Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1874-01-13
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loral amD State Mems.
There will be an important meeting OF Sell
Williams Post, &. A. r., tomorrow evening
When fairly at work, the Knickerbockei
crew run into the ice houses in Farmngdale
900 tons of ice per day.
The daily mail from this city to Waldoboro
passes through jefferson, East Jefferson,
South jefferson, Coopers Mills, North White
field and South Windsor.
Special meeting of Augusta Lodge, +. and
y. NJ, this evening at 1-2 o'clock. Work
in the third degree. All the fraternity are
invited.
The Augusta Temperance Reform Club
will hold meeting in Furbish's Hall, on
Cushnoc Heights, on Wednesday evening of
this week.
The announcement for the remaining lee
lures and concert in the Lyceum course, will
cts, with reserved seats, may he bad at the
Office of the Eastern Express.
The joint standing committees of the leg
islature and the committees of the two
branches are published in the Daily this
morning. Anticipating an unusual demand,
we have printed extra copies that may be OBJ
tanned OF the carrier
At the annual meeting CT the stockholders
of Wiscasset bridge, the following officers
were elected: Andrew Lancy, Clerk and
Treasurer; Isaac Coffin, Thomas Cunning
ham, Andrew Lancy, Henry ingalls,, Rich
ard H. Tucker, Directors. At a meeting of
the directors, Isaac II. Gotta was elected
President.
Our readers will not forge: the lecture On
South America to be given by Hon. John
l.. Stevens at Granite Hall on this evening,
being the first in the Temple course. We are
sure that no lecture from abroad to he given
in either course, will exceed this in interest.
The lecture will be given in Meorian Hall.
Evening tickets for sale at the door.
1t seems that Bristol and Bremen are to
settle a little matter before the legislature this
winter regarding the town lines. Bristol
claimed that if the line should be run correct
ly, itwould give them Hathaways factory ana
the consequent help in the way oftaxes, while
Bremen with equal assurance claims the dis
puted point as property Of that town.
The Lincoln County News, speaking o! the
representative in the legislature from the
goodly old town OF Waldoboro, Augustus
Welt, Esq, says that lie is a descendant from
the old German stock of that town. Mr..
Welt is man of good judgment, of liberal
impulses, ''the poor he has never passed by,
and possesses good qualities for representa-.
tive.
The Oracle says that the annual meeting Of
the Wiscasset Fire Society was held in that
town on the evening of Tuesday last and
officers were chosen as follows: Henry In
gals, Moderator; Silas l.. Young, Treasurer
James Taylor, Clerk. This society was or
ganized in 1901, and is in most fiourishing
condition. 1t has a large fund and is
probably the wealthiest association in Gown.
Mr. Noah W. Cross of Gardiner, whose
death by suicide was announced in yesterday 5
Daily, had at another time, several years ago,
made an unsuccessful attempt to take his life.
He was in the business CT selling clothes
driers; trade was very dull, and he had been
respondent for some time. He was heard to
remark. a few days since, what relief it
would be to commit suicide, and thus get rid
of all worriment anxiety and trouble.
At the recent stockholders meeting Of Wa
terville Bank, the following directors were
chosen:
d. L. Milliken, James Stackpole, Thomas
G.. Kimball f. +. Webb, l. S. Bangs, Jr.,
Waterville Francis Low, Clinton; Elias
hIilliken, Augusta ID. l.. Millken, Presi.
dent; E. L. Getchell, Cashier.
This bank makes a semi-annual dividend Of
five per cent
The friends of John 7. Wyman and wife
met at their house in South China On the
evening of the LIST inst, to celebrate the fifth
anniversary of their marriage. The evening
was pleasantly spent, the guests leaving use
full and substantial presents in the way OF
wooden ware. After partaking Of an oyster
supper, the party separated with wishes for
many years of connubal happiness for Mr.,
and Mrs. w.
1t is now pretty well understood that a
woman suffrage convention is to be held in