The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1892-03-10
MAINE TOWNS.
Items of Interest Gathered by Cores
pondents of the Press.
Gray.
SOME GOOD HORSES OUT.

| Inc Slelghlng is a JiilhS VI olle pdSu.
Mr.. j. E. Leighton was giving medicine
to one of Mr.. Geo. E. Merrill's horses,
when the horse crowded against him
fracturing his wrist.
1t was quite lively at Dry Pond on the
afternoon of Mar. It'll the occasion being
a trial of speed of the different horses in
town. AL. Wilson of Raymond was there
with handsome gray that was quite
snowy, Mr.. S. L Adams with his hand
some Geo. Mooda Benton. MI. Howard
Verrill with Black Dime, Mr.. Alley
Knight with his clipped chestnut. MI.
Chas. Thayer with his fine stallion Black
Medium. The latter is PAGER and had an
easy walk over At no time was it nee
essary for him to 90 his clip. Mr.. Silas
Foster, Nh Elmer Osgood, Dr. McCollis-
ter, Mr.. V. E. Frank and many more
were there all enjoying the sport.
The Free Baptist society will make
their annual donation visit to their pas
tor Rev. E. P. Norwood Thursday
evening March 10th.
MI. Harry Merrill has moved into the
house he recently purchased of Mr.. A.
LII. Perley of East Gray.
MI. G. j. Perley, station agent at East
Gray, will build a houseathere provided
he can purchase land of the town.
| The Congregational society will make
their yearly contributions to their pastor
Tuesday evening March 18th.
The spring term at Pennell Institute
will begin Monday, March 14th. Mr..
Geo. ii. Larrabee, principal; Miss Joslyn
and Miss Libby, assistants.
! The ladies of the Free Baptist society
furnished nice dinner to all who wished
town meeting day for the small sum of
| fifteen cents. We trust they will be on
hand at the fall election as they will then
receive much larger patronage.
| The Hancock & Clark Co. have recent
ly changed their Office to another part of
the store. They now have light, roomy
and handsome apartment.
Brunswick.
S. R. Jackson, ST., is seriously ill with
pneumonia.
Reuben Whitney is on the sick list; an
attack of the grippe.
Mrs. Chas. D. Phenix and Mrs. Chas.
E. Adams spent last week in Portland.
Col Geo. L. Thompson and HI. c. Bax-
ter have gone to Camp Baxter, near Hart
land.
Harry F. Thompson attended the sup
per given by the Young Mems Democratic
Club last week in Portland.
Col S. B. Brewster is again able to be
out after his severe attack of pneumonia.
Prof Henry E. Duncan of Bath, who is
giving instructions ON the organ here,
has decided to accept the offer mady by
his old church in Brooklyn, N. Y, at
salary OF $780,
A. o. Reed has secured the contraction
making thesphotographs of the senior
class of Bowdoin College and also for the
Brunswick high school.
Bert Prince has left the box shop and
gone to work for A. O. Reed.
John McManus picked a stock contain
ing three roses from one of his Pearl of
the Garden bushes. 1T is very seldom
occurrence that more than two buds are
found on stock of this variety.
A new Good Templar lodge is talked of
in Brunswick.
Prof. f. c. Robinson lately met with
serious accident at the chemical labora-
tory. He had been performing expert
ments with sodium and phosphorus. He
dropped a small piece of sodium into the
water which exploded. Small particles
flew in every direction, one hitting Prof.
Robinson on the eyelid. One of the stu
dents had his hand badly burned.
DR.. D. A. Sargent, Bowdoin rs, direc-
tor of the Hemenway gymnasium at Har-
ward, will have an exhibition at the
Worlds Fair a bronze casting of a mascu-
line figure perfect in its physical proper
lions. w. G. Noble will prepare the
figure.
A farmer who supplies one OF our gro
GERS with butter each week. has most
excellent COW. The yield of butter from
her cream is nearly twelve pounds each
week. Mr. H. M. Allen is the owner of
this COW. The grocer thinks Mr.. Aliens
butter is a little extra.
Mr.. A. F. Lewis has gone to Boston for
q few weeks; he is busily engaged in
gathering matesials for the centennial
catalogue of Fryeburg Academy.
The winter term OF this institution
closed on March LIST. 1t will reopen on
March 10th under the continued care of
Mr.. John E. Dinsmore.
Rev. B. N. Stone, pastor of the New
Church, has commenced course of Sun
day evening lectures upon some of the
noted places of the Holy Land.
The social interests of the village, dur
ing the past winter, have suffered severe
ly from the unusual amount of sickness
that has prevailed. The Woman's
Library Club, however, has survived the
ordeal with very little interruption to its
gatherings. The subject of the pro-
gramme for the next meeting which will
be held on Friday afternoon, March 18th,
is Shakespeare.
The committee recently appointed to
investigate the manufacture of condensed
milk have returned and made an adverse
report. Therefore factory will not be
established in town.
There is very little snow on the ground
and that is fast disappearing, much to
the regret of the lumbermen.
From the town report of Fryeburg we
learn that the amount of taxable proper
ty, as shown by the valuation of 1891, is
real estate 1922, 1s9; personal property,
sos, 062; number of polls, 424; number
of scholars, 439; amount appropriated