Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1888-08-01
returned to Boston on the afternoon express,

returned to Boston on the afternoon express,
Monday fAs
An old and valued family horse belonging
to the 5. n Msxcy Company, dropped dead
in the streets yesterday.
A, NJ. Spear ESQ.,, is in Portland for few
days, whittier he went to argue cases before
the law court now in sitting there. He 10 in.
terested in three cases, all of them being i'm.
portant ones.
Mr. u. A. Stuart, principal of the High
School, and J. W. Chadwick, principal of
the Grammar School, left last night ON the
schooner Annie T. Bailey, Capt Morson, for
Philadelphia. They will be absent about
four weeks.
Mr.. c. II. Ingalls,, wife and two children.
of Lynn, Mass, were at the Evans Hotel.
Mr., Ingalls, is one of the proprietors of the
Randolph Shoe factory
Mr.. Fred Danforth and wife came nm
from the Island yesterday and are registered
at the Evans.
About a dozen of the many dozens of
friends of Mr.. A. w. McCausland went
down 10 his Idlewild cottage at Capitsi
Island Saturday, had a quiet little celebrs.
ton and good time, and returned Monday.
1t was pleasant party and they right royalty
celebrated the first yearly anniversary of the
occupancy of the ldlewild-the finest cottage
on the island. Visitors at Squirrel Island
report the largest number of visitors there
now that has been present at any time since
this popular resort was opened. among them
being good many of our own people. Its
said that there were between six and seven
hundred there last Sunday.
MIR. Elmer ii. Cook is now the popular
clerk of the Evans, and not Mr.. Bradstreet,
as your correspondent stated few days
since.
The Street Commissioner has fenced up
the Winter street bridge and prohibited travel
across it, the same having been condemned
as unsafe. Had it been used much longer
for public travel, the city would very likely
have had an injury claim to have settled.
The Prohibtionists unfurled large flag,
Monday evening, bearing the names Of Fiske
and Brooks, and Volncy b. Gushing, 1t 10
stretched across Upper Main street, between
the stores of Libby and Littletielj.
The shooting season for plover opens to-
day, aud party of our sportsmen propose TO
celebrate it by a half-day's cunning at the
Indiana road in West Gardiner. Among
those intending to be of the party are s. N
Maxcy, DIR. Giddings, o. NJ. blanchard, J.
c. Morrison, J. W Lash and Charles Clifford.
The register of the Evans Hotel showed
thirty-six arrivals on Monday, and twenty
four guests remained at the House over night
In the contested will case before Judge
Webster of the Probate court on Saturday
last in the case of the heirs at law vs. the
will of Mary b. Dill, decision was made
confirming the will.
Your reporter spent half an hour In look
ing over the various rooms of the large es.
tablshment of Preble & Keene on Upper
Maine street yesterday, and he WAS aston
ished at the extent and variety Of the stock
carried by the firm, which is one of the
largest east of Portland. The main store
contains sixteen thousand square feet Of
flooring on its four floors, besides which the
firm has three other buildings outside, one
of which is used for storage, one for the
undertaking department and one for bedding
and upholstering. Their stock comprises
carpets, curtains, draperies, window shades
and every description Of first class furniture.
They have in their rooms from 90 to 1875
chamber seats and some two thousand chairs.
Their Office which has just been re built and
newly fitted up is one of the finest Offices in
the city, and this firm has large amount OF
Augusta aud IIallowell trade.
The repairs on johnson Hall have already
begun to show how much they were needed,
and what fine hall it will be when they are
fully completed.