The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1890-05-21
MAINE TOWNS,
Bethel.

luS SedSOus 4u6 hOCko HOuSe Will De 1ulI
the first of July. Every room is engaged for
| the season.
The ladies connected with the M. E. Social
| Circle met with Mrs. G. S. Littlehale last
Thursday. The following officers were cleo
ted for the ensuing year:
| President-Mrs. Abiel Chandler.
Secretary-Mrs. H. c. Andrews.
Ireasurer-Mrs Mary G. Bean.
Committee on Work-Mrs. Mary G. Bean, Mrs.
| Z. Bisbee, Mrs. j. Fox.
Quarterly meeting will be held at the M.
L. church Sunday, June LIST. Elder Adams
Of Lewiston will preside.
Union services will be held in the Congre-
gational church Memorial Sunday, May 25th.
Brown Post No. "a, G. A. R., will attend.
Rev. F. E. Barton, pastor of the Unlversalist
church, will preach the memorial sermon.
| Mayor Melcher of Portland will deliver
| the memorial Grafton at the First Congrega-
tional church Friday evening, May 30th.
The exhibition by the students of Gould's
Academy will be held at Ideal Hall, May
| 22d. After the exhibition beautiful flag
will be presented to the Academy building.
Patriotic speeches by several of the Grand
Army boys and graduates of the school will
be in order. The Union Choral, Mr.. j. j.
Gehring, director, will furnish music for the
The dumb bell class of the Athletic As
ISOLATION will repeat the drill given at their
first exhibition some two weeks ago.
Il rained almost every day last week.
Grass Is looking finely, and fruit trees are
promising full fruitage.
Prof. Wight has been engaged as chorister
OF the choir of the M. e. church.
Mr.. and Mrs. Francis Barker are very
feeble and sinking slowly.
Mrs. John Howe of Swans Hill is danger
ously rich. Her recovery is very doubtful.
Rev. Mr.. Record, the new pastor of the M.
Il. church, seems to possess wonderful
power OF drawing full houses.
now launched on the river and is ready for
business.
Mr.. A. M Bean left here last week for
Byron gold mines. More of our boys will
follow soon.
Mr.. Daniel Grover and son, who left here
last fall for California to spend the winter,
are very. much pleased with the country
there and have made up their mind TO settle
in that section.
Our assessors have completed the tax lists
for the ensuing year and the books have
been given to the collector.
The census enumeration for this town is
Leslie Mason. son of o. 81. Mason, Esq.
North Yarmouth.
William P. johnson has purchased the
farm lately owned by Mr.. E. G. Chase of
Deering.
E. M. McIntire, who has been clerking for
l. 5. Stanwood for the past four years, has
gone to Portland to work for E. M. Steach-
man & Co.
The following delegates have been chosen
by the Congregational Sunday school, to at
tend the Sunday school convention in Port
land this week, Edwin T. Haskell, Mrs j.
Kimball, Mrs. Wyer and Miss E. 6. Osgood.
IN MISS lk. Mabel Winn Of West Falmouth. is
Rowe Of Cumberland in District No. 9.
Miss Edith Rowe who is teaching at South
Windham, spent Sunday at home.
-Four tne monuments have been erected
this spring In Walnut cemetery, by the fam
lilies Of Mr.. A. S. Dunn, Mr.. Daniel Thorn
son, Mr.. Edward Hayer, and Mr.. William
Doten. The first three were the work of Mr.
f. B. Malet of Freeport
Frank Marston has gone to New Glouces-
Sherman.
SHERMAN MILLS.
The spring remains cold and backward;
quite an amount of sowing grain has been
can be done on wet land as yet. Grass is
looking splendidly. The forest is putting
on the green. The drives are progressing
finely. and nearly all the brook drives are
turned out into the rivers, and are safe.
Memorial services next Sunday. the 18th,
at the congregational church. Rev. A. A.
Murch of Sherman delivers the address be-
fore Asbury Caldwell Post G. A. r. in Sher-
man Memorial Day; Rev. E. K. Drew of
OF Hodgdon Lame, before Hancock Post at
Sherman before Edwin Rogers Post at
Patten.
La grippe still fingers in Sherman. Mrs,
Margaret +. Caldwell, aged about &c. is re-
covering from q severe attack, and Hon.
James w. Ambrose is confined to his bed
with the disease.
Gray.
DRY MILLS.
The cold and frequent rain has caused
tie season ia Is late f6e grass IS looking finely
with but little winter killed.
Mr.. Lendal Golf and wife and Mr.. Eugene
Golf and wife of Cumberland Mills were
visiting at F. E. Goff's Saturday and Sun
day.
Mrs. Mary Mcintosh has gone to North
Gray to keep house for Fred S. Mcdonald.
Mr.; Charles Knight has moved into Hugh
Mr.. Eben Haines is painting Charles E.
Libby's house.
Mr.. George Wentworth. of Saco, was in
the neighborhood Saturday.
Joseph 81. Shaw has returned from his
visit at Lewiston.
corham.
Next Sunday evening at the usual hour
there will be union service at the Congre-
gational church Sermon by Mr. Reynolds
before the j. r. Adams Post, G. A. r. In
the afternoon the Post is invited by Mr..
Pratt of the North street M. E. church, to
attend the services there at 230. DR.. Whit
aker of the Chestnut street church, Port
land, has accepted the invitation to deliver
an address in the School street M. E. church
before the G. A. r. Post on Memorial Day.
Mr.. f. 81. Emery has moved back into his
store, after having very extensive repairs
done. .@.
Mrs. Pickering and niece, Miss Libby, of
Portland, are spending few weeks in town.
aSaccarappa.
The railroad commi ssioners at their ses-
sion at Augusta on petition of the selectme1
of Westbrook for laying out two roads
across the track of the Portlsnd & Roches-
ter Railroad at Saccarappa, adjudged that
public convenience only required the laying
out of one road, and that said road, to be
called Central street, be laid out as prayed
for.