T he Courier-Gazette.

olume V 47. ROCKLAND, MAINE, TUESDAY, APRIL 2(1, 1892 N umbkk 1 6 .

GOOD TEMPLARS. The Sunday Schools and the Columbian ' OLD PLATES. AUGUSTA WATER CO. Exhibition. I ------MAKE YOUR LAWNS BEAUTIFUL! WOMEN OF MAINE! THE MASONS The Grand L')(iu« ol Mainn I 0 G K night & Hill huvo in their sto rd wo 5 Per Cent. T will mei*t In B iingnr W ednesday anil The work of temperance instruction : interesting fashion plates of the vintage B R A D L i E Y ' S AND MORTGAGE BONDS. Thursday of this week in Y. M. C. A. in tlie Sunday Schools lias attracted the of 1851 nnd 1854. They are original BREADMAKERS! Hall. 'The Boston & Bangor Steamship attention of temperance workers for a plates, and the styles represented arc English Lawn Fertilizer! D u e 1901. Co will sell tickets for one fare for the long time, and the pledging of the chil­ No bid odor; no weed*, but a green, velvety lawn. Ask for this Brand of Flour. both original and unique. Books free. Fertilizer sold and delivered at your W e offer I hem, ubjeot to sale < ■ change In price, round trip from Rockland and hay and dren as a part of the work. Now some­ house by nt par and Intcrc* SNOWY SPRINGS. THE CARPENTERS ThcHo w ater work* were constructed In 1886-87; river landings. On sale by tlie pursers thing new has been planned, which is, 0. IL FALES, 48 Beech Street Ext., the Hotirce o f supply I* the Kennebec River. The 13-17 ROCKLAND, ME. Company Iihh a complete and ndcqunte system for aboard the boat, April 26 and 27, good to have all the children who will sign The cold weather of last week set ntorave and distribution; nreservoir of six million till 30, on either steamer. the triple pledge represented at the Col­ Will be at W ork in my gallons capacity, nnd over twenty.three miles of people a talking about previous cold main pine. umbian Exhibition. T he charter of the W ater Company gives It a PRISON POINTS. Springs. fatfli/lqs! store in fifteen days, and perpetual franchise. Autograph pledge cards in the nation­ The Company baa a twenty year contract with Said a Thomaston man: “In 1841 or the City of Augusta for lire hydrant* and munici­ al colors, red, white and blue, are pro­ The Maine inspectors of prisons and 1842, about the 10th of April, the snow I have an Extra Fine Line of Hamples pal purpose*. It* earning* Increased during the vided, and when signed, together with for 1892 to select from, and shall bo past six m onth- $1,000, and now aggregate $26,000 jails will depart for Sing Sing, Now was over the fences.” pleased to call at your place of business per annum; the operating expenses ami interest the names of pledged children and young or residence anti show the same. charge* on all outstanding bond* amou t to less York, soon to inspect the state prison Said a Union man: “I have been than $19,000 p« r annum , w hich leave* a surplus, people the world over, are to be fastened Special Attention I S H A L L after paying all charge*, of over $7,000. there and pick up what ideas they can into Rockland on runners April 6." Hecurltie* Issued by all Wat-r Companies In to use in the management of Maine pris­ together and used to festoon the W. C. Given to Orders by M ail! Maine are recognized n« desirable and safe invent, T. U. building of the World’s Fair. ments. ons. GRANITE CHIPS. W. F. TIBBETTS, 477 Main The present ami prospective value of the Augusta o Upon each card one name, with the Writer Company's works I* second to the value of The Bluehill granite works are a little no other Iti this State. 15 Measures huvo been taken to collect name of the Sunday School, city or town tardy about commencing operations this N O T B E $8000 in old bills which are due the anti stale. year. The quarrymen want $2 per day ACCEPT NO SUBSTITUTE. Maine State Prison for goods sold, etc., These cards are to be had of the Stale and the company arc in doubt about This Latest Triumph of Modern Milling. Rockland Trust Go. they having been placed in the hands of Superintendent of Sunday School work, complying.with their demand has no r iv a l . an attorney for collection. Mrs. E. A. G. Stickney, East Brown­ ------field, Maine, or at 51 1-2 E xchange S t., The contract for the “grouting” for Makes Most, Whitest, Sweetest nnd IN IT ! THE COOLIDGE CASE. Portland, Maine. Price 10 cents per Portland lias been awarded to tho Maine NEW STORE! NEW GOODS! Healthiest Bread. package of thirty, assorted colors; 25 and New Hampshire Granite Co. JOHN BIRD CO,, Agents Excursions! In connection with the Dr. Coolidge cents, for three packages, assorted col­ controversy, we would say that Col ors; $2.50 for 900 postpaid. SCHOOL DISTRICTS. HASKELL & HULL, Sff^LL flOT /WOVE Arc You Going West? S. IT. Allen, the p iesent w ar­ In some places through the generosity Rockport’s school districts have been You can save from $25 00 