Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1888-10-31
GARDINER.

The refrigerator building of the Gardiner
yellow paint, the regulation color of all the
buildings occupied by the Armour Beef
Company, which extends from one end of
the continent to the other.
The Asa Moore house, corner of Washing
ton Avenue and Oak street, sold at auction
by J. S. Lambard yesterday afterno on, was
purchas ed by Mrs. ID. II. Dore, who is to
occupy it.
Rev J. S. Gledhill, pastor of the Univer-
| salst church, went to Hallowell last evening
and organized in connection with the church
there Birthday Association similar to the
one which has become so successful in this
| city
Itis reported on some of our streets that
| some of the crew of the steamer "Haytian
| Republic belong in this city. This steam
er has been plying between New York and
Hayti, and has lately been captured at Port
au Prince by a Haytian man-of-war, and its
| crew are prisoners. We have been unable
TO ascertain the truth of the report, diligent
inquiry failing to obtain trustworthy inform
alton.
Hon. f. f. Sleeper, senator-elect from
|
| Sleeper, in the city yesterday.
1t is said that a centre of diphtheria infec-
ton has been quarantined off near the Grand
| Army Hall on Brunswick street.
II. w. Jewett & Co. are erecting a build
ing for the storage of sawdust on the south
side of their mill. Carriers are to be con-
| structed over their mills which will collect
the sawdust and transport it by endless belts
to this new building. The Holingsworth 4
Whitney Paper company has just made a
contract with the Messrs. Jewett for all
their sawdnst, which is to be used in their
furnaces, and they are to haul it from the
new building. 1t is estimated that every
thousand feet of lumber sawed yields a cord
of sawdust aid the capacity of the Jewet,
mill is therefore fifty cords a day. Those
who have had experience in burning saw
dust for stationary engines are much pleased
with it and say that two cords of sawdust
are equivalent TO one cord of e1gings.
Mr.. Orrin Emerson, now of Lewiston, was
in the city yesterday. Mr.. Emerson for
merly owned the property of the Togus
mineral spring, which he sold to Mr.. Beal.
in 1855, the latter gentleman building the
hotel there which was later sold to the
United States government. Although Mr.
Emerson is now well up in the eighties he il
as hale and vigorous as man of sixty.
Steam was let into the pipes of the Hop
kins building OH Water street, opposite the
johnson House, for the first time yesterday
and worked admirably. The whole building
is warmed by steam, which includes the new
Boston dry goods store of w. f. Studley &
Co., and nine Offices on the second and thirc
doors. The job of piping and heating ha'
been performed by Charles Morse of this
city, and is very thorough one, Mr.. Morse
being most competent workman. The
boiler is self-adiustiDg lie Bosquet, made
IN Boston, and so constructed that all tht
drafts and fues are regulated by the pressure
of steam in the boiler. The entire cost OF
the job was $500. The Hopkins building il
now one of the most desirable business
blocks on the street.
The Birthday Association connected with
the Universalist Society, held its regula
monthly meeting at the church last evening
Its membership embraces nearly all th'
members of the society, one of whom is 8;
years of age, several of whom are seventy
, and SO on down to the youngest. The annua
membership fee is one penny for each yea
of the persons life, which sum goes into tn
charitable fund Of the society. Those mem
bers whose birthday falls during the mont
: in which the meetings are held, are tn,
guests OF the association at that meeting
In the absence Of the pastor from the cit