Courier-Gazette. V o lu m e 48. ROCKLAND, MAINE, TUESDAY, AUGUST 22, 1893. Entered na Reennd OIkm Mall Matter. N i OLDEST AND BEST EQUIPPED. CITY CHAT. is now being built, although there was LOCAL LACONICS. land ’lis too busy to think ot anything putty. Granite Block will be busy goods. It’s as neat and tasty a a wooden sidewalk there which would except business. place when they get to work. as one often sees. Here and There About Our Rapidly have served at least for another month, Newsy Notes and Brief Mention St. Clair Bros. & Co. expect to move * * j Rankin Block is certainly Growing Rockland. Home Happenings. while the people on Broad street exten­ to Sea stroet early in September. Rockland sent 115 excursionists to the ' swim! sion hnvo no walk nt nil. We hope the Sunday School Convention at Nobleboro, N inti resting in- Some of our local gardeners complain ♦ • Road Commission doesn’t intend to Thursday morning. Prescott & Dunoan have bought the s I a 1 i m e n t of of small potatoes and rotten at that. Tlie Merrill residence, oornor of Main wait until another Fall’s mud is upon us "R o c k 1 n n d in nnd Granite streets, the only granite Dr. O. L. Bartlett horse. before Broad street gets its sidewalk. • • Days of Long What an awfully eroupy whistle the residence in the city, is being painted Another house goes upon the Camden Frank Jones has! and receiving other repairs. Road, near Fred Gregory's now house. A half dozen sailors only are under REOPENS-SEPTEMBER flth, 1893. Ago” will be In these times of financial distress The cellar is dug and partly stoned. treatment at the marine hospital. Book keeping, Shorthand, Penmanship and a found in thia issuo. rumors of all sorts are current regarding As we h ive before GENERAL FITTING FOR BUSINESS the failure of this or thnt firm. It is Miss Melvina Starrett has a new cot­ A sernb game of baseball was This Institution has a reputation for thorough J. R. Richardson 19 taking a great A. H. Newbert’s new house on Sleep­ nens, practicality,and originality of ovet fifty years stated our correspondent is writing en­ always thus, nnd our city hns not es tage house nearly completed on Biroh played at Oakland Tuesday nfternoon Standing, nnd refers to 28,000 past students. tirely from memory, and if thete should deal of pride in his handsome flower er’s Hill (or Amsbury Hill as hns heen Annual prospectus and beautiful specimens of caped the contagion. The past two or street. There was great sport and mashed fin­ penmnnship mailed free upon application. Address, be any mistakes wo stall bn glad to gers. E. B. Spear has an elegant garden this season. He has some very suggested) is nearly finished oxteriorily. three weeks we have been hearing the • • C. E C O M E R , P r in c ip a l. 28 35 have them corrected. The installment most absurd and ridiculous tales of bus­ swelled digit fine n9ters. “ How many varieties have «00 W ashington St.,(Cor Beach 8t.)Boston In 1881 Rockland’s Telephone Ex­ Electric cars leave lor Thomaston and in this issue lakes us along Union street, iness failures nbout town—stories so you?” aster a reporter of T he C.-G. change bad 80 ’phones, now it numbers Camden nfter tho Crocker Recital in from Pleasant to Masonic. Our next palpably absurd nnd improbable that no Ibrn Ripley has resigned the position "Six” was the answer, “and all beau­ 120 odd. ties.” Farwell Opera Houso, Wednesday even­ installment will begin with the o ld person of sane mind could possibly re­ of collector for the I. O. O. F. Grnded Mutual Relief Association, and A L. ing. Universalist Church. gard them seriously. But such 9tories C. M. Tibbetts and A1 Tower shot Richardson has been chosen in his The repairs being made on the Gen. arc very annoying nnd frequently work oight large Highland plovers at tho J. A. Babbidgo will get into his new place. B-rrv and N. A. Burpeo Hose Houses More complaints come in of loose great damage. In some places, Denver, Marsh, Tuesday. houso, Maverick street, about the mid- show just how much repnlrs were .. , „ , , paper in the streets a n d ‘l ightened horses Colo , for instance, wild rumors without • • The eity blacksmiths have been getting needed. Tho buildings were in a very die of September. Edw. W ade is build- There is a city ordinance bearing upon a shadow of foundation caused the great ing it. Bay Point’s patrons this year come tho flyers ready for Wednesday’s races dangerous condition. The contracts this nui-anee, and it should he enforced, panic. Now T he C.