to $40.00 by joining den of the Maine State Prison, and lion. of a or friends, these cards are renumbered and reduced as lollows: the People’s Popular Excursion*. These Excur­ E. K O'Brien of Thomaston, were em­ provided free. May there be more such. sion Train* leave Boston every Tuesday, Wedne* No. 1 includes nearly all of old districts New Double Store, day, Thursday and Friday, with « legaut new Pull- ployed nt the prison at the time of Where there is a W. C. T. U. will the to 12, 13, and 15, a portion being set off any more than I can help. man Tourist 8b eping Car* running through to 8t. Paul, Minneapolis, all Pacific coast point* nnd Coolidge’s death, assisted in laying union, if able, furnish them, and where to No. 4. No. 2 includes old No. 10, FRYE BLOCK, AT THE BROOK. Southern California. Pasaengeru fan go via Port land or Boston a* desired Call and purchase him out and were present nt the not, help individually when possible? No. 3 includes old No. 11. No. 4 in­ ticket* and have your Baggage checked through to autopsy. They say that the man who When all the names possible have been SMLL QIVE %LL destination. Time tables, map* nud all other in­ cludes old No. 9 and a part of 12 and 13. .LARUE LISE OF. formation furnished on application. came to prison ns Dr. Coolidge and secured , the yre to be sent postpaid to No. 5 is not changed. Co^ECJIOfiEf\Y New Patterns jn st In. bloom or foliage. No revolution in any has just returned from a four weeks SILVER ANNIVERSARY. The soda now fizzes. J. IL Gould award at all Pure Food Expositions. Each industry has been produced in tlie past that course of treatment in the Keeley Insti­ tupped his fountain Saturday. GREAT BARGAINS IN package makes two large pies. Avoid can compare with what this machine is A Knox County Boy and His Success imitations— and insist on having tho $ 2 .6 0 tute at North Conway, N. H., and pro­ A Mr. Flanders is to open a restaurant destined to make in the production of in the West. Dinner Sets NONE SUCH brand. cotton in the near future. nounced himself entirely cured of his old in the Perry building, PostofHce Square. From a recent issue of the Fremont. ....AND.... MERRELL & SOULE, Syracuse. N. Y. Tlie financial success of the telephone appetite for liquors. He speaks in the The Lincolnville S. of V. Camp will Former Price $3.25. was phenomenal, but parties who let oppor­ Neb., Tribune we take tho following highest terms of his treatment at North participate in the Camden Memorial Day Toilet Sets. tunities to invest in it pass hv can excuse account of the silver anniversary of themselves, as there were no precedents or Conway, and is enthusiastic over his services. All Other Rubber Goods known facts to guide them. With the own evident cure. L. M. Keene, a native of Appleton and F. L. SHAW, Cotton Picker it is different. Tlieatnount a brother of II. N. Keene of this city : J. H. Curtis & Son now have a very of labor to lie performed is known, aud OLD AND SMART. “L M. Keene was Wednesday very attractive and well arranged place of 322 MAIN ST., - Rockland, Me. in Proportion. tlie cost to perform it by present methods pleasantly reminded that this was the business Great and bv the machine. Anti tlie colossal fortunes made in the Case Where Extreme Age Does Not twenty fifth anniversary of his arrival Henry Parker won the prize for sell­ Bring Infirmity. manufacture of grain harvesters furnish a in Fremont, by the receipt of a half ing the most Boston Globes in town—a precedent to judge from, although the Cotton Picker will lie a closer monopoly, There has been a great deal in the dozen solid silver souvenir spoons, pre­ new dollar. SOMETHING EXTRAORDINARY Reduction GENTLEMEN’S with far larger protits and a greater field. papers of late about smart old people, sented him by Vico President May and E. C. Fletcher is in charge of the NEW. OFFER. Four-fifths of the human race are clothed and we have some in the vicinity. the employes of the Fremont National with it, The expense of picking from i E, E. Boynton drug storo while the tlie plant is 33 per cent, of its entire value Daniel Andrews of West Rockport, who Bank, ol which he is president. popular proprietor enjoys his wedding Great Reduction! in tlie bale. The annual crop cxccils 8,600- is 93 years old, goes into the woods “During these twenty live years of his trip . 238 USEFUL ARTICLES .IN TilK PRICK OF., H a t S 000 bales which costs $12.50 per bale to every lair day, chopping wood, walks residence here, Mr. Keene has seen —FOR— gather—a total of $107,500,000. ' This T. C Atwiek is to improve his store Fremont grow from a little village of from $3 50 to $3.00; from machine will harvest it for $20,000,000, every fair Sabbath more than two miles with plate glass and other gilt edged 2 5 e e u t s u but few houses and no trees to a city of saving $87,500,000, No effort, however to meeting. Ho also walked to Rock­ embellishments. Verily this is an era • AS FOLLOWS: great, can supply the demand for this king $2.50 to $2.00; from $2.00 to port to town meeting, about live miles. 