Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1888-10-11
NEW ADVERTISEMENTS TO-DAY.

NEW ADVERTISEMENTS TODAY
NEW ADVERTISEMENT.
4 To Let-Tenement.
Wanted Salesman.
For sale-An upright piano.
Wanted -Gentieman boarders.
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OUR AGENTS
will call on our subscribers during Ssptem
Der, and October as follows:
J. NJ. Cross, of Augusta, Kennebec and
Western Waldo.
Cyphas Sally of Fairfield, Aroo.took
county.
Sumner Smiley of Gardiner, Pittston, Ran
dolph, Alma, Whitefeld, jefferson, Dresden, |
Richmond, Bowdoinham. West Gardiner, |
Litcbfeld, Farmingdale Gardiner.
+. 5. Berry of Augusta, Newcastle, |
Damariscotta, Nobleboro, Waldoboro |
Warren, Union. Rockland. Camden.
Socol 2loi.ers.
Capital Fair at Meonian and Union Halls |
will remain open today and evening.
PEE ORDER.
ErcgIt Gounur6 af Gottafa "a 10
per basket.
The screen door has yielded gracefully to
the double window.
new invoice Of books was received re-
Gently at the Lithgow library.
Skates promise to be cheap this winter, as
several Of the patents have run out.
Lord and Lowelrs large sign opposite their
jewelry store has been removed to Oak st.
The Second Adyentists of this State are
holding their annual conference in Lewiston
A man who has good memory says that
rain has fallen on twentyfour consecutive
days, with one exception.
Il. w. Soue has just received car load
of potatoes Burbank Seedlings hich
are very nice and free from rot.
The amount of mail matter weighed this
week will considerably exceed that of last
Weighing continues till the 9th
II is rumored that w. A. Hoyt of the
Hartford House will soon retire, and that the
hotel will be under "A new management.
Everybody will secure a reserved seat for
the Y. M. c. A. Star Course of entertain
ments and lecture, at Hunts music store,
today.
over 800 tickets have already been sold
for the course of entertainments ia Gardiner. |
The same talent comes to Augusta in the Y
NJ. c. A. Star Course.
Miss Merrill, the Grove street diphtheretic
patient is much better. Her mother has ar
rived from Skowhegan. No new cases have
developed in the vicinity
The river is still very high and rams
feather white below the falls. Work on
the foundation of the Edwards new mill
cannot be resumed till the flood subsidies.
The SCOT in the large chimney of the
steam mill caught fire last Tuesday about
dusk aud the column of flame extending up
ward for over hundred feet could be
plainly seen all over the city. 1t wa. ex
tinguished without damage.
Several members of Capital Guards are
putting IN good rifle practice in the hope of
gaining a sharp shooters medal at the next
muster. Three of the company, Capt
Choate and Leutenants Fairbanks and Bean
won this distinction in August.
Mr. league of league & Hale, Lewiston,
was in the city yesterday looking after the
sale of the Nordock cigar which is having a
large run all over the State. They owe
their success to two things-they have good
article and they let the people know it.
The Friends of Winthrop Monthly Meet
ing having remodelei Waverly Hall, it will
be formally dedicated as the Friends Chapel,
on Sunday next. Services will be held at
half past ten in the morning aud at seven
in the evening. This will be known as the
Free Church. and all are invited to attend.
While at Hammond's Lake yesterday
Charley c Hunt succeeded in capturing large
and maguihcently colored heron. The
length from the ends of the extended wing
tips is more than a man can span of with his
stretched out arms. The wings are to be
pressed and mounted as an ornament for
Mrs Hunts editorial sanctum.
The oxford League are to give an oyster
supper and entertainment at the Methodist
vestry this evening. The entertainment will
be chiefly musical, and to those who have at
tended previous meetings of the kind by this
league, it will not be necessary to say that
every effort has been made to make the eve
ming more enjoyable. if possible than those
of former occasions.
As Recorder Geo. W. Sylvester of High
land Lodge. Ancient Order L. w, assembled
the platform at their hall Tuesday evening
Just at the opening of the meeting, he met the
Master Workman Leonard H. Dudley, and
advanced to shake hands with him. when
storm of applause arose from the large num-
her of brothers present. Why Both happy |
fathers within a week of each other: MIR. 1
Sylvester to boy, Mr.. Dudley to girl-a
most happy coincidence.
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Some idea of the imposing appearance |
which the public building will present when
completed may be obtained by noticing the
height of the northwestern tower which is at
present just half its proposed height. When
finished its top will be IS feet above the
ground, The delay of the iron beams for
the roof is a great annoyance to the contract
ors I, ;s NOW two weeks since they were