The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1889-05-03
PERSONAL.

to his room by Illness
Mr.. George 81. Haines of Camden was in
the city yesterday.
Representative J. G. Clark of Bangor, has
returned from the West.
G. p. Cilley Of Rockland will deliver the
Memorial Day address at Belfast.
Judge Pereival Bonney of the Superior
Court, left yesterday morning for business
trip to Topeka, Kan.
Mr.. George 81. Libby, has just completed
his oath year of service in the city treasurer's
office.
Judge Townsend. Judge of the Municipal
Court of Brunswick, was in the city yester-
day. gHsi i
Mr.. Percy G. Burgess. son of City Clerk
Burgess win return todayto Mexico. where
hs will locate at Puebla. 81. q. w Is
Col. Elliot King has accepted an invitation
to deliver the Memorial Day address at Hal
lowell. 7r
G. NJ Seiders, Esq, of this city Is to de-
liver the Memorial Day address at Winter
port. sFf car
Mr.. Stephen r. Small, who has been con-
fned to his house for more than week, is
now improving in health. esfsg ~ lpkif
Judge Townsend. Brunswick; AS. Bangs,
Augusta and j. j. Milliken. Boston, Mass,
are at the st. Julian Hotel. 5A
Rev. Mr.. Carruthers and Mrs. Carruthers,
attended aTreception given by the ladies of
the First Parish in Saco last evening.
j. c. Chilcott of the Ellsworth American
has accepted an invitation to deliver the
Memorial Day address at Orono.
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railway mail service of Maine, at present
living in Newburyport will soon move his
family to this city.
Clarence A. Hight of this city, pulls bow
oar in the senior boat crew of Harvard. L.
W. Chamberlain Of this city. is No. in the
junior crew.
Fred G. Cox, formerly of Belfast, is editor
and publisher Of the Gross Park News, the
place Of publication being one of the rapidly
growing suburbs of the city of Chicago.
Rev. Everett S. Stackpole, late of Bath, has
just founded school in connection with his
missionary work in Rome. Mr.. Stackpole
is to take charge of the theological depart
ment
Mr.. Leslie A. Dyer of Augusta, has been
appointed to a clerkship in the railway mail
service on the route between Portland and
Skowhegan and reports for duty at Portland
to day.
Congressman Boutelle has accepted the
invitation of the Pine Tree State Club of
Massachusetts, to attend as honorary guest
at its fourth annual dinner to be given in
Boston. Thursday evening, May 9th.
Mr.. j. E. Wade of Augusta. received yes
terday notice of appointment to the rail-
way mail service. He has been assigned to
the Bangor aud Boston route and reported
for duty yesterday morning.
The Maine excursionists who made the
trip to Denison, Texas, recently, will next
week tender complimentary dinner at a
leading hotel in Boston to w. p. Rice Of
Kansas City, leader of the expedition. Mat
tiers of Importance concerning Denison will
be discussed and handsome taken of es-
teen will be presented to Mr.. Rice
Messrs. George II. Greeley of Bangor, E.
d. lngraham of Boston, II. ID. Plummer, G.
ID. Robinson. JAS. Miller. Sylvanus Bourne,
and F. d. Robinson of Portland, Charles
Walker and Edward Wakefield Of Lewiston,
have gone to Moosehead Lake. where they
Will try fishing for a week or 10 days. They
have chartered the steamer Comet and ex-
pect to get large quantity of fish.
Rev. Thomas f. Jones, the newly appoint
ed pastor of the Methodist church in Angus
ia, is the son of Rev. w. S. Jones, Presiding
Elder of the Portland District, and is some
30 years of.age. He received an education
at the Maine Wesleyan Seminary and Bow
dom College and after studying for the min
istry was admitted to the Maine Conference
in 1881. He has held successful pasuorates
at Bowdoinham in 1SS1-S2, at Gorham In 1885,
81, Berwick 1856 and Winthrop 1878.
At the meeting of the Loyal Legion We'd
nesday evening Commander Oliver A.
Batcheler read an exceedingly interesting
and valuable paper on Farragut's battle in
Mobile Bay. The following new members
were elected: Edward Deering Moves, eldest
SON of Brevet Colonel Goe. Freeman Moves,
U. S. "; George Edwin Brown, late cap
tain 9th Maine Vols. William Edward Den
nison, late acting volunteer lieutenant, U. S.
N.
While Rev. Rodney Walch of the North
church, Pennington, was delivering his adj
dress Thursday at the funeral of Gen. Han
nibal Belcher, he faltered and with the re-
mark Il must stop here" staggered and
would have fallen to the floor had not ready
hands caught him. He was unable TO pro-
coed with his address and was carried to
MS boarding place. His physician called 1t
an attack OF heart trouble. He recovered
ouinclentiy so ne occupied his pulpit as usu-