The Portland daily press., 1892-11-18
PERSONAL.

Judge Enoch Foster of Bethel was in
the city yesterday.
Mr.. F. S. Walls of Vinalhaven was at
tho Preble last evening.
Mr.. II. W. Kicker, of Poland Springs,
was in the city yesterday.
Mr.. Alfred Bliss, organist at Bowdoin
College, is under the instruction of Mr..
Kotzschmar.
Captain Horatio Hall, of the Maine
Steamship Company, is in town for
few days.
Mr.. Daniel J. Carr, city liquor agent,
who has been sick at home the past two
weeks, is convalescent
Mr.. George R. Shaw, of the firm of
Shaw, Son 6 Lothrop, it is said, is can
didate for assistant postmaster.
DR.. Seth G. Gordon expects to attend
the inauguration ceremonies in Washing
ton on the fourth day of next March.
Mr.. Hartley Baxter and Colonel George
L. Thompson of Brunswick are enjoying
fishing and cunning visit in Hartland.
Colonel F. E. Boothby and Mrs. Booth
by, of the Maine Central, attended the
conductors ball at Lewiston last eve
ming.
Three governors-elect of western states
are natives of New England. Of these
Abraham W. Smith of Kansas and Ros-
well K. Colcord were born in Maine.
Mr.. John Collins Emmons, of Boston,
publisher of the Kennebunk Wave, is at
the United States Hotel. His signature
lis one of the curiosities of the register of
every hotel where he stops.
Secretary McKeen, of the State Board
of Agriculture, and DR.. G.. M. Twitchell,
clerk to the secretary, are attending the
National Grange meeting at Concord,
N. H.
Mr.. Harry e. Duncan, formerly organ
list of the Congress square church, and
now organist of the Grace church,
Brooklyn Heights, is to give series of
organ recitals in New York in December.
Mr.. G. A. Palmer, of the well known
banking and publishing house of Palmer
Brothers, London and New York, came
from Boston yesterday, and was at the
Falmouth. He is one of the champion
wing shots of the country.
A bust of the late DIR. Isaac Lincoln,
who was for over sixty years member
of the board of overseers of Bowdoin
College, was recently presented to the Ii
brary by his grandson, @. S. F. Lincoln,
who was graduated in the class of 81.
DR.. F. A. Bickford, graduate of Bow
doin College, class of IA, and the New
York College of Physicians and Sur
geons, who has been surgeon in the
United States army during the past ten
years, has located in Oldtown to pursue
his practice.
1t is understood that Richard Webb,
ESQ.,, will be appointed assistant county
attorney by Mr.. True, when he takes Of
flee January LIST. Mr.. Webb is one of the
most promising young lawyers in Cum
berland county, native of this city, ed
ucated at Bowdoin and Dartmouth, and
thoroughly equipped for the work.
Rev. DR.. ]. R. Day of New York, for
merly pastor of the Chestnut street
Methodist church in this city, is now the
owner of one of the finest farms in New
York State, at Monmouth, containing
300 acres. He has just purchased 1000
apple trees of Waterville nursery firm,
which will be set out in 2S-acre field
next spring.
DR.. Francis E. Clark, president of the
United Society of Christian Endeavor, is
in Japan, for month. The latest sta
tistics of Christian Endeavor growth
in Australia, shows: Victoria, 200 So
cieties, 5000 members; South Australia,
| So societies, 1850 members; New South
Wales, isl societies, 1850 members;
Queensland, 10 societies; New Zealand
10; Tasmania 10.