The Portland daily press., 1893-09-30
CAPE ELIZABETH.

Mr.. and Mrs. Chas. Cole, of Pleasant
dale, have returned from the Worlds
Fair. Mrs. Cole visited relatives and
friends at Oxford, Ont, while returning
home.
| Mr.. Stephen Cartland, an aged Friend,
of Worcester, Mass, is visiting his daugh-
ter, Mrs. Granville Libby, of Pleasant
| dale.
Mrs, Chas. Sisson, formerly of Iowa,
preached very instructive sermon at
Browns Hill, Pleasantdale, on Sunday
last She also conducted the evening
| exercises.
| The smelt season has come and the
shores are lined with ssmelters. Success
depends upon the amount of patience one
has. One patient angler caught seven
dozen in as many hours work thissweek.
| Quite number of people are on the
sick list in the vicinity OF Pleasantdale.
| Colds and sore throats are the order of
| the day.
The Boston & Maine machine shops,
have been obliged to change to nine
/ hours on account of increased business.
Mrs. L. Pilsbury, of Pleasantdale, has
| had her own tine residence and her other
| houses painted and put in fine order.
Oursstreets, which have been in a de-
plorable state are at last being put in
proper condition by a crew of men.
| Mrs Freeman Evans, of Evans St. .,
Pleasantdale, has been visiting an aged
| female relative at North Ware, NH. /,
The lady is in her 93rd year, and is as
active as a woman of sixty She reads,
| sews and does her house work without
the aid of glasses.
| Mrs. Olive Chandler, of Lowell, Me-, is
a guest at Mrs. Evans's.
| Miss Alma Fellows, teacher in the
| schools at Westbrook was the guest of
her former classmate, Miss Mabel Robin
| son, of Pleasantdale, the first of the
| week.
| Mr., George Miller, of the lower village
| in Pleasantdale, is having fine stable
| erected ON his premises Mr.. d. Hoyt
| is experimenting the work and reports
business in that line very brisk
| The new livery stable recently opened
by Mr.. Hugh Flynn, is paying him far
ibeyond his expectations
Mr.. A a Bean, station agent at Cape
| Elizabeth Depot, PIeasantdale, spent the
| Sabbath with his parents at Danvers,
| Mass
| The severe visitation of Jack Frost"
| this week finished the work begun by
| the frost of two weeks since. Gardens
look as if fire had passed over them,
We were recently shown by Mrs. Mary
Peary of PleasantdaleS several very in
| teresting souvenirs of his recent trip to
the Arctic regions from her son, Lieut..
| r. E. Peary. They were brought home
| by the lady who accompanied the party
to Greenland. Among them is small,
| beautiful flower, picked by sthe lieuten-
ant from the site of the house occupied
| by his men from the Polaris, and two
| leaves form book entitled Humorous
Sayings. There is also fine specimen
of an Esauimaux woman's knife, the
| handle of which is made of walrus ivory
| very highly polished. The lady gives a
clear description Of Lieut.. Peary's home
| in the frozen North She enjoyed her
| trip very much and her health was much
| benefited by. it. She says that the whole
party acted more like lot of school boys
about to start on a pleasure trip to the
| Worlds Fair than they did like those
| who were about to face the rigor and
privations of, an Arrctic winter night.
She says the lad3as accompanying the
| party will be 1nere comfortably situated
| than one out of every hunHredsof their
sex in our own State of Maine. She ex-
pressed the utmost confidence IN the
| ability of Lieut. Peary and the final suc-
cess of the expedition.
Bowery Beach.
Mrs. George H. Hannaford and son
Grin, and Ms. Charles Hill and family,
of Pond Cove are visiting Mr.. A ndrew
j. Hill at Fryeburg
Mr.. Albert F Hannaford and wife and
daughter Jennie, of Pond Cove. who
have been spending three weeks in Chi
cago, visiting the Worlds Fair, returned
| home last Tuesday.
Mr.. Philip E Hannaford and family of
Pond Cove who have been vitising Mrs.
HanndfOfd'S parents III nldSSdCHuScou
returned home last Wednesday.
Mr.. Benjamin Mitchell of Cape Eliza
bethsC Centre, who has been in poor health
| for some time, is very dangerously ill
| at present.
Mrs. Joseph Staples, OF Bowery Beach,
| has been quite i'll for some time.
Captain Albion Jordan and wife, of
Pond Cove, and Mr.. Edgar W.Jordan
| and wife, of Bowery Beach, have been
visiting Mr.. Edward D. Jordan at Carl
| bou, Aroostook county.
A gentleman from Aroostook county
| has leased the farm of the late Capt. Scott
Dyer at.Pond Cove, and the buildings
are being repaired. Mr., Augustus Han
naford is doing thework.
Mr.. Harmon Jordan is putting large
| addition to his barn at Spurwink.
| Mr.. J Emery Harmon of PondCove has
sold his farm and purchased residence
at Deering, where he will move his fami-
| ly in the near future.
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