The Portland daily press., 1888-04-13
PERSONAL.


Col C. b. Merrill and family have returned
from their southern tour.
Aunt Nancy Chase. age 101 years and one
month, has just died at Presque Isle.
Rev. G. f. McIntire will deliver the Memo
rial address before the G. A. r. Post in North
Arson.
Rev. w. S. Goucher, Baptist pastor at
Camden, has resigned to accept a call from
st. Stephen. N. B.
Principal j. NJ. Atwood, Of the Oakland
High School. is candidate for school super
visor in Rockland.
Col. Fred N. Dow is very sick and is threat
ened with fever, the result of severe cold.
DR.. Weeks is in constant attendance on him.
Rev. o. L. Gile has rendered his resigna-
ton as pastor of the Free Baptist chuch at
Richmond and is to accept passionate at
Cape Elizabeth.
DR.. Fl. S. Staples, assistant surgeon at the
National Home. D. V. s., Togus has resigned
and will leave about the 10th inst. for New
York to attend lectures in special branches.
Moses A. Stafford, of Kittery, member Of
the department staff of Maine, has accepted
an invitation to deliver the Memorial Day
address at Alfred
Mr.. Frank B. Miller, of Cushing, is prepar-
ing history of the numerous Miller family,
tracing the genealogy back to Frank Miller.
who came from Germany to Waldoboro in
1888.
Mr.. c. S. Fairfield, proprietor of the East
Deering omnibus line, has received evidence
of his popularity with his patrons. They
have given him a handsome gold mounted
whip and pair of driving gloves.
Preparatory to his trip to Europe, Rev.
Samuel Longfellow is in Portland to spend
week among his relatives here. He sails from
New York on May 9Th, to be gone several
months.
Mrs Helen N. Packard has been invited by
the Gettysburg monument association of the
Fifth Maine Regiment Association to write a
poem to read or be read. when the Maine
monuments are dedicated at Gettysburg.
William King the old w::rhorse of the Ban
gor Democracy, who has len the Presidents
engineer for nearly two years, was recently
appointed by Secretary Endicott to be the
engineer in charge of the new army medical
museum. The salary is Sl40O.
Surgeon General John b. Hamilton, of the
U. S. Marine Hospital Service. made an Off
cial visit to this city on Tuesday. He inspect
ed the condition of the Marine Hospital under
the charge of Surgeon Charles 4. Banks and
left in the evening for Boston.
Mr.. Patrick Sullivan died yesterday, April
18th. He has been, for the last "a years, in
the employ Of ID. w. Clark. in the ice bust
ness, as route foreman and collector. He was
a conscientious, honest, faithful man and q
good citizen. By industry, economy and tenn
perance he had saved enough to leave his
family in comfortable circumstances
The friends of Mrs. Geo. K. Bracket, Of
Belfast, wife of Secretary Bracket of the
Maine Good Templars, who has been serious
ly i'll for several weeks at the Maine General
Hospital in this city, will be pleased to hear
that she is improving daily and her physician,
Dr. Pendleton, thinks she will be able to re-
turn home in few days.
Mrs. E. P. Thwing arrived in Brooklyn
on Wednesday, after six months absence,
during which she has visited Japan and
China. Her son Edward. though not p years
of age, is offered professorship in the An
glo-C Chinese at College Canton. and also a
lucrative position in Siam, but declines both
and will remain year or more with the Pres
byterian Mission as a volunteer worker.
Hon. Elias j. Hale is serving his 40th year
as town clerk of Foxcroft. He was first
elected in the spring of 1S47, and has nlled
the office by annual elections since that time.
except two years, 1s49 and 1850, which he
passed in California and on the Pacific slope.
A most remarkable feature is the fact that he
has never had in the forty elections an OPP
posing candidate, nor even single ballot in
opposition-all have been unanimous.