Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1885-10-12


Monday. October IL, 1885.
FINE JOB PRINTING.
The Job Printing Establishment of the Kennebec
tonrna is always well prepared for doing the incest
~ as well as the more common branches. This
@re employs competent printers, carries large
r;ey Of paper stock, and keeps hand the latest
,ves Of type. Wedding and visiting cards and enve-
lane IN stock; also varied assortment OF dance
Sders programs, announcements, ETC., etc. Orders
AZ mail will receive prompt and careful attention
One and two dollar bills are reported to be
scarce
The Kennebec Wneelmen will meet this
evening.
The nights are frequently characterized bv
heavy frosts.
There were several rows along Water St.
Saturday night.
NJ. II A. Thorndike shot woodcocks on
Friday forenoon.
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Topsham on the 10, IA and 10 insts.
"Ten Nights in a Bar Room" will be pre-
aentea in Granite Hall on the 2lst inst.
Some 80 acres of land have been ploughed
no at the Insane Hospital the present fall
Business is brisk at the Cushnoc corset
works. Twenty-Five hands are now employed.
The o'clock train was several hours late
Saturday night, owing to a difficulty on the
Boston Maine.
The Augusta Wrench CO., will receive
quantity Of their newly manufactured
yrenches next week.
A BIZ pile of lumber for use in changing
the spans Of the railroad bridge, is to be found
in the dame Central yard.
There will be a polo contest between
female POLO team and the j. d. Rs. at the
rink next Thursday evening.
There will be a meeting of the executive
committee Of the Howard Benevolent Union
at Mss Hannah Fullers, this evening
o. and after Monday, Oct. 18th, the letter
carriers will make collections from the street
letter boxes at 92O A. M. and 800 and 8 90
F. NJ.
Caantha Lodge,K. of 2. is still prospecting,
il now numbering 80 members. The lodge
propose to give fair sometime the coming
winter.
The cotton factory is shut down for several
that the pen-stock of the new mill can be
connected
Several Mongolians from down river were
in the city Saturday, searching for a rent at
the north end, where they might start a
laundry.
The Maine Central Railroad Company has
decided to run the steamer "Sebonia" on the
Mount Desert Ferry route all winter. This
will be great convenience which will be ap-
preciatei by the travelling public.
A patient at the Insane Hospital escaped
o'clock, by removing the bars which guard
ed his window He did the job in very
workmanlke manner and has not been seen
since.
Under the winter arrangement of trains on
the Name Central, Messrs. Whitney and Hill
will be conductors on the night Pullman
trains; Geo. Whitney and Philbrook, through
day Passenger trains; Sprague and Mace,
Bangor and Boston fast freight
The case of smallpox at fIarpswell is one
OF the severest varieties, the pustules being
continent, The patient is liable to die, but
on last accounts was alive. He has been
isolated and quarantined. The selectmen
OF the town were hunting after a nurse and
were put on the track of one in Portland by
DR.. Young of the State Board of Health.
Howard Owen, Esq, delivered his mimi
table lecture on "The Ups and Downs of
Newspaper Man." under the auspices of Oak
Urove Grange, at the Adams Memorial
Chapel, Vassalboro', Friday night. Mr.. N.
A Luce, State superintendent of schools,
also made an admirable impromptu address.
Inc attenpance was large, the pupils of Oak
Grove Seminary being in attendance.
The secretary of ST. Marks Home CRATE
FULLY acknowledges donations tor the month
OF Sept as follows Mrs. ii. b. Williams,
lamp grapes; Miss A. NJ. Williams, apples,
corn, tomatoes, cucumbers, lamp; Mrs.
mos Lambard, raspberry Jam; Mrs II. w.
Bradbury, grapes; Mr.. Jas w. Bradbury,
extension chair; Mr.. Lucius Hill, box
money beans a friend, apples, corn.
There was an article published in the Bos-
ION Herald, recently, headed "Maine's Dan
ger asserting that Rev. J. s. Gledhill of