Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1914-06-04
damage. The dam is said to have been
for some time considered unsafe.


Providence. June 20 and a. going by
special cars and making their head
quarters while in the city at the Crown
hotel A trip down the Providence
river with a shore dinner at Rocky
Point will be a feature About 100 are
! expected TO make the pilgrimage and
they will be accompanied by Chambers
Ban1.
Portland had an international di-
Vorce case. Monday, when Mrs. Eliza
beth Nj. Chiostri of that city was
granted degree from Henry Chiostri
| of Gdadalajara. Mexico. for cruel and
abusive trea tment. Mrs. Chiostri, it is
said was born in Italy. She and Mr..
| Ghiostri were married in Buffalo, Miss,
in 1899, and during their married life
resided in different parts of the United
States and Mexico. Now she has come
back to the country where she was
married and the marriage has been
terminated in the courts of Maine.
Fillmore p. Harris of Biddeford, who
was appointed by Gov. Haines to sue
coed Clarence B. Rumery as recorder
of the Biddeford municipal court, has
received his commission and qualified,
though he will not take the office until
June rs, when Mr.. Rumery's term ex-
pires. Mr. Harris was born in Port
land, January IL. 1882, and went to
school at Washington Academy, East
Machias, for three years taking claS-
sic course. He returned to Portland,
in 1897 taking up hotel work which he
followed up for Is years. In Septem-
Der, 1909, Mr.. Harris took up the du-
ties of law student at the office of
CleaVes, Waterhouse K Emery in Port
land. He was successful and took the
bar examination at Bangor in Febru-
airy, 1872, and passed a creditable eX-
animation. Was admitted to practice
law in the State of Maine at Auburn,
Feb. -. 1912. Attorney Harris started
to practice OH Feb. 15 in the office of
Attorney Joseph r. Paquin and after
wards with Leroy Haley brother of
Associate Justice George F. Haley of
the supreme court. On March :, 1914,
he became the senior member of the
law firm of Harris & Dwyer.
Scheduled examination for the posi-
ton Of fourth class postmasterships IN
about 325 post offices in Maine is an
nounced by the United States Civil
Service Commission. Examinations
will be held at only offices at which
the yearly compensation is $3.50 or
more and at which the incumbent was
not appointed under the Civic Service
regulations. The date for the exami-
nations in July Is, though a few are to
be held few days earlier.
A most unusual instrument has been
entered in the probate court, Portland,
being what might be termed double
will executed by Charles H. Thomas
and his wife, Jennie Louise Thomas.
BY the provisions of the will, it was
arranged in event of the death of one
the other be appointed as the execu-
tor or executrix of the will. The death
of Mr.. Thomas occurred short time
since, and the will is now filed by
Mrs. Thomas to be probated and she
is named as the executriX. 1t is believ-
ed to be the first time that such an
instrument has been executed in this
county and for that reason it has at
tracted much attention and comment
among the legal fraternity. Although
being an unusual form it is the gener-
al opinion that ii can be legally exc
cuted. -
In the passihgs of Miss Clarfssa
Dwight Eaton Bangor loses one of her
Oldest residents who traced her an
cestry back ten generations Of sub
stantial New England people, and was
the granddaughter of Capt. Park Hol-
land of the Colonial army in the war
of the Revolution. Miss Eaton was
born in Bangor nearly S4 years ago,
the daughter of Luther Eaton, an Ed
dington merchant, and Lucy SpooneI
Holland. She had resided III her
Grove street home since 1888, when IL
was one of the first houses to be quilt
in the street. Somerset street had
not then been laid out. Miss Eaton Is
the last survivor of the early tamliies
who built houses on Grove street, IN
Guiding the Pease, Bradley and Den
nett families. She was an active mem
Der IF the Unitarian church, entering
into its various affairs with interest
and devotion, especially the Woman's
Alliance.
The latest change in the train dis
PACKING department of the Maine CEN
trail at Portland is the transference
of Frank Lynch from RumIofu ans
to succeed Mr.. Penney, who has just
completed his engagement as dis
hatcher. Mr.. Lynch will be succeed
ed at Rumford by Mr.. Mccarthy
That the fire bug rs again up to his
old tricks in Portland, Chief Flaherty
feels convinced, when Tuesday there
were several fires of peculiar origin
and at least one was set as the evil
dence was found, when occupants of
the building put out the fire them
selves and found papers stuned INTO
two separate places and started. All
this was in broad daylight and at
about the noon hour and when men
were busy about the place.
over 100000 worth of building and
alterations were contracted for in
Portland during the month of May,
the exact figures for the months
building business being $105,755, which
is about $4,000 more than undertaken
in the previous month. Fourteen con-
tracts for new buildings were let in
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