The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1890-07-11
PERSONAL.

hon. James S. Wright of Paris, was in
town yesterday.
Mr. Darius 81. Ingraham has returned
from three months trip abroad.
Ex-Chief Engineer Wil.i William f. Greene, q
Boston, is making a vacation trip through
--~fnfss Hawley of New York and Miss Bal
of Washington. are the guests of Miss Kate
L. Vannah of Gardiner.
Mrs. zachariah Chandler of Washington
is at Ellsworth with her daughter, Mrs
Senator Hale, for the summer.
Joseph c. Fuller, Esq, Rev. Mr. Stuart
and Judge VIM. B. Palmer, of Danville, Vt
were in the city yesterday.
Hon. Charles II. Frost of Springvale, Sen
ator from York county, was at the United
States Hotel yesterday. Qg
Governor Burleigh has reappointed Chas
Merrill, of this city, as commissioner of har.
Dor and tidal waters.
Judge M. G. Blake, ex-Mayor of San Fran.
cisco, is visiting this city. He is Maine
man, formerly residing in Harrison.
Hon. Charles j. Noyes of Boston, ex.
Speaker of the Massachusetts House OF
Repres entatiyes, was at the Falmouth yes.
terday.
Mr.. Howard Owen, of Augusta, has been
invited and has accepted the invitation ia
deliver the Grafton at Buxton next Memo
rial day.
Mr.. VIM. S. Pearson, secretary of the
Minneapolis Board of Education. with his
wife and child are visiting MIR. Pearson's
mother in Bangor.
Mrs. Thomas A. Scott and party, in the
private car Newport" passed over the
Portland g. Rochester railroad en- route to
Bar Harbor yesterday.
The annual meeting of the Maine Dental
society will be held at Augusta July Is and
16. Papers will be read by DR.. O. B. Brann,
DIR. ID. w. Fellows and DR.. E. Bacon of this
city
Horace N. Rowell of Concord, n H., has
been appointed superintendent of telegraph
of all divisions of the Boston g. Maine Rail-
road, his appointment dating from Saturday
the 9th.
Mr.. James H. Henderson of Saco brought
back from England scarf-pin which he
valued highly, it being made of a pebble
from the graveyard at Stratford where
Shakespeare is buried, in gold setting.
Rev. E. M. Chesley, who graduated this
year from the Bangor Theological Seminary,
has accepted position in the Meadville
Theological school as instructor in psychol-
ogy. church history and the history CT phil
osopby.
Rev. F. E. Healey the Unitarian minister
at Ellsworth has invented mailbag fasten-
er which will greatly expedite the work of
opening and closing pouches, as the same
time being as secure as the old method.
Miss Sadie Hart, the esteemed president
of the Young Ladies' Sodality at st. Domi-
MICS Church, has been presented with an
elegant gold watch by Rev. j. Murphy, V.
G., in the name of the young ladies.
Col. Albert Tracy, U. S. A., is visiting the
city at No. go Congress street. In 1852 he
became adjutant general of the State of
Maine and in that capacity organized the
Maine militia from the "old militia's that ex-
listed in those days.
Mr.. e. ii. Smiley, Colby 10, for six years
classical teacher of the Springfield High
school and previous to that time principal of
the Waterville High school, has been ap-
pointed assistant principal of the Hartford,
Conn, High school.
The Rev. Francis G. Peabody in his yacht
Gwendolyn, has arrived at..Bar Harbor, and
will occupy the Unitarian pulpit there.
Among others who will occupy the pulpit
during the season are the Rev. G. G. Everett,
Rev. Charles Eliot. Rev. John Graham
Brooks. and Rev. Edward Everett Hale.
Mr.. S. e. Whitaker, the clerk of the Maine
Chautauqua Assembly, left the city yester-
Gay Tor Martha's Grove. Freburg, to remain
until the close of the season. The Grove
House VIII be ready for guests July Oath.
Write Mr.. Whitaker for programme Of the
Assembly. rates of board, etc, at Fryeburg.