The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1888-07-11
PERSONAL.

NIL OHfeI L. DaIuWln Oh the Baltimore
Sun is in the city.
Mr. A. r. Wright, president of the Repub
lican Club of Springfield, Mass, was in the
city yesterday.
Mr.. Charles Adams, formerly of Portland,
now of the Grand Central, New York, is
visiting Portland
Mellen Plummer, treasurer of the Bridg-
ton Savings Bank, was in the city yester-
day.
Henry Lewis. the manager of the South
ern HOTEL st. Louis was at the Preble yes
terday
Mr.. III. Il. Kurdish of Berlin Falls, will
reside il his State street house in this city
during the summer
President M. c. Fernald of the Maine
State College, has left for the West where
he will stay number Of weeks.
Prof. j. NJ. Norcross, president of the
Lewiston Young Mems Christian Associa-
ton, was in the city yesterday.
The Third Party State committee expect
to have Gov. st. John on the stump in Port
land during the campaign.
ID. NJ Bulge, General Secretary of the
Montreal Young Mems Christian Associa-
tion is spending his vacation at the Casco
Bay House, Cousins Island.
Mr.. and Mrs. Payson Tucker have gone to
Bar Harbor, where they have engaged
apartments at the West End for the sea-
son.
Mrs. Daniel Lamont, wife of the Presi-
dents private secretary, is expected to take
possession of her cottage at Sorrento, about
the middle of the month.
Maveyoni Bey, the Turkish minister and
Baron Fara, the Italian minister at Wash
ton, have engaged rooms at the Malvern,
Bar Harbor, for the season.
Mr.. Fletcher Humphrey, State Secretary
OF the Y. III. c. A. of Indiana, called on
General Secretary Belts of the Por sland As
ISOLATION yesterday afternoon.
Miss Heloise Edwina Hersey, formerly of
Oxford, Me-, treats of the question, "Haye
We the Data for Determining the Duration
of Human Existence?" in the pages of the
Andover Review.
Late corners at 1.-THE Bluffs" Mt. Desert
Ferry, are G. W. Field, Bangor, George A.
Leonard and wife, Boston, Mr.. j. L. Martin.
New York, Miss E. NJ. Miles, Detroit. and
the Misses Ada and Frances Williamson,
Belfast.
Mr.. Skillin. of the firm of Sargent Lord &
Skillin, and his wife, are visiting at Oak
Park, near Chicago From Oak Park they
will go to Fairfield, Iowa, where Mrs. Skill
lin has relatives. and return to Portland the
first of August.
Through the influence of Mrs. II. c. Dun
ham,wife Of the.pastor of the NewJerusalem
church of this city, parties at Kent's Hill
have become interested in the work of the
Fresh Air Society, and agreed to furnish
free board for nine children, from one to two
weeks EACH The happy little ones left on
the noon train Friday, under the charge of
Mrs. Durham.
Labor Commissioner Matthews is issuing
new form of blanks to manufacturers al
so letter of inquiry as to whether arrange
ments have been made by the EMPLOYEES of
labor for aiding employees in times of dis
tress occasioned by sickness or accident.
This inqiry is intended to be very general.
1t Will include manufacturers, railrod COM
panies and all other employers in the
State.
John Dockerty of Saco, has received no.
tice of his appointment as United States
mail agent upon the Portland and Bartlett
route of the Portland & Ogdensburg rail-
road. The route is seventy miles long and
is doubled every day for a week, with a
weeks lay off. The first six months paw is
at the rate of $500 year, and at the end of
that time, If the agent proves competent, the
salary is raised to $1,000. Frank Perkins. a
former clerk in the Saco post office and a
nephew of Postmaster McKenney, was an
applicant for the position and expected to
get it, but William Henry Cllfford's infiu-
ence is said to have turned the scale in favor
of Dockerty.
George Russell, M. D., one of the best
known and most respected citizens of Fay
cite, died very suddenly about o'clock D.
M, July 4th, of heart diease, at the age of
81. DIR. Russell was born in Waterford.
oxford county. and studied at Gould's
Academy, Bethel, and at Bowdoin College.
He did not complete the course at Bowdoip.
but graduated from the Maryland Medical
University, Baltimore, in March, 1S4S. For
SIX years he was on the board of selectmen
and for fourteen years on the school board of
Fayette, in both of these positions he rem
dred valuable services to the town. He was
member of the Maine Legislature of