Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1883-11-06

DR. Clason has taken rooms over p. IL
Winslow's grocery store.
Alfred Chase HIS gone to Florida for hi
health. He will r. main through the winter
The new shoe factory is rapidly nearing
completion. c. A. Robin. Son will pu
in the steam piping for $3.50.
NJ +. kenniston, apQthecary, has gone &c
Minneapolis, Mimi, and will probably settle
there.
Mrs. Eaton and little son from Denver
Colorado. are in the city On visit to o. C.
Rollins of the Evans Eotel.
j. +. Chase and j 4. Osgood are out in
the eastern part of the State organizing
temperance divisions.
MIR. Charles H. Maxev and family, who
have been spending few weeks with friends
IN this city, started for their home in Mime
apnlis, Mimi, on Wednesday.
Mr.. L. d. Cook has retired from the a,ott.
ecary business, after % years of experience,
and Mr.. Fred NJ. Moves and James Cusick
will carry on the business at the old stand
Recently the remains of Mr. NJ. Il. Board
man were brought 10 this city for intermenr
from Weston, Mass. Twenty-nine years ago
Mr.. Boardman married Harriet Louisa Spring
er, daughter of Moses Springer, and grand
years the deceased was engaged in business
here.
few days ago says the Reporter, while a
little ll-year-old son of Martin Burns was
playing with an open jack knife, he fell and
the point OF the knife entered Just above one
eye and cut through to the opposite side of
the nose. inflicting dangerous and painful
wound. For nearly week the little fellow
could not see from either eve they were
swollen so, but he is gradually improving.
1t is thought that his eyesight will not be
effected.
The Gardiner Reporter SAYS: The Nation
al Fibre Co., have ordered to Messrs. p. c.
Holmes Co., in this city, to make 30 of the
new fibre machines as soon as possible, and
they have commenced on them. This will
necesitate large crew of men at their shop
for some time, and p. H. Holmes went to
Boston recently to purchase additional ma
chinery for their works. The company will
sell machines and the right to manufacture,
and several parties are negotiating for them.
Mr.. Holmes has had visits the past week
from gentlemen from Ohio and Connecticut,
who are interested in paper and pulp making,
who were investigating the merits of the ma
chine. The company have sold the right for
OFio and Wisconsin for 5000.
There arrived at this port on Tuesday of
last week the three masted schooner Jennie
Middleton" Capt. A. X. Hatch, says the Re-
porter, which had very narrow escape from
wreck on the beach just below Fort Popham
during the thick weather and gale of Monday
night. Before making Seguin the vessel had
experienced rough and thick weather, and
before reaching safety the gale increased with
such fury that the only chance Capt II. had
left to save his vessel, was to make the Ken
nebec, and it was so thick that before the
position of the vessel could be ascertained she
was forced on the beach. Fortunately she
struck on the sand, and by hard work and by
valuable assistance rendered by the members
Of the Life Saving Station she was saved
Steam tugs hauled her off. She was loaded
with coal for the Citizens Coal Co. in this city