Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1888-10-24
GARDINER.


Judge Larrabee will leave at 645 this
morning to attend the session of the Grand
Division ). of I. at Cumberland Mills. He
will be absent from the city two days.
Every body enjoyed the pleasant weather
Yesterday; but il was noticeable that fewer
people we're on our streets than On some OF
the gloomy and disagreeabie days we have
had the past few weeks. The fact is farm
ers are so backward with their work that
when pleasant day does come they stay at
home and improve 1t. and when the weather
is duh they come to town.
Two tramps were given quarters at police
headquarters Monday night
Jules Levy smiles upon Gardiner audi
ence tomorrow night. The sale of tickets
thus far has not been quite as large was
expected.
Mr.. A. A. Mitchell and wife of Portland
passed through this city yesterday in their
own team. Mr.. Mitchell is on his annual
tour through the State in the interest of
the Bay State Fertilizer. and drives span
of pure white horses that are very noticeable.
He will extend his trip as far east as Aroos-
took county.
Workmen were busy at the coliseum yes
terday, putting it in readiness for the An
Gent Order banquet this evening.
Mr.. f. ID. Tobey, of the firm of Smith
Tobey, who has been confined 10 his house
for the past SIX weeks from illness, vas
down town yesterday for the first time. Ev-
cry body is glad to see him out again.
Chief Marshal Norton, has an album CON
tanning the photographs of about two hun
bred roughs and rogues, many OF which are
portraits of criminals that have passed
through the hands of the police authorities
here. The collection includes bank robbers,
horse thieves, store breakers, barn burners,
forgers, murderers and other criminals. In
cluded in the lot are pictures of several fe-
males, some of them quite fair looking.
A. c. Litcntield and wife of Lynn, Mass +,
| are registered at the johnson House. Mr..
Litchfield is son of the superintendent of the
Randolph shoe factory.
County Commissioners Andrews and Yves
ton were in the city yesterday on official
business.
The list of speakers at the United Work
men banquet this evening, as published by
us yesterday morning was not intended as
an absolutely correct official programme.
There are to be other speakers than those
announced and there are also to be several
volunteer speeches from promlnet members
of the order whose iames were not pub
lished yesterday.
Mr.. George NJ Chandler Of San Francisco
is IT & stored at the johnson House. He is "A
prunlnent lunbernian and, we believe, is a
native OF this city. This is his first visit
here Tor macy Years
o e of the la ,iest worked nru about this
lime is Mr. E. A. Andrews, who has charge
OF several importiht fe ,tures in the ARA = e
n,ents Tor the Auclent Order celebration
this evening. En- ~ is a whole I'M on
such occasions, and Is bound to put through
his part OF the program in good shape.
FIRES were stated Sunday under the third
kiln of bricks which Mr.. W. IL. Morrill, has
burnt this season.
Ray Thompson and his broad brimmed
hat, of the Richmond Bee, were in the city
yesterday
Harry A. Chadwick, son of Mr.. III. X
Chadv lex, and former attachee of the
Daily Journal. who has been in Chicago for
the past few years, has left there on account
of poor health, due to over confinement in
office work, and is now travelling in Iowa.
An extra train will run from Waterville
this evening to bring down members of the
Waterville Lodge, A. o., to participate in
the celebration. 1t will return after the
banquet
Mr.. Walter Lewis, native of Randolph
is III the city on visit. Mr.. Lewis is now
editor of the Leader, the foremost musical
journal of New England, published in Bos-
ton.
There is of course much tattle on the
street about the new boat, and doubtless
much of it is without foundation, while some
is liable to be i'll the vicinity of the truth.
For instance, it seems to be decided that a
new boat is to be built, but where it is to be
built Is an open question. The stockholders
would like to have it built at Bath so as to
bring the business its erection would create
to the kennebec, but if built here it could
not be completed in time for next season
| business, which, however, seems to DE de-
sirable as well as necessary matter. If
built in New York the builders say they
would contract to deliver it the last, possibly
the first of June, 1889, and so the matter
rests for the present.
| They have unique fashion of warming
| the counting room at Smith 4 Tobey's gro
Gerry store. An ordinary kerosene lamp is
| kept burning under the floor of the counting
room, the floor being elevated about one
foot above The floor OF the store. The lamp
chimney is just under an ordinary stove fun
mel, which comes up fromshe floor about
| wv ltttr anu tutH iotIbs du tiDON anu passes
out the portion which separates the office
| from the store. The heat radiates from this
| little piece of funnel, and the lamp below it
is sufficient to keep the counting room COM
Portable even in quite cold weather.
| There was rumor on the street Monday
| that strike had occurred at Kimball Bros.
shoe factory, but it was without foundation.
| The owners of the factory have been in con-
sultation with the employees the past week
| arranging schedule of prices to govern
work for the coming year, and this probably
| led to the gossip about strike. There was
not the faintest shadow of strike or kick in
ali the transactions and in most cases the
rates were readily agreed to without change
| from last years prices. If there has been
any deviation from last year it is in the cut
ting department, where we learn the slight
| est change made is to the advantage of the
workmen.
| Among the articles for the commisary de-
partment of the Ancient Order celebration
this evening, which has been prepared at
Smith Brothers bakery, are the following
| one hundred loaves of bread, twelve hundred
| doughnuts, two hundred pounds of fresh
beef (pressed), one hundred pounds of
tongue aud fifteen boiled hams. Old Maine
| Lodge will see to it that their visitors do not
start for home hungry.
| So much dissatisfaction and inconvenience
has been occasioned this season by the bad
| condition of the streets in the north part of
the city, notably on the causeway on High
street, and indeed on all the streets between
| High and North that there is serious talk on
the partof the citizens in that section of
! petitioning to be set off from Gardiner to
/ Farmingdale. 1t is said that many of the
leading residents and taxpayers in that
neighborhood are in dead earnest about the
matter.
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