Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1914-01-10
DAILY KENNEBEC JOURNAL SATURDAY, JANUARY 10, 1914

expenses S7426.3s. The total entries for
the Bangor collection district were
1885, on which receipts amounted to
$372,3SG.4o and on which the expenses
We're S27,135.75. The Aroostook district
received S26,677.S3 as against expenses
of SOS, 464.7s. The Castine district
yielded IS entries with $65S.26 of reve-
nue. but the expenses of collecting
were S3a62.10. The customs service at
Saco, Me-, cost the government S165
with no returns as to dollars and
cents. The Waldoboro district had 90
entries Of goods, yielding in customs,
! Ss776.S4, where expenses were S54S4.51.
class postmastershlps, since the S0-odd
| 'presidentiaf' offices of the State are
nearly all spoken for, it is well to
know that the fourth class positions
are under the civil service law and
passing over very slowly indeed to the
| Democrats. The Republicans are
showing overwhelming proficiency at
the examinations and are qualifying
by the Wholesale under the new regu
Burleson. For example every few days
the department gives notice of fourth
class postmasters in Maine who have
been continued in office under the or
der of May Z, 1913. - This means, in
almost every instance, that Repubh-
cans are permitted to serve on. The
Bangor Commercial, Democratic, says:
With such orders as this issuing 1t
will be apparent the Democrats are
not hogging all postotfices in the State
just because a Democratic admins
tration is in power at Washington.
When it comes to the offices of Presi-
Dental rating, however, only Demo-
Gratis are likely to he nominated dur
ing this administration
We hope the Portland Express is in
error in its heading, Friendship of
so Years Terminates in Marriage
Vows" when telling of the wedding.
Wednesday evening, of Charles II.
Edgecomb of Togus, Maine, and Mrs.
Martha M. Atwood of 9S Chandler
street, Boston. A friendship of that
duration ought to Withstand even the
chains of wedlock. Each is r. Edge
comb, who is a veteran of the Civil
War; has twice in the past wished his
new bride well as she was led to the
altar by husbands now long dead;
while Mrs. Atwood extended her fell
citations to him on his first marriage.
Edgecomb was a member of the Sth
Maine Regiment in the Civil War. He
has been a police sergeant at Togus,
Il chi Af of nd
alarms, Charles J. McCulloch, acted
as best man. Miss Mary Q. Cowles,
daughter of the bride, apart from
playing the wedding march, stood up
with her mother, as maid of honor.
Two old New England families which
have been friends for generations were
united in the marriage Wednesday
night Of their Oldest living members
Friday sees the close of the Bangor
Poultry Show-the most successful in
years, with 1900 birds on exhibition.
Hon. Edwin Bradbury Smith, a
prominent business man of New York.
a lawyer of great ability, died Satur-
day at his home in New York city. He
of Oliver and Caroline Bradbury
Smith, was horn in Kennebunkport,
October 8. 1892 He graduated from
Bowdein in the class, Of 1856. He was
admitted to the. bar in 1853 and. prac-
ticed at Limerick for three years,
moving to Saco in 1862 where he re-
NAMED active in law and politics un-
til 1875. Mr.. Smith was a member OF
the Maine House of Representatives
from Saco from 1870 to 1872, serving
as speaker in 1871. He was reporter OF
decisions of the supreme Judicial court
from 1872 to 1875. At that time he
was appointed an assistant United
States attorney general, serving under
Attorney Generals Edwards Pierpont,
Alphonso Taft, Charles Devens ana
left the department upon the coming
into office OF Hon. Wayne MacVeagh
in 1881. Since that time he has been
engaged in the private practice of law,
his office having heen for long time
at No. Sc Pine street, New York city.
Mr.. Smith. who never married, was a
member of the Association of the Bar
of the City of New York, the New
York Law Institution, the New Eng
! land Society, the Union League, the
LAWYERS and the University Clubs.
Thomas E. Shea, the well known
actor. who married Miss Nellie Burkett
Of Belfast, who is nov leading wom-
en- in his company, is just recovering
| from surgical operation in a Phila-
delphia hospital.
A Rockland correspondent OF the
Courier-Gazette writes to that paper:
s'In our humble dwelling, while the
Christmas candle-burning was neither
| elaborate nor extensive, the recep-
tacles in which the candles burned
were unique and will interest your
readers. One candle burned in an old