The Portland daily press., 1891-05-02
PERSONAL.

Hon. Samuel W. Matthews, Labor Com
missioner. was in the city Thursday.
EMr. Jeffers has been ordered to the cutter
Woodbury., to take the place of Chief En-
gineer Robinson.
Mr.. John S. Morris, who has been absent
from Portland for some time past, was in the
city yesterday.
Rev. T. j. Lewis, of Southwest Harbor,
has accepted the call to the Congregational
church at East AndOver, N. FL.
DR.. G. K. Webster left yesterday noon for
Washington. where he will attend the meet
ing of the Medical Association.
Mr.. Arthur Lewis, the leading man Of the
Tilbury company, was initiated into Port
land Lodge of Elks yesterday.
Mr.. LeBarron Thompson, Ipurser of the
steamer State of Maine. has handsomely
mounted specimen of mountain lioness.
which he shot last winter.
Rev. A. w. G. Anderson, of Calais, has
been engaged by /. G. Campbell Post to de-
liver the Memorial Day Grafton at Penn
broke.
Civil Engineer Stephenson writes from Sc
attic, Washington, that it Is a fne city, and
he has associated with e. G.. Anderson, civil
engineer and general surveyor.
Mr.. John Sawyer, who manages the town
farm at Westbrook this year, has managed
this same farm for the town for fifteen sue
cessive years.
Mr.. Philip Wilson, station agent at East
Newport, has resigned his position. Mr..
Wilson has been agent for the Maine Central
railroad for IS years,
Henry F. Curtis, Jr., of Kennebunk, who
graduated at Harvard Medical School last
June, is now acting as house physician at
the Carney Hospital. South Boston.
Ex-senator Palmer. director general of the
worlds fair, is again with his party at the
Ormond-on-the-H Halifax, ard will purchase
winter home there, being delighted with the
place.
At the organization of the Harvard Medi-
cal Graduates Association. organized In Bos-
ton Thursday. DR.. w. P. Giddings of
Gardiner and DR.. J. o. Webster of Augusta
were elected vice presidents.
Mr.. s. b. Day is seriously i'll. He worked
very hard at City Hall Thursday night. pre-
pairing for the May Day Carnival. got heated
and drank much ice water. He was taken
violently Ill in the night.
Charles e. Meservey, Esq, formerly of
Rockland, who has conducted the Daily
Transcript of Birmingham, Conn.,, for the
past year, has sold out his interest in that
paper. and retired from journalism for the
present.
Captain A. G. Hunt has received a tempo
rary appointment for the space of thirty
days as deputy collector of customs and in
spector at Rockland, to take the place of Mr..
w. w. Ulmer. who is disabled by illness
from the discharge of his duties. Mr.. u
mer is recovering.
Among the excellent appointments by
Governor BuIleigh to the state commission
for the worlds fair is that Of Mrs. Charles
Bellows of Freedom, who was very strongly
supported and warmly recommended by
Waldo county people. She is prominent
member of the Order of Patrons of Hus-
bandry, and for some years successfully off,
ciated as secretary of Waldo Pomona grange.
Nine contestants for the West Point cadet
ship In Congressman Boutelle's district were
examined Thursday. They were Bertrand
j. Clergue, Fred G. SWEET, Frank A. Bourne,
William G. Hammatt, James o. B. Mullanay,
of Bangor, Frank E. Weymouth, of Bradford
Centre, William Randall of Calais, Thos N.
Doherty, of Houlton, and Harry Curtis, of
Pressure Isle.- The result has not been an
nouncpd