Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1889-08-31
Nn. Frank Puria.s. "a. p....ase. i.

Ars. Frank Purineoa vas passenger er
Route for Portland. from this city. Friday.
The Y ". C. A. are having good success
II the sale Of tickets for their lecture eosrSe,
about one third Of the necessary numbel
to insure the coarse having been sold.
| We are informed BY those having the
Charge of the erecdontof band stand, that the
structure will Be built - soon q The remain
ing amount. some twenty dollafs. necessary
to its completion 10 raised.
Col. French, Of the Governors staff was
in the city, Friday.
At the Methodist church scrvices will con-
siss Of Sunday school. l0.+5 preaching,
2 AS, BY ,he pastor; gospel service, 30.
IL 10 nos expected that pext Wednesday.
Lsmhard and Coz will have their annual
| fishing sxcursion to the Islands. on the
islAnier. Prises will be gwen, as in years
| caught during the day. The xeursion party
will have Eve hours al Squirrel island, dur
ins which there will be an orchestra concert
| ard dance =, the Chase House. This 10 the
fifteenth year these excursions have been
running and as in times pas; will un.
doabtedly be literally pasronised
Next Sunday afternoon at four O'Clock.
there will be meeting for men only, at the
rooms of the Y. N. c. A., the subject being,
Faith, 10 be conducted by the general sec
reisry.
Mayor Spear will move into his new aud
hsnisoai, suite Of rooms in Rogers block,
to lay.
Some thirty of our theatre yoers attended
the Granite Hall opening in Augusta, Thurs-
day evening.
H. C. Newbert has a cute cong and dance
artist in his window that 10 attracting quite
lot of attention. 1t il an advertisement for .
shoe blAcking.
A new brick side walk 10 being laid from
the express Office to the railroad station, In
Depot square. 1t will be great improve
ment over the old sidewalk. being foot and
q half wider.
MIR. John Peterson Of this city, who 10
running ,he Ocean Point House, will close
that hostility in about two weeks,
+. l.. Hogan Of Bath, formerly employed
in shoe store in this city, was at the Evans
Friday.
Quite a number Of Gardiner horses are en-
tered in the State Fair races at Lewiston.
Among the number are Almont PatcheD,
o~ ned BY DR.. Charles Pickering, who 10 en-
tered in the LAO, 500, and class for green
horses. ThOs. McGusin will enter his fine
stopper. Garfield, in the 2.27 class, and
L. land Moore has entered his bay gelding
George II. in the 2.34 race.
Thursday evening the Eagle Hose COM
pany, and their drum corps, attended the
dance given by the Hallowell fremen, and
reported most excellent time.
CASTOR Curran. who 10 employed at Brad
streets mill in South Gardiner met with quite
. severe accident 1t that place Friday fore
noon. He was at work ut the boiling ma
chine, when he was struck by bolt. knock.
ing him backward on to the lsth turning saw,
cutting n terrible cash in his back, nearly
twenty inches long. DR.. Mcdonald of
South Gardiner attended to the patient.
Harry Wight of this city. is to act ~ bag
gage master at the Maine State Fair in Lew
iston.
The wri.er took a look at the fine stables
of Charles 3. Stackpole, Gariiner's well
known horseman, yesterday, and was shown
some pretty steppers, among them being
Matchmaker, Jr., record 2.52, = five-year-
old that MIR. Stack pole has great hopes Of.
He has entered this stallion in the $50 class,
purse s200 at the State Fair, Lewiston, and
is expec ag good work from him. Mr..
Stackpol, -.a,es that the report in the news
paper III he 10 to sell this stallion 10 an
error. a. le has had no offers and does not
care to part with him anyway. Another
good horse shown the writer was Venture,
a four -year-old, whose sire, Cunard Jr., has
a record of 2 20 IL, also Harbinger, 4 two
year old stud colt, out of . Gideon mare,
that promises great work ~ coon ~ it
reaches its maturity.