8000 people densely and beautifully of improvement in Camden. 100 Best Sewing Needles; 00 Best Pins; 42 Dura- of labor savers to harvest the next crop, era, Worsted, Motto, Glovers, Chenille, Tapestry, FLOUR! There is in the same neighborhood two shaded with an abundance of foliage, in but m uch can lie done. The machines Tlie phonograph man and his little Crewel, Crochet Hook, Bodkin, 'I’ape, Carpet uud $1.50; from $1.50 to $1.00. will cost about $100 each, so that the man ladies more than 82 years, tlte widow of fact one of the prettiest cities to he found Button Needles; Hal Pine, Hhnwl Pins and Toilet machine have been entertaining people Pins. Tlie wind-' are contained In an attractive who purchases 10 shares at par. $10 each, I William Andrews, and Mary Bradshaw, in all the west. When he came here Needle Case, which when opened is 13| ii ches long will euuble the company to build one m il- ; in Rose Bros.’ drug s ore. Tho "Casey and 7| inches wide. Tlie quality of each article is $7 .0 0 Flour for. $6.25 who are smart and capable. Mr. Keene was a poor boy, but he had guaranteed, und can be returned if not satisfactory. chine, which is expected to save fully Steamboat Parting” was a favorite. Tho BEST YoulKvor C«od.Baed. . ambition and courage, a pair of overalls Having secured ihe agency of the Entire State, $1000 in labor to the cotton planter. An I offer tin- above for sale, by mail, postpaid, for 25 equitable division of this will enable large ; RAIL AND TIE. and nn oil cloth hat. With these in­ J H Sherman's fine new house is •uts. Parties who wish for territoiy should write dividends to he paid, which will ho shared gredients be went to work, and he can rapidly approaching completion, aud by every slock ow ner. The stork will lie | John E. White lias resignetl the posi­ ACENTS WANTED. $6.00 Flour for...... look hack today and see that lie lias not will he ready for occupancy in June $5.50 EVERYTHING sold in lots to suit. A single share or I tion ot freight agent at tho Waldoboro lale or female, in every town. Sell at sight. Liber­ blocks of any size. This is an opportuni- I wrought in vaiu. Today he is one ol S N. Southard & Sou of Rockport are al discount to Agents. depot. He will he succeeded May 1 ty of a life-time, as the future of this com­ tie best business men in Fremont and the contractors. HUS. K. J. HAKIIA.H, pany can he forecast with g. jut certainty by Carlos T. Clark of East Baldwin. ROCKLAND, MAINE. 7-2U $5.75 Flour For... $5.25 from known facts. during tho development of tho city has The Waltham watch in J. B. William­ been closely identified with its best son’s window continues tu attract tlie Further information concerning the stock ol the Conductor Thus. H Haley who has j MUST GO! Lone blur Co lon ricking Machine Company, r weeks on account of interests Ho lias pursued uo ignu- atteulion ol the hoys. It is to he given offered lor sale, cun be hud by culling up >n been absent six tferjBamlW artaiUJaBarialii futuus which bus led him to seek otlg*r lo tlie boy who will sell twenty CouitiEit- KALLOCH dt MESERVEY, illness in his family lias returned to What Do You Smoke? work on his train between Lewiston and fields for the employment of Ills capital G azettks for fifteen weeks, fifteen General Agents for Knox County, and talent Hu has been tatisfied to C o u k ieu -Ga zeti ns for twenty weeks or I4DU MAIN ST„ KOCHLANII, MK. Ruekland Baggage Master M tobell O T T his after is only open Parll'i. Inn ndtiix lo vl.it Bo.tun can al.n ut-tuiu who has been running Ids train goes stay right here whyru he got his sttirt ten C ouuiek G a zettes for 30 weeks, NOW c a rd , of intronucUnii and u d in t..lo a lo Ilia oflii- for i short, (ime, SI Milk Kt., wlltiro ibe t.’ollon 1‘1 Si r may be Be- back to Ills place on Conductor Cobb's and he has e, competence to show for it. and so on. Benj Alden is making a IS THE TIME! tu uperutlou and II, winking, t-xjdaiiiud. train. He has never shirked a duty, public up noble effort for tho watch. J.W.A.Cigar W iu waut TIILI private, and Ihe solidity of the hanking ui a Hurrul o f Flour At the Maine Central yard in Portland WILEY'S CORNER. The Finest lUeClaur Iu NeT Ko»l«fcd. institution over which he lias presided or expect to be soon is a car which has been refitted at the Come before the sizes KEELEY INSTITUTE for seven years is due largely to his Work ut Clarks Island is startlug up. Main St., Rockland, Me. uow is the time to Maine Central shops at Waterville witli effoits and is incontrovertible evidence FOOT OF L1HKWICK ST. You cau make a re out. NORTH CONWAY, N. H. an