The Portland daily press., 1892-05-23
BRIEF JoTTINos.

The ducks and geese have been let into
the pond at the Oaks.
Ivanhoe Lodge, Z. of p, will confer
the rank of Page tomorrow evening.
The Casco Bay Company will double
their electric light plant at Peaks Island.
Glass of II P. Ell. S. will celebrate theil
goth anniversary at the Ottawa House
| July 1st.
The homeopathic physicians will have
party at the Portland Club house.
Diamond Island, June Sth.
Wednesday, June 22d, the Bowdoin
class of '62 will have reunion and din
ner at the Falmouth Hotel
John McMinnaman's chimney, 81 Cum
bertrand street, took fire Saturday
Engine ? responded. No damage.
The new pavilion at Little Diamond,
located on Bishop Healey's property, is
completed and will hold about 1000.
The lantern slide exhibition of the
Portland Camera Club was postponed
Saturday on account of the storm until
tonight.
Mr.. Harry Brown will keep his studio
open and continue the sale of his pic
lures this week. The studio is in Mot
ley block.
1t is probable that St. Alban Com
mandery will celebrate st. John day by
a trip to Bridgton with Chambers band.
The ladies will go.
The town of Cape Elizabeth and the
Standish Water and Construction Com
pany have signed the contract for intro
ducing Lake Sebago water into the town.
The Casco Bay line will begin an early
trip from Long Island the middle of the
week, leaving the island at $40 a. m.
The return from the city will be at 6.10
p. m.
Capt. M. E. Conley and Privates G. J.
Carlin and M. F. Dooley have drawn up
for the Sheridan Rifles appropriate re-
solutions on the death of the late D. J,
Crowley.
There were 81 arrests last week of
which 20 were for drunkenness. officers
Heath and Jones arrested Willie Davis of
Bangor, Saturday, for theft of bicycle
in Bangor.
The Cape Elizabeth Sentinel says that
Armour, the great Chicago packer, has
bought the Milton Dyer farm at the
Cape and will erect mammoth sum
mer hotel there.
There will be a picnic supper of the
Martha Washington Society at the vestry
of the Congress street Methodist church
Wednesday evening. Supper will be
served at $50 o'clock.
The chandeliers in city building are to
give way to electric incandescents. The
one in front of the ticket office was
made by prisoners in the Charlestown
state prison % years ago.
A little seven year old boy named
Horace WEIGH fell down two flights of
stairs at the corner of Cumberland and
Casco streets Saturday evening and
escaped with severe bruises.
The Secretary of the Treasury has
awarded contracts for fuel to Randall &
McAlis-- " S1,597, and lumber to S. Fl. &
A. R. Doten for So, 743 for the first and
second lighthouse districts.
Rev. Mr.. Turner of Pleasantdale, Cape
Elizabeth, fell from his wagon, Tuesday,
and although no bones were broken, it
is thought he will be laid up some time
as he is aged and was violently shaken
up.
The Methodist preachers meeting will
be held at 7. M. G. A. rooms this morn
ing at 1890. Topic for discussion to be
opened by G. D. Lindsay and II. Hewitt.
''The Possibilities and Perils of Uniyer-
sity Extension"
At a meeting of the Fresh Air Society
the committee reported donation of
$3.50 from the Free street Sunday school
and tickets from the Casco Bay Steam
boat Company, steamer Phantom and
Portland Railroad Company.
This evening at 7.45 o'clock there will
be meeting in the West Congregational
church to consider the matter of build
ing vestry. All members of the parish
and friends who are interested in the
matter are urged to be present
Two more of the men who made the
attack on Officer Burgess of Cape Eliza
beth, surrendered themselves to the
police Saturday. They are named Quin-
cannon and Eagan. They were SEN
fenced to go days each in Jail and APP
pealed.
It is said that Street Commissioner
Griffin will proceed to make extensive
repairs on the sidewalks. That is good
| news but we doubt if he appreciates the
magnitude of the job. The sidewalks
that require the most attention are those
on the streets where there are trees.
The Portland Company have added a
machine for finishing car wheels and a
cleaning machine for boilers to their
plant. They have sold the Maine Cen
trail five locomotives, and are building so
| log cars for the Saco Valley Lumber
Company and two pulp digesters for the
Harland Falls Company.
The statement and report OF directors
| of the Mechanics Loan and Building AS
ISOLATION of this city, will be found in
| orr adver+isino columns this rnorninu