The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1889-12-23
THE PRESS.
MONDAY MORNING, DEC. 90.
MAINE TOWNS.
Cam Elizabeth.


Pursuant to a call by the secretary of the
memorial committee, organized last spring,
a number of veteran soldiers of the town
met at the Town House Saturday
evening to discuss the advisability
of forming vete ran association. Although
owing to abomnably bad travelling there
was meagre attendance the spirit and en-
thusiasm manifested were unbounded The
proposed organization was declared formed
and every soldier in the town was voted a
member. A careful canvass of the town by
Comrade Hiram Ellis shows 50 living resi-
dent veterans. After appropriate and pa
tri0tic remarks ON the subject by Comrades
Mccain, Hanna, Goddard and others, action
was taken on the proposition to provide a
flag for the Cape Elizabeth High school,
and Cd motion of Comrade Hanna every
member present contributed 81 each as q
nucleus to the necessary purchasing fund.
A committee was then appointed to confer
with Mr. Hawkes.. the High school proprie-
tor, also with the town authorities In rela-
ton to the matter. A committee was also
named, one person in each section of the
town. to solicit subscriptions from the sol
dier citizens, 1t being desirable that the pro-
posed patriotic enterprise be confined to and
carried out entirely by the veterans. The
meeting was then adjourned till next Satur-
day evening, when the association will meet
again to report progress made and adopt
plans for the future. In view of the forego-
ing the public may be assured that beauti-
full copy of the national ensign and a nne
flagstaff from which to displayy, 10 VIII az M, an
early day float over the Cape EllzaDeth Hlgh
school and Town House.
the corner Of Broadway and Cottage roads,
owned for many years past by Ii. ID. Marble,
Esq, has been sold by that gentleman to
parties In Portland. The present tenants
have been notified that the purchasers will
occupy the house on and after February 1st
next.
The late rains having broken up the ice at
Mill Creek, the smelt fishers are catching
some splendid strings of the transparent and
toothsome beauties. Scarcity OF proper bait
Is serious drawback to successful indul-
geDce In the sport.
Mr.. j. B. Chase's new tenement house on
Broadway is up again and in somewhat
more advanced stage of completion than it
was when demolished by the late Thanks
giving gale.
The selectmen and surveyors are still at
work repairing damages to the roads by the
late storm.
Private Christmas trees are to be popular
this season and almost every pater-
familias one meets has tree on his back
bearing 1t homeward.
A new cylinder is being put into the Cor
nelia I'll. to facilitate her being fastened to
the drop. 1t is operated by steam valve in
Mr.. Joseph S. Pickett has been engaged as
teacher of the school at Ligonia.
Mr.. Charles K. Hayes, night yard master
OF tue Maine Central railroad at Portland,
Miss Addie M. Pillsbury of Turner's Island.
The Royal Sisterhood cleared 1881 "a at
their fair.
Brunswick.
The iron span for the Androscoggin bridge
built by the King Bridge Company, has ar
rived, and gang of skilled workmen from
New York is now engaged in its erection.
The new Baptist church is now finished,
and W II be dedicated next Sunday. The old
church on Main street will be- occupied by
the Salvation Army until next spring, when
1t will be taken down, and Mr' Jordan Snow
Will erect a handsome three-stOry brick Dusi-
ness block on the lot, 71Xl00 feet
The pedestrian match here last week, won
by Morrison with 81 miles in three hours.
seems to have been a success, as bills are out
for another matcn Christmas night.
A large gang of workmen is now engaged
In filling up the land back of the new freight
depot to the level of the rest of the yard.
work which requires an immense amount of
dirt. The coal sheds have been taken from
their present. position right in the centre of
the yard, and set up again some distance up
the track, clearing the way for the most Ca
pacious yard on the road outside of Portland
Next spring the mu0h needed new passenger
depot is to be erected
Mr.. Scott ellison of Portland sis here In
the employ of Mr.. I'll. G. Baxter.
DIR. j. w. Curtis, Mr.. Alonzo Day and Mr..
Ira T. Booker have just returned from two
weeks tour to Texas. and tue new city of
Denison. which il now undergoing boom"
They report a very pleasant trip, and are
very enthusiastic over the country and the
city OF Dennis0n. People here who are in
terested in Button, Ala, are also much
pleased at the favorable reports of the con-
dltlon Of things at that place, and the rise
IN the value of the real estate.
Inc Brunswick Art Club has opened its
rooms for its annual Christmas sale. Some
very beautiful things may be seen there
As result of the strike in Shaw's shoe
factory in Freeport some 20 work.
men living in Brunswick go over every day
to work in the shop, being carried by the
railroad for II cents the round trip. In
Freeport they are not able to buy anything
from the stores, which have b0ycotted them.
They return to Brunswick every night,
and go to work on the morning train.
Saccarappa.
The machinery from portion of the leath-
eTboard mill has been sold to parties in
Milton. N. a., and is now being removed to
that place.
s. ID. Warren g. Co., are building side
track ON the Maine Central track near the
depot at Cumberland Mills.
There Is a rumor that new manufacture
Ing firm is to occupy the counter factory
soon.