Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1907-09-24
SPARKS FROM MAINE WIRES.

On account OF i'll health, the Rev. J.
A. Nichols has resigned the pastorate
of the Christian Adventist church at
Bridgton.
George Thompson died in the Maine
General hospital Friday night from
injuries received a few days ago while
unloading old iron in the Maine Central
car shops.
Thomas Fitzgerald, who was taken
to Portland from Baltimore to answer
to a charge of forging check, pleaded
guilty in the superior court Saturday.
Sentence was suspended and the case
put in charge Of the probation officer.
Shortly after the big barge, built for
the New York, Ontario & Western
Railroad Co, was launched from the
yard Of the Kelley, Spear & Co. at
Bath Saturday noon. The craft is of
745 gross tons and measures $50 feet
long, 80 feet beam and II feet deep.
She is ready for delivery.
Judge II. T.. Coolidge Of Lisbon Falls,
who is pirate counsel for Elijah Frank
w. Sanford. as well as counsel for Tine
Kingdom" denies the report that he is
going to san Francisco to look up titles
to property which, it is alleged, a girl AT
Shiloh owns. The young woman, howev-
or, is very anxious to obtain control of
the property in order that she may turn
it over to Sanford
New; of the death in Winfield, Kan,
of Samuel c. Smith, Il native Of AL
fred. was received Saturday at AL
fred. lie was s. years old. lie served
in the Civil War. first as cOmmissary
%cant and aftcrward as 20 lieuten-
of Co. /, 1St Maine Cavalry. He was
gagged many years in the dry goods
business in Portland as n member of
the firm of Pray & Smith. He served
as mayer of Winfield, Kan.
1t was announced Saturday that II. D.
Hastings, graduate of the Massachu-
sets Institute of Technology, had been
appointed to a professorship at Bowdoin
Mr.. Hastings will teach mechanical draw
ing, descriptive geometry and surveying
lie will occupy the chair esta bllehcd at
the last meeting of the board of trustees
The course, which promises to be very
popular, is to better prepare students for
civil engineering.
A resolution adopted by the State
Board Of Trade that the Legislation be
asked to pass a law making it COM
pulsory for cities and towns to have
uniformity Of hydrants and hose
couplings SO that when firemen 60 to
assist in another town they may be
of service, was made public Saturday
1t was voted to send a copy of it to
the National Board of Fire Insurance
Underwriters, hoping that by unison of
action a federal law will be enacted
whereby all cities in the country shall
use MIGRANTS and couplings Of uniform
size
Three members OF the Portland High
school graduating class of six years
ago will be married on the same day.
Oct. 2 They are Lester NJ Hart, news
editor of the Portland Advertiser; Nor
man w. Blake, a clerk in the Portland
Gas Light Co: and Miss Helen Dyer.
daughter Of Mr.. and Mrs. Herber S.
Dyer. Mr.. Hart will mary Miss Marion
Il daughter of Capt. Ell
bridge Matthews; Mr.. Blake's affianced
is Miss Edith Lefavor of Portland and
Miss Dyer will become the bride Of
Walter L. Smart. a clerk at the Port
land Trust Co. The selection of the
same date for these three weddings
was purely a coincidence, no one
couple having been aware of the 9TH
cr'S plans.
Nine Maine bankruptcy cases COM
rriscd the entries in the district court
at Portland last week the petitions
being; adjudicated Saturday by Judge
Hale: German n. Philbrick, lumber
of Byron. owes $3.50 and
has assets amounting to s119 Lcyndcn
+. Scott. grocer. Lincoln. owes S1191.
assets S42S: Thomas Sheehan, mer-
chant. Bucksport. owes 1881, assets
S25S Samuel Dedikcr. farmer Prentice,
owes S63. assets s495: Horace Boyng-
ton, farmer. Prentice, owes $3.50. assets
49,; Fred w. Lowe. farmer. Prentice.
owes $500, assets sos; Edgar A. Hall.
painter. Mechanic Falls. owes 1901, as
sets So: William Q. S. Page. Bangor,
owes $500, no assets: Mark L. Lam
bert, NcaZie. owes 1927. no asset Dis
charges from bankruptcy granted to:
Willard F. Palmer. Fairfield; Fredor-
lex ii. Black. Augusta Isaac w. Stew
ems. EallOWell: Leon J. Emerson. East
Livermore: Will T.. Roberts Water
boro; Napoleon Grenicr, Lewiston; 81
las Dunbar. Madrid; Albert L. FL
bridge, Lewiston.