The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1892-04-27
MAINE TOWNS.
Items of Interest Gathered by Cores
pondents of the Press.
Cape Elizabeth.

P Cape Elizabeth.
News has been received by Mrs. Soule
of Knightville of serious accident to
her brother Captain Charles Orr, form
erly of this town, now employed in the
construction of the breakwater at Rock
port, Mass. Under the straining of
heavyweight stone, the trip-chain parted,
the flying end of the chain striking Orr
in the face, crushing the check-bone and
badly cutting the flesh. He narrowly es-
capped death blow.
The South Portland Loan and Building
Association is doing an active business.
At its two last weekly meetings it made
loans to citizens aggrcgating between
$4,000 and s5000 Shareholders are being
added to the list almost daily. This in
stitution is not only adding many new
and tasteful buildings to the town. but also
does a commendable work in helping the
worthy and Industrious to own their own
homes.
The Heber Hotel at Pond Cove is now
all boarded in and the roof shingled. The
building is substantial looking and COM
modious, and has fine location. An
artesian well will furnish water supply.
Mr.. W. f. Trask of Woodfords, is drilling
the well. He has reached depth of IS
feet and obtained flow of 1000 gallons
per day.
The unofficial status Of the Sebago
water question in town is about as fol
lows. The anti-water men assume to
have positive knowledge that no water
can be introduced, and no contract made
without calling another town meeting.
While the other side are just as positive
thatthe last meeting was as regular and
binding as law can make it, and will hold
water, whether Sebago or any other
kind
| Mr.. Frederick Jordan is making extern
| sive repairs to his fine set of buildings,
and the new house and barn being built
on the cottage road by Mrs. J. B.
Clemans are nearing completion.
SOUTH PORTLAND.
There will be an entertainment in I'm
ion Hall next Friday and Saturday even
ings for the benefit of the South Portland
public library. The programme will
consist of music by the village orchestra
followed by the cantata of Mother Goose.
There will be a chorus of forty school
children-and the solo parts will all rep
resent some character from Mother
Goose in costume. The South Portland
public library was established eight
years ago by the two literary societies
then in existence, the Chautauqua Circle
and Shakespeare Club. From a small be-
ginning of thirty-two volumes it has in
creased to seventeen hundred, all stan
dard and popular works and recent pub
Buxton.
Atan adjourned meeting of the South
Congregational parish, Buxton, held at
the Congregational church April 23d, J.
NJ. Marshall presiding, the following
business was transacted:
Mrs. j. NJ. Marshall was elected secre-
tary, pro tenn. Report Of j. M. Marshall,
treasurer of ministerial and special fund,
read and accepted. Report of treasurer
of Sunday collections read and approved.
The following named officers and COM
mittees were then chosen:
Local Treasurer Edmund Hanson.
Treasurer of Sunday Charlottesville. Chas.
Ways aud Means Conmittee-Dea. Edward
Hanson, Horace Harmon. j. M. Marshall.
Soliciting Committee Mrs. Anna Moulton,
Mrs. j. NJ. Marshall, Ira L. Brackett.
Committee to Hire Minister'S S. Milliken,
DR.. Chas. bennett, George Davis. Chas. Hill,
Mrs Martha 0sgood, Mrs. j. M. Martha Pen
Edgerly.
ushers-Wm. S. Moulton, Sumner B. Mar
shall.
Alternates- Harry Woodman, Horace Palm
err
Voted to have the church buildings in
sured. Voted to open the church for
Sunday school the first Sunday in May.
WEST BUXTON.
Cyrus. F. Davis, Esq, and wife, who
have been spending the winter in Geor-
gia, arrived home Saturday.
The logs are now coming down the
Saco, although the water is not very
high at present.
James Hollingworth, Esq, is having
the house he recently purchased fitted
up quite nicely.
The school on the Buxton side COM
mences Monday.
Meetings are now held Sunday after
noon in the Advent church on the Hollis
side.
Farmers in this vicinity are busy SOW
ing and getting ready for planting.
Porter.
Cold, windy and dry. The rivers are
very low for this time of the year, hinder
ing the lumbermen from getting into
Saco river. Ossipie, Pine, Swift and
Bear Camp rivers are too low for driving.
Farmers are at work ON their farms
sowing peas, oats, and other grain and
planting early potatoes. The ground is
dry but cold. Grass starts slow, not
very promising for hay crop.
Mrs Judith Perkins died from q shock