air brake, steps, Miller coupler and Miss Mary Robinson has gone to Port­ of his ability as a wise and conservative land. uo nilstukO iu call- For the Treuiiueiit of Ail For io b o f A loo- buffer, and an alarm line like the ordi­ CITY OF ROCKLAND. holiHiu. Opiuiu llublt aud Nervou* Dis- financier." Norman Wardwell will teach the spring lug ou us. • titles. nary passenger ear. It is intended lor PROPOSALS. term of school iu district No. 1- Healed propusals will be received by the under­ This Is a brunch of the famous bsiituteu use between Portland and R ickland in TOWN TOPICS signed Board of Street (Jomiuii>*luaer«, up to 12 ItEMEMBElt THE PLACE, L A S T C A L L D wlyb , III. Au ex p erien c'd Burgeon from Dwight connection with the City of Richmond. Mrs. Hansel Coburn aud family have o’clock uoou, SA T U R D A Y , A PR IL 80, 1892, for Is iu ut'cudauce, uud ull rem edies come Irom Ihe Echoes from the Vinalhaven Select­ moved into the John Hawks house. furnLbing said dty the following amount of tfr»l puit ut house. The house is delightfully situated, As hus already been announced, this class viirlffed, salt glazed Hewer Pipe: S.G-.PRESCOTT&CO. uud hus ull m odern im provem ents. Board ut rea men's Office—lax Matters. 2.000 Ii •earfeel 12 iuvh pipe; •nimble rules. Write for more purlieulur* uud steamer will not run from Portland 4.500 linear feet 10-lncb pipe; printed mutter. Correspondence cm II end'd. The tax rale this year is $26 oh $1000. UNION. 500 linear leet 8 inch pipe; N E W S T O R E , eastward, but from Rockland. In order Together with ull needed special*. Biddert will KEELEY INSTITUTE, Last year it was $28. F. L Whilten intends rnoviug his i »//>'/'• Uuy rrupoat funit/t. Tillson Wharf, ROCKLAND, ME. Il K NOKT1I CONWAY, N. H to give Portland shippers of freight the K Bids will also be received for 55,OuO hard burned TeltfiBont Connection 8 same facilities that they formerly en­ family here, brick for sl iewulk4, aud 30,000 (more or less) bard ABSOLUTE PROTECTION. There are 634 polls, lust year 617; burn* d b 'h k for newer department. TUB CKLEBltATKD joyed, this freight car will leave Port il T Millay of Rockland has moved Hpecltb uiions for aii the above may bn hud by up and 77 dogs against 65 last year plying to the City Kugineer, Room SO, Court land in the afternoon going as fur as to tiiis luwn and will occupy a part of House. All bids must include delivery at the point 404 on the *tr*el where the m aterial i« lo be used. Bath on a freight train. Thence it will Tile Selectmen have appointed F M. Y O R K S A F E the liouse owned bv John Duuton. Bids will be understand to coverall material of the Special Bargains. be taken by the night Pullman which Calili i a o o iI Colli clur ol Tixes. e las- bi>I f «r lhat may be needed by the city during EOU SALE BY G M Tibbetts o l R ickland is in town the reason of 1892, even if more or lea* than the ea* In Toilet HeU», Dinner Het*, Lumps, Tin will run to Rouklaud tiiis year, arriving The total Viluiion as just made by painting the houses of O. A Burkett. tiuiated umoUul. The right la reserved to i eject Ware and all kind* of Housekeeping EPII. PERRY. in this city in time to trasfer the freight any or all bida. H'ARRiND, Goods, at the Shoe Store. At Ptn ry’a Steuiu Lye lluune, S7H M ala St the Assessors is $172 560 —a sliglil in­ Mr. Burkett has just finished his new F-C- KNIGHT, I to the Richmond. J AHIU DONOHUE. crease over last yeui. house which looks fine iu colurs. U 16 Street CommUtdonerti. i Boston 5 and 10c Store. THE ROCKLAND COURIER GAZETTE: TUESDAY, APRIL 2fi, 1892.

to have hern in the form icquired by the Dis­ in the UnlveraallM vestry, J. H. H. Hewett of Windsor and Cross Hill...... To bo supplied THE EAST MAINE CONFERENCE. W isc a sse t...... N R Conk cipline, with fact# certified by the several Thomaston being called to the chair and Thos. W oolw ich...... I H Thompson Boards of Trustees and approved by pastors H. Wentworth of Bangor elected secretary. C II Fuller. W F Stewart, C C Whldden. Wesley Wlggln K II Hndl ck. W F Taylor. W J Keeley, Its Forty-Fifth Annual Session Which Has and presiding elders, and the appropriations There were 38 accredited delages present In- left without appointment to attend one of our Just Closed. have been recommended by Conference Boards 1 eluding two ladies. M. B. C. Withers of Ban­ . schools SPEAKING OF HATS of Church Extension Beyond this we have gor and Geo. M. Warren of Castine were B a n o o r D is t r ic t . not less than 2 600 homeless congregations, elected delegates to the General Conference B C Wentworth, Presiding Elder, (P O Dexter.) A Sketch of Its History and Vital Sta­ for whom suitable provision should be made which will meet in Omaha Mav 1. D. Y. ' Alton, Argyle and Cnrtlgan...... I W Price We show the most complete line of tistic—The Sessions of the Week— . A shland ...... T o be supplied Work Done and General Notes—The without delay. Mitchell of Searsport and E. M. Tibbetts of B angor. 