Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1888-10-13
GARDINER.

Editor E. W. Morrill, of the Home Journal
is in Boston.
At Rings new market two hundred pounds
of sausage are made each day. This is one
of the neatest and best arranged markets on
the river, is Away in applepie order, and
Mr.. Ring struck right out into a good trade
just as soon as it was opened.
The Star entertainment course opens next
Wednesday with the Boston symphony Or
chestra Club, and already 1925 season tickets
have been sold for it,-a sale almost unprec-
edented in the history of entertainments here
Mr.. Geo. n. Lawrence, superintendent of
the Haynes and Dewitt Ice Company, Ice
boro, is now shipping for Baltimore. The
company has now about fourteen thousand
tons of ice on hand which it is expect ed will
all be cleaned out this fall.
Potatoes are quoted at 55aG0 cents in our
wholesale markets and eggs at 2l cents, the
latter being very scarce now.
At the pleasant residence of Capt. Geo. NJ.
Holmes, yesterday, we saw barrel of mag
niticent cranberries grown by him on his old
homestead in Kingston, Mass. which he most
appropriately calls the Homestead Belle"
They are exceedingly large-about as large
as crabapples were few years ago--frm,
bright and handsome in color, and celebrated
for their late keeping qualities. 90 October
10th, this year, Mr.. Holmes had cranberries
on his table for dinner, of the crop of 1887.
Mr.. VIM. H. Day and wife of Providence,
X. L., son of the late VIM. Day, and Mrs
Mary Stevens of Massachusetts, sister, were
in the city yesterday in attendance at the fu-
neral of Mr.. VIM. Day, which occurred yes
terday afternoon, Rev. DIR. Boss of the Uni
yersalist church, officiating
At Rings new market is a box of forty Do
tatoes, of the early rose variety, which weigh
~ pounds. They were grewn by Mr.. Il. n
Pinkham of Litchfeld, one of the best farm
ers of that town, who brings to this city some
| of the choicest butter and best grown farm
products to be found in the market
Yesterday furnished its usual ao,ilout
While loading hay at the freight depot, r.
A. Harkinson had his left hand badly in
| jured by hay hook being stuck into the
back of it by a workman who was at work
with him, the hook inhicting an ugly wound.
| DIR. Turner attended the case.
| Little has a great special towel sale at
present, and his window is completely filed
with them.
| A very beautiful piece of work is the new
cashiers desk just being finished at the shop
of Moore, Brown & Co., for the new Boston
store of Mr.. Studley. 1t is in whitewood
but is to be finished in cherry stain. II is a
beauty and will set OFF Mr.. Studley's store
most handsomely.
| Members of the Eagle Hose Company to
| the number of II, went to Richmond last
| night by invitation of the North End Hose
Company of Richmond, TO attend the taii
held there for the benefit of the shoe factory
fund. beautiful silver mounted sporting
| pipe is to be awarded by vote 10 the hose
company receiving the largest number oi
votes. and our boys went prepared to take
hank in that game. Mr.. John l.. Kendall i,
foreman OF the Eagle, and the party went il
Boyntons big wagun, leaving about 80
An interesting old document is in
possession of Deputy City Marsha
showed us yesterday. 1t is a lease of an I'M
sold in Penobscot bay, sin the county o.
Lincoln" known as Winslow island or Lor,
island (by which last name it is nov known
and runs from Isaac Winsog of Roxbur,
in the county of Suffolk, Esq.," to William
Pendleton. The lease is for 25 years an
runs IN the usual form, one of its provisiC u
beiEg that ''the said Pendleton shall be care
full not to plow the same piece of land to-
often, and such as he does plow he is to dun
properly, and 20 SOW down with grass seed.
The document was signed the 2Oth of No
vember, l77l, and after the lapse of on
hundred and seventeen years the writing
as leldble and all the names as plain as /
written yesterday. 1t has been in Office
Sprague's possession four or five years, an
was rescued from the stock room of one o
our paper mills.
The new Boston dry goods store Of MI
Stndley will be open for business this morn
; ing. 1t has been put in first class order b
the owner, Mr.. Hopkins, and Mr.. Studle
has put in choice and well selected stoc
of dry and fancy goods in every department