The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1888-12-31
PERSONAL.

Hon. Thomas b, Reed left for Washington
Saturday.
Rev. Mr. CrosIey will enter on his new
pastorate Feb. LIST.
Mr.. and Mrs. G. L. Briggs will leave on
trip to New Mexico, tomorrow
Adjutant General Gallagher was in town
Saturday.
General Manager Payson Tucker, Of the
Maine Central, sailed on a short business
trip to Europe, from New York, Saturday.
Mr.. f. w. Green, formerly of the PRESS,
now Of the Boston Globe, is in town. He is
having COED time among his old friends.
Mr.. {. B. Sheahan, Dennysville's repre-
sentative in the legislature, spent Sunday in
the city.
Hon. Thomas Temple, of Fredericton, N.
B., president of the Sebasticook & Moose
head railroad, was in the city Saturday.
Mrs. Elbridge Gerry has purchased
building site near Fort Constitution, New
castle, N. e., and will build a colonial cot
tage there, at an expense Of $1,000.
Mr.. Dudley M. Holman, former Boston
newspaper man, enters the Office of the
Portland Evening Express Jan. LIST, as city
and news editor
Mr.. John Lawlor. ticket agent at the
Grand Trunk ticket office, has returned from
Quebec, where he has been attending his
mothers funeral.
Lieut.. WILDER Laskey, Jr., of Division 7,
Boston, having become physically incapable
of performing his duties, has been retired.
He belongs in Machias.
Mr.. j. M. S. Hunter, of the Pennington
Chronicle, has bought the interest in the pa
per held by Capt. q. W. Keyos, becoming the
sole proprietor.
Rev. Franklin Blake of Maine, who has
accepted call to become acting pastor of
the Free Baptist church at Loudon Centre,
N. H., will commence his duties the first
Sunday in January.
The Rt. Rev. Bishop Healey, d. D., deliv-
cred remarkably able discourse in the Ca
thedral of the Immaculate Conception yes
terday morning. ON the principal religious
aid civil events of the present year.
Mr.. j. L. Given, formerly of Rines Bros,
now of Cincinnati, and Miss Ella Keller
were married in that city lately. Mr.. Given
is European purchasing agent for large dry
goods house in Cincinnati.
Mr.. Charles E. johnson of Portland and
Miss Lizzie H. Dodge, daughter of Benz H.
Dodge of Damariscotta, were married in
that town by Rev. j. Ii. Parshley Thursday.
They received many valuable gifts. They
will reside here.
At the funeral of the late Samuel A.
knight, Saturday, Rev. DR.. Whitaker of
ficiated. There was singing by quartette,
and the pall-bearers were Albion Blackstone
f. 81. Moody, w. III. Green and Frank Red
Ion.
Mrs. Esther Graves of Bowdoinham died
Friday, of pneumonia. aged 60 years. Miss
Graves was pensioner in the war of 1865,
having served as nurse In a hospital on Nor
ris Island, South Carolina, during the great
er part Of the rebellion.
Hon. W. W. Thomas, Jr. will deliver his
popular lecture on Sweden and the Swedes,"
during the present week. as follows: Mon
day evening, at Kingston, Mass. Wednes-
day evening. Jan. I'd. at Wakefield, Mass
and on Friday, JAN 4th, at Island Pond, VT
Mr.. Thomas has had more calls to lecture
during the present season than he can posi-
bly, fill, and of all his lectures that upon
Sweden is in the greatest demand
The late MIR. Jacob T. Lewis, whose death
was announced in Saturdays PRESS, estab-
lished the firm Of j. Il. Lewis & Co., in 1868,
with his son James p. Lewis as partner He
was representative in the city council from
Ward in 1S47 and 1S4S. and had been, for a
number Of years, an overseer of the poor.
he was member of Maine Lodge of Odd
Fellows, and had been an active member OF
the old Casco fire company He leaves a
widow, daughter and two sons.
Engineer Charles Waterman, who runs a
through train on the Eastern Division of the
Boston & Maine railroad, Ihas made the run
three times each week, from Boston to Port
land for IL years. As the length of each trip
is 900 miles, he has run $50 miles per week.
and the total number of miles run during
his service is 100000 sufficient to carry him
around the world ffty-six times. The aver
age life of railroad engineer is short, and
sias- A. EAaxS- af Serxiea-rchich would wear
out the lives of half dozen ordinary men,
seem to have had no effect ON Mr.. Water
man.
Rev. James Rand Of Dover, n. H., whose
death occurred recently, was born in Par
sonsfeld, on Sept. 8, 1915. He was educated
at the seminary in that town, was converted
and became a member of the Free Baptist
OhuiOhs IA MS udtifC bOWu az tuo dRt Ol IL,
and began preaching in 1888. He had pas
torates in Limington Cornish, Saco, Par
sonsfeld, Limerick, Lebanon and South
Berwick, Me-. Dover, Northwood and
Franklin, n. H.; and Amesbury, Black
stone and Charlestown. Mass. His last sta
ton was at South Berwick, which pastorate
in 1888, he resigned on account of failing
health. Afterwards. however, up to short
time before his death, he filed some pulpit
nearly every Sunday, thus completing half
century of ministerial work. For thirty
years he was member of the Foreign Mis-
sion Board, and for twelve years was its
president. He was an active and outspoken
advocate of temperance, and was deeply in
terested in all educational enterprises In
1889 he was married to Miss Dorothy M.
Fernald of Parsonsfeld, who survives, and
also four children.