Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1888-09-07
GARDINER.

Mr.. 1. J. Carr went to Boston on the Star
yesterday.
The Islander makes its last trip today.
-Four hundred and eleven persons went on
the Y. NJ. C. A. excursion Wednesday.
Mr.. Charles Carleton Of Portland now
connected with the Conservatory of Music.
Brooklyn, n. T., is in the city the guest of
Mr.. l.. B. Gooden.
w. J. Landers, Esq, of the Reporter will
be member of the knights Templars eI-
cur.ion to Hudson, Mass, next week.
The Ten-,imes-One Club left here on
their excursion to Wiscasset yesterday
morning Oh the Islander, the party number
ing about two hundred
At the johnson House yesterday at 2
o'clock T. NJ, the thermometer registered
$40 which was indeed very cOol. But Mr..
johnson mentioned to US an interesting fact
which was that at the same hour on the hill
near the Common, it was ten degrees warm
er than it waa ON the lower street.
The BJari Of Aldermen is now in session
every afternoon engaged in the revision OF
the polling list Some three or four hum
new lanes will be added.
The box factory in the basement of one OF
the Oakland Companies buildings, Summer
street, is busy place. II is operated BY
Mr. james Walker who manufactures all
kials Of square ~JJlen boxes that are want
ed. For the Gardiner and Randolph shoe
factories Mr.. " alker makes fifty boxes day
lie sends about SIX cargoes year TO the
Sampson Oil Cloth Works, New York, which
make a total of about 1900 boxes; while
~. O00 boxes are required by the same COM
pany for the use of their Haliowell factory
Mr. Walker employs seven or eight hands.
Mr. Geo. l.. Drake, superintendent OF the
Kimhall shoe factory, is again on deck al
Ia splendllly managed establishment WHICH
/, so much all assistance aud credit to our
city.
Set up the stove and shut the door
Mr.. G. b. Luckling, formerly principal OF
the Central street Grammar School, now Ell :
gagged in teaching in Calais, to which plate
he moved some three ears ago, is III the clty
oI a visit.
One of the heaviest single pieces ever cast
a, the Holmes foundry Was made not long
ago, gear weighing 400 pounds. One oil
the heaviest melts III a single flask weighed
100 pounds, it being large dryer for thu
oh, - (.,nln.uy hut "
efal pieces.
Mr.. Henry Perry of the Warren Boot and
Shoe Company, Congress ST., Boston, is III
the CITY for u few days, the guest of .. Is.
! CiasOu, Esq.
| A.r. John +. Avery of Augusta, and Thos
| Lee, Jr., of ualIowell, are to address III.
democrats of East Plltston ths--Friday-
? i,eveuing, att 30 o'clock.
The Kimb,l Bros. shoe factory are max
H. preparations TO put on large force Of
hams about tae first of October. They an
"nokiug Extensive orders for the western AM
soutler~ trades
u Mr. C. li"l, wife nd three children, are
stopping at the E"aUs House.
Twenty two tickets re- sold at the Maine
, Central station yesterday morning for the
IIalloWell Band excursion,o Portland anu
. Peaks Island.
Mr.. y. F. Rollins, proprie,r of the Evan,
= House, is in Bath on visit Mr.. Jerr,
Shannon OF the Sagadahoc Heue.
An interesting department q work at the
Kmball Bros shoe factory, is that Whit
pnnutactures the boxes in whichthe indiyid
ull PAIRS of shoes are packed for shipment
U"ti Within IA few months these boes wer,
purchased, but within that time the cemnan n,
has set up the necessary machinery, ant il
nDw manufacturing It's own boxes In a,
first place the board from ~hlch the bohe
are manufactured, is made from straw j
Alabama. The boxes come in the fat @
shook, as it is termed, and are made up .
The factory. They are covered with paper
an the labels put Oh. Most of the six dill
ferent operations entering into their maj l
fIcture being done by special machinery
Messrs kmball. Ten hands are employe
in this department, and they turn out % o0
single boxes per month, of which there ar
three Zcs.
Great preparations are being made for tn
grand republican rally which is to take plac
at the Coliseum this evening. at which Hon
II. &. liorr of Michigan will give an address,
The banI will be in attendance, and repub
Lean clubs are expected from Randolph
littston aud South Gardiner.