Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1885-04-18
GARDINER.

! The sale Of seats for the SILVER King
will open this morning at O'Clock at
the Coliseum Compsny's Office. This melo-
drama il one of the most interesting and at
/ tractve pl avs that the Boston Theatre Com
/ pany has ever produced upon the stage. and
/ the people of this and neighbOriug cities have
/ the opportunity of witnessing it only because
the Coliseum Company have provided hall
and stage of sufficient capacity to accommo-
date the troup. aud enable them to use their
compete set of scenery, without which this
/ spectacular drama cannot be fully represen-
! ted fact which the public ought to sppreci-
ate. The well known character of the BOs-
ton Company warrants entt rtainment and
qualification to all who witness their acting
| Harrison Hunt is building house on Har-
rison avenue.
The streets have dried oil very fast during
the last three days.
Rev G.. w. Pierce delivered a temperance
! lecture at the Congregational church, Thurs
day evening. His talk was illustrated with
II life size pictures.
II. w. Jewett 4 Co. have commenced ship
ping that big pile of lumber at the rear end
of their mill. They are putting it on board
of the schooners that wntered here.
! Chief Engineer Haley has forbidden Mr..
pied by Gunnell, the baker, to rebuild the
part recently burned, unless he makes the
room, where the oven is located, fire proof
A wise precautiou.
c. A. Robbins & Sons are doing a thriving
business at their machine shop al the foot of
High street, being obliged tn work evenings
portion OF the time in order to keep up with
their orders They keep twelve men con-
stautlv employed. and their shop is furnished
with new and improved machinery adapted To
their business They have just completed an
extensive job for the Lawrence Bros. at
South Gardiner. having put in three new
boilers and thoroughly repaired their engines.
The work of removing the old boiler and
resetting the new, was done in less than a
week The firm began business in Gardiner
in November. 1865, and did prosperous bust
ness until the disastrous fire in August 1882,
when they lost everything, They rebuilt and
commenced work again in December of that
wear. Nine weeks from the day
they began to rebuild they made
the first casting in the new shop. The senior
member of the firm, Mr.. c. A. Robbins, died
on June 9th, 1884. and the business has since
been conducted by his sons. E E. Robbins,
the elder brother, superntends the work in
the shop. drafting. etc. His long experience
and acknowledged skill is a guaranty of his
fitness for the place. Albert A., the younger
brother, has charge of outside work on boil
ers. steam engines, etc, and it is conceded
that he has no superior in this section in that
line of business. The company make spe-
cialty of repairs on engines and mill work
They have nearly completed double hoist
ing engine for the Dingev Brothers coal ele-
vator Their work on engines and boilers is
constantly increasing, and their skill as ma
chiuists is becoming more and more appre-
cisted,
H. X. Morrell ana wife who have been in
Florida during the winter are in Boston, and
are expected home this afternoon.
G T. Haley chief engineer of the fire de-
partment has gone to Boothbay to superin-
tend the loading of two cargoes of ice. He
will be absent for week or ten days.