-G. would give a AND largely from New York. That Now Jam es Simmons had four of ’em in his call (or proper arrangements lor the care School of Shorthand & Typewriting, and the police department does enforce little advice. When you hear a rumor, York is quite a town. shop. Wednesday, fitting up for the of the file hose, and as one of the fire de­ Sneak thieves have boon getting in 390 Congress St., opp. City Hall, it as far as possible Wliat is needed dear reader, of the failure of this or their work lately. Rockland needs two • • ooulests, nnd thoy were fine looking partment ofHuials said : “Enough will PORTLAND, ME. is for our citizens individually to con­ that party don’t repeat it! Keep it to Yacht Serkara or some such outland­ auimals, too! be saved on hose in a few years to pay more regular patrolmen to properly pro­ stitute themselves joint special com­ yourself! It costs nothing to bo thought­ • • tect our people. Srvn f o r C atalogue. A ddress^ ish name with seven yachtsmen aboard the entire cost of tne repairs. mittees to see that the nuisance is ful of others in such times, nnd thought­ F. W. Covel is getting out some extra A. GRAY 4 S O N . was at Bay Point, Tuesday, P roprietors abated. Don't throw paper hags into fulness of others may prove our own fine gold-plating for Wingate, Simmons Perry Bros, are repairing one of their gutters. We saw a citizen the other snivation. Rockland is all right! Our & Co., the Union carriage makers. Sereno T. Spear, a well known Rock­ kilns. They are putting some immense John M. Dunn has just completed a CITY OF ROCKLAND. , day eat the peaches from a / .• bag businoss men are all right! Our finan­ “ Mr. Covel,” we heard a carriage man land boy, writes as follows in renewing bands around it. B. B. Bean, the black­ SPECIAL NOTICE. nice grading job at tho new residence smith, made ’em. and then throw the hag inti me street. cial institutions are all right! Lot's keop say, not long ago, “does the nicest his subscription to T he C -G.: “ It is a I now have the tax bills ready for 1R93, payable of Geo. W. Smith, Summer street. Angust 10, Interest comm encing O ctober 15. If bis family horse had just then come ’em all rig h t! carriage trimming work of any man in welcome visitor in our family from our All taxes to be paid at my office, 423 Main street, «-• He wns a Rockland man, and he ' over Grockett and Lovejoy’s store. Office hours along und some of his family had been the state.” It’s only another case of dear old homo, and we do not know how 9 to 12 a. m., 1 to 3 p. ni. and 7 to 8 evenings, injured in the runaway that ensued The reduction in city taxes this year Dexter Simmons’ new house, Knox we could get along without it.” Mr. ited in Waldoboro. “Going to tub 31 E. S. FARWELL. Rockland being largely in it. when the nervous horse saw the paper is heartily appreciated just about now, street, is rapidly approaching comple­ Spear is a member of the firm of Sea- any saur kraut this year?" he asked bag whisking about in the wind, that when the dollars aro scarce and business tion. He will have a very cosy home verns & Spear, North Scituate, Mass., his Waldoboro host. “Oh I just a lit' Advertised Taxes. K. C. Rankin, who is passing tho most same citizen would have realized tliat dull, and such reduction in taxes is very proprietors of a big variety store. The for sickness !” said the Waldoboro 1 The nine months having expired, all tuxes on of the Summer at the Simpson House Real Estate for the vear 1892 now remaining unpaid loose paper in the street is a dangerous significant when we realize that notwith­ husines is a prosperous one and was es­ .. unlcts paid before wept. 1st, 1893, will be adver At Crawford’s Pond, Tuesday, Ernest on Tuesday last, near Easter’s Cove, nuisance. Ho should have eaten the standing the reduction in taxes our per­ tablished in 1823. A North-end truckman carted sevi Used and sold as the law directs. All tuxes art- II. Perry nnd George Merrifield cap­ caught a mackerel that was 19 1-2 now drawing ten per cent Interest, payable at my hag or carried it home. There is not so manent improvement moves steadily barrels ef tar the other day. 'The 1 office, 106 Main S treti Office open every day, tured 68 pickerel and 8 perch.