Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1881-09-07
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"vol Lelgh and family of U.,Io~o,,
:" nome from their vacation stav a, sou;,-o,
Island. At squirrel
Mrs. Annie Mosier and Mrs IT
man Of this city. start for Ie.dv;,1o -,
next Monday. oo'-'
"eh' b. r. Harris goes to Machias ,h;.
week to meet his comrades of the old s;,,h
"alne' who have their reunion there
"e' Mr. Ihacher arrived in Augusta on
the Pullman, Tuesday morning. He had :.
very rough passage across the Atlantic
MISS Pauline Markham is PLAYING Lou;ss
10 The Two Orphans" with a comn,nr ~
the New England circuit.
MI sumner Mclaughlin of WaterviIle
mas just been granted pension by the T. 6
Government of $40 per month. with abou,
$1,000 Of back pay.
MIR. johnson, clerk at the Elmwooa bo,o,
"aterville, has relinquished that position
and will take charge of the Grammar school
at Machias.
Gardiner and Smith of Augusta, Bowdoin-
class OF 81, have entered Bryant & Strattons
Commercial College in Boston to nre,.re
for mercantile life
Masters James G. Blaine. Jr., and Samuel
Z. Manley of Augusta, have entered Phillips
Academy, Exeter, N. H., and will there pre-
pare for college. Both are bright boys and
will make good record.
The late A. Q. Randall of Richmond. be-
queathed to the town in his will the sum of
s2,79l.79. This has just been paid by the
executors to the selectmen of Richmond.
Miss Lucy lie Prohon, who comes to Au-
gusta as the organist of the Catholic church.
was recently presented with a handsome gold
ring by the members of the choir with which
she was connected in Portland.
Greeniief I. Stevens, Esq, of West Wa
tervllle, has been appointed additional Aide
de Camp on the staff of Major General
Joshua L. Chamberlain, with the rank of Col
onel.
Master John Harrington who has been
employed as messenger at the w. L. tele-
graph Office for the past year, has accepted
situation as assistant in the Gardiner Savings
duties at once.-Gardiner Reporter
DIR. ii. A. Reynolds, the temperance re-
form speaker and organizer of the Red Rib
bon Clubs, has founded a town in northern
Dakota, which bears his name and promises
to be thriving place. 1t is on the railroad,
and the doctor is postmaster, and has good
wheat farm and stands up for temperance
with his old zeal.
Mr.. c. =. Foster and wife of Milwaukee,
Wisconsin, have been visiting their Augusta
friends. While here they were the guests
of Mr.. j. S. johnson on Winthrop street.
Mr.. Foster is the proprietor of a frst-class
hotel in Milwaukee. He went from Winthrop
years ago, and has done well the West.
The Notwithstanding young man whom we
have seen in the city lately is Mr.. Ossian
Pillsbury, of old an Augusta boy, but now
connected with one of the largest whole
sale tobacco houses in Chicago. Mr.. Pills
bury looks as if he thrived on Western air
and diet. He will remove his family to
Chicago next week.
Capt lothian johnson of Durham, is two
years older than our friend Elihu Stevens
of Belgrade, whom the Journal boosted into
Immortality. The Bath Times says that
although 90 years of age, Mr.. johnson is
hale and hearty, and apparently as smart as
man of TO- He was born in Harpswell in
September, 1776, and lived in house with
four generations. For nearly 20 years he
followed the sea. He and his wife lived to-
gether - years, and she died at the age of
% years. Mr.. johnson has had a family of
nine children seven of whom are now living.
the oldest being 20 years of age. and the
Youngest 40. Mr.. johnson attended the fu
neral of George Washington, being then IL
wears old. He was also in the war of 1872.
The first Presidential candidate for whom
Mr.. johnson voted was Thomas Jefferson.
There was an informal family gathering at
b. F. Gaslin's house on Morton place, one
afternoon and evening last week, which was
unique in some of its features. Four genera
tons and 30 persons were present. The
oldest person in the room was William Cross
(Mr. G's father-in-law) who carries his 81
years and months very lightly The
Youngest was the veterans great-grandchild,
9 months old. Mr.. Cross has children now
living girls and boys. For many years
he was deacon in the Baptist church in this
city His religion permeated his lite so
thoroughly that he has been staunch repub-
lican from the foundation of the party. Bet
ter still. his four sons are all republicans, and
his FIVE daughters all married republican
husbands.
EAST vASSALBORO'.
There is quite a constellation of old peo-