The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1891-08-06

Harraseeket House.
Mr.. Charles A. Gushing was In town Wed
nesqay, looking over the new shoe factory.
He hopes to be ready for work by the 10Th Of
September.
FINE COLLECTION OF BIRDS.
A very fine collection Of native birds
| (stuffed) Is to be seen in the office of e. b.
Mallet. They are principally Maine salt
water birds, such es frequent the waters of
| Casc0 Bay. They were shot by Messrs, K,
e. Pinkham and w. G. Merrill, aud mounted
by Mr.. Charles F. Jordan, of Owen & Moore,
Portland. The mounting is splendidly
done and the specimens are well worth the
attention Of anyone, who wishes to know the
birds that frequent home waters. There is q
sea pigeon, shot by Mr.. Merrill, a very rare
bird, which any hunter. is lucky to bring
down. The sea pigeon lives at sea and is
rarely seen in the bay. 1t Is an ocean bird
| standing about eight inches high. Another
bird found In the collection, but rarely seen
| inshore, is the Mother Carey chicken, a sort
| OF web-f0oted blackbird Two handsome
and imposing birds are the male and female
goosander. better known as fresh water shell
drake. They are larger than the domestic
| duck, also some larger than the black or
dusty duck which stands beside them. Both
the goosander and dusty, duck are difficult
and female "Old Squaw" ducks are
more familiar and less difficult game, az
| though 1t is not often that anyone gets finer
specimens than the two In this collection
Lnere is also very fine bluebill. a large
duck common In the West,.but rare capture
Tor Maine sportsman Beside this fine
representative of the duck family stands an
| Arctic sea bird, two-thirds as large as the
| blleblll: The ice bird Is seen in Casco Bay
only In the coolest weather of winter. An
| other rare bird in this region is the snowy or
Arctic owl. They are occasionally seen
about Casco Bay. there. being an unusual
number Of them last winter. They are as
| large as the largest Maine owls. There is
| also small barred owl. Othe more common
but interesting birds are the widgeon, whist
Ter, dipper, loon, heron gull, fish-hawk, and
| hnally, monarch OF all, a magnificent Ameri-
can eagle, which Mr.. u. B. Coffin robbed the
| skies of.
| PownaI.
Mr.. and Mrs. True Warren have been en-
PERTAINING In their beautiful home at Cliff
| Farm for the Fast week Mr.. and Mrs. Wesley
| Jones, MISS Nettie Jones, Mrs. G. A. Dyer
ana son. Mrs; l.; A; Brown and Miss Nellie
sawyer, all of Portland On Saturday, Mr..
Z. ): Hall also of Portland, Joined the party,
coming from Portland ON wheel and making
the distance OF Is miles in just hours and
10 minutes. For the benefit of those who in
tend spending few days in the country and
desire a thoroughly good time, we would
particularly notice hay-rack drive, taken
by this merry party while here, and which.
py them, was pronounced so enjoyable that
they wished their friends acquainted with
the facts. Mr.. Arthur Noyes, one of our
young farmers who is very obliging and al |
ways ready for good time, offered his team |
and services for the occasion. and after max |
Ing all possible arrangements under the cir |
cumstances for the comfort of his passengers,
gave them an airing which to use the very /
words OF one OF the patty ''was too delightful |
Tor anything; fully verifying the old adage-
that variety Is the spice of life."
1t Is now thought probable that children's |
Sabbath will be observed at the Congrega-
tlonal church on Aug. 23rd. As 1t could not |
be observed on the day usually set apart for
MO rnrhk 4 H.
until the last OF the present month. The
pastor has had the matter in charge and will
make every effort to have an interesting pro-
gIamme 1t is hoped that there will be
| full attendance on this day.
/ Mrs: Effie Marsh and children have re-
turned to their home in Boston. Her sister,
| Miss Julia Merrill, accompanied her on
| brief visit.
Mrs. Frank Staples and her young son,
from Lewiston. is at Mr.. G. Ii. Hodsdon's.
She is to remain here during the month of
August
Mrs. Ernest True has returned to Portland,
but Mrs. Norman True will remain here
some weeks longer on account of delicate
health.
Miss Claire Sweetsir, of Cumberland. has
been for the past week visiting her relatives
In this place.
Miss Lizzie and Emma Chapman, of Port
land, spent last Sunday at their uncle's, Mr..
VIM. G. Brown.
Miss Annie Akers. who has been boarding
JOE some months at Mr.. A. d. Sweetsir's,
left for the islands last week. She will re-
main there for short time after which she
intends visiting her relatives in st. John, N.
Mrs. Martha Mason and her young niece,
MISS Allie Huse, OF Woburn, Mass, have re-
Gently been In town.
Yarmouth.
The champion Ladies Base Ball Club, now
travelling and playing through the state,
oil of ho
mouths grounds on Friday, the 9TH, at 4
o'clock p. m. A novel and interesting
game may be expected.
Burglars entered the grocery store Of j. r.
HOPKINS at the Falls, by back window and
by cutting out panel In door gained ac-
cess TO the front shop. Some five dollars In
money was taken. The same gang probably,
broke lnt9 the fish market the night before
and got about seven dollars, which the pro-
prietOr inadvertently left there over night.
There is no clue, as usual.
The Hall Moving Machine Company, of
Portland, at the instance Of the Yarmouth
Manufacturing Company, have recently given
several exhibitions OF the working of their
new machine In our village and vicinity. The
Yarmouth Company was organized for the
purpose OF inducing some new industries to
locate on our water powers, which are among
the best in the state, and as the moving ma
chine company are looking for suitable
place to locate their plant, it is possible that
they may come tn Yarmouth. The recent
newspaper reports that proposition had
been made, and that the company at Var
mouth had had meeting to consider the
same, Is erroneous to say the least, as no
proposition has as yet been made by either
patty 1t may be expected, however, that as
favorable opinion has been expressed re-
garding the sites and facilities afforded here,
that some definite statement may be made in
the near future concerning the location of
this large and desirable manufacturing indus
try in our midst.
The bprinaafon Studanto ,,orr ~, n ,,oon
ton trip, Will hold evangelist meetings at
this place beginning next Sunday at the First
Parish church. The band consists of Mr.. F. |
). Pearson, who conducts the services, and |
quartette consisting of W. A. Leayens. p, |
Z. Bliss, r. S. GOldsbury and p. W. Gods |
bury. The services are said to be very in
terestiDg, and all are cordially invited to at.
tend.
Brunswick.
A: A; Hall, who has been quite sick, is
gradually improving.
DIR. g. ID. Coombs is visiting in Waldo
bor0
Prof. F. G. Robinson left last week for a
trip to Europe. He makes the fourth of last
years faculty of BowdoiE that is In Eu-
rope.
Rev. j. IL. Little and family, formerly of
this town, will pass their vacation at Look
out Point during August They have passed
August at Lookout for nine years past
FRANKLIN Adams Of this town, Senior Vice
NommonuCA VI inc department Oh maine, u.
AR. is attending the National Encampment
at Detroit.
Will Bowker, of this town, who has fine
position as bookkeeper in Grangeville, Cal,
writes home that he likes there very much.
The firm by which he is employed, does an
annual business of about $50, 900, and has an
orchard Of $50 acres in prunes.
The late K. @, Allen III Auousto bod n
contract with the Bowdoin Paper Mannfac-
turing Company for 80 tons of paper ner
| month. P"poi poi
| Inc Ferry store on Main street is up to
Baldwin.
AT WEST BALDWIN CAMP.
Tie preaching Tuesday evening was Inv
Elder o. S. French of Dover, Me- 1t was a
very timely and practical discourse. Wed.