The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1891-08-01
PERSONAL.

DR.. /. T. Dana will soon make trim To En
rope.
,Ex.Goy. Plaisted was at the United States
hotel yesterday.
Mr.. Watts, of the Philadelphia Press, is
visiting Portland.
Colonel M. F. Wentworth of Kittery vas
in town yesterday.
Miss Sarah V. Rice, who is summering in
Brownfeld. was In town yesterday.
Mr.. Clarence B. Burleigh, editor of the
kennebec journal. was in town Yesterday.
Mr.. Jack Mason. the actor. and his wife,
Marion Nanola, the burlesque actress and
singer, were In Portland yesterday.
Hon. W. ]. Corthell. principal of the Cor
ham Normal School, with his wife and fami-
ly, Is spending the summer at Robbinstoa.
HHon. P. Tolman Of Harrison is in the city
visiting his son, Hon. j. Ii. Tolman, chair
man of the board Of county commissioners.
Ellis 8. Usher. editor of Chronicle La
Crosse, Wisconsin, was in town yesterday.
He Is visiting with his wife his old home in
Bar Mills.
One of the most successful young physi-
clans of Middleton, Conn.,, is DIR. Louise
Griffin, daughter of Mr.. G. p. Griffin, sof
Bridgton.
Miss Grace Luette Newman, preceptress
of North Bridgton Academy, is spending
part of her vacation with her sister, Mrs. l..
A. Gould, High street, Portland.
Mr.. Henry Lewis, former proprietor of
the Preble House, and now OF st. Louis, has
chartered the yacht Vixen and will take a
party OF Portland friends on trip east.
Hon. I. w. Vose and James Adams, ESQ
of Bangor have gone to the western part of
Colorado. They own cattle ranch thirty
six miles north Of Grand junction, and will
make the ranch visit.
Aubrey B. Call. A. B., of Pittsfeld who
graduated from Maine Central Institute in
'S5 and from Bates College in $50, has just
been elected principal of Leland and Gray
Seminary In Townsend, Vt, at a salary of
1000.
Mr.. G. ID. Parshley. of Dexter, with his
sister Mrs. Lucy Thornton of Portland, has
been visiting friends in Sebec, Dover and
SaHgeryille the past week and will spend
next week with friends at Greenville and
the Lake.
Miss Lucy Dorman, of Bolster's Mills, late
teacher OF the intermediate School at Pridg-
ton, is now at Oleander, California. She is
engagedto teach In that place for the coming
school year. and at salary two or three times
as much as is paid for teachers Of the same
grade in Maine. Miss Dorman's many
friends in the East win be glad to hear of
her good health and professional prosperity.
1t will be recollected by those who heard
the lecture on Glaciers by ex-senator Patter-
son OF New Hampshire. at Gibbs Hall, last
winter how he created laugh by his story
OF meeting one day ON the Swiss Alps, his
whilom friend and Congressional associate,
Hon. l.. d. M. Sweat, Of Portland, and out.
walking him in the ascent of one Of the
highest peaks-"left him Sweating far below
and, for all he knew to the contrary, he was
still sweating" Mr.. Sweat, on his recent
visit to this place, was told of his friend
Patterson's joke; wheIeupon he burst into
laughter and exclaimed; "What whopper
The truth is, the case is just the reverse, ]
being the one who left Patterson In the rear
on that occasion, not he me-" Another
Illustration OF the truism that one story's
good till another Is told.-Bridgton News.