The Portland daily press., 1888-05-21
PERSONAL.

Mr.. w. III. Baxter of Deering. is quite ill.
City Forester Mcintyre has resigned on
account of i'll health.
Prof Smaller Matthews of Colby Uniyer-
sity, is at the City Hotel.
Miss fash is forming sketching class,
and Mr.. Stacy Tolman of Boston, will be
their teacher.
G. w. Poole Of this city, will be chief en-
gineer of Mr.. Slater's new yacht the Saga
more.
Mr.. j. l.. Kicker, proprietor of the North
Conway House, is at the United States Ho-
tel.
Stanley p. bennett of Maine, has been adj
mitted to the United States Naval Academy
at Annapolis
Mr.. j. Calvin Stevens is furnishing plans
for two fine residences to be built at Island
Pond by S. Fl. Fitzgerald of that town.
l.. f. Merrill, formerly chief engineer Of
the Winthrop and Eleanora has obtained a
fine situation in New York
Miss Alice Gould will have class in
painting in Lancaster, N. H., the coming
summer
Vice President and General Manager Pay
son Tucker of the Maine Central, returned
home Saturday.
President Hyde of Bowdoin College, will
deliver the baccalaureate address to the
graduating class of Fryeburg Academy, on
the evening of June 3rd.
Hon. Increase Sumner Kimball of San
ford, the nestor of the York county bar, is
dangerously i'll with but slight hopes of re-
covery.
Henry II. Haley of Saco, who is confined
to his home with blood poisoning, was not
as well Saturday, and the chances for his
recovery are slight.
Alma and Newcastle Baptist Society have
extended call to Rev. E. N. Pierce, who
has been with the church two years, to re-
main another year.
Gorham K, son of Mr.. Charles w. King Of
Calais, has been chosen declaimer before
the Faculty of Andover College. Recently
he was elected prize essayist for the June
examination.
Hon. Samuel B. Chadbourne, Deputy Sec
rotary of State, Charles b. Caldwell, Chief
Clerk State Treasurer's office, Col. II. M.
Sprague, Pension Agent, and Hon. Seth Nj.
Carter are to leave for fishing trip to Weld
today.
Mrs. Lydia Mitchell's seth birthday was
celebrated at the residence of her son-in law
Mr.. w. X. Neal, on West street. Friday eve
ming. A brother of Mrs. Mitchell is Jere-
miah Hacker, who published 1.-THE Pleasure
Boat" in this city thirty years ago. Mr..
Hacker is in his S7th year.
Governor Marble and staff have been in
vited to attend the dedication of the Kicker
Classical Institute at Houlton, June 2Sth.
The Governor expects to attend the Chicago
Republican Convention and from there 90 to
visit friends in st. Louis, Mo-, consequently
he will not return in season to attend the
dedication at Houlton.
The will of the late Samuel Dennis War
rem was filed in the Suffolk County Probate
Office Boston, Friday. 1t contains no pub
lie requests, his entire estate being left to
his family and relatives The will bears
date of May 10, 1882, and Samuel Dennis
Warren, Jr., and Mortimer b. Mason are
named as executors.
Mr.. Frank X. Barnes, for number OF
years compositor on this paper, has accepted
a situation on the New York Herald, and
left for that city Saturday night. Mr.
Barnes's many friends are sorry to part
with him but wish him success. On leaving
Portland Mr. Barnes was presented by his
friends, through Mr.. Frank Nutter, with an
elegant gold handled umbrella.
Mr.. Thomas b. Mcclure of New York.
will address the laboring men of POI tland at
Reception Hall this evening at 7.30 O'Clock.
The knights of Labor are now in correspon-
dence with Mrs. Leonora A. Barry, who is
affiliated with the Knights of Labor and
now lecturing in the Province of Ontario,
Canada. They hope to have lecture from
her, and also one from Mr. A. F. Jury of To-
ronto