The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1892-07-11
BRIEF JoTTINas.

McCallum's Kathleen is great play
for the ladies and children. Go see it.
There was no business before the Mu-
nicipal Court Saturday.
The new electric crane has been put in
by the Portland Company.
Saturday was cool and showery. Sun
day was bright and quite warm.
There were 20 arrests last week, of
which % were for drunkenness.
The Street Commissioner is fixing the
sidewalks. They need it badly.
The band concert at Fort Allen Park
was much enjoyed Saturday evening.
The deputy sheriffs seized bottle of
liquor at a house on Fore street Saturday.
The revenue steamer Woodbury. will
| go to Bath for extensive repairs on her
hull.
A new mail box has been placed in the
Peoples Ferry waiting room on Portland
Pier. as
The women's bath house is completed
and diving raft has been placed off the
beach. ~
The Carleton Opera Company is bring
ing out one of Mr.. G.. Walter Goods
operas.
The Grand Trunk morning train Satur-
day brought sixty summer visitors for
| Peaks Island.
The Casco Bay Steamship Company
will build a new waiting room at Forest
City Landing.
Thatcher Relief Corps and Post will 60
on picnic to Long Island by the a. m.
Harpswell boat on Wednesday.
Frank Berry of the Chemical Engine
Company cut his hand badly Saturday
and will be disabled for some days.
The best play of the season, Kathleen,
at McCallum's Pavilion. Ladies' matt
nee at 3.
Cape Elizabeth has appointed as Aus
tralian ballot clerks E. N. Jordan, W. J.
Dyer, B. B. Small and W. F. Strout.
The High School Cadets returned from
their camp at High Head Saturday. They
voted to camp again at that spot next
year.
The sloop yacht Vixen of New York
was in the lower harbor yesterday. She
sailed for Biddeford Pool in the after
noon.
Mr.. Hieber, whose hotel at Pond Cove
was burned last June, has begun rebuild
ing and will have larger house than the
Sea View.
The electric light dynamo at Peaks
Island burned out Friday night and left
the island in darkness. A new machine
was put in Saturday.
The 18th Maine will hold their reunion
at Long Island, August 18th and 10th,
and final action on, building a headquar-
tiers there will then be taken.
Saturday morning Capt. Parsons of the
Forest Queen kindly put back to Peaks
Island and took a little girl aboard SO she
should not lose her passage to town.
Mr.. Chas. II. Green, while dressing a
| fish at the Ottawa House, severed some
of the arteries of the hand. He came
to the city and his wound was dressed.
See McCallum in his great character of
Terrence O'Moore this week at the Pa
vilion.
Among the yachts in the harbor Satur-
day were the Tourist of South Boston,
Cruiser of Bath, Restless of Freeport and
Alice, Troubadour and Saturn of Boston.
Not more than 1000 cases of Maine
sweet corn, out of the pack of 10000 of
the past year, are left in the wholesale
grocers' hands. This is unprecedented.
Messrs. JohnCalvin Stevens and Harvey
Murray have concluded contract with
the Roosevelt Organ Company of New
York for fine new organ for State street
church.
Woodbine Lodge, D. of R., had de-
lightful picnic at Mr.. E. G. Chase's cot
age, Pond Cove, Cape Elizabeth, Satur-
day. Ivy Lodge installed officers Satur-
day night.
A. w. Coombs has bought pair of
matched carriage horses, one Bay Fear
naught and the other "a Locomotive, at
Skowhegan. They are four and five years
old, 16 hands high and weigh 1915 pounds
each.
The 25th anniversary of st. Jean Bap-
tiste will be celebrated at Biddeford Fri
day. The Portland and Biddeford mill
tary will do escort duty for Gov Burleigh
and staff. A battalion drill will take
| place.
McCallum and his Home Comedy COM
pany in Kathleen every afternoon and
evening this week.
Died at the Hospital.
Mrs. Agnes Robertson, who killed her
baby some time ago, and has been at the