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

officers this evening.
Falmouth Court of Foresters viii have
an installation next Thursday.
The monthly meeting of the managers
of the Temporary Home will be held at
Fraternity rooms today at 8 p. m.
Girls have been engaged for walters at
the Union Station cafe. Mr.. NJ. A. Dill
bingham is head waiter.
The pocket fire alarm book which has
been prepared by c. +. Dam and Chas.
Paine is extremely neat and convenient
The Veteran Firemen's Association
will have meeting tomorrow evening at
o'clock, at the ward room in City Build
ing.
The officers of Beacon Lodge were in
stalled last night. After the installation,
the grand officers were rendered supper
at Harding's by the members of the lodge.
The Scarboro Sunday School Associa-
ton will meet Thursday, January 7th, at
o'clock in the afternoon, continuing
throughout the evening, at the Methodist
church, West Scarboro.
The financial editor of the Boston Adj
vertiser hears that the net earnings of
the Maine Central for the quarter ending
January LIST, were $45, 600 above the cor
responding quarter last year.
Today is the feast of the Epiphany in
the Catholic church. Mass at the Cathe-
dral of the Immaculate Conception will
be celebrated at s a. m. There will be a
benediction at 100 in the evening.
The committee of three of the Common
Council, appointed Monday evening to
consider the advisability of establishing
board of fire commissioners for Port
land consists of Messrs. Little, Cousins
and Knowles.
The Numidian of the Allan line will
sail tomorrow. A large cargo of
apples will go with her. The Partisan of
the same line is expected at Halifax on
Saturday, and may getin here Sunday or
Monday. She brings 80 passengers for
Portland and 2015 tons of freight.
There are five children from Portland
in the Bath Orphan Asylum for children
of soldiers. They are Walter w. and
Arthur S. Foster, children of James s.
Foster, 18th Regiment, and Marshall, Kate
and Thomas Hodges, children of t. II.
Hodges, of the LIST and 10th Regiments.
Automatic thermostats have been
placed in Burrowes's screen factory which
will go off at 140o of heat in the building
and automatic sprinklers will discharge
water when the heat ranges above 1859.
A number of Rogers's auxiliary alarm
boxes connect with Machigonne's house.
The annual meeting of the Portland
Soldiers and Sailors Monument Associa-
ton will be held at Reception Hall on
Monday evening next, the 18th inst. The
association having accomplished its mis-
sion, measures will probably be taken at
that meeting to wind up its affairs and
dissolve the association.
The will of the late Daniel F. Emery
divides his property among his children
equally, including child not legally
adopted, but who grew up in the family,
and who is to have the same as the legal
heirs. This child is now Mrs. Lucia
johnson of birmingham, Mass. The
estate is estimated at $4,000.
The large stone-carrying tug Panuco,
of New London, came into Portland yes
terday to lie up for the winter. The
Panuco has been employed during the
summer season in carrying granite from
Vinalhaven and other quarries to Rock
land. On her broad deck and in the hold
304 tons of granite may be carried at a
load.
A prominent physician said to PRESS
representative last night, II think the
grippe is on the wane. The disease is
not nearly so hard to conquer as it was a
week ago. The cases this year, however,
have been even more severe than two
years ago. There has also been more
nervous character to the trouble this year
than previously"