by hose connections to village last vention in Water ville. The meeting had citizens of Belfast audthe Bel- this about. flushing Cecil G. Roberts is spending Christ- (• reedom we must ask that the as Miss Maude E. Barker left for Tin fast Water and Water Very truly yours, hydrants, city, Monday was called a been postponed because of “influenza,” Company the mas with relatives in West Brooks ville. iRctiur‘.1 what C. W. Wescott, Mayor early as is practicable, either install auto- extended visits in Massachusetts and being usual. has service‘ The and was shorter than Reports Company attempted to again matic flush tanks or such other means as »"iy ,n<lle light New Yotk. Miss Lizzie M. Clements returned of war service departments were given increase the rates as of Nov. 1918. will more correctly enable us to deter- by 125 candles January 1, 18, home from a visit in Portland. illuminated it is mine the amount of water being used. Miss Edith L. Strout arrived Saturday "a> right of way. Some items from these 1919. only right and proper that the Hon. C. W. Wescott, Mayor. Saturday : ,,n top of organ pipes, ,v< Flush tanks would certainly produce Mr. and Mrs. Charlie W. Carter are at from time to time been in public should know of all Belfast, Maine. from Portland to visit her mother, Mrs. and every- have given correspondence much better results than the to yours of May flushing home a with ‘TiT platform, to raise which has My Dear Sir: Reply P. L. Strout. from Bath for week rela- set them. The Journal. It seemed needful passed between the present several present method. jss c|,ance to 3rd has beeu delayed through tives. of the State City Government and We also regard the suggested change Louis A. Freedman of Bates is with the green the subscription price paper, the Water Com- causes. We judge from its reading that College lighted, as in the city’s interest as affecting hy- William G. ar- “The Star in The East,” to thirty-five pany. The following are the letters in the difference between the city and this spending the Christmas vacation at his Havener of Portland istmSS decorations, drant so is the full to date are due to difference of inter- service, objectionable rived to Christmas with cents. Nearly every one present promised which deal with the situation: company in home in this city. Saturday spend beauty. The service between or practice of opening hydrants freezing re pretation of the contract us, Mr. and Mrs. Cecil to send a new subscriber at the old rate besides which it would make clay. nging of Christmas March 26, 1918. better, in its application. This weather; Mrs. Abbie F. Salisbury left recently Hon. C. W. perhaps the labor now involved in the of twenty-five cents. Wescott, Mayor, certainly intends to fulfill its unnecessary the winter with her John J. Casey. U. S. N., now stationed j, by soloists, company tear of hose for such to spend daughter, Mrs. Belfast, Maine, and our letter of Jan. men, and wear and and In giving the report of the paper, every obligation; D. G. in Machias. at Hingham, Mass., arrived Monday to ida e congregation, Dear Sir: Our superintendent Councils flushing as has hitherto been done. Mrs. Field said informs 8th last to the Mayor and City Gertrude Stevens Leavitt, editor, us that a letter spend Christmas at home. I good music seldom sent to the Mayor under had this fully in mind. Very truly yours, Mrs. Clifford J. Pattee returned home that twenty-five copies had recently date of Jan. 8, 1918, per the decision Belfast Water Co., hurch. Mrs. Wini- copy herewith, It is not for us to discuss Monday from where she spent Sherman G. Swift, who has employ- has not been turned over to Elbert Wheeler, Treasurer Portland, been ordered from Texas. you by the the Public Utilities Commission upon a few •iresided at the organ by several weeks with relatives. ment in Bath, is spending days last administration. The letter was sent but we think the in- Two new life members were received, the Dorman petition, Dec. 18, 1918. on the new to the with his family in this city. numbers Mayor and copy thereof also to the ference is plain that in its opinion, it con- Mrs. Chester H. Shaw of Wmthrop is and little Charles Chapman of Fairfield City of Belfast as enjoyed by the City Clerk, and the latter doubtless has are no “other towns and B. Albee has arrived from siders that there To Belfast Water Co. spending the week with her daughter, Capt. Henry was dedicated to temperance and allied it. We shall be glad to have con- which would such cities in Maine of the general size and Water for flushing sewers in 1916, J300 Bernard to the winter with his resent sideration of the Mrs. Thomas E. Bowker and family. spend effort. The State president tied the white matter ss you may think circumstances of Belfast and similarly 300 had the roads been * 1917, wife and son at The Colonial. is proper. Yours are none with a brief truly, situated.” If so, there 300 Louis Frankel arrived home from Port- had Freedom ribbon on his wrist and offered “1918, ,nd also Belfast Water can properly be Company, which comparisons made, where he has been with the drafted Miss Alice Parker, a district nurse in sed for the holidays. prayer. Elbert Wheeler, Treasurer. the result that this method of deter- land, with Total, 1900 is the holidays The address of Dr. Sarah Sweet Wind- or men. He has received his discharge. Woburn, Mass., spending ,s taken for the re- mination is impracticable unworkable; Received Payment, with her Mr. and Mrs. John New staff of January 8, 1918. and even if the contract re- at parents, ,1'• indows and amount- sor, head of the England attempted, Miss Caroline Havener, a student The Mayor and City that con- Council, quires in making comparisons, to Parker. dollars women physicians representing the social It is the purpose of the City Council Westbrook Seminary, is spend ng the Onlv seven Belfast, Maine. sideration be given to the other elements war of the son on win- hygiene section of governmental Gentlemen: Presuming that are have their fully protect the inhabitants City. with her Mrs. Cecil Clay. Mr. and Mrs. Samuel I’reedman, f pay the bill you besides “size,” all of which holidays aunt, was of interest. familiar with the recent case of Wilmer statement will be next week Louis and Sarah left Tuesday P work, great bearing. A published Chester A. Roberts of Auburn was daughter when J. Dorman et als., of Belfast, versus this and “similarly situ- the Council will in U and carried Nearly every county responded, “Circumstances” as to what course City to attend to spend Christmas with relatives planned Company before the Public Utilities Com- at the time called to Belfast last Thursday ated” must take into account to follow. also had “County Presidents Hour” was called, FC relative to the take and advise the people G. Rob- New York. l who charge mission, 128, rates be- when rates may be in issue, all the ele- the funeral of his brother, Frank and them Waldo, receiv- ing charged for water for do- It is planned to make several, among supplied ments of the problem of this company, erts. Sergt. and Mrs. Allan Moody Howes, mestic and other we ed a beautiful of Mrs. L. M. N. purposes, beg to other investment the Christmas sea- picture including among things, The Y. M. C. A. who were married in of inquire if it may not be deemed Mr. and Mrs. Edward R. Estabrooks of Atlantic, Iowa, of an increase in practic- as related to population served, produc- church. Stevens, in recognitiori able and in the interest at hone after Feb. 3rd lgregational of the people of of income per capita; whether or Needs Portland arrived Monday to spend Christ- Nov. 19th, will be to now the W. C. T. U. tivity Specialists. membership. Up Belfast to gain such an adjustment of all be and if not any water must pumped, so, mas with Mr. and Mrs. James S. Harri- at Belfast. has had no although thousands rates and charges of this Company as the entire cost of i CROCKER “drives,” to what elevation; Recognition of the Belf-sacrifice and Bel- I ,„ shall more man. Mervin Ames, sub-master of the |pv dollars have been in war work equitably distribute the burden including filtration; whether of spent operation, willingness to face death on the part of thereof according to the several interests is income from fire service has closed her fast High school, is spending the week a membership or not there Miss Julia M.