The Portland daily press., 1879-05-30
MAINE CITIES.
Jottings by Press Correspondents.
BATH

Jottings by Press Correspondents.
BATH.
THURSDAY, May 30.
Decoration day exercises-The procession
will form on Centre street, right resting on
Washington street, in the following order.
Police.
Marshal and Aids.
bath High School Cadets Capt. Duncan
Sedgwick Post, No. a, G. A. R., H. H. Howse, Com.
Soldiers and Sailors not members of the Post.
Disabled Soldiers and Sailors in Carriages.
Mayor, Orator and Chaplain.
City Government.
Childred Of the Orphans Home.
Citizens.
The procession will move promptly at Il
o'clock P. NJ, up Washington street to North,
North to Lincoln, Lincoln to Oak Grove
cemetery, leaving detachment at Maple
Grove cemetery. Returning through Lincoln,
Green, High, Center and Front streets, to the
common, where the remaining exercises will
be conducted by his Honor the Mayor, con-
sisting of
Prayer by the Chaplain, Rev. Mr.. White.
Reading of the Roll of Honor by Mayor Richardson.
Music by the Band.
Grafton by Col j. w. Spaulding
Singing by the Orphans Home Children.
At the close of the exercises, the Cadets will
escort the Post to their hall on Water street.
Should the weather prove unfavorable, the
Grafton, &C.. will be at the City Hall, instead
of the common.
All soldiers and sailors are cordially invited
to meet with the Post at 1 o'clock P. NJ, and
parade with them on this occasion.
q. A. l.. Sampson, Marshal
Mr.. A. ID. Stetson has that prize marble top
table on exhibition in his window
AT the Trotting Park at 2.3O p. M, the pro-
gramme will be as following:
1st, Matched Race-Between S. S. Jon dams blk
6. Oko and Albert Stover's blk. m. Daisy Knox.
I'd Family Horses-Open to all horses owned in
Sagadahoc county, Brunswick and Harpswell. SO
to trst, SO to second and so to third.
3d, Matched Double Team Race-Between Bath
4th, Two Mile Foot Race-Free to all; So to first,
80 to second.
OF age; 81 to first, and 81 to second.
Entrance to foot races free.
Three way-farers at the station house last
night.
Wednesday afternoon at Chapman & Flints
yard Philip Pembroke, carpenter, fell from
staging distance of about twenty feet. He
was taken home in a carriage and is doing
well to-day. Internal injuries were at first
feared
The porgy boat Fannie Sprague came up
this morning for coal and set of boats recent
ly built by Dyer Il Williams.
Three cars of ship timber for Goss g. Sawyer
came in to-day with Maine Central freight;
also one car 10 tons of iron to J. II. Allen Co.,
and one car of corn for c. A. Hooper.
Crooker & Lilly's anchor works are again in
full blast
The schooner Hattie S. Williams sailed from
the ice houses, House Island harbor, with a
full Cargo of 1,204 tons of ice for Georgetown,
DC.
This afternoon James +. Wright was cross
ing the track near the M. c. Railroad freight
house when the left rear wheel caught in the
track, the horse cleaning every spoke from the
hub and making Spill.
This morning Herbert Russell was exercising
his colt in light wagon near Centre street ON
Highstreet whenthe colt stepped on a stone and
stumbled falling, and breaking both shafts of
the wagon
Last night a crowd OF immoral admirers of
the beautiful cleaned every flower garden,
vase and rustic basket on Middle street. The
frevency of such thievery makes the ladies
despair of success in gardening.
Mr.. Joseph P. Dnbar the fancy car artist at
the Knox & Lincoln works, has received an
offer to go to the Coburg Works Of Canada.
That saw-dust banking at the Weeks street
school house, about which there has been a
1eenng among parents of scholars as to its
breeding disease, has been inspected by the
Board of Health and will be removed.
The Francis Cobb has been put in excellent
condition at the Knox & Lincoln repair shop,
and is once more on the road The Edward
S1wall
The schooner Bramhall finished unloading
her coal this morning at Woodwards wharf
and sailed up river this afternoon to load lum-
Der at South Gardiner for New York ON her
return trip.
A man bought pair of pants at we'll
known clothier's and remarked that they cost
So. Were they all wool? Jack inquired. No,
they were indigo blue was the answer.
Hotel embellishments 10, Sagadahoc %.
Freight NJ G. Railroad-East %, West 7.
x. & L. Railroads.&c. II, West IL cars.
The Laurent Pinafore troupe intend coming
to Bath.
The Samoset House at Mouse Island opens
June 18th.
II. w. Dunton, a North Bath storekeeper,
lost about $40 in money and goods by thieves
entering his store last night or early this morn
ing.
]. I. Cook was chosen chairman and Mr.. j.
M. Frost secretary. Sixteen delega tes were
elected to attend the Portland convention.
The first of a series of three shooting match
es proposed to be held by the Sagadahoc Fish
and Game Association was held at the Bath
Driving Park grounds, near New Meadows,
this afternoon. There was a fair attendance
and the score averaged well. The the first
arize was an elegant badge consisting of
shield on which is the societys monogram,
and valued at $15). The second prize was a
six pound keg of dead shot powder. The fol-
lowing is the score: Millay 8, A. @. Gould 8,
Newell 6, Minott 10, Brown Z, Fish 6, Mason
Gould 5, A. G. Williams 2, Fisher 6, York s,
Greenleaf Z, Carr 1, Bonney 5, Knight 6, W.
L. Williams 4.