The Portland daily press., 1892-02-08
BRIEF JoTTlNas.

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for the Kennebec this morning to cut ice.
Prof. Lee is coaching two young gym
nasts for the amateur contests to be held
in Boston.
The Methodist preachers meeting will
be held at the Y. NJ. G. A. rooms this
morning at 10 o'clock.
Mr.. George Wescott accidentally fel
into Duck Pond the other day, but was
rescued by Mr.. G. N. Sawyer.
The Atkinson House Furnishing CO..
store viii be closed today on account of
the death of the late Montague Scarf.
The post office clerks went to the Iron
Clad at Cape Elizabeth in the barge Ar
gonaut Saturday and had a good time.
Forest City Commandery have re-
ceived ten splendid steel engravings from
Mr.. f. N. Deane of the Atkinson Com
pany.
Edwin A. Springer, carpenter, cut his
foot badly bya glancing blow from a
broad-axe with which he was splitting
piling on Saturday.
The Clark & Chaplin Ice Co. have had
a crew of men and horses on the big
pond at Cape Elizabeth during the week.
The ice is about nine inches thick.
Minneola Council, Degree of Pocahon-
tas, will visit Minnehaha Council of Cum
berland Mills, Westbrook, next Wednes-
day evening.
The Bangor delegation to the Portland
Lodge of Ells will receive the degrees
this afternoon and remain to the social
session in the evening.
On February 18th, at Kotzschmar hall,
Mr.. Harvey Murray will play on that ele-
giant $3.50 Mason & Rich vocation, lately
presented the Second Advent church.
Stevedore VIM. Dugan, who took the
contract to discharge the schooner w. I.
Donnell, gets S75 cash and saves 500 tons
of good ice, worth $1,000.
1t is expected the Congress of Ameri-
can Physicians will meet at the Ottawa
House, Cushing's Island, September list,
and about one hundred delegates are ex-
pected.
The funeral services of the late Phebe
A. Gerrish took place Sunday afternoon
from the residence of Mrs. Frances Hous-
ton, No. 211 Vaughan street.
Some shavings caught fire in the boiler
room at Burrowes's screen factory early
Sunday morning, calling the department
out. The flames were quickly subdued
with little damage.
There was a crowd of cutters and trot-
ters on Portland street Saturday after
noon for Commissioner Randall had put
the road in first class condition from the
aims house to Green street.
The ball of Forest City Commandery,
K. G. E.. at City Hall, tomorrow evening,
will be an excellent entertainment and
should be well patronized.
Mr.. John A. Bellows's second lecture
ON Recent Leaders of English Thought
will be given this evening at 81 Danforth
street, at 7.3O o'clock. Subject: Social
ism and its relation to literature and art"
The revenue cutter Woodbury. left Bos-
ton Friday morning. The cutter has been
repaired during the past few weeks by
the Lockwood Manufacturing Company,
and has resumed duty along the coast.
Nj. Kittredge, head painter for the At
kinson Company, had performed yester-
day forenoon a very delicate surgical
operation. Last evening Mr.. Kittredge
was comfortable, with good prospects of
recovery.
Friday was pay day at the Cumberland
Mills paper mill, and each person receiv-
ing his or her pay received u per cent on
what they had earned and received for
the last nine months, amounting to
about s22, 900 in all.
The Baptist Social Union will dine at
the Preble the 18th, and the Sons and
Daughters of the Revolution the after
noon of the 22d. The latter society will
have music and addresses. The West
brook Alumni will dine in the hotel on
the 9th.
Among the guests at the West End
hotel Saturday night were Capt. Alabama
Gross and S. T. Arey Of the schooner
Lucy Jones of New York, lost by collis-
ion with the steamer City of Savannah,
the particulars of the affair having been
given in Saturdays PRESS.
Deputy Sheriffs Plummer and Sterling
seized liquor at David McGlinchy' house
Saturday and arrested a boy named Bolan.
Officers Choate and Gould found a trap
under the stairs in Della Cady's house on
Centre street and got quantity of hard
liquors.
U. S. tug Fern arrived at the torpedo
station, Newport, R. l., Friday. for the
purpose of taking on board gun cotton
which is to be distributed at the various
yards along the coast. The gun cotton
factories are still in operation.
At the annual meeting of the Casco
Loan Association Saturday night the old
board of directors was reelected with
one exception, E. r. Pierce being sue
ceeded by James T. johnson. The au-
ditors were re-elected Treasurer Iarra-