1st C h u rch ...... I M Frost Every pastor should bring these facts to the Exeter were chosen reserve delegates. The Bangor. Grace Church ...... 11 E Foss Late Styles in the city. Fuller 5 Cobb Appointments Made. Brownville and Heb« c, supplied by 8 T Page attention of his congregation, and press the Ministerial Conference chose Rev A. F. Chase Brookton ami Popsfield...... Z B G rass claims of this cause for generous collections. and Rev G. G. Winslow delegates to the same C a rib o u ...... C II McElhlney The forty-fifth annual session of the East No pastor should be content wiih less than the j conference. Carmel and Levant...... To be supplied Maine Methodist Conference convened in this D a n fo rth ...... F W Towle amount indicated In the apportionment nnder . At the close ot the Lay Conference the dele, D e x te r ...... Fr« <1 E W hite city last week, and the interest aroused by the ARE SELLING provisions of our discipline. gates repaired to the M. E. Church and were D lx m o n t...... H E Dunnnck W l L C ° X presence oi this grand organization will give D o v e r...... M It Pratt The General Committee asks for a large there introduced to the Bishop. Addresses additional interest to a sketch of its history by E ast Cor In b and C orinth...... t W Day advance in Conference collections; and one were made by Bishop Goodsell, Delegate elect Easton and Smith Pre^nue isle. N R Pearson Rev. W. L. Bjown, which follows: Exeter, Corlnna and Ripley---- G 11 Hamilton hundred and fifty thousand dollars is sorely Withers and President Hewett of the Lay Con­ Forest Cby ...... supplied by B 8 Any needed immediately to help the new com­ ference. Fort Fairfield...... A P Knell SOMEWHAT HISTORICAL. Guilford and Sangervllle...... lohn l Inllng All Wool Carpets munities in the South and Heat. Rev. J H. Parshley of the Maine Baptists, Harmony and \thens ...... U G Lyons WE CARRY In the month of August, 1793. the New Eng­ Rev. R. W .Jenkvnof the Maine Congregation- Hartland and 8t Albans...... P A sm ith Hodgdon and Linneus...... M W Newbert land Conference held Its annual session in Th u r s d a y 's p r o g r a m . allots, and Rev. C. E. Mason of Bangor of the H oulton ...... II K Frohock Lynn, Mass. All New England was included Maine Freewill Baptists were introduced a:.d Kingm an ...... To be supplied The sunrise meeting at five o’clock was led L im e sto n e ...... K o Sm ith THE j BIGGEST LINE For 50c. 55c, 65c 70c, In its territory. One appointment read as fol­ by Rev. H. E. Frohock and the conference gave fraternal greetings. Lincoln and Matt...... H B N utter lows: "Lynn and the Province of Ma’ne, prayer meeting at 8 ;30 by Rev. V P. Ward- Friday evening was Epworth’s event, an Mapleton and W ashburn ...... I II Lldstone Jesse Lee.” In Conference session, 1796, thirty Milo ami Atkinson, supplied by C II Johannett OF well. Conference business then followed In­ address on the aims of this important branch of M onticello...... Supplied by A K Luca preachers were present, and seven of that num­ cluding the reports of the presiding elders of church work being delivered by Rev. N. T. Moro and Smyrna, Supplied by G F Lilley ber were assigned to Maine. Newport and Detroit...... W II Dunnack the three districts from which we make Whitaker, D. D., of Lynn, Mass. Old Town and Stillwater...... T P r-inionton Brussels Carpets In 1816 there were two districts in Maine, extracts: Orono ...... Fred II Morgan twenty circuits, and 24 ministers. Member­ Patten ...... C L B^nghart R o c k l a n d D is t r ic t —Rev. I. H. W. Wharff, SATURDAY R RYKNTB. Pittsfield and Palmyra...... W ilson L. rmond SPRING ship 3,388; increase, 166. Vanceboro and Lambers Lake, M II Btprelle Presiding Elder: Thirty-two preachers have The sunrise meeting was led by Rev. M. W. G D Lindsey, transferred to Malm* Conference, In the year 1835 the Maine Conference was had regular charges and five preachers have Newbert and conference prayer meeting by ForS75c, $1, $1.25, $1.35 organized, with 44 names upon its roll. The goes to Congress St, Portland been employed for intervals. Rev. Orren Rev B. B Byrne. One featuro of the nine I R CdfiLrd, transferred to Mnlno Conference, cause advanced, and at the session of Maine goes to Farmington, Me Tyler died during the year. At Chelsea there o’clock business meeting was the presentation C A Main, transferred to Detroit Conference, / Conference held in Biddeford In 1847. Bishop OVERCOATS! were 35 conversions, East Boothbay 25, Wis­ of the claims of the M. E. hospital In Brook­ Michigan Heddlng presiding, initial action was taken for casset 17, Belfast 15, Montville 15 Rockland, lyn. Of the amount needed to endow an East