The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1891-07-24
PERSONAL.

~~A' Ss'o~SS SNNbSB VA L Oisiohus lao DCCu dt
the West End, Bar Harbor. this week.
The Misses Eastman of Woodfords are
spending few weeks in Strong with Mrs.
Edwards.
Mr.. and Mrs. o. M. Shaw. of the West
End, at Bar Harbor, are entertaining Mr..
and Mrs. l.. d. NJ. Sweat.
Miss Dodge Gail HamiltoD) is spending a
few days with Mr.. and Mrs. j. FL. Manley at
their cottage in Cliffstone.
CMr and Mrs. B. 81. Kinds. Miss Kinds
and Miss Edith Kinds are at tho Ottawa
House, Cushing's Island.
MIR. Edward l.. Whitehouse, of Augusta,
of the State Department. Washington, d c.,
Is expected home for the vacation early next
month.
Prof. and Mrs. A. b. Allen of WestbrOok
Seminary, will remain at Wilton, for about
two weeks at Mrs. Aliens fathers, 81. ID.
Marble, ESQ.
Bishop Alexander Burgess, formerly of
this diocese, and now of the diocese Of
Quincy, has received the degree of LII. d.
from Griswold College.
At the last meeting of the school board In
Pennington Miss Carrie M. Elder of Oak
dale, graduate Of Westbrook Seminary,
was elected assistant In the high school.
DIR. Chauncey Adams, who graduated from
the Maine Medical School last commence
ment, has been selected as an assistant In
the Marine Hospital service In New York
city.
Mr.. j. w. Chadwick, of Maiden, Mass,
master In the Boston Latin School. is visit
ing in Augusta Mr.. Chadwick was born in
China, Me-, and graduated from Bowdoin in
'62.
Yesterday morning Hon. George G. Yeat-
on, Hampden Fairfield, Hon. Fl. 81. Bur-
bank and Judge R. P. Tapley of the York
county bar. were In the court room attending
the Law Court
Miss Frances Willard spoke in Bar Har-
Dor on Wednesday evening. She and her
private secretary, Miss Gordon. arrived In
Portland last evening and are the guests of
Mrs. L. M. N. Stevens.
Mr.. Frank Leslie Crowell has resigned his
position as pianist at the Hotel Sorrento,
and Miss Alice PhilbIook of Portland, who
has been giving concerts at the hotel. will
now act in his place.
Mr. Reuben L. llsley, of Bangor. gradu-
ate Of Colby University, Glass of 81, has ac-
cepted the position of Assistant Principal Of
Kicker Classical Institute, Houlton, to
which he was recently chosen by the Board
of Trustees.
Assistant City Clerk j. T. Priest OF B0s
ton, was one of the Abraham Lincoln Post
who visited Portland, together with Coun-
Gilman H. W. Woodbury. and Captain Mich
ael Walsh, assistant inspector of public
buildings.
Miss Carrie Shillaber of Chelsea, Mass,
is In Belfast, the guest of Mrs. Albert Gam.
mons. Miss Shillaber Is the daughter Of the
late Benjamin P. Shillaber (Mrs. Parting
toni. She is full of "reminiscences OF her dis
tinguished father. 49,,
Rev. Ernest @. Smith, formerly Of Angus
ia now Of Denver, Colorado, is visiting in
Maine. Mr.. Smith graduated at Bowdoin
college in 1884, and was stationed at Seattle
for more than two years. For the past six
months he has been in Denver. He will re-
main in the State for several weeks.
Captain John Hamilton Brown Is revisit
ing his old home at Liberty. CAPTAIN
Brown is the inventor of the segmental wire
wound gun that bears his name, and for the
trial of which Congress has appropriated
$4,000. His home and shops are at Green
vile, N. j. Captain Brown made the best
long range rifle shot with rifle made by
himself at Wimbledon, Eng, in 1883.
Rev. T. A. Merrill, former citizen of In
dustry, attended church there last Sunday,
after an absence of 40 years. In the congre-
CATION Of 70 he found six men whom he had
known as boys with himself in early life,
five of whom were present in the same house
Of worship when he joined the church,
March %, 1841, under the ministry of Rev.
John Perham, then pastor of the church in
Industry.
Prof. Charles K. Adams. of Bangor, and
Prof Frank N Whittier of Bowdoin College
have been tramping through England. A
short time ago they walked from London a
distance of 100 miles, making a circuit of
places of interest from historical associations
or otherwise. The journey was accom-.
plished In eight days, they making twenty
miles day on an average. They will return
In September, and Prof. Adams will at once
leave for the West to take his position as
instructor in physical culture at the Univer.
sity of Michigan, at Ann Arbor.