The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1893-09-01
MAINE TOWNS.
Items of Interest Gathered by Cores
pondents of the Press.

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Porter.
from our Regular Correspondent
The weather is very warm again, help
ing ripen the crops
The late storm was very severe in this
section The fall of rain was heavy and
the wind blew terrifcally, prostrating
corn, fences trees, and shaking what
few apples there were on the trees to the
ground. The rain will help fall feed and
start. the grass in the fields, but the crops
mostly are too far gone to receive much
benefit. Farmers are cutting their grain,
a light crop. Many are not having 1t
threshed, putting it in their barns to feed
out the coming winter to help out the
hay.
Mr.. Mark Mason and his mother came
here last fall from Albany. N. H., and
was taken sick soon after, died from
dropsy the past week. He. was buried
here, but is to be taken up this fall after
it becomes cool, and carried to his old
home to be buried with his friends.
Mr.. F. P. French's little boy is very
sick with cholera infantum, and quite
number of other children are sick with
the same in the vicinity.
Mr.. Ezra J. Tow15, one of the factory
hands of the wooden mill at Kezar Falls,
has purchased him farm {.
Mr.. Moses F. Norton has bought the
Thomas Libby place near the old church
at the center.
Mr.. Moses S. Moulton has sold his farm
to Giles and Getchell, price 5000. 1t is
said to have 100000 feet of timber.
1t is the best farm in the town.
Mr.. Fred NJ French and wife are here
on a visit, from Cam bridge, Mass.
Mr.. Frank Gilman is getting his lum-
Der on the ground to build him new
barn in the spring
Mr. Scott Peters and wife, mother and
sister are here on visit from Haverhlll
Mass.
Mr. Austin Towle has moved to Bridg-
ton to 60 into business there.
Mrs. Wedgewood, widow OF jackson
$40, 900 from her brother who died the
Cape Elizabeth.
PLEAsANTDALE.
[From our Regular Correspondent
Mrs. Charles Skillings has been on the
sick list for some days.
Mr.. Eben Ryder and daughter Leona,
leave today for Chicago to take in the
Worlds Fair, and then Miss Leona will
go to Stanton, Va, where she will re-
uidlH lOI Uuc WluUGI.
Quite a company of our young people
went to Peaks island last evening.
During the recent gale the steeple of
Browns Hill church was partially torn
from its foundation. Carpenters are at
work repairing the damage.
Miss Maud Libby is in Gray as the
guest of her friend Miss May Whitney. !.
Messrs. J. H Taylor and j. III. Hartford of
the Cape Elizabeth Sentinel, are in New
York on a business and pleasure trip
com bined.
The many friends of Mr.. Fred Sargent,
who had an operation performed at the
Maine General Hospital on Tuesday, will
be glad to learn that he is out Of danger
and improving finely.
Miss Kate Hoyt and brother Norman
have returned from trip to Somerville,
Mass.
School commenced in No. 8, on Mon
day last with Miss Alice johnson
of Stroudwater as teacher. In No. -,
it will commence September 4th,
Mrs. j. Fl. Taylor continuing in the
grammar department; Miss Ethel Ham1l-
ton in the primary.
Crops Of all kinds are rather light here.
Corn is almost a failure, potatoes are
small but numerous in the hill and never
better in flavor than now. There will be
about half acrop sCabbages are doing
finely Fruit IS a failure everywhere.
Ihe coplouS rains OF 6ne paS1 week
came too late to help gardens in most
cases.
Mrs Nellie Richardson and Mr.. Charles
Merrill have gone to North Conway to
attend the coaching parade.
Lower Pleasantdale is rapidly OUT
stripping all other suburban villages near
Portland Messrs. Jackson, Frank Car
ter, H Carter, George Strout and J Wass
have each fine houses in process of con-
struction.
DR.. Moses of Ohio.is at the house of this
brother, Mr.. George Moses, called here
by the serious illness of his aged mother.
Freeport.
From Our Regular Correspondent
The fall term of the high school is an
nounced to open Sept.4. The common
schools one week later. The teachers of
the high school are Prof. Frank Morse
ABB, Bowdoin, go; Miss Annie Eaton
Littlefeld, ABB, Colby, go; and Miss
Mary E. MITCHELL, of Pennington Nor
NAL School. With this corps of expert
enced teachers we ought to expect SPLEEN
did work, and no doubt we shall have it.
Prof. W. B. Mitchell, the former principal,
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