l ^ ’Many Old Patterns and Small the creation of a new Conference to be called Thomaston and other places have had no Maine Conference bed, #5000, the sum of #4000 CONPRKENCB CULLINGS. East Maine. Hence our Conference dates T^KES TqELEJ\D! Lengths for Less than Ccst. especial revival, but report many conversions. has been given, and it was announced that the “ Nolhing against him!” Ever shown, and we are match­ from 1848, and Includes all of Maine not era Upwards of 160 persons have been converted in Rockland M. E. Church had given $100 braced in the Maine Conference. The conference will meet next year at Ma­ ing it by the biggest bid ever the district, but ho many have died that the toward the remaining $1000 needed and would Our history shows that God gave men for the chias. tables will show a slight falling off Three guarantee $25 more. Presiding Elder Wharff times. The early laborers were noble in chir- Rockland hospitality has again proved itself made for public favor. Careful missionary rallies were held In the district, pre*et.ted the matter and measures were taken to Children’s Hats a Specialty. acter and efficient in work. Only eight mem­ equal to all emergencies. addressed by Chaplain C. C. McCabe, and an raise the entire amount and the East Maine purchasers soon find out which Tapestry Carpets bers are now living whose conneclion is co-ex- Bishop Goodsell left direct for Omaha, Neb., advance of nearly #400 made over last year’s Conference, although the last but one appealed istent with the creation of the Conference. They to attend the General Conference. E. W. BERRY & CO., missionary offering. There are 18 chapters of to, will have the first endowed bed. ! side their bread is buttered on, are: Revs. Albert Church, R. Day, A. Ken­ Hatters, the Epworth League in the district, doing a Said Bishop Goodsell at one of the sessions. dall, L Wentworth, 8. H. Beale, B. B. Byrne, At two p. ra. an impressive service was held Main Street. I and worn out devices are an old For 50c, 58c, 65c 75c, 85c noble work. in meraoriarn of Mrs. W. H. Pillsbury of "W hat we neecl is not more harness, but more B. M. Mitchell and E M. Fowler. No new churches have been built but im­ J^Our body has always been faithful to educa­ Bucksport, Rev. N R. Turner of Harmony, horse.” story with them. It is to care­ provements have been many. The improve­ tional interests. By the division Kent’s Hill D. Warren cf Bangor and Rev. O. Tyler of Rev. Mr. Had lock, who has been in Waldo ments on the South Dresden Church have been ful purchasers that we are ad 8eminary was taken by the Maine Conference; Gardiner. boro for several years, leavts for Massachusetts completed at a cost of #1100; North Palermo but, with great sacrifice, the walls of the sec­ Regulir conference business followed the to attend school. Ho is a faithful, talented jfk Q _ Buys a pair of Ladeis’ Church rebuilt at an expense of $800; Sears­ dressing ourselves now—to pur­ Hemp Carpeting ond seminary were soon reared in our territory, memorial service, the committee on temperance preacher. port Church, improvements at an expense of and it stands to-day to our church’s honor reporting resolutions condemning the action of Rev. H. E. Foss of Bangor, whose sermon Fine Kid Button Boots, chasers who know just what #800; Pemnquid Church remodelled at an with good prospect of greater usefulness before Judge Peters in Penobscot County liquor cases Sunday afrernoon madesuch a deep impression, expense of $500; debt on New Haroor Church Patent Tip, regular price Si .25. It. and resolving to attempt to get a legislative is one of the ablest clergymen in the Maine they are doing, who know what For 10 Cents reduced #400; Rockland Church improved, In our outline of Conference history the rec­ inquiry Into the same, and strongly condemn­ field. Mr. Foss is a graduate of Bates College, #4'^; South Thomaston Church Improved, their money ought to bring them. ord of patriotism is not wanting. Our Semi­ ing the use ol tobacco in any form. The dis­ class of *81, and a coming man. #1 r . nary gave a very large per cent of its available cussion was very warm on the question of E. W . Berry & Co. West Waldoboro Church, debt reduced $200. Rev. I H. W. Wharff has just closed bis male membership to suppress the war of the adopting the resolutions agreed upon by evan­ Camden Church $290, No. Vaesalboro $1*1 fourth year as presiding elder of Rock lard Rebellion. Methodists were very numerous in gelical church representatives at Waterville Round Pond and Union each $100. The entire District. He is an able, earnest genial, man. Straw Matting our regiments. Several members of Confer last Summer regarding Interdenominational indebtedness on the property in the district is and Rockland District under his supervision ence served as chaplains, officers and