Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1893-05-29
Personals.

Ii. L. Bovditch went to Boston SIT
urday.
W. F. Daggett of Fairfield was in town
Saturday.
Hon. A. NJ. Spear of Gardiner was in
Augusta Saturday.
DIR. II. b. Bryant went to Pittsfeld Sat
urday and will return Monday.
Col. Elias X. Miliken and Mr.. Oscar
Holway were in Bangor Friday.
Mr.. Arthur J. Smith of the Savannah,
Georgia, Morning News will spend his va
cation in Augusta.
Mrs. George J. Ingalls, of Machias, who
has been visiting her niece, Mrs. +. l..
Pond, has returned home.
Mr.. aud Mrs. r. f. Goodwin and Miss
Clara Goodwin went to Bath, Saturday
afternoon, to visit relatives.
Mr. l.. l.. Allen of Monmouth was in the
city Saturday, the guest of his son, Daniel
l.. Allen of the Journal force.
Mrs. Henry w. Bradbury and Miss
Gregorie returned, Saturday afternoon,
from an extended trip in the South.
+, A. Hendee spent Sunday with his wife
and little boy, who are visiting Mrs. Hen
dees grandfather, C. W. Abbott, at Vassal-
boro.
Charles S. Fletcher, clerk in the commits
sioner of insurance's Office, at the State
House, spent Sunday with relatives at
Starks.
]. +. Young went to Boston Sunday to
purchase a stock for the new drug store he
will open on the East Side early next
month.
Judge and Mrs. George =. Dntton of
Ellsworth and Miss Louise button arrived
Saturday and will spend few days in town.
They are staying at Mrs. Myrck's.
J. f. Derbyshire Of Lowell, Mass, re-
turned home on the Yankee Saturday. Mr..
Derbyshire has been here aiding J. NJ.
Mixer in moving into his new store.
Rev. J. S. Williamson went to Bruins
wick on the Yankee, Saturday, to deliver
an address in the Bowdoin college chapel,
Sunday evening, before the students.
II. w. Stnson, formerly messenger on
the American Express Co.'S line between
Boston and Augusta, is now Boston agent
for Porter's Express at No 2 Court street
in that city.
Letters have been received from Mr.. and
Mrs l.. C. Cornish, written just after tlnir
arrival in Glasgow. Both stood the voyage
very WE'LL and Mr.. Cornish is much better
and improving daily.
G. d. Nearpsss of New York. United
States pension examiner, has been assigned
to this district and will take up his resi-
dence with his family in this city. He was
stationed in Portland in 1889 and won many
friends.
Mr.. L. F. Smith formerly of the jour
NAL job department, now foreman of of the
Rumford Falls Publishing Company was in
the city Saturday. Mr.. Smith is in every
respect a first class printer and we preaici
a successful future for him.
Factory Inspector r. F. Chalk returned
Saturday afternoon from a tonr of inspec-
ton through Piscataquis county. He found
no cases of violation of the Law. Among
other places he visited, were Willimantlc,
Guilford, Monson and Dexter.
Sergt. Samuel Robinson of Co. A. of
the 3rd Latin SCHOOL, battalion, Boston
school regiment, son of d. c. Robinson,
Esq, formerly of this city, won second
honors in both the drills in the manual ami
in Mechanics hall. Boston, last Friday,
receiving two handsome medals. Forty
boys competed in each drill before board
of judges. 1t is an unusual honor for
boy to win a place in both drills, the two
first prize medals going to different fellows.
The sergeant is brother of Col.
Thomas Lambard Robinson, who commands
the regiment, and is in the second class at
the school.
Col. F. C. Thayer of Waterville, the
popular and efficient surgeon-geDeral on
Governor Cleaves' staff, passed through the
city Sunday on bis way home from Chi
cago. To representative of the Journal
he expressed himself as much pleased with
bis trip and with the exercises attending the
dedication of the Maine building. He says
that one can hardly get glimpse of the
great Exposition within two or three days