The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1891-05-16
PERSONAL.

Justin 5. Leavitt, register of deeds Of
York county, was in the city yesterday.
Paymaster I. P. Shaw of the Maine Gen.
trail has returned home from his California
trip.
Rev. A. F. Palmer of Kennebunk has been
engaged to deliver the Memorial Day ad-
dress at East Cofinth, Me.
Rev. ID. S. Whitman, secretary and state
agent of the Maine Universalist convention,
Is now located at Bowdoinham.
Mr.. Lincoln M. Burnham, conductor ON
the Bridgton & Sebago railroad, and Miss
Mabel L. Foster were married last Saturday.
Mrs. Maud Howe Elliott, daughter of Mrs.
Julia Ward Howe. and sister of Mrs. Henry
Richards OF Gardiner, is to lecture in Gardi-
ner next Thursday.
r. W. Haines Of the Hotel Coburn, Show
hegan, is in attendance upon the National
Hotel Mems convention In session at Cleye-
land. Ohio, this week.
Mr.. A. G. Dresser, first assistant teacher
at the Rockland high school, Is i'll, and his
place is temporarily supplied by Mr.. A. w.
Meserve of Naples.
Professor Henry l.. Chapman of Bowdoin
College, has accepted an invitation to deliver
sAS oNNAOoo oOAVAO tuO SduBUl 1u6UlURtCdt
Seminary Rhetorical Society on the evening
of June End.
Mr.. John B. Stevens, formerly of Eastport,
who filled the Office of deputy collector of
customs at Vanceboro for long time pre-
vlous to the Cleveland administration, has
again been appointed to the place.
John r. Boardman, Maine State College,
'SS, has been elected POSTMASTER at the re-
union banquet of Beta Eta Chapter of Beta
Theta Pi, to occur at the Chapter House,
Maine State College. Orono, June 22nd.
Elder l. c. Welcome of Yarmouth will
preach at the Union Mission, South Port
land, Sunday morning at 1880 and in the
evening at 730. He Is a preacher of more
than 30 years experience and great student
of the Bible.
George w. Hanson, Esq of Sanford, who
has been in Sioux Falls for few years. has
returned to Sanford since the death of his
father, Hon. B. F. Hanson, and will manage
the estate and keep the home for his mother
in her declining years.
Colonel Stanley Plummer, postmaster of
the United States Senate, returned home to
Sk0whegan Tuesday afternoon and the next
day drove across the country to Dexter. Mr..
Plummer will remain In Maine the greater
part of the summer.
First Lieutenant d. A. Hall has been de-
tached from the cutter Woodbury., and Sec
ond Lieutenant G. G. Fengar has been as
signed to duty on the same vessel Second
Assistant Engineer James 1. Brereton of the
cutter Woodbury., has, been ordered to duty
n N tha Paaifin N M
Munroe has been ordered to the Woodbury..
Ex-Governor Burleigh and his son Clarence
were driving in Farmingdale one day this
week when the horse became frightened at
the cars. Mr.. Clarence Burleigh attempted
to hold the animal by the bits and the Gov
ernor also left the carriage. The horse
reared and broke away, running as far as
Hallowell. where he was stopped. No dam
age was done.
Waldoboro's veteran sparmaker is James
A. Simpson. aged p years, who has been
making spars for A years. He is now at
work on his 227th set of spars for the new
schooner building at Waldoboro. He has
made spars in Bath, Bowdoinham, Damaris-
Gotta, Newcastle, Rockland. Rockport. Cam
den, Thomaston, South Thomaston, War
Iohs riionuohip, hounu roma ana waldo
boro.
Colonel A. S. Bangs, who has been ap-
pointed chairman of the local registration
board in Augusta, is the grand chief templar
of the Good Templars in Maine. He went
to the front in 1861 in the Third Maine Regi-
ment, re-enlisted in the Fourth Maine Bat
terry, and served with it until disabled by
wounds in 1868 He Is prominent business
man Of Augusta, and for some time was vice
president of the Augusta Board of Trade.
Although he has never given much atten-
tion to politics he has served as delegate to
several Republican conventions.
III. ID. Bates and mother went to Rhode
Island to be present at the marriage ceremO :
ny of S. w. Bates, who was welded to a
young lady OF that state ON Tuesday, May
12.-LWaterville Sentinel.