The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1892-11-17
PERSONAL.

Hon. Thomas B. Reed has returned
home.
Hon. S. D. Thurston is in a critical
condition.
Mr.. George Greedy of Bangor was in
Portland yesterday.
Hon. T.. G.. Downes of Calais was at
the Falmouth last evening.
Mr.. VIM. Ready of Lowell, Mass, is
visiting friends in this city.
MI. Charles E. Emerson, editor Of the
Sheepscot Echo, Wiscasset, was in the
city yesterday.
Rev. John Carroll Perkins will preach
the sermon at union service to be held
at the Second Parish church Thanks
giving.
They say that Alderman Tolman
wouldn't object to the surveyorship of
the port when Cleveland gets around to
the demands of the faithful.
Captain Haskell, Tuesday and yester-
day, ran on the Phantom in place of
Capt. Townshend, who is sick with a
cold.
Paderewski's rheumatism cost him not
only big sum for medical attendance, but
the loss of engagements that would have
brought him $4,000.
DR.. G. D. Smith, Dr.. G. W. Bray and a
party of friends are at Old Stream, near
Machias, this week, deer hunting.
Mr.. Otis Gilpatrici, the popular livery
stable man at Woodfords, has returned
from his visit to his old home and may
be seen at his place of business ready to
wait on his patrons as heretofore.
Miss Abbie S. Hooper, formerly of
Portland, now of Turner, designed a
wall paper bordering at Laseile Seminary
which was selected to represent the class
work at Chicago Her father was j. N.
Hooper Of Walter Corey &c Co.
Joseph Medill of the Chicago Tribune
has started with his wife for their winter
home at Altadena, near Los Angeles,
Cal. 1t is said that Mr.. Blaine has ao-
cepted an invitation to spend the white +
with them, and he may buy place in
the same neighborhood.
Pennington claims the honor of hav-
ing the two oldest Republican voters of
Maine in any one town-Father Jonathan
Scott Ellis, who is SO years and three
months; also Mr.. VIM. Mosher, who will
be 81 years old if he lives until next May.
Both voted for Harrison.
1t is something of singular coin
cidence that the United States collectors
of internal revenue at Ogden, Utah, and
at Lincoln, Nebraska, are both Maine
men, both from the town of Pennington
and both named Norton. The former is
Capt Frank Norton, and the latter
Edwin M. Norton.
Tisdale D. Clarlzson, a brother of J..
S. Clarkson, so well known as ''Father
Clarkson'' of Des Moines, Iowa, died at
Hamilton, Missouri, on Oct. 31st. He
was born in Dixmont in this state Nov.
80, 1915. Mr.. Clarkson went West with
his parents when he was six years old,
and on coming to manhood was for many
years engaged in the publishing bust
ness.
Professor E. P. Thwing, M. D., of
Brooklyn, who is now absent on two
years trip through the East, delivered
the address at the Columbian celebra-
ton at Yokohama, Japan, on October
21st, and he spoke also at the departure
of DR.. Hepburn, the eminent lexioo-
grapher and medical missionary, ex-
pressing the appreciation of American
scholars of his achievements in linguistic
and philanthropic lines of labor. DR..
Hepburn and his wife have taken up
their abode in Southern California.
Mr.. Elliott G. Mitchell, the well known
Portland journalist, has made many a
soul merry by his happy hits; happy
himself he tries to make others happy
He is now the advertising manager of
che Atkinson House Furnishing Com
pany, and is one of the Maine authors
whose productions go into and are read
in thousands of Maine households. He
knows just how to attract buyers of