Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1900-08-10
AUGUSTA MACHINE WORKS.

Manufacture of Hardware Novelties
ami Machinery Jobbng, George E.
CIV. proprietor 361 Water street. All
over the country may be found users
of Mr. Gays screw drivers and other
h. Llvare novelties and many of these
are Of Mr.. Gays own invention anu ne
prrfrcts the ideas of others who have
similar novelties in the Srough. For
twenty-five years Mr.. Cry has manu-
featured a-4achet screw driver, Nm
questionablY the best Of its kind on the
martet. which is simple ard effective,
durable anle.aasly h"rdfed. He has
lust perfected another, with analogous
points, which, while not dispacing the
Criinal design. does the work equally
as we'll Mr.. Gay was associated win
eJolln H. Parsons twenty years. and
they have always made these novel;.
ties Since NJ. Parsons death Mr..
Gay has been alone IL the business
and he began a quarter of a century
ago. He makes "A novelty ard sells II i
to the hardware trade and IS = 81 4
consta n;ly on new ones to req
accompany thu The shop is
with all SORT ng MI he oreign ofiis
k latha4 r the 'u ~ ne ora fsSas
tools and biHe 81 secretary of The .,e. he
chimes a"e oyh t Pekin): Shanghai. ,Aul
snop and Eb ge eisp,n names III =. au N
and empief.r,e..s SO p'e'lio 'e'''''''s = -
Mr.. Cay isr .gn office has also received frol
h,s han bfan minister at Pekin dispatc
i'S peei with that received. yesterda.
THE oss,ar fereig Pek oflice from pien q
<attempts made by the Oh
FLOUR. Grain, Feee foreign ministers a.
and Grass Seed, OscafS escort y ne
dent, George p. Martin, trH
car Holway, Frank T.. 1obeN. Official r,
P Marlin, Charles 0. HolH ny al Russia
vim $. Holway, directors. Capital stu,s
25,00C. This ,rporaticn was organ an
lied July s. 1900. as successor to Oscar ,
Holway ). Co.. a firm /, has carried &
on this lolesale business. In this city
and Auburn foe nearly twenty years
Melvin s. Holway is the new accession
!. T. the business, 2. !, is a son of Os, Z
Holwsy who establishe the bushes;
here aror' fort. years 80 He hs"
had sto.e In Aururr az at tvtent.
five years and has mad HAT the mali
place e business for near.y' az tia,
time on account Of b,'."r ~ Iroa,
facilities and because 1t g a 1etse.
shipping point. He has tie larsesr
wholesale house .iii IS lie in Maine /.
and has SOD tho.sa. W. .,nd 7irloads OF
son15r -.lnilately 2lO1 miles in Length. z
y News has been received at Boston fro,
Isl greensboro. Ala. that In anticipation {
he the return from the Orient of Iieu
e. Richmond T. Hobson of Merfimac fam,
81 his friends are arranging a reception On
- presentation at his home in Greensbbr,
SO. 70 take place probably early in Septdn
Der: The testimonial to Mr.. Hobson hi
n be IN the form of IN elaborate silver shi
vice. .s
~ The Pepper stakes for.2-year -ol5s, valid
We 70 the wilmer $35D0 to the Second $40
he 20 the third $500 5ls furlongs was tn
As features Of the races at SaraIosa. NY
~ Friday. Charles FIeischmanns 3-year-oi
ne B1nnibert won in drive by. half
re length over Alard Scheck while The Pa
IN 4 raider, the 10 10 favorite, was third
~: y. Ielp. Colchester. Tuscarora an
Ffincess Pepper also ran.
n ,Wm. Odell. a farmer, Elizabeth Odel
e. VINO IS slid tobe his wife, and Della Col
n son young girl who has been livin
= y WITH rem. are under arrest at Whiting
ef nam VI. on complaint sworn out Is
be STATE attorney Fl. G.. Barber OF Rratt 6
~ boro. charging them with the murder o
O. February. and the OdeIis and the gil
,e lived with him In July. soon after draw
70 lng MS pension, when Risley had $40 h
+ disappeared The Odells told conflict n,
n thefl fence had been nailed across tbs
er [ns,d eteading TO their home and they wer,
! licked in the house.
er Mysterious Billy" Smith. who was
ID. nave gone 10 rounds with young Peter
Jackson before the Cadillac A. G. at De.
IF t.rialze and the colored man had IN,
isiA-round bouts with local BOXERS jack
s5n lost to Tom McCune and knocked ou
'g for the end OF the sixth round. "