The Portland daily press., 1889-08-21

gia Mrs. Louisa Jordan and daughter, Bos-
ton; Miss Lena, Merrill, Beverly, Mass; W.
Edwin Latham, Portland; E. w. Merrill,
Williamstown, Mass. Miss Jessie Hodsdon,
Falmouth: Mrs. Circuit and son, Miss Louise
Circuit, Boston; Will Mitchell, Boston; III. E.
Reed, and wife, Haverhill, Mass.
oxford.
Paul Halves and Sam Matthews of Nor
way came to Oxford on Sunday last and be-
Ing intoxicated were soon engaged In a
drunken brawl in which both were badly
punished and !5, the buggy demolished: When is
nude condition and perfectly frantic, run
ming up and down the street. They were
allowed to depart but will be prosecuted.
Oxford Division Sons of Temperance is
fast increasing in numbers.
Many OF our citizens are attending camp
meeting at Poland.
Many strangers and city boarders are
stopping in town.
The Harper N. F. N. G. Co. resumes BUSH
ness this week.
An unusual amount of drunkenness is re-
after.
Several large fields of grass are yet uncut
and though dead at the top are still green at
the bottom and of considerable value.
OtisfieId.
Seven cases of typhoid fever are reported
in the east part of the town. Among them
are the entire family of Sumner I'll. Ward
well. The sanitary condition of the prem
ises is said to be bad, but we are informed
that no board of health has been appointed
as.yet.
E. B. & l.. L. Jillson are entertaining a
large number of summer boarders. E. N.
Jillson has built spacious blacksmith and
carriage shop.
Deacon Shaw, the newly appointed post
master at South Otisfield has received his
commission.
The potato crop is nearly ruined. and the
lima beans considerably injured by rust.
Potatoes are rotting badly on all the low
lands.
Many meadows are yet uncut, and some of
the uplands.
C.. F. Hancock is selling out his stock of
goods preparatory to taking western tour
of observation.
Winthrop.
Mr.. W. E. Carter of Portland has been
spending few days in Winthrop, the guest
of Mr.. and Mrs. N. A. Fairbank.
The annual meeting of the Maine State
Jersey Cattle Association will be held in this
place on Saturday afternoon at 2 o'clock.
Rev. Mr.. Means of Augusta preached at
the Congregational church Sunday, the 18th.
Miss Annie Wing returned Wednesday
from visit to Mrs. Ada Cary Sturgis at
Durham.
l.. T. Carlton, Esq, will deliver the adj
dress at the reunion of Androscoggin Dis
trict Association, G. A. r., at Livermore
camp ground on Friday, August 23d.
j. e. Snow of Boston has been spending
few days with friends in Winthrop.
Cape elizabeth.
A party of young people from Pond Cove
took trip to the Waldo Friday. They were
very pleasantly entertained by the proprie-
tor, Mr.. j. b. Reed. There were between
forty and fifty guests there. Mr.. III. G. Hill,
of Dnnd Coua q oIprk at tho hotal
The Union S. S. of Pond Cove will have
their picnic at the ''Two Lights" next Thurs
day.
Rev. II. NJ. Vail and wife, of Connecticut,
arrived Tuesday night of last week to attend
the funeral of her mother, Mrs. M. j. Web
ster.
Rev. VIM. III. Jordan of New JeI sey spent
several days of the past week with relatives
at Pond Cove.
East HarpsWeiI.
Overs Cove is a fayorite resort for the
French inhabitants of Brunswick. Every
Sunday large numbers of them come down
to take picnic dinner in the grove. Last
Sabbath there were seventy there.
There is, on the farm OF 5. s: Kemp, a nat,
ural curiosity in the form OF deep round
hole, smoothly excavated in the solid rock,
about 20 inches across and the same In
depth. 1t is water-tight, and is said to have
been used by the Indians as mortar IN
which to pound their maize. Whether
formed by them for that purpose, or a relic
OF the glacial PERIOD is not known about
here.