The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1888-05-14
PERSONAL.

Prof. j. L. Doldt will spend his summer
at the Harvard College gymnasium.
Mayor Wakefield of Bath, was in the city
Saturday
Mr.. e. E. Series, late of the De Witt
House, Lewiston, is clerk at the Preble
House.
the T. G. Jersey house on Danforth street,
for the summer.
Prof. F. Nichols Cronch, Of Baltimore,
expects to revisit Portland the coming sum-
mer.
Mr.. E. S. Wardwell, the editor of the
Bucksport Clipper, is to edit the Eastern
Star, Bangor, under its new management
Mrs. Caroline e. jackson, widow Of the
late Alden Jackson, Secretary Of State in
1854 and 1857, died last week in Gardiner.
Mr..F. l.. Freeman, long time in the oys-
ter business in this city with W. L. Atwood,
died in Baltimore Saturday, where he has re-
sided the past 20 years.
Hon. Oromandel Smith. Secretary of
State, has returned to his official duties after
his recent illness.
Robert NJ. Weeks, son of William Weeks,
and one of the Post Office clerks, died in this
city Saturday, aged 80 years. He leaves a
widow and two children.
Deputy Collector Lewis B. Smith left Sat-
urday for Washington to attend the annual
meeting Of the American Baptist Missionary
Union.
Col John NJ. Adams has been appointed
| by the President a member of the Board of
Examiners of the West Point Military Acad-
envy.
Thursday noon Mr.. Augustus Crowell
dropped dead, at the Express Office at
Green's Landing. Heart disease is supposed
to have been the cause.
| Mr. E. B. Haskell, of Boston, has pur-
chased A. j. Bletbens interest in the Min
neapolis Daily Tribune. The paper is now
owned by himself and his son, Mr.. w. E.
| Haskell
Richard L. Caldwell, for over 81 years edi-
tor and proprietor of the Kennebec Reporter
of Gardiner, announces his retirement from
active work. and that his excellent paper
will now be carried on by other hands.
Among the students, who graduated at the
Newton Theological Seminary last week,
were two from Maine. Fred A. Snow of
North Berwick, and Edwin p. Burt of Bux-
ton Centre, formerly of Biddeford
Mr.. j. NJ. Hammond, night clerk at Schlot-
terbeck's, is going West, and his friends
Saturday night presented him with an ele-
| CANT gold watch, chain and X. P. charm, APP
| propriately inscribed.
Messrs. j. II. Dow, A. E. Perry, N. III.
Jones, l.. p. Senter and NJ. A. Holden have
been appointed committee by the Com
mercial Travellers Association to make ar
rangements for an excursion to Montreal,
and to report May Goth.
President De Witt uf Portland has a life
insurance of $66.5OO, the largest in Maine,
and Horace p. Storer comes next with $780,
600. Col. II. Il. Hill has $4,000, and SO has
| Mr.. Tomlinson, of Cousens & Tomlinson.
| The heaviest annual premium in Maine, $685.
900. is paid by Charles Cushing of Freeport
Mr.. Stevenson of the Grand Trunk, Super
intendent Spicer of the same road, John
Porteous, general manager of the Central
Vermont, Mr. A. +. Steele. manager of the
Eastern division of the Canadian Pacific,
Mr.. Ii. Caswel of the Ogdensburg, were in
town Saturday.
Deacon Charles Milliken, 3 prominent
citizen of Saco, died Saturday, aged 70 years.
He was deacon of the Free Baptist church
for 30 years, and was several years member
of the city government. In early life he was
engaged in numbering on the Penobscot
river. He leaves two daughters residing in
Worcester.
A meeting of the York County Bar Asso-
citation will be held early in the term fer the
purpose of making the necessary arrange
ments for the preparation of memoirs and
sketches of former distinguished members
of that bar to be read at its annual reunion
| to be held in Saco in January next, and to
act upon such other matters as may come be-
fore the meeting. Hon. John M. Goodwin,
president of the association, will preside.
Mrs. Alfred j. McGrath, nee Miss Margar-
| ct Bryant, formerly of this city, died at Pas
sale, n. j., of rheumatic fever, Saturday
| Miss Bryant's death will be much lamented
here. She was formerly a member of the
Rossini Club, and the Cicilian Quarteete
and contralto singer at High street church
She was pupil of Mr.. w. II. Dement'S, and
her voice was highly praised by Mrs. Annie
| Cary Raymond, who was a strong personal
friend of hers. She leaves two children.
Among the many to whom the death of
Mr.. S. ID. Warren of Boston, will bring a
sense of almost personal bereavement, are
the faculty and the friends of Bates College
For the last six years Mr.. Warren has taken
an active interest in the institution, giving
| to it freely himself and endeavoring to en-
| list others in is behalf. He has contributed
nearly $4,000 to its funds, and had also sub
scribed $4,000 toward meeting the conditions
| of Hon. j. L. II. Cobb's subscription. We
understand that in order to avail itself of
Mr.. Warren's subscription the College must
raise some $4,000 by January 14tb, 1885,