Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1890-02-22

GARpNER, Feb. 3l.-Mr. Chas. Trask
received . car load Of handsome horses
yesterday. They are mostly heavy horses
and are - hne animals ~ vsss ever
brvusb, Into the ciy.
Mr. Frank Day. an employe in Moulton' .
saw mill. Randolph, had several fingers Of
one hand taken OF in shingle machine.
DR.. Sawyer dressed the wounds.
The ice which Bfann Bros. + Co. have
been storing in the basement Of their store
has been sold to the Ridgwood Ice Company
At e3 per ton.
At the Methodist church on Sunday Rev.
g. W. Hunt. the pastor. will give at 2 45
=. N. the first Of . series of sermons on
Home. Subject tomorrow, The Home on
Earth. Other services as usual.
Married on Wednesday evening Feb. 10.
at the home Of the bride in Farmingdale.
by Rev. Geo. W. Hunt, Mr. Wallace B.
McC CausIand and Gertrude L. Norton
After tour lasting about ten days Mr.. and
Mrs McCausiand will be at home o. No
65 vesp.r sueet, Portland, Me.
There will be an oyster supper in the
Universalist vestry tomorrow evening,
coffee, sand d~iches and cake will be served
Mrs. 8. w. Cults entertaiLe ed nine table,
At progressive euchre At her home on Bach
street Tbursday evening. The following
ladies and gentlemen secured the p iaes ::
Head prize, Mrs. Isaac Smith. Mr. E E.
Lewis; Progressive, DR.. Jackson and Jas.
J.ck; Ounce prizes, Mrs. II. NJ. Foster
and Mr.. Hiram Porter.
Services as usual At the Congregational
church, conducted BY the pastor. Rev. r
W. jenkins.
A party Of ee-en Lynn, Mass. gentle
men are said TO have arrived Thursday. and
will 6sh for pickerel in Cobbosseecont
waters.
Two drunks were up before Judge Lar.
rabee yesterday morning. and paid hne.
and costs.
Mr. E. E Lewis Of this city. has Just
submitted six Of his plans for school houses
to Superintendent Of Schools Luce and DR..
A. G Young Of the Board Of Health, and
both Of these oficials have returned mos,
nstterirg Recommendations Of III. plans,
which sre regarded a. come Of the finest
ever made In the State. At the time Of
| their examination letter Vas received
from Wsstp ,rt parties, asking for . recon-
mendation for Just such work. ard we're
referred to Mr.. Lewis Who has just sen,
blue prints Of the six completed designs
for their consideration
A report reached the city from South
Gardiner Friday morning that parties in
crossing the river early in the morning had
discovered the tracks Of t~o men leading
up to hole in the ice, ~here they disap
| peared. No return tracks are visible and
it /. thousht the men must have teen swep'
under the ice and drowned. No clue has
been secured - to Who the parties we're
but an examination will probably be made
to ascertain IL any of the crews on the
river have lost men recently.
Ice operations were very generally re-
sumed along the river YESTERDAY morning
scraping occupying the attention Of most OF
the companies, although some were run
ring 1t noon. Weather reports from tha
Hudson we're the most discouraging of any
for the season, the mercury on that riveI
running down to 10 degrees above zero
With ice forming quite freely, and pre-.
dictions Of steady cold for Saturday ard
| Scnday. There 10 no cessation of opera
tons on the Kenneb bee however, and ever,
available ton will be put up that can b
Cored.
The street parade today BY the Red Mer
vas made through lines Of spectators or
both sides of Water street. The GaEdiner
Band furnished music. At the "Moct
Adoptioo" in the evening quite good sizet
audience vas present and roared over th,
ludicrous positions Of the poor pale fac'
Who had his .hsif fsised." The othe
parts Of the programme, including the reel
tasions BY Mise Brigham and the selection
BY the Augusta Banjo, Mandolin and Guita
Club we're very we'll received and accorde,
generous applause.