privates work in fields occupied by weak and struggling $3000 divided between eight churches. made by far the best showing. in the strife. We recall »he names of Brothers churches. Rev. C. S. Cummings spoke very Mary L. Lilly of Woolwich has given $4000 Rev S. A. Bender comes into Rockland LOOK HERE! H e r e n f e w J. P. French, I. A. Wardwell, B. F. Tefft, P earnestly and eloquently in favor of the reso. For 121-2 Cents. toward the endowment of an East Maine Con­ District from Drew Theological School. Madi­ Higgins, B. A. Chase, S. F. Chase and S. A. lution, making one of the best addresses of the ference bed in the Methodist Hospital in Brook­ son, N. Y. H W. Small, nnetber Rockland S a m p l e s o f Fuller as belonging to this list. session. Very earnest speeches were also Buys a pair of Ladies' Kid lyn, N. Y District acquisition, conies U. S. Grant Univer­ TFf" _ Though the heroic age is not passed—as made against the adoption of the resolution, BuCK'PORT D is t r ic t .—Rev. J. F. Haley, sity, Chattanooga, Tenn w hat w e are of­ shown by our Conference work—still the times und on the vote it was lost ;but a commission was Oxfords, Patent Leather Presi ling Elder. No deaths In the ranks ot Besides ibe names appearing in the directory, ■ J 11 have improved. Ministerial support is great'y appointed to confer with the interdenominat­ Carpets Cut, Made the pastors for the year. Half of the charges he following persons entertained or held them­ fering; yon now m advance of earlier years. I have before me ional representatives, Mr. Cummings being Tip. Same pricetfor the New Rus- in the district have branches of the Epworth selves in readiness to imertain: C. A. Sylves­ a copy of the Minutes of 1851. Th • average chairman. League. Church property Improvements have ter, John W. Kiffe, R R. Ulmer, Mrs. Geo sett Coior Oxfords. in tlie way of and Laid by MR. receipts of the presiding elders were $455, and General business occupied the attention of been many. The Southwest Harbor Church Cables, J P. Ingraham, W. E. Sadler, E. H those of the pastors were $300. Similar re­ the conference in the evening. has paid its last dollar of indebtedness; Ma­ Bartlett, E. L Green. Leslie Campbell, Fred turns which appear in the Minutes for 1891 B a r g a i n s : chias Church, paid all its debt and bought a Packard, John Hall, Charles L Smith, P. A. HANKARDof Port­ give to our presiding elders an average support SUNDAYS HAPPBNINGS. new hell; Edmunds Church greatly improved Stubbs, J F. McWilliams, L. A. Dow, B F. E. W . Berry & Co. of $1,246; the pastors* average receipts are and reopened free of debt in October; audience The sunrise meeting was led by Rev. M. F. French. R. F. Crle, Alfred Murray, Mrs. Three lines of 810 and 812 $591. land, an experi­ room of the new church in Perry nearly com­ Bridgham. The Conference Love Feast was Susan Brown, A. W. Butler, J. T. Burry, G. Our ministerial membership numbers 95. pleted and the church will be dedicated in held in Farwell Opera House, which had Its H. Cl flbrd 8am'l Bryant, B. B. Post, Mrs Spring Overcoats cairied over and there are 10 probationers. Lay member­ capacity taxed to the utmost. At 10.30 Bishop June; chapel at Buck’s Harbor, Brooksville, Carrie Rhoades, F. H. Beiry, J. 8. Case. from last season ; we have put enced workman. ship is as follows: Probationers, 1 862; local will be completed and dedicated in early Fall; Goodsell preached a sermon, hating fur its preachers, 59; full members, 9,033; total, 10,- _ Buys a pair of Ladies’ debt of Bar Harbor church reduced many ttem e: "A Son of God.” The hall was literally Y. M. C. A. them into one lot and marked 954 thousands; debt of Eastport church reduced to packed full, and all, preachers and laymen, JJ Q y Dongola Kid Oxfords, 2ZTheEast Maine Conference has 133churches, $900; East Bluehlll, a young society, has se­ were swayed by the wonderful eloquence of The Committee Men’s Tea—Money them with an estimated total value of $462 600; and cured a lot for a chapel, and a generous sub­ the man. Tears and amens followed each other Raised for Books. Patent Tip and Common Sense. This 73 parsonages, valued at $89 200. The total scription raised. in rapid succession, and ibedisconrse will long Bordered -Carjets rr Eno full membership of the churches is 9 033, with is the regulnr SI.25 Oxfords, and No church in ihe conference is so highly be remembered by those who were so fortunate The committee men of our Y. M. C. A. sai $8.00 $8.00 $8.00 a list of probationers of 1,862. The amount favored with an invested property as the Knight as to hear it. down to a very nice tea at the rooms, Monday paiJ for salaries of ministers the last vear was the above price is for a short time Memorial Church of Calais. A new society An overflow meeting was held in the First evening of last week. The