The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1888-08-06
PERSONAL.

Mr.. Edward Fowle has been appointed
janitor of Portland Theatre.
L. q. Sargent, traffic manager of the Grand
Trunk, is at the Ocean House.
uRey. DIR. Bashford and wife are visiting
Mr.. j. B. Donnell.
Railroad Commissioners, Bragg and Mort
land are at the Preble.
DIR. Evans, the dentist, had slight shock
of paralysis, Saturday.
Mr.. Stephen A. Files, one of the Oldest
merchants of Fairfield died suddenly Friday
night of apoplexy.
Sergeant w. A. Wilson has been sent back
to Augusta having had another attack Of
violent insanity.
IlBank Examiner Richards is at the Fall
mouth and Bank Examiner Heard of Con-
cord, N. H., is at the Preble.
Gen. G. B. Fisk will address the Maine
prohibitionists one day during the cam
paign.
Miss Ada Cary Sturgis spent Friday night
with Mrs. John Meserve of Saccarappa at
her cottage at Peaks Island.
Miss Minnie Mule of Boston is visiting
her sisters Mrs. Bell and Miss Emma Mule,
the opera artists at Peaks Island.
Mr.. Walter B. Warehouse. U. S. A.. for
merly of Portland, has received an elegant
gold medal for bravery shown at the West.
Miss Emily Flaherty, sang at the dedica.
ton of the church at Whitefeld, N. H.,
yesterday.
Rev. A. Snyder of Alfred has rendered his
resignation as pastor of the Baptist church
in that place. to take effect in August.
Among the arrivals at the bluffs" Friday
were Mrs. Payson Tucker OF Portland, Miss
Clergue of Bangor, and we'll known people
from Washington, Richmond and Nashville.
Mr.. and Mrs. George w. Robinson of the
City Hotel celebrated their fifth wedding
anniversary, Saturday, and received numer.
GUS gifts from friends.
Rev. Elijah Kellogg who has been supply
ing the Congregational pulpit in Richmond
for the past month, will preach in Gorham,
N. H., during August.
Mrs. Fellows, Mrs. Morrison, Messrs.
Stockbridge and Follansbee will sing at
Bethel tomorrow evening at the dedication
of church.
Mrs. Kate Tryon has been invited to give
a lecture, entitled civilian Blacks Sea
Pictures" at the Oceanic House, Peaks
Islanb, next Saturday evening.
Martin Overlook, who died recently in
South Liberty, was 100 years, 6 months and
16 days of age. He was born in Waldoboro,
January ID, 1888.
| Rev. DIR. Payson Of New York, secretary
| of the Methodist Educational Society, and
Rev. DIR. Daily, pastor of the Asbury M. E
Church of Buffalo, N. Y, are at the Preble
House.
W. X. Clement, Colby 'S4, who has lust
| returned from an extended tour in Europe,
is stopping few days in Waterville. Mr..
Clement is to be professor of Greek and
Latin in an Illinois college.
Matthew Burke, the lad who notified
officer Hughes of the burglars who operated
so long and successfully in this city, thus
causing their capture has been presented by
| residents of the neighborhood with a gold
watch appropriately inscribed.
1t is now stated that the President will
| positively visit Sorrento this summer. A
Presidential party, having the President, his
wife, and some eight or ten friends, will
leave Washington about the middle O.
| August. They will be joined in Portland
| by the Hon. William L.. Putnam, and few
others. The party will then proceed directly
to Sorrento, which will be his headquarters
There will be one and only one politica
demonstration during the trip, in which
President Cleveland will take part, and tina
win take place at Bangor. The last week in
the month there occurs the big agricultural
show and on Friday of that week the Presi
dent will be there. The plan now is for th,
Sixth Massachusetts Regiment, which will
then be on visit to Bar Harbor, to do escor
duty. and for Mr.. Cleveland to address th,
people. .aSs