Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1885-05-09


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Saturday. May 9, 1885,
FINE JOB PRTNTING.
- printing Establishme Mt Of the Kenaebec
ne ~ s,ways we'll prepared for doing the incest
5cuns. veil a. the more common branches. This
sortannoys competent printers, carries q large
ndely ,yne wedding and visiting cards and enve.
nes. y .Stock; also varied assortment Of dance
w. nrograms, announcements, etc.. etc. Orders
coni vill receive prompt and careful attention.
s,i,k laying is progressing rapidly on the
:, cotton factory.
Another dog died of poison at the north
a yesterday morning.
roo uupilists were fined SO and costs each.
!, 6ohting at the north end.
The Josh Whitcomb' company gave a
,.iuee at Togus, yesterday.
vessel bearing cargo of nails for S. 8.
o,,oks { Co., is due in Augusta.
New plank have been laid in the flooring of
!. driveway OF Kennebec Bridge.
Several Augusta citizens attended ssJosh
ubi,comb" at Gardiner last evening.
Logs flowed over the dam quite freely, yes-
,,,dsy, and into the boom on the east side.
tumbermen report that the water in Dead
.,er has been very favorable for log driving.
The police are coming out in new suits.
PC. Dolliver is cutting one for Deputy
MARSHAL Bruce.
nj, stated that the Salvation Army is
,bout to move upon Waterville. The Senti-
al is already posted.
The family of Mr.. Harry Cobaeuh. treasur-
;, Of the National Soldiers Home, arrived at
Togus the present week.
Geo. Burns went to Jail for 80 days, yes
ie,day; drunkenness. Geo. Watkins, up
"a, disturbance. was discharged.
The store in Williams Block to be occu-
ped BY the Maine Farmer is being put in
.bspe for the reception of its new tenant.
Mu, Whitman Sawyer and others of the
womans State Relief Corps of Maine have
gone to Union to organize a relief corp there.
The city board of health has organized
With the choice of DR.. Martin as president
and Dr. Lapharn as secretary and health off
The local demand for lumber is good Lum
Der dealers say that there is to be an unusual
amount of building in the city the present
season.
A schooner loaded with coal arrived at E.
Stone & Co.'S wharf, yesterday morning. 1t
Is the first vessel of the season to come up
TO the city.
Yesterday was Arbor Day with the First
Bsptists. and they accordingly set two fine
elm trees in front of their church on Win
throp street.
Mr.. r. B. Capen has adopted a new design
10 painting his house. The first story is col
ored an olive green of a dark shade; the Sec
.ond light shade, while intervening is n red
stripe.
horse driven by Hon. J. w. Patterson
fell on the pavement in front of the Journal
office, Yesterday morning, but was righted
without injury. One of the reins caught,
,ausns the horse to back until he fell.
The property of the Readield Wooden
Manufacturing Company at Readfield will be
'old at auction at the Office of +. w. White
house, Esq. this forenoon at 10 o'clock.
Other property, in this city, will also be sold.
Sine" Brown returnes from Washington
today. where he has been engaged in fixing
the Offices. 1t Is stated that he was loaded
With psper on bis trip to the national capital,
having taken more than 100 petitions for
office seekers
The first prize, a gold medal for excellence
10 Its department, has been awarded "Mellin's
Food for Infants and invalids, at the great
New Orleans exhibition. This verdict will
De mdorsed by the many mothers who have
rested the merits Of this preparation.
Mr.. I. I. Barnum boards his circus and
"ue show employees, and provides places for
mree hundred and thirty to feed at once in
MS special tent, the camp" The curiosities
Of the chronological congress" have reserved
places, and various peculiar dishes made of
fce, eggs and fish.
some new costumes for ladies, give the eff
'ec' OF rich materials very simply draped, yet
'oauant The object is evidently to do away
'nn pleated skirts for all but very simple
gowns, and series Of founces have also lost
A'or' though ruffles of some kind finish the
bottom edge of the skirt.
MT. ELIAS Hammond while at work IN the