Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-04-19
MAINE PEOPLE.


.nerly of the engineering department OF
The Bangor & Aroostook, left recently
flor Seattle, WASH, where he will reside
Mrs Flora Dewitt Of Bangor an
ncunces the engagement of her daugh-
ter, Miss Nellie Emery to DR.. Edward
r. Mansfield of Bangor, formerly of
Old Town.
Invitations have been issued for the
wedding of Miss Grace c. King, daugh-
ter OF Justice and Mrs. Arno W. King
of Ellsworth to Glenn Allan Lawrence,
which will take place Wednesday even
ing, April q. at the First Congrega-
tional church.
| Mrs. Kate Douglass Wiggin Riggs,
Names popular author, sailed from
New York last month to spend the
| spring and early summer months, as
usual, in Great Britain Mrs. Riggs has
completed a new story which will be
published in the early Autumn by
Houghton, Mif1iin Company of Boston.
| F. G. Larrabee of Auburn graduated
from the Dartmouth medical college
last week and is now full-f1edged NJ.
u. He has just received the appoint
meat of inferno at the Central Maine
General Hospital in Lewiston and will
enter upon his duties July first He
will get good practice there for one
full year.
Congressman Swasey has made the
| following announcement of appoint
ments to the naval academy at Anna
polls; Principal, Frederick G. Richards
of Damariscotta; first alternate, STAN
| ley w. Pierce Of Bath; second alter
nate, Gurton DeWolf of Waterford. Mr..
| Richards will take his examinations in
Washington. April 20.
! William w. Barber, captain Of the
| ferry Elizabeth City ct Portland has
resigned and will act hereafter as the
captain Of the steam yacht Calumet
This yacht is owned by Bishop Goldman
and is known as one of the prettiest
yachts along the coast. 1t will be
| placed in commission soon. She was
not used last season. Captain. Allen
| Pettengill has been appointed 10 COM
mand tire Elizabeth City.
John MarcQue who for twenty-Seven
years has been locomotive engineer on
| the Rridgton & Saco River railroad,
| has resigned, to take effect April Is. He
has been a faithful public servant and
| the severing of his connection with the
| road is matter of general regret. The
| fact that in all of these years of ser
vice on the road no one riding in his
train has been injured speaks volumes
| in his praise.
Charles and Louis Fish, brothers and
Bangor boys, the former a graduate of
Bangor High, class of 1905, and the lat
| ter, E. H. >. 1907, have made good in
securing government positions. Charles
Fish is stenographer in the quarter
| master generals office, Washington, d.
c., and Louis Fish is now on his way
| to New Orleans, La, where he has been
appointed to a position in the govern
| ment lana office. Both passed the civil
| service examinations with high stand
| ing in Boston recently.
! BY the will of Mrs Elizabeth +. No
BILE, resident of Mansfield, Mass, for
many years, who died last week. the
Aged Woman's Home at Portland, gets
$4,000. and the German cemetery in
Waldoboro, where Mrs. Noble was bur
led, $1,000. Mrs. Noble died at the age
of "a. Sac was born in Waldoboro. Her
second husband was at the head of the
| coal firm of Noble, Hammett G. Cald-
| well Of New York, and other cities.
Since her husbands death she resided
for long time in New York, Boston
and Paris, coming to Mansfield about
Is years ago Mrs. Noble left nearly
| $4,000, more than half of which goes
to charity.
Mrs. Augusta Hale Clifford, the we'll
| known Portland writer, and her son,
Clarence H.. left last week to sail ON
| he Roumanic from Boston, taking the
southern route, and making a short
stay at Gibraltar and will go to Spain,
where Mrs. Clifford is to study art, then
from Madrid to Paris, and then to Ba.
sic, Switzerland, where Mr.. Clifford is
| located as counsul: Mrs. Clifford will
| also 60 to Russia before her return to
| this country in October, to gather more
| material for her book on Russia, which
| she is writing. Mrs. Clifford was in
| Russia few years ago, studying social
| conditions, and expects to get much
benefit from the second trip. Many af-
fairs have been given for Mrs. Clifford
| recently. and her many friends are ex-
tending best wishes for a pleasant voy-
age and trip.
| After putting in over 90 years in the
| employ of Chisholm Bros, on the rail-
roads in this State Bonnie" Presley
has resigned and the news has been
received with great regret by the army
Of railroad men and many of the COM
rnercial travellers. Mr.. Presley is one
of the hest known of the men in the
employ OF the company and has work
ed upon the Maine Central and 4 num-
Der of other roads with which the news
company has contracts. During the
past three years he has been assigned
to the Some rset Railroad and it is said
that not person has patronized the
road in that time but has become
friendly with him. It was the same up
on the other roads and as he was. the
possessor of much tact he made hun
dreds OF friends He had a memory for
faces and names that enabled him to
greet year after year people who came
into the State for the vacation period.
Mr.. Presley will open up a business in
Bingham having associated himself
! with his brother. AS he knows about
every man in the county it is predict
ed that he will be successful and pros
per.