The Portland daily press., 1891-04-13
PERSO NAL.

Senator Frye mas returned nome.
Rev. DIR. Warren of the Christian Mirror,
is quite i'll.
Mr.. A. w. Cobb will take up his residence
In Boston this week.
Mr.. w. Fl. Anderson and family will make
| trip to Washington.
The Kit Kat Club of Gardiner, visited Miss
Lizzie MoAcy. Saturday.
Mrs. and Miss Francis of New York, are
visiting Mr.. and Mrs. Bellows.
Mr.. j. @. Twitchell and family have re-
| turned from their European trip.
Mr.. w. w. Kemp of the Canadian Express
presented Mrs. Eliza Deloy beautiful lamp.
Mr.. w. 81. Hobbs, Of the National Traders
Bank has gone on trip to New Orleans and
| California.
Today is the S0th anniversary of the vet
| eran insurance man, John E. Dow. He is
| hale and hearty as ever.
F. A. Shaw, the sculptor, and Hartley G.
Baxter of Brunswick. were recorded at the
Falmouth hotel Saturday.
Miss Sadie E. earle won the set of the
Encyclopedia Britannica offered by the
Figaro, receiving 2SO1 votes.
Lieut.. @. l.. F. Howe, the noted temper
ance worker and orator, is very i'll in Canton
and it Is feared that he will live but short
time.
Mr.. McKinnon, of the Bangor Theological
Seminary, has been secured by the Banch-
ard people to preach in the Congregational
church there during the summer.
Mr.. WOodman Bradbury, formerly of Ban
gor, who graduated from Colby and is now
completing four years course at Newton
Theological Seminary, is candidate for
pastor of the Belfast Baptist church.
Capt. Ira Farnsworth, first pilot on the
steamer Katahdin last year. is now in Bos.
ton. and will takethat position on the steam
or Lewiston this season. His place on the
Katahdin is filled by Captain Whitney, of
Hampden.
The Biddeford Journal reports that one
night last week, Mr.. VIM. Brady, drummer
for the Twitchell-C hamplin Company, while
attempting to board moving train at Dover
slipped and fell under the car. Fortunately
he fell outside the rails and the train passed
on without mi airing him, but it was close
call.
AT one time during the war President Lin
| coin reviewed the army and made his visit
an occasion to shake hands with and speak
pleasant word to many of the soldiers. With
others. says the Ellsworth American, he
kindly greeted Joshua Jellison, of Ellsworth,
who is taller than was Mr. Lincoln. As the
President took his hand he said in his hui
morous way: Il have shaken hands with
hundreds today. but you are the first man l
have seen that could look up to!''
Miss Elizabeth U. Yates, the young and
accomplished orator, has just closed a sue
cessful engagement of two months with the
Equal Suffrage Association Of Rhode Island
Miss Yates's eloquence united with clear
forciblecompact facts, has won the hearts
OF all. reception was given her be-
fore she left the state at Blackstone hall
The association are very DESTROYS to secure
her services next season. She goes to Yer
mont for an extended tour under the aus
pices of the W. G. T. U.
At Providence, Or. L. ON Friday evening
was given the first part of a big two-part
benefit to Prof. j. c. bolt, the Y. M. G. A
Gymnasium professor. Prof. Doldt. for
eight years past with the Providence Y. M.
G. A.. is now disabled by paralytic stroke,
and, though partial recovery has set in, there
Is no hope that he will return to the associa-
ton work. He has resigned in fact, and up
on the knowledge of his resignation some of
his friends decided to give him benefit The
Providence Journal says that he has been
popular. and the Y. M. G.. A. Gymnasium
patrons who have been under his instruction
are, of course, numerous. His friends de-
cided to give him not only benefit but big
benefit, measuring their friendliness for him
by the size of their benefit.
TIE appointment by the Governor of Gen.
Charles P. Mattocks of Portland as Worlds
Fair Commissioner from the First Maine
Congressional District Is an excellent one.
The General possesses very superior qualif-
cations for this responsible position and his
appointment meets with universal approba-
ton throughout Maine.-Industrial journal.
A little more than year ago Miss Sara E.
Stanley of Portland Me-, announced to
few friends that she was going to try an ex-
pertinent. The experiment" now a sue
cessful fact, was to give sufficient instruction
In dressmaking to enable ladies to cut and
make their own dresses without assistance.
For aboutsthe price of the making of one
dress, Miss Stanley drafts perfectly fitting
pattern, and the pupil will make one or two
dresses for herself In term. This season
large classes In Boston, Lawrence and Port.
land. Me-, receive weekly instruction from
Miss Stanley Woman's Journal.