The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1892-06-01
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Fifth Page.
BRIEF JoTTINos.

The police will wear belts when in full
dress on duty.
Mr.. Mason, city electrician, cut his
hand badly while moving packing case
at City Hall Monday.
Highland Castle, No. 2, Z. G. E., will
work the Pilgrims Degree at their regu-
lar session this evening.
It was cloudy and muggy yesterday
morning, with sunshine and occasional
puffs of fog in the afternoon.
The Veteran Blues met last night to
further perfect arrangements for the eel
ebration of their anniversary.
There are about 200 expected from
Lewiston and Auburn at the labor meet
ing Friday evening, and the American
Cadet Band will provide music.
Pine street election of officers was adj
journed Monday night until Friday night
without transacting any business.
The regular monthly meeting of the
Portland Yacht Club will be held at the
club house this evening at s o'clock.
It is rumored that the Boston 6 Maine
will extend its line from Conway to In
tervale on the road bed of the Maine
Central.
The eighth annual meeting of the
Maine Hotel Proprietors' Association
will be held at the Ottawa House, Cush-
ing's Island, Friday, June 3rd.
Mr.. Mason is at work on glass door
for the glass alarm boxes as the glass is
apt to shake out by the present arrange
ment and leave the key exposed.
A complaint was made at the police
station yesterday that boys congregate at
the corner of Newbury and Church
streets and insult ladies as well as men.
'sJack'' Smith, the man whom Depu-
ties Sterling and Plummer arrested, is
said to be all right Smith will be
brought before the Municipal Court this
morning.
A meeting of State street church and
parish will be called to make legal the
steps taken for the new church. A COM
mittee from the ladies has been chosen
to solicit funds.
Mr.. Harry Frost, formerly of Portland,
now of Boston, with two other wheel
men, rode down from Boston on his BIZ
cycle Saturday. They found the roads
in good condition.
Mr.. Solomon Robitschek has secured a
contribution of 500 for the suffering Rus
sian Jews, which the Mayor added S. to,
and sent to Hon. Charles Emory
Smith, our minister to Russia, to be for
warded.
The following reorganized choir COM
menced singing at the New Jerusalem
church last Sunday: Messrs. Carl We
Der and Harold Foss and Misses Sophia
K. Bedlow and Mary Hovey. Mr.. Edgar
II. Paine still presides at the organ.
Rumor from a trustworthy source says
that negotiations looking to the ABSORB
ton of the Central Massachusetts road
by the Boston & Maine are now under
way. and that the basis of exchange
talked of is four of Central Massachu-
sets preferred for one of Boston &
Maine.
At Harmon's Hall, West End, this eve
ming there will be a grand entertainment
in aid of the West Congregational vestry
fund by the following talent: Captain
George E. Brown with his monograph,
Shaw's Quartette, Miss Evangeline Pear
son. cornetist and reader, and Mr.. R. l..
Whitcomb, reader.
There will be social in the parlors of
the Second Parish church this evening
from to 10. The men in charge will
provide refreshments and entertainment
and this last social of the year ought to
be one of the most enjoyable and valua
Bile gatherings that the Second Parish
has had for long time.