The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1888-03-31
PERSONAL.

Hon. w. L. Putnam is in Baltimore in at
tendance upon railroad case.
DR.. George II. Bailey has gone to Els
worth to treat some sick horses.
Hon. Charles X. Lttlefeld of Rockland,
was at the Falmouth Hotel last night.
Charles B. Dennis. State agent of the
Travellers Insurance Company, has re-
moved his office to Boston.
Gersham l.. Percy, from Minneapolis, is
spending a few weeks with his relatives in
the city.
Mr.. Willard Benson of the Maine Central
railroad, from Bangor. was in the city yes
terday.
Among the members of the Raymond ex-
cursion party which left Boston yesterday
for Washington were the Misses Lyman of
this city.
Silas Billiard. Esq. for awhile practising
attorney at Harrison, is now prosperous
attorney-at-law at Menaska Wis. He is
district attorney for Winnebago county.
Capt. c. w. Keyes of Pennington, will be
one of the delegates to the Methodist confer
ence to be held in Chestnut street church,
| April 13
Capt. r. III. Bennett of Auburn, died yes
tCAudJ HOAhAhSy o6Ou o1' ALO Uoo ~ hosafO
of WaldoboIo and was for many years a sea
captain.
Mrs. Elizabeth d. Merrill, wife of ex-Gov-
rnor Merrill of Iowa, died in California
March 10. She was formerly Miss Elizabeth
ID. Hill of Buxton, Me.
The Bridgton News thinks that DR.. Tay-
lor of the Bridgton Advent chapel, has the
sort of a wife minister should have. Last
Sunday, when he was i'll, she went into the
pulpit and preached good sermon"
Miss Sarah Orne Jewett Of South Berwick,
is sojourning with her friend, Mrs. James
T. Fields, at Aiken, South Carolina, whittier
they have gone for the benefit of Mrs. Fields
health.
Cyrus A. Packard, ESQ.,, of Blanchard,
Names well known land agent, and his es-
Unable wife will celebrate the fortieth an
niversary of their wedding, Thursday eve
ming, April 9th.
A number of the Republicans friends of
| l.. Fl. Kendall of Biddeford, gave hima sur
| prise party Thursday night, and left behind
them, in token of their esteem, handsome
silver service of twelve pieces suitably in
| scribed.
In recent notice Of the meeting Of the So
| ciety of the Cincinnati at Boston, it was
stated that BENZ. Lincoln, Esq, of Dennys-
| vile was member. Mr.. Lincoln has been
| member of the society since July 1867,
| having taken his fathers place after his
decease.
| Miss Hattie c. Fernald, Maine State Col
lege, "a, has been engaged for the last three
months in cataloguing the library for the
/ So Tx.;a fnr III IL
lyn, N. Y. She has now returned to Column
bia College to complete her course in Libra
i ry Science.
Mrs. Peace Meader, aged "a years, one of
the oldest ladies in Waterville, died Thurs
| day at the residence of Nathaniel Meader,
| Esq, her nephew. Mrs. Meader was born
| in North Berwick in 1894, and has been
resident of Waterville for about As years.
| Mrs. Meader was the last but one of a fami-
| ly of 10 children, the other now living in Ep-
| ping, N. H., at the age of 96.
1 In letter to the Oxford Democrat Rev. j.
| K. Cochrane, formerly Baptist pastor at
| South Paris, writes of the life of a missiona-
| ~ in Burmah. He is getting along well in
his study of the native languages and can
| preach some in two of them. He enjoys the
fresh air and beautiful scenery he gets in his
| jungle work, and can walk 10 or 20 miles
| day 10 the jungle without much fatigue.
| Mrs. N. II. Powers of Bucksport, gives
$1,000 to the Congregational church in Or
land as memorial to her daughter, Dellie
| A. Powers. The money is to be fund, the
interest the first year to be expended in re-
pairs on the church. After that, for the
support Of preaching. If the church should
ever become extinct, the amount is to be
paid. one-half each, to the Foreign and
Maine Missionary Societies.
Among the Memorial Day orators recently
announced are S. l.. Miller of Waldoboro,
at North Vassalboro Rev. George G. Hamil-
ton Of Oakland, at Fairfield; Major P. NJ.
Folger of Augusta, at Union, Department
Commander Horace Burbank, at Gray; Mr..
Levi Turner, Jr., graduate of Bowdon Col
lege, class $50, at North Whitefeld Rev. j.
| N. Little, at Richmond; Rev. G. b. Chad
wick. at Damariscotta; and Col L. L. Car
yer of Rockland, at Thomaston.