Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1889-08-12

main during the season. Among other De
paStures fos the above place were Georg
Bowen. family Howard Smith and wife. Mrs
Charity McCaasiand, and Mise Kate Flyns
Aldermen A. L. Perry is away on = shor
vacation.
Oae OF our vell-kn0un miikmen, vhou
ve viii call Tom, ard Who 10 omewha
sbseas minded, recently took one of bis mill
cans which vas out in his yard full Of ho
water. and left is on the doorstep of one o.
our leading hotels, - il his usual won't wher
delivering bis milk The COOK on coming h
use the supposed milk discovered the mis-
take, and Esperted 70 Tom. who, looking
rather sheepish, Immediately returned Sith
some nice pure milk. We have heard thai
milkmen. not in Gardiner Of course. would
| sometimes mix chalk and water together for
milk, but this 10 the first that We ener heard
Of the water alone being substituted.
On Friday, ]. l.. Stoddard of this city, re-
ceiv.d . despatch from Jefferson. stating tha,
his sister Mrs. J. d. Hatch Of that place ~ss
| very. but before Mr.. Stoddard could reach
her bedside, she vas dead cause, heart dis
ease. The deceased was q9ite well known
in this city.
c. M. Ssratson, New York; Capt STAN
wood, Boston. Boston. and James 4. Hatch.
Bridgeport, Conn were among those regis
tered as Hotel Douglass, Friday and SAtur-
day.
o. c. Rollins Of the Evans spent the Sab
bath in Portland.
During the first four week days Of last
week, there were one hundred and sixty
strangers registered at the Evans and John
sOn.
Rev. X. W. jenkins returned from his
excursion To the RA3gelys Saturday after
noon.
We understand that Jordan Rand Of Lis
bon. the well known temperance advocate,
proposes to Come to Gardiner and start
temperance n vival, by invitation of the Re-
form CLUB.
There are n,w about fifty Of our popula-
ton stopping at Gardiners favorite summer
resort, Capital Island.
A recent number of one Of our weeklies
contains a statement purporting to come
from one of our ice dealers which says that
there has been no ice sold in this State, with
the exception of an occasional cargo, for
more than two dollars \ ton. We are in-
formed by another ice dealer that either the
gentleman who made this remark WAS mis-
taken or else ignorant of the facts, for he
has sold himself, over ten thousand tons of
ice at 81. .55 ton, and is knowing to fifteen
thousand more tons that have been sold At
prices ranging from ~. 10 to S2.25 ton,
and some Of it brought $3.50.
On Thursday that new banking institution,
the Maine trust and Banking Co., will com
mence business in this city, in the new and
elegantly furn. shed rooms in Rogers block,
on Maine street, which have been especially
fittel up for their use. The company is
com posed of some Of Maine soiid bus
iness men. md is sure to be success. The
officers of the institution are ss follows:
Presideat. Weston Lewis; vice president,
John +. fill; secretary, John w. Dana;
trustees, W. w. Bradstreet, =. G.. Brad
street, 7 IL. Winslow, J. s. Maxcy, and
Weston Lewis. of Gardiner; J. +. Hill, Au-
gusta; DIR. ). A. Thompson, Dover; Arthur
Sewall, Bath; Payson Fucker, Portland; 5.
G. Downes, Calais, B. Z. G. Weston, Mad
ison; AMI VIM. +. Hail, Richmond. The
company is orgrnized under the laws of
Maine, subject to the inspection Of the Bank
Examiner, and starts with capital of $780,
900. 1t will do a regular banking business,
receive money on deposit, paying interest on
the same, to act as trustee for Corporations
in the issuing of bonds, and to serve as
legal depository for trust funds. la addition
it will have for sale, bonds AMI other securi-
ties adapted to the II. eds of both banks and
As will be seen by the list of
officers, the company is under the best of
with unlimited means at his
command and is sure to be a success.