The Portland daily press., 1892-06-25

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The church was elaborately decorated
with flowers and evergreen. The parts
which were exceptionally good were as
| follows:
| Salutatory-Beyond the Alps lies Fair Italy.
Jennie G. Simpson.
True Politeness Ida :; Pratt.
Sowing and Reaping. -. Elizabeth Z: Hilton.
Maine Men l III United States History =, 49,.
oration-our Public Schools Perley 3. Palmer.
| Class History Addie Z. ingalls,.
Poem laa NJ Center. Sil
% Vaiedictory0fhe tffh Developments Of Mans Destiny
Charles I. Stone.
Grimmer of Portland furnished music
| for the exercises and for the class recep-
tion at Gibbs Hall in the evening.
Messrs Stone and Fogg will enter Bow
doin college and Palmer and Gibbs the
Maine State College. 9
| While nearly every section of the state
has suffered severely from recent high
winds, Bridgton thus far has received no
damage whatever. The shower of Friday
was very severe for upwards of AN hour,
and much rain fell in a short time.
w. A. Stevens, ESQ. had very severe
attack of heart trouble while at his grain
store one day last week. A physician
was fortunately within call and pre-
| scribed with good success. AT last ac-
counts Mr.. Stevens is much better.
| The graduating class of the High school
| and friends enjoyed a picnic ride to AL
bany Basins, Saturday.
SOUTH BRIDGToN.
Mr.. Fred Knapp and wife of boston,
are visiting at Thomas B. Knapps Mr..
Knapp is constable in Boston who went
from this place. He is brother of
Thomas B. Knapp.
The thunder storm of last Friday was
the most violent one for several seasons
here. Lightning struck in four or five
places including the house of Henry G.
Fessenden. No serious damage was re-
ported, it being mostly trees and the
ground that got the electric bolts, though
some people, including Mr.. and Mrs. III.
Fessenden thought they had some quite
close calls from the hasty electric visitor.
The rain came with considerable wind
an hail and amid the blackness of night
almost.
Potato beetles are appearing in large
Plumbers and bid fair to bother more
than last year. Eternal vigilance is the
price of freedom from this annoyance.
| An abundant hay crop is rapidly ripen-
| ing for the mower, whose merry music
we shall soon hear. May other crops
| follow in as great profusion and thus Sc
cure wholesale hearty mossback grin!
| Yarmouth.
Mrs. Margaret Harris is improving in
| health.
Mr.. and Mrs. Charles W. Jordan are
now occupying their cottage at Princes
Point.
Capt. Eben York has purchased the cot
tage of George Jefferds, at Princes
Point.
Frank L. Baker was in town recently.
Mr.. Henry Leavitt has been visiting
his daughter, Mrs. Edison Jones, Of
South Freeport.
Hon. P. II. Stubbs, of Strong, was in
Yarmouth Wednesday and Thursday of
last week.
Mrs. o. E. Lowell has returned from
her visit to Chicago, and is now at the
Royal River House.
E. L. Baker has moved his family to
Robert C. Cleaves's house.
S. W. Bennett has purchased and re-
paired the Hill house on Chapel street,
and moved to his new residence.
Miss Sadly Russell closed her first term
of school in Freeport, Friday. She has
proved herself a very apt and successful
teacher.
Each year new cottages are added to
the little settlement at Princes Point
which is most lovely spot in which to
pass the summer days.
Mrs. Hayes, widow of the late Samuel
Hayes, died last week at the home of her
daughter in Lewiston Her remains
were brought to Yarmouth for interment.
DR.. and Mrs. Gannett have gone on q
trip to Washington, D. c., where they
will visit relatives. The doctor will at
tend the National Homeopathic Conven-
ton as a delegate.
The remains of Mrs. Annie Drinkwater,
who died recently in Arlington, Mass,
were brought to Yarmouth last week and
inferred in the lower cemetery at the
Foreside. Capt. Joseph Drinkwater, of
Massachusetts, and Mrs. Albert Gooding,
of Arlington, son and daughter of the de-
ceased, were present at the funeral SER
vices, which were performed by Rev.
James Graham, pastor of the Baptist
church. = aa
The summer boarders of Yarmouth
Foreside will soon arrive. Every year
their numbers increase and many who
would gladly take up their summer
sojourn in this vicinity are cleft out''
for want of accommodation. Mrs. Ferdi-
nand Drinkwater, who resides ne,r
Bucknam's wharf, has already forty-tve
boarders engaged, and is daily receiving
applications which she is obliged to
refuse. She has had twelve-roomed
cottagt built this season near her home
which will add largely to her lodging
accommodations. The steamer Alice
touches at Bucknam's wharf several
times every day giving opportunities to
visit Portland or sail about the beautiful
bay. Mrs. Woodbury. Hamilton, Capt.
John Cleaves, Clarence Bucknanl, Esq.,,
and others, expect goodly number of
guests to arrive soon after the Fourth.
The concert under the auspices Of the
Amateur Musical Club, occurred on Mon
day, June 20, at Masonic Hall. The
music was given by the Hayden Quar-