Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1907-04-08
MAINE PEOPLE.

John 5. Williams. who has been nigh:
agent at the Union station in Portland
for some time past. has gone to DAM
Versport, Mass, where he has been ap-
pointed station agent for the Boston
and Maine. His place as night agent
has been taken by Clarence Trott, who
was formerly assistant day agent.
Miss Annie Z. Buck, who has been
superintendent of the Aroostook hospi-
tai in Houlton. since its opening a few
Years ago, has resigned her position.
Miss Buck has returned, to Bangor.
where she will take up private work
again. During her stay in Houlton.
Miss Buck made many social and
professional friends, who regret her de-
parture from town, but wish her much
merited success in her future work.
Frank d. Percy, of Parker's Head,
mas accepted a position as chief enei-
neer of TIE steamship Ocmulgee, which
has just been completed at the Fore
River Iron Works. Quincy, Mass. The
craft is one Of four ships built for the
y. Y. and Brunswick S SEQ, is finely
equipped with all modern improve
lnents and is about 5000 tons capacity.
Mr.. Percy has two brothers also
engineers. One Is chief engineer OF
Eugene Thompkin's palatial steam
yacht 1dalia, and the other on the City
of Macon of the Ocean Steamship Co,
of Savannah.
Roadmaster f. w. Sawtele of the
Maine Central. Eastern division, With
offices in Bangor, has accepted a SINH
lar position with the Missouri Pacific
railroad and leaves about the first Of
May TO assume his new duties. Mr..
Sawtcllc will occupy the same position
with the Missouri Pacific that he has
on the Maine Central. only he will have
a much larger territory to cover. The
diCtiOn embraces 5000 miles and his
headquarters will be i'll st. Louis. Mr.
Sawtelle is a recent graduate of the
University of Maine.
Conductor Charles Fl. Potter, of
the Bangor & Aroostook railroad
completed Monday, 90 years of rail
reading in Maine, having started OH
the Maine Central March Is, 1879,
when he had run betwecn
Bath ard Lewiston. When the
Maine Central acquired the Euro
pean and North American road Mr..
Potter was transferred to that divi-
sion as conductor of trains between
Bangor and Eanccboro. When the
Bangor and Aroostook was built, he
went with that road as conductor and
has been with it ever since. At the
present time he has a run between
Northern Maine Junction and Caii-
bOu.
Miss Helen Scarles Marsh, who has
been located in Portland for the past
few years is an artistic designer an!
magazine writer Of exceptional ability
Her career as an artist began as q
enid. when she showed an aptneSs
for drawing and painting, and used to
make sport at school by sketching
caricatures Of teachers and pupils.
At the age of ten years she did a few
mechanical drawings for the patent
Office at Washington. She was grad
uated from the Pennington State Nor
NAL School, and afterwards taught
successfully, using her talent 10 good
advantage. Many of her pupils de-
vei"ped taste for drawing and are
nov teachers OF drawings in public
schools. Before studying art. she hal
work accepted by numerous magazines
and papers. She was private pupil
OF Professor Bartlett. principal of the
Boston Normal Art College Miss
Marsh originated and executed the
design for the life certificate Of the
Fomological Society of Maine. which
was considered an excellent piece of
work. she does much original work.
including everything, from the comic
cartoon to the portrait. She also
writes stories and dialect verses, many
OF which have appeared in magazines
published in Maine, Massachusetts
heW York and Pennsylvania. She
makes 2 speciality of character
sketches for illustrations.