Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1886-01-13

Yofal aud Staff. Afws.
Wednesday January 10 1895
FINE JOB PRINTING.
r,. Job Printing Establishment Of the Kennebec
JournsI is always well PREPARED do' anca Ths
80 smnloys competent printers, carries large
arjety OF paper stock, and keeps on nsnn ns stest
49, , ~ ,vne wedding and visiting cards and enve
I'VE s " .,nck: also varied assortment OF dance
ispes roSrams. announcements. etc, etc. Orders
by mail will receive prompt ana careIul a''ehtion'
.eenubIican Headquarters.
Omen Day and Evening.
rha n,umbers are smiling as the water
pipes burst
The transfer of passengers between trains
here is made in ten minutes
DR.. Lapham's history OF Norway VIII De
800 page book instead of CO.
Andrew Mcneil went to Jail yesterday, as
q tramp: William Kelley and John Howard
for drunkenness.
ro.,aIlati,n Of officers and important bust
NOS. in CalaDtha Lodge, No. 80. X. of p,
,b;s evening. A large attendance is desired.
Mr.. and Mrs. S. b. Wetherell Of South
Norridgewock Me, will celebrate the fftieth
anniversary Of their marriage, Thursday jan
uary l4th.
S. L. Allen & Co.. Philadelphia, manu-
facturers If the "Planet Jr.," agricultural
tools, send US their 1886 catalogue of cul-
tiyators and seed sewers.
Cruelty Agent Reed found plenty of bust
ness, Yesterday, in covering up horses on the
streets which had been left exposed TO the cut
ting cold air. Several he placed in stables
Haynes & Dewitt expended $500 on their
ice field at lceboro. previous to the recent
frcshet and as the field is ruined they will
evidently receive no return tor their expendi-
tire
idll+ VI Tue ohlfdUDU Army LOOK
his departure for his new field of labor in
Lewiston, yesterday afternoon A farewell
meeting was held on the station platform be.
fore the train left
There was sharp game of polo at the
rink last evening between the Granite Citys
and the Rinklets. The former won in one
hour by a score of 3 to |. The Citys
played but four men.
The annual meetings of the Granite, Au-
gusta and First National Banks were held
yesterday and all the old boards of officer.
re-elccted Each bank has declared semi
annual dividends of per cent.
The supper and entertainment to be given
n the Congregational chapel on Friday even
ing next promises to be very pleasant oc-
cason. The admission to both supper and
entertainment will be % cents. Supper at
$50.
A special meeting of the Augusta Water
Co. was held recently at which Messrs. G.. {.
Vose, J. A. Holman and w. p Whitehouse
resigned AS directors, the vacancies being
filed by Hon J. X. Bodwell. Mr.. Oscar
Holway and Mr.. Daniel Cony.
Tne exercises of st. Catharlne's Hall have
been resumed after the Christmas recess
The usual monthly reception occurs on
Thursday next, and on the following Thurs
day the first of the winter course of lectures
will be delivered by the Rev. Mr. Weles of
Gardiner Subject, "Chaucer."
A correspondent, e. Il. Brown, writes ::
The normal school at TuskePec, Ala, for
training colored youth to become teachers
has received from Boston friends Gift of
$1,000. Ttere are 225 pupils. Mr.. Wash
ington, the principal, is a graduate of Hamp-
ton Institute, Va
Jack Frost lost all control of himself yes
terday, and the thermometer had field day
Of it. Reports of excessive trlgidity came in
from all quarters. At Togus the lowest tenn
perature prevailed, the glass indicating 32
degrees. On the east side 1t WAS so degrees
below and on Water street % degrees. From
Nassahoro came a reported temperature of
% degrees below. 1t was the coolest morn
ing of the winter this wear. During the dav
the glass did not rise above ) degrees below.
Repairs on the defunct railroad bridge here
are to be pushed with energy and dispatch
and i would not be surprising if through
trains were again crossing the bridge ere many
weeks. Already large crew of men is here and
operations have been commenced at both ends
OF the bridge next the chasm left by the
freshet. Two carloads of timber, portion
OF II hard pine, has arrived and the first tim
ber Tor the new trestle work been placed in
position