The Portland daily press., 1892-04-11
BRIEFLY TOLD.

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Emerson and Lunt are at the head in
the Young Republican Club whist tour
nament.
The joint committe on the celebration
of Odd Fellowship will hold another
meeting at 7.S0 o'clock tonight.
The animal meeting of the Fresh Air
Society will be held April 21st at the Y.
NJ. C. A. rooms.
James White, of Brackett street, has
sold his st. Bernard Barry to New
York man for $3.50.
Forty cords of wood that had been cut
and stacked on the road near Coal Kiln
Corner were burned Friday.
The subject of Mr.. Bellows's lecture
this evening will be ''The Ideals, Methods
and Duties of Modern Culture
Thomas Walsh fell, in jumping over
meat block in a store on Munjoy hill
Friday, and broke his wrist.
The Pythian Sisterhood fair at South
Portland realized 1926 more than was
needed to pay the balance on the piano.
their hat factory to Kennebunk but will
add two stories to their present plant.
The overseers of the poor have elected
C. II. Stevens, engineer, and F. S. Foster,
teamster, at the almshouse.
The city electrician will decide
whether to continue the police signal
system or adopt another.
Mr.. William A. Goodwin, late city
engineer, has opened an Office at No. 81
Exchange street.
The Sarnia of the Dominion line will
by due tomorrow. The Mongolian of
the Allan line will be due Monday the
18th.
All the oil, waste, engineers supplies,
etc., are now stored in the upper story Of
the Central station and only given out on
orders signed by Chief Norton.
The annual election of officers of Can
ton Ridgely No. 2, P. NJ, occurs this
evening and every member should be
present.
Saturday was rainy in the morning.
clear in the afternoon and fine moon
light evening. Sunday was much colder,
with hail, rain and glimpses of sunshine.
Marshal SWEET has ordered the police
men at fires to rope off hundred feet of
space each side of the building in flames,
and more if required. The rope will be
carried in the patrol wagon.
Mr.. Soule. the contractor, will begin
on the electric railroad extension to
Westbrook this week. His crew arrived
on the Boston boat yesterday.
John P. Davis wished City Electrician
Mason to let him have dollar to make
change with. He didn't bring the money
back SO Judge Gould, Saturday, gave
Davis two months.
Tomorrow evening Ivanhoe Lodge Z.
of P. will confer the rank of Esquire,
and also complete arrangements for visit
ing Fort George Lodge No. 81, April 10.
A large attendance is desired.
Mr.. Ackroyd expects to return from
New York with the plans for the plush
mill this week and the building 226x90
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The special committee on July 4th will
meet this afternoon. The committee on
estimates will hear from the public
library trustees and fire committee.
Miss Ella Sargent has added the
house No. "a in the Park street block to
her other houses, so that she now con-
trolls the four houses in the block above
Cray street.
Services will be held in the Church of
the Messiah every evening this week ex-
cept Wednesday and Saturday. This
evening Rev. DR.. Twitchell, of Augusta,
will deliver an address in connection
with the praise service.
The Sprinkling Co.'s tank on Vaughan
street got dry from disuse, and leaked
SO badly when filled Friday that stream
poured out all day and some people
thought that the reservoir had broken.
John r. McKenna was accidently shot
in the leg last Wednesday by bullet
from revolver with which companion
was practicing at target. 1t was
| flesh wound.
There were 20 arrests last week of
| which IA were for drunkenness. Deputy
Sheriff Mitchell, of Skowhegan, is here
looking for peddler of silver polish
who stole SIS from girls trunk in that
town, and Henry Wall is wanted in Bos-
ton on charge of stealing bicycle in
that city.
| The wife of Lewiston man named
Gillespie eloped from that city with a
man and took her three children and
some of her husbands property. The
officers tracked her to Portland, where
her husband followed her and got pos
| session Of the children.