Ladles Auxiliary $60,686 There are 195 Sunday schools within They are just as good style and has been formed at West Tremont, and a two- Baptist Church, Rev. E. S. Gahan preaching. lutmsbed the eatables, and as usual, lef> only. the boundaries of the Conference, wiih an en­ A SPECIALTY. story hall, formerly used as a dance hall, has In Farwell Opera House at 2 .30 o'clock an nothing to be desired, and that’s just about quality as this season’s Coats, rolled membership or 11,146. This conference been purchased and dedicated as a Methodist able sermon was preached by Rev. H. E Foss what the committee men Jell when they cot - raised last year $2,610 lor missions, and $1,164 Church. The societies at Milltown, Alexander of Bangor, which was followed by the ordina­ eluded supper—nothing. After the feasting E. W . Berry & Co. but only a few sizes remain in for the conference claimants. The Woman’s and Pembroke have built commodious chapel tion of elders and deacons by the bishop. Foreign Missionary society has a large num­ the various cuninilitees reported, showing ih» each lot, so take your pick of cottages at the East Machias campground, the In the evening the anniversary of the associatin’* work to be in excellent condition ber of thriving auxiliaries in the churches; the Orrington parsonage has been rebuilt, ar.d a Woman’s Foreign Missionary Society was held Chairman Bicknell of the Library Committee Woman’s Home Missionary Society has fewer FINE FOOTWEAR. them while they last for only parsonage started at Penobscot with good pro­ in the M E. Church. 3 be various city chinches reported 1050 volumes In the library and ibtn auxiliaries, and these were recently establish­ spects. Other improvements are reported were supplied Sunday evening as follows: proceeded io raise money for the purchase < f ed and are not properly nurtured. 88.00 each. from other pluces. First Baptist, Rev. A. J. Lockhart; Congre­ a set of Ency clopedia Britannica, Globe edition, gational, Rev. A. W. C. Anderson; Universal- Fuller & C obb CONFERENCE BUSINESS. The Ea»t Maine Conference Seminary at 25 volumes. The money was raised and tin 1st, Rev. V. P. Wardwell; Freewill Bapiist, Conference proper opened Tuesday at ten Bucksport is in excellent condition. books will be purchased at once. For the same reason we offer an­ Rev. A F. Chase Ph D , is principal with Rev. F H. Morgan. o’clock with the examination of classes, al­ Sunday afternoon the Thomaston Baptist other lot of 815 Spring Over­ ARE SELLING though clergymen began to arrive Sunday and six assistants. The school was founded in A portion of one ol the clashes in the Gram­ 1850; pupils, 575; value of grounds, buildings, und Methodist Churches held a union service, mar School, which wished to pursue a certain |Uonday, the train Monday evening landing a Rev. S. L. Hanscom being the preacher. coats for Loudly delegation. Ai 7 30 o’clock Tuesday etc., #30 000; endowment, #25 500; volumes course ot studv in History, is making use ol in library, 3800; value of apparatus, #1500; a lot of Double Width Dress Goods 'evening a powerful union meeting wus held, books from the Y. M '• A. library. number ot specimens in cabinet, 2500; income Mo n d a y 's c l »b ik g . fo r...... led by Rev. 8. L. Hanscom. from tuition, #4200; income from other sources, The closing session of the conference wus The recent addition ol me Biitunnica to lb» SI3.Q0 Each. G l- - 4 « $1200. There is no indebtedness. library will prove an accommod ui-»n to very WEDNESDAY’S PR' 0EED1NQS. held yesterday morning at 3 45 in order to B a ngor D is t r ic t .— Rev. B. C. Wentworth ullow the bishop io take the early morning many of our people, who cannot nfford a set o' The goods are a Brown and Form er price 12 1 2o. Wednesday morning at five o’clock a sun­ Presiding Elder: the books. G“’.s train The appointments were announced at White Pin Head Check, and are rise meeting was held.led by Rev. J. R. Clifford. No pastors have died during the year. Two that session as follows : At 8.30 ibe conference met in prayer meeiing, A bout for visitation work has been securer local preachers, N. R. Miner and Daniel War­ Bu c k spo r t D is t r ic t . bv the committee, tor which atwiut #12 remain- the best wearing goods we have Two cases of the Best Prints in short led by Rev. W. T Jewell. At nine o’clock the ren, have died. In July a new church was con lei ence was formally opened and the sacra­ unpaid. The boat had Income a mcessitv and lengths and remnants...... dedicated at Limestone, at a cost of #2000, all the committee having an opportunity secured in stock. A good trade for you, ment of the Lord's supper administered to paid ; Orono church remodelled at an expense Ad'ilaon...... *u| piled by II B Haskell dexaiider, Cooper and Muddy- It and now ask the friends of the woik to assis O