The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1893-07-10
BRIEF JoTTlNos.

nation at the post office Saturday.
The big schooner yacht Constellation
came into the harbor Saturday.
Whole number of arrests for the week
was 70, of which 81 were for drunken
| ness.
A special meeting of the Westbrook
City Council will take place Monday,
July 18th.
Thatcher Relief Corps will go to
Higgins Beach for it's annual picnic,
Thursday at 8 o'clock.
The retail shoe stores will be closed all
day tomorrow, for the annual picnic, OF
Tap Day SO called.
The hose house at the West End is
being enlarged SO as to accommodate a
horse.
The night lunch wagons and Frankfort
sausage peddlers will have to stop bust
ness at IL p. m.
A Maine Central freight was derailed
the other side of Waterville SATURDAY.
night and all the trains from the East
were delayed about three hours.
The electric light wire set fire to the
gauze netting about the chandelier in the
Preble House dining hall Saturday night,
but no damage of consequence was done.
Deputy Sheriff Chute had race after
man named Twigg on Washington
street Saturday night and captured him
with twelve jugs of liquor.
The new time table of the Falmouth
Foreside steamboat company is post
poned until further notice as the new
steamer Madeleine is not quite ready.
For few days the Alice will run on the
old time.
The newly elected Supreme Justice N.
F. Libby, Order of the Iron Hall. tele-
graphs to Mr.. N. S. Fernald, accountant
pro tenn, to arrange for the district meet
ing July rs. in this city.
Sheriff Hill of Auburn, came to Port
land Friday to buy clothing for the
prisoners at Auburn Jail. He can save
the county large sum by placing his
orders in this city.
The South Portland Village Improve
ment Association will hold it's annual
meeting for the election of officers at the
Loan and Building Association rooms at
the corner of High and Sawyer streets.
Wednesday evening, July 70, at o'clock.
The 18th Maine Association will have
meeting at Bosworth Post hall next
Wednesday evening, July 70, at 7.3O
o'clock. Business of Importance will
come before the meeting.
The Portland lodge will go on picnic
to Harpswell July 10th, leaving Portland
at 9 and 10 a. m. by the Harpswell boats
and dine at the Merryconeag House.
The proposed balloon ascension at
Peaks Island on Saturday was prevented
by the high wind. TWAS impossible to
fill the balloon, as the guy ropes would
not hold it, The performance was there
fore postponed until this afternoon at s
o'clock.
The island boats did splendid bust
ness yesterday. The weather was charm
ing, just the thing for sailing, and num-
bers improved the opportunity. The first
boat to Harpswel took over 100 people
to visit the camp of the High School
Cadets at High Head.
Bayard Lodge, K. of P, has decided to
put stone foundation under their hall.
and to build a celler. w. F. Strout. W.
E. Allen and Fred A. DYER were chosen
a committee with power to act. The
contract has not been awarded. The
cost will probably exceed five hundred
dollars.
A pair of horses attached to one of
Goudy & Kent's bake carts took fright
when at Stevens Plains Saturday after
noon and ran. When some distance this
side Of the school building, they ran the
cart into a tree breaking it and scattering
pies and cakes all over the street. The
horses were caught before they sustained
any injury.
Tomorrow the Universalist Sunday
schools of the state will hold reunion.
at Lake Maranocook. The train from
this city will teave the Union Station at
$50 a. m. and will arrive in the city on
the return trip at 5.25 p. m. The rates
Of fare are unusually low as will be seen
by the Maine Central's advertisement in
another column
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