The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1892-06-17
For additional Local News see
Fifth Page.
BRIEF JoTTINes.

There will be an important meeting of
the Turnverein this evening.
Leon W. Washburn's circus will exs
hibit in Portland, June 2Sth.
Yesterday was bright and beautiful in
the morning but heavy cool southwest
wind blew all the afternoon.
A military company from Providence
have made arrangements and will go into
camp on Long Island in July.
Mr.. w. S. Warehouse sprained his
ankle very badly last Saturday and is
now confined to the house.
The BARRIERS will close their shops at
noon on Fridays, beginning today and
continuing until September 23rd.
The high wind yesterday afternoon
broke off quite a large elm tree, in front
of Mrs. Grams residence, corner of Park
and Danforth streets.
Two of the new electric cars which
will 60 on the route to Cumberland Mills
passed through the streets yesterday, to
the house at Westbrook.
Those who have flowers to spare or
can procure wild flowers and sprays of
green, are earnestly requested to send
them to the Flower Mission, $50 Free
street, Saturday, at a. m.
Thomas and Watson, the well-known
variety men, will run Ponce's new thea
ter at Long Island this summer. It will
be called Granite Spring Casino.
A very enjoyable affair came off We'd
nesday night at Seargent Sloan's house,
Fort Preble. A delegation of the Army
and Navy Union visited the Cape and
there were music, recitations and COLA
ton.
A man was brought from Bartlett, N.
H., to the Maine General hospital We'd
nesday night, who was a carpenter at
work on a summer hotel at Bartlett. A
screwdriver had slipped and penetrated
the left eye.
The classes of '62, '67 and ~ of Bow
dom will dine at the Falmouth hotel
Wednesday, June 22nd; the Vermont
Press Association will bring 125 persons
July Sth, and the New Hampshire Club
will come July 18th. The Vermonters
will spend July 9th in Portland and the
10th at Old Orchard.
The Challenge cup regatta of the
Portland Yacht Club didn't materialize
yesterday. Only one yacht, the Lena,
entered and she did not appear. The
yachts Leila and Genevra sailed over the
course for fun.
The young people of Vaughan Street
Methodist church have organized an Ep-
worth League Society with forty-two
charter members. The society will be
known as The George Gilman Chapter of
the Epworth League.
The directors of the Thomas Laughlin
Company yesterday declared per cent
semi-annual dividend payable at once.
The last six months business shows a
handsome increase.
The Falmouth hotel has added to the
furnishings of its Office nicely framed
certificate from the Board of Fire Engin-
GERS, certifying that the hotel is properly
supplied with apparatus for escape in
case of fire. The Falmouth has four
expresses off each floor besides the big
iron escape which reaches to the ground
The steam yacht Lurline, which arriv-
ed in the harbor yesterday, belongs to
the New York Yacht Club, is 105 feet
length over all and II feet beam, and has
a speed of 10 knots an hour. She is
here with her owner Major w. Berman
Witmon, of Washington.
The American Pharmaceutical Society
will stop in Portland when en- route for
the White Mountains where grand
meeting will be held about the 21st of
July. Portland physicians are making
preparations for the event.