Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1888-10-20
GARDINER.


The paved portion of Water street is re-
ceiving its fall cleaning, and good job it is,
The wife of officer Russell is in Boston.
That portion of the sidewalk en- the east
side of Water street opposite the stores of
Partridge & Son, J. S. Lambard, Woodcoek
the tailor, and Marston the clothler, is being
| relad.
Mr.. b. L. Kimball of Lynn, Mass, is reg
istered at the johnson House.
The Coliseum building cost its owners
about SIS 900, and they would probably be
glad to get $1,000 for it. Can it be utilized
for some business purpose that will render
it useful?
The ladies' of the Heath Relief Corps, q.
A. r., are making arrangements to give a
supper to the officers and members of Heath
| Post on Tuesday evening Oct. 30. Mrs.
| Warren W. Wight is president of the
Ladies Relief
The business of the Loan and Building
Association is rapidly increasing as its plans,
| purposes and methods of management be-
come known. In January next 1t will issue
the fifth series of its shares, which will be
most favorable opportunity for new sub
scriptions The association now holds about
| sl2 900 of first class first mortgages.
| Harvest supper was celebrated at the Con-
gregational chapel last evening.
We kaow the greatest boot buttoner in
Gardiner. 1t is not the polite clerk at Steph-
ensons shoe store but a youg lady at the
klmball Brothers factory She makes a
business of 1t and do, SIT do anything e.s al
day. At night she has buttoned, ready for
packing. twelve hundred pairs of ladies
boots Just to think of it
The following have been chosen as dele
- n 4 N, th.
state convention of Y. NJ. c. Associations,
which meets at Brunswick next Thursday,
viz: Rev c. +. Bass. ID, D., Rev. +. c.
Cook, j. NJ. l.. Bates, +. l.. Amesbnry, A.
Iapley, +. llillreth.
Mr.. A. i. Berry has nearly completed the
repairs upon the interior of his market. The
refrigerator is ten by twenty feet, provided
with an ice receptacle that has a capacity of
nine tons. The office is to be improved and
the building to be painted outside and pro
yided with a handsome sign.
Putnam e. Blossoms mill is shut down for
a few days on account of an injury to the
boiler.
Capt. Goblet is dischargng coal at Ding
ley Brothers wharves.
Yesterday Mr. b. l.. Kimball. manager of
the shoe factory was in conference with
committee of his workmen in
the making department, represent
resenting the Knights of Labor, arranging
schedule OF rates to govern the price of la
Dor for the year upon which the company
has just entered. Their business will pro-
coed until conference has been had with
committees representing every department
of piece work carried on at the factory.
When all these prices have been agreed up
on a schedule of rates is posted up in each
T,l.., and rnta
govern the price of work for the year, Allis
done in n business manner, every body is sat
istied, the men and women 60 to work, there
is fair understanding between employers
and employees, strikes" and kicks" are i'm
possible and the operatives receive their
cash every Saturday night. The plan is one
of the best known in the annals of labor.
These conferences with the different branch
es of workmen usually occupy two or three
DAYS
\ warrant has been issued against Joseph
Devine, lately doing business in this city,
aud City Marshal Norton is hunting for him.
The man is wanted for driving horse in
excess of the contract" 1t appears that on
Oct 9th, Devine hired a horse of 4. ID.
Tasker to 20 to Windsor. Instead of going
to Windsor, as is alleged, the party went to
Lewiston 1t was not until oct. IL that the
horse was heard from ana when found it was
at the Park House stable in Augusta, much
used up and disabled from excessive driving
and want of care. 1t remained at the stable
until Mr.. Tasker had to pay board bill and
bill for veterinary services. amounting to
about $50. The horse is still suffering
from his abuse. A man purporting to be an
agent of Tasker called at the Park House
Thursday night TO gain information concern
ing the injuries to the horse. 1t is now thought
that he was friend of Deyine.
City Marshal Norton returned from Wat
ervile Thursday night with George Landry,
and yesterday morning he was arragned be-
fore Judge Larrabee on a search and seizure
warrant. He was fined 500 and sentenced
to six months Imprisonment. Landry APP
pealed and gave sureties in the sum of $500,