Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1881-08-22

And all her signs and voices shame
| Inc prayeriess heart of man.
j. C. Whittier.
Forty Swedes are employed in the Mon.o,
slate quarries.
Mr.. L. Sargent and family have left Mil,
TO reside hereafter in Halloweu.
MIR. Frank Partridge and family .-o ..h
three weeks rest at Ocean Point.
+. W. Moore has just completed yer,
nne crayon likeness of George Pierce.
President Elliott of Harvard COLLEGE. i
cruising along the New England coast
Before mans will amounts to ANYTHING
he must die. 1t is not SO with woman's
Leslie {. Cornish, Esq, leaves Augusts
this morning for vacation trip to Mt. Desert
Stephen Lancaster, Esq, of New York
with his family, is visiting Augusta, his ole
home.
| Dr. Wallace Bolan. Mr. C. H. Brick and
Mr.. Z. II. Guppy of Augusta, passed the Sab
bath at Old Orchard.
Mr.. Z. +. Jefferson and Prof Stanton O,
Lewiston, are trying the black bass a,
Cobboseecontee.
Miss Julia f. Edwin sails for Burmab
September Sd, about month earlier than
she originally intended
Biddeford wants French clerk in its DOS,
office. Perhaps some of the Augusta French.
men will apply for the job.
Mrs. j. o. Webster and children are al
Squirrel Island. The doctor is kept busy at
tending to his patients in Augusta.
Miss Lillian DeRocher, the well-known
singer, is stopping at her fathers pleasant
home on Summer street, Waterville.
+. A. Munsey, manager of the Western
Union office, has got home from his vacation
trip to the islands and to Rangeley Lakes
Rev. Mr.. Mclaughlin, rector of ST Mat
thew's church, Hallowell, has returned from
his vacation stay in Portland and at the
Islands.
Mr.. F. Green, the genial clerk at the
Augusta House, who became a Benedict or
| Thursday last, and wife, are making bridal
tour up into interior Maine.
Miss Nellie Sanborn of HallOwell, who
spent last winter in Boston studying el,cution
is delighting her friends at Squirrel ISLAND
with her impromptu readings.
Mrs. II. E. Mott, wife of the pastor of Soutl
Congregational church, is stopping at the
Augusta House. She expresses herself a.
much pleased with her new home,
| Fairfield folks are tickled over the fine job
of plumbing and steam heating done by Will
hanson, Ward & Cogan of Augusta, in thei
new High School house in that town.
| Mr.. John Wade, who has been up to "Th'
Forks of the Kennebec," on a ten days fish
ing trip, brings back with him as trophy
the antlers of caribou, shot by member
of the party he was with.
| Mr.. H. ID. Donovan of Auburn now hold
the glass ball shooting championship of thu
State. Mr.. Donovan has held the badge un
challenged for several months. The shootist'
seem to give him wide berth.
| The Fall Term of Monson Academy will
begin on Monday. Sept. 18th, under tn,
charge of S. X. Marsh of Dexter, graduate
of Waterville College. That academy ha'
always enjoyed an excellent reputation.
Miss Alice L. Childs of Falmouth, Mass.
has been engaged to fill the position of Pre-
ceptress at Oak Grove Seminary Mis-
Childs is graduate of the Massachusetts
State Normal School at Bridgewater.
| Annie Louise Cary will sing in concert
this winter, when she will retire permanent,
from the operate and concert stage. I
Dame Rumor speaks correctly, Miss Cary il
the affanced of wealthy gentleman in New
York, who has been in Portland within few
days.
Village postmaster to his wife: ''Here is
postal card to Mr.. Jones saying that hi
brother and FIVE children will be here OF
Saturday. Now keep the card hack till then
and will be at the station, and when they
| find no one to meet them will take them al
over for So
| Eugene S. Neal, an Augusta boy, now il
Bismarck, d. T., writes home glowing letters
about Western life. He says that he has don'
better in the one year in which he has beer
in Dakota than he could in three years il
Augusta. The best time to go West, he says
is in the spring.
Mr.. A. d. Gray of Dover, recent gradu
ate of Bowdoin College, has secured goot
I position as teacher of the Bath High School
and will commence his labors in about TIVE
weeks. In the graduating class of Mr.. Gray
there were some fifty students, and only ont
received a higher rank than he.
Mr.. Daniel Woodman of Deering, who ha
been insane for long time, died at the Hos
pital last week. His remains were take'
home for interment He was a member o
"Ancient Brothers Lodge of Odd Fellows
Portland, and had been on the sick list ant
drew benefits for &c years,
Mr.. Nathan Raymond, an old and well
known citizen of Mt. Vernon, died on Thurs
dav of last week. Mr.. r. was raised II
Wayue, but moved on to his farm near Yves
Mt. Vernon, just in the edge of Fayette, NOR
than 50 years ago, where he has lived eve
since. until burned out a year ago, when n
moved into Mt. Vernon. His age was 10
He leaves wife and family.
AR William ]. Meader, assistant forema