Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1888-11-02

Daily Efnnebef journal.
FRIDAY, NOV. Z, 1898.
NEW ADVERTISEMENTS o-DAY
NEW ADVERTISEMENT.
Saehet powders-Frank X. Partridge
Clofhing-H. s. Blaisdell.
10 let-lenement.
Notice-Daniel Allen.
To qualified voters.
Bethlehem Lodge, Il. A. NJ.
kennebec Savings Bank
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SO REWARD!
Will be paid, for the detection and conviction
Of any person or persons stealing the Journal
from steps or Railways where they are left by
our carriers.
BURLEIGH & FLYsr.
Granulated sugar has dropped to 81 cents
Three hundred bales of Smiley's broom
handles were shipped for London by the last
boat.
Mrs. w. G. Preble of Gardiner will as
sis. in the Grange entertainment Saturday
evening.
The Robert Ellsmere" craze is raging in
Augusta, and there is great demand for tais
popular work.
There are ninety eight pupils at the Cony
High School, thirty nine Of whom are in the
entering class.
The Thanksgiving proclamation will be
issued very soon. 1t is understood that the
day appointed will be Nov. 20.
Capt w. j. Tuck has received this fall
nearly 100 empty whiskey barrels from Bos-
ton which have been sold to farmers.
barber shop under the Ed yards block, and
will 20 into company with w. F. Mute.
The addition to the Hotel North is entirely
completed on the outside, and will be ready
for occupancy by the middle of this month.
H. :. Blaisdell. under Hotel North, is
pushing the sale of Undertaking just now
Mr.. Blaisdell is one of our sterling young
men and whatever statement he makes can
be relied on.
November tenth to the seventeenth is the
week of prayer for young men, observed by
the Y NJ. c. A. all over the world. Meet
ngs will be held by the local association in
one of the churches to be addressed by the
pastors of the different churches.
The railroad people are expecting an I'M
precedentedly large travel to California the
coming winter and are already preparing for
it. Many tourists are planning to make n
trip to the Golden State but nole will go out
there and invest their money A. in the past.
"Do hydrants effect insurance rates2" said
the insurance man, Wednesday. Certainly
they do. In the limits of hydrant service, an
other ear is added to the duration of all pol
icies. In other words, the hydrants enable
you to insure for five years as cheap as you
could for four years before" That's what
the hydrants do in the city suburb.
The members Of Capital Grange are to
give an entertanm mt at Grand Army Hall
this evening, which has before been referred
to in this column. The programme will con
sist of vocal and instrumental music, select
readings and Rotations. Prof Harlow will
preside at the piano. aud Prof Francis, the
teacher of eocution, will give two readings.
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Spirituaist services will be held in MON
Hall, Sunday evening, at 7.30 o'clock. Mrs.
Emma Miner, the in.pirational lecturer of
Clinton, Mass. will deliver lecture, to be
followed by DR. II. +. Merrill of this city,
with spirit messages and tests. DIR. Merrill
is one of the most noted mediums upon the
cents to defray expenses. Good music in
attendance.
do you ever find any of the twenty-five
aud fifty cent scrips once common" asked
the scribe of bank cashier yesterday. Not
very often. We have frequent calls for
them from people who wish to send away
small sums in letters, and 10 supply these we
keep few dollars worth always on hand
The lack of maiable small change must make
great difference in the receipts of the large
publishing houses"
The old Congregational chapel has reached
will be put under it, and carpenters will i'm
medately commence the alterations nCces-
sary for converting it into four teucmonts.
Owing to the bad weather work ON the foun-
dalton of the new chapel is progressing slow
". 1t is hoped that the carpenters will be
able to begin work some time next week
The lumber for the frame has arrived.
Five stone masons and twenty five laborers
are hard at work on the foundation of the
Edwards Co.'S new factory. The wall is
already completed on three sides, and if the
water falls sufficiently TO allow work. the re-
mander will probably be finished before cold
weather The men are now at work on the
stone piers, fifty-eight in number, of which
fifty are completed. The bottom wall on the
river side is IS feet high, and rests on a solid
ledge some ten feet below the surface. Work
will be suspended during the winter.