The Portland daily press., 1888-04-07
PERSONAL.


Mayor Foster. of Wateryille, and F. K.
Shaw. Esq, have formed law partnership
under the style of Foster & Shaw.
Rev. E. n Smith, pastor of the Congrega-.
tional church at Waterville, has resigned
his pastorate ON account of i'll health.
Ex-Alderman Denison is improving rapid
ly and is so far convalescent that he was
able to walk out last Sunday.
Hon. j. ii. Manley was in Auburn yester-
day. He was the guest of Hon. George c.
Wing. Mr.. Manley's visit was ON business
connected with State committee matters
Geo. A. Matthews. Esq, of Monson. who
was injured in the Boston & Maine railroad
disaster, has not yet entirely recovered from
his illness.
Hiram Steadman, who died in Charleston,
Me-, on the 9th ut, at the age of 81 years,
was descendant on the material side from
Richard Gardner, who came over il the May
flower.
Hon. T. B. Reed has just appointed Ralph
| Chadbourne, of Saco, to the vacant cadet
ship at the Annapolis Naval Academy.
Ralph is the son of Hon. Paul Chadbourne,
| whose widow now resides in this city.
| Rev. c. S. Cummings, who was former
pastor of the NJ. E. church at Oxford, now
| of Bridgton, has received very fiattering
| call to the pastorate of the Pratt Memorial
church at Rockand.
Mrs. Hannah f. King, who died in Calais
last week, aged 81 years, was mother of Geo.
C. King, ESQ.,, and Col. w. B. King, Of
Calais, the latter member of the Governors
staff, and of w. Trott King, Esq, of Port
land.
The friends of Mr.. Sam Stark, agent for
d. Appleton g. Co.. 40 Exchange street. who
is about to locate at Atlanta, Georgia, have
presented him with an elegant gold-headtd
cane, bearing the inscription From Friends
April 5th '68.
Mr.. JAS j. Pooler. the efficient and popu-
lar hotel steward, for so many years con-
neeted with the "Preble," has been engaged
by Mr.. Dam, leasee of the Union Railway
Station Dining Rooms of this city. His
many friends will be pleased with this ar
rangement.
Bedford Hume, Esq, a prominent lumber
| operator and business man of Bridgewater,
Aroostook county, has been brought to the
Insane Hospital, where it is hoped under
! skillful treatment he may recover. 1t is the
old story of too close application to business.
| The veteran ice man of Saco is Foxwell G.
Bryant, who will be 81 years of age on Mon
day. The Biddeford Standard says that
| forty-four years ago he started out in the ice
| business and in that year sold $40 worth of
| the cool material His business has increas-
| ed to such an extent that he now stores
| about 400 tons every winter
| That venerable Democrat, Hon. John C.
| Talbot, seems to be little out of the
saddle down in Machias. For long period
of years he has held the Office of moderator,
town clerk and selectman and was nomin-
ated for those offices again this year. But
he was whipped by Austin Harris and the
Republicans.
The oxford County Advertiser says that
Col. Humphrey Cousins, of Gorham, John
w. Fowler, Stephen j. Seayey, of Norway,
and Azel Tuttle of South Paris, are all who
are left of the old-time stage drivers who
used to be seen passing from Oxford county
through Harrison and Bridgton to Portland,
before the Grand Trunk and Portland & Og-
densburg were built.
Chief Justice John A. Peters, of Bangor,
was obliged to decline an invitation to de-
liver the Centennial address in the town Of
BluehIl next September. Rev. Thomas NJ
Peters, of st. Mchaels church, New York,
lineal descendant of an early settler has
therefore been invited and is likely to ac-
cept. Preparations are being made for a
grand celebration.
Rev. J. F. Hill, of Bath, who has been so
prominent in the Law and Order League of
that city, breaches his farewell sermon to-
morrow. In recent conversation he said
that he considered that his resignation
might be for the best interests of the
church, and so had taken The step; that
during his years here he had always acted
conscientiously and was conscious of having
made many warm friends as well as many
bitter enemies.
There was great "sugaring off, party in
Oxford county this week. b. f. Spinney, of
Lynn, Mass; t. l.. Woolley, Geo. l. Bsal,
III. M. Bearce, Geo. A. Cole and Freeland
Howe of Norway made visit to the farm
of Augustus Noyes in Greenwood, and saw
how their host taps 700 trees a season.
makes two hundred pounds of maple syrup
day, and put the last cakes upon the ton
pile of sugar that he has made this year. Mr..
Moves is the veteran sugar maker of the
county, having made maple syrup every
spring for twenty four years.