Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1896-05-21

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NEW ADVERTISEMENTS TODAY.
e. G. a. Cigar.
Wanted-Horse.
70 iet-Tenement.
Goodyear Shoe Co.
See Nason's new ad.
See q. -. Haskells adj
JAS f.. tuller-Frnit etc.
Haskell Bros.-l.adies' shoes.
Wanted-AdvertIsing Manager.
Partridge s--Choice flower seeds.
Hooper Son & Leighton-Dining chairs
Special announcements of the Blue
Store Clothing Co.
Local Matters.
l.. B. Hill went to Riverside. Wednes-
day.
Freeman Smith OF East Mt. Vernon
was in Augusta, Wednesday.
Mrs. f. j. McGaffey of Mt. Vernon.
was in Augusta, Wednesday
There was a heavy frost, Tuesday
night, but no damage was reported
a glorious day. Wednesday, and what
a hole that ball team made, when it left
us.
Mrs. Josiah Bartlett of Concord. n.
H., is the guest of Mr. and Mrs. ]. W.
Beck.
People want to know why under the
sun that Ounce cap is not taken from
our fountain
William s. Baldwin, the bee hive
roofer, went to Boston. Wednesday
morning. on business.
Mrs. Sarah Burns left Oh the morn
ing train. Wednesday, for Boston.
where she will make an extended visit
Robert NJ Pierce and c. w. Morrill,
went to Portland. Wednesday. to at
tend the meeting of the Grand Lodge,
knights of Pythias. held there.
Mrs. D. b. Miller has returned to her
home on Gage street, after having
made her residence for several months
with L y laughter in New Jersey.
Mrs. f. g. Esmond returned, Wednes-
day, to her home in Brooklyn, n. y.
after a two weeks visit with Miss
Helena Nase and Miss Theodore Jack
son. She was accompanied by Miss
Nase. who win make her visit in
Brooklyn.
". ]. Lanigan, sof log driving fame,
says that the push is expected from up
river in about two weeks. There has
already been very sizable number
corraIied at Five Mile island, but not
until there has been some $4,000 coll
lected there will the merry logs be let
loose.
Frank Best. carpenter. is making a
new coal run at the wharf. for E. Stone
X Co. Mr.. Best says his little lighter.
with the hosting engine aboard will do
a little more work here. when he will
take her down to Cuba with a load of
ammunition for that down trodden
people.
There will be today and continue
till Decoration day, a large sale Of
choice flower seeds and plants at Part
ridges Old Reliable drug store, opposite
postotice. Hydranseas. prize pansies.
verbcnas. petunias. geraniums and best
bedding plants in stock, and order for
everything in decorative plant line will
be filed quick at remarkably low
prices.
Mrs. Charles y. Price was struck on
the left shoulder. Wednesday noon. by
q base ball thrown by one of a crowd of
boys who were playing on the corner of
Chapel and Winthrop streets. Beyond
a bruise and shock. she was not in
iured. and considers herself very fortu-
nate. 1t is careless business, this pass
ing ball about the streets, and it ought
to be stopped before some one is badly
injured.
Charles X. Partridge's cat. Jack. who
has. perhaps. as many friends as any
cat in Augusta. will have to be chloro-
formed, for he is rapidly declining.
POOR old Jack. He sits about the drug
store. where for nine years he has been
a veritable monarch, detected and
heart broken. 1t is not his age, says
Mr.. Partridge. but his way of living
that has brought him to this condition.
and for this Mr.. Partridge feels re-
sponsible. For with the best of meats