Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1905-08-07
Personal Notes.

Prof Cleveland Able, editor of the
Monthly weather Review. is now the
dean of the United States Weather
Bureaus scientific crops.
Miss Minnie Baldwin, of Wister, !.
T., is president Of a bank in that city.
She also manages the institution,
which has capitalization of $4,000.
Miss Edna Dickerson, Chicago
court reporter, has come into undisput-
| ed possession of a fortune of s., 600, O0O
beUueathed to her by a second cousin
| whom she had rarely seen.
Miss Maggie J. Waltz. of Calumet
Mich, is editing the only Finnish pub
LEGATION for Women in this country. She
is greatly interested in benefiting the
condition Of the women in the United
States.
An appraisal Of the estate of the late
Meyer Guggenhcim, who organized the
American Smelling and Refining Com
pany, shows that he left in the State of
New York alone property to the value
Of s2,256,2s0.
The daily menu of the Emperor of
Japan is strictly Japanese. His break
fast consists of plain soup and a few
other dishes. His dinner. however. iS
very elaborate one, rarely being
less than twenty courses.
Charles P. Taft, brother of Secretary
of War Taft, is great admirer Of
baseball and it is reported that he is
| back of the rumored purchase by Gin
cinnati capitalists of the Chicago
National League Baseball Club.
Sarah Bcrnhardt's Paris home is an
| exemplification of all that is extrava-
giant. Her boudoir is hung i'm purple
| embroidered with the golden flower Of
France the ceiling is frescoed and the
windows are draped with wonderful
peacock plumes.
The birthplace of Benjamin Harrison.
| enc of the signers of the Declaration Of
Independence, has just been sold to J.
w. Willis, of Newport News. 1t was
in this house that William Henry Far-
| risOn, the President Of the United
| States was born.
DIR. Joachim, probably the most ia
| nous of living vioIinists, who recently
celebrated his seventy-fourth BIRTH
day, is in very feeble health. Dr.
Joachim has been requested by his
| friends to write his memoirs, but he
persistently refuses to do so.
Miss Evelyn walsh the only Gaugh-
ter of Thomas +. Walsh, the Colorado
mining king. is the owner of an $1S,-
600 automobile. and is intensely proud
| of her ability as a chauffeuse. She is
creating quite a sensation at Newport
where the Washes are this summer
DR.. Washington GLADDEN., who has
been so vigorously protesting against
churches accepting what is termed
tainted money" and John D. Rookie
Teller were country boys together, at
tended adjOiEing district schools and
frequently met in rival spelling bees.
Prof. n. A. Cobb, of Spencer Mass
who was formerly in the employment
of the Australian Government in New
South Wales. is on his way to the Ha-
| waiian Islands, where he goes in be-
| half of the United States Government
to instruct the natives in scientific
farming.
Congressman Frank L. Dickson, Of
| the Twenty-third Illinois District, is so
extremely youthful in appearance that
| on recent railroad journey the con-
ductor of the train refused to honor
| Mr.. Dickson's annual pass until con-
| WINGED by a mutual friend of the Con-
gresham that he was really old
! enough to be in the House.
The Wesleyan Methodist church in
England, has lost one of it's most dis
tinguished ministers by the death of
Rev. Ebenezer jenkins at the age of S..
He Joined the ministry in 1S45 and i'm
| mediately was sent out to India. where
for nineteen years he labOreG rs n mis-
sionary. DR.. Jenkins was well known
in this country.