The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1891-08-14

Turner and Miss lisa Bailey have gone to
Fryeburg.
weeks on Bailey's Island. AZ"
Mrs. Elizabeth Ingraham of Portland Is
visiting her nephews. d. r. and N. Fl,
Slower. ~ -
A. Lockwood Danielson and a marty of
itieHd Is IRON providence, r. l., are stopping
We have had very warm weather. Mon
day the thermometer stood at 9Os.
Brunswick.
:, A. A. Hall has recovered from his recent
Illness ana is again to be seen on the hack.
owing TO an attack of typhoid fever w n
Butman has been obliged to close his photo.
graph studio for a time and has gone to his
home In Middleboro. Mass.
The Universalist congregation and Sun-
gay school held their picnic at Lookout
Rev. f. E. Carver performed the rite of
ganuc landing. Jun
w. Z. Gordon, who has been attending
PROFESSOR Sulliyan's lectures on embalming'
mas returned home and has receiveda diplo.
bodies to ensure preservation.
Mr. +. w, REYNOLDS has bought out his
partner In the firm Of Reynolds & Cobb. and
will carry on the business under his own
name. he Is very genial, accommodating
man, and has made many friends in town.
The Peiepscot Water Company have had
the filters thoroughly cleansed and filled
with new gravel.
The Electric Light and Power Companv
have got the damage to the dynamo repaired
and the incandescent lights working.
Fire escapes have been put or the box
shop.
The selectmen are having the street sod
ded on the sandy tract on the Bath road. Ii
will be an Improvement.
The Kennebec Steamboat Company are
doing an immense passenger traffic this sea-
son. Figures show that the boats are bring
ing 1900 people from Boston every week.
They are scattered all over Maine and their
coming means the distribution of a large
amount of money.
Landlord Conant Of the Adams House will
not manage that popular resort another
year. but will move to Massachusetts.
Professor William Lawton, the newly
elected professor of Latin at Bowdoin Col
iiege. with his family, Is stopping at the Ton
Miss Ella Smith is at Pennington on Wis
It, after which she will visit her brother at
Denver, Col.
Walter Barron has returned from New
York.
Richmond Elliott, Jr., of New York, ar
rived at Mere Point last week.
:. The blueberries are having hard time Of
1t. Litchtield sent a delegation of eight
teams and Bowdoinham four in one day.
WATERFORD.
SOUTH WATERFORD.
Rev. A. f. Hutchinson and wife. who
have been visiting friends at South Portland
returned home on Thursday last, with health
much improved.
The many friends of Mrs. Hattie Z. Long
ley, wife of l.. K. Longley, whose health has
been failing for nearly year, will regret to
learn that she lies in very feeble state, with
but little hope Of recovery.
The farmers have generally finished their
hayiDg, although their work has been very
much delayed by the dull. showery weather
OF the last two weeks. They have COM
menced cutting their grain, which promises
q good crop IL the weather proves favorable
for harvesting 1t. Very little complaint of
potato rot Is heard.
The Alfred, WATERFORD and Lyman Sun
day School Association will hold union pic
mic In Shaker grove, near South WATERFORD
station, September Cd. Picnic dinner at
noon. In the afternoon there will be speak
ing. singing and concert exercises. II the
day be pleasant, very enjoyable time is ex-
pected.
Sheriff Luke Roberts of Alfred arrested
man at the station here on Monday, who
gave his name as Fred Hodkins, whom he
suspected to be Almy, the New Hampshire
murderer. On the sheriff accompanying
him to Shapleigh, where he claimed to have
acquaintances, he easily proved he was not
the man wanted and was released.