The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1894-10-24

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Ifevette by both districts. The exercis-
ss were well carried out, Mrs. Eta Y,
Lewis, teacher In District No. 13. de-
serves much credit for preparing al in
sstructlng the scholars in their exercise
columbus Banner" spoken by Miss
Lillian M. Bourgette was well executed,
MISS Bourgette is an elocutionist, and
DON'T Drink. My Boy, Tonight"
Amos Farewell's wife, who has been
SICK with pneuomnia, died the 18th, and
was buried the Dist.
= Mrs. Eugene Ray is visiting her father.
Granville Humphrey.
Alvah M. Shaw, VINO has been at work
IN Portland, returned. home.s last Satur-
day night.
Mr.. Hall Edwards and sister Nellie are
shopping for a few days at his sisters,
Mrs. Jennie CUNTS.
= MIS-. George Quint was summoned to
Boston very suddenly Saturday nigh.
Mrs Joseph Mcdonald and daughter
are visiting at Falmouth and Vest
brook this week.
HarpsweIl
EAST HARPsWELL.
We have an unusually warm and pleas
ant October with only light frosts. and
those not frequent.
The bay is full of smelts, and
Coombs and Wallace are doing quite a
business seining them.
The Bethel chapel is now finished, and
is furnished with large stove and
radiator, which does it's work admira-
bly,. The house has seating capacity
of one hundred and seventy-five.
Mr.. j ohm Eastman will shut up his
house on Dingley's Island and move into
Mr.. Gilpatrick's house at Cundy's Har-
Dor this winter.
Mr.. Thomas Marston has moved his
family to Gloucester, Mass, and Amaziah
Southland has bought the place " here be
formerly lived.
MIR. Fred Orr's COW ran at his little
daughter Dora the other day and pushed
her down, aud might have hurt her bad
ly had not help been at HAND.
sPRINGvALE.
The farmers in this vicinity are gath
ering large crop Of nice apples
Rev. Mr.. Shnman of Philadelphia
preached at the Baptist church last Sun
day.
Business seems to be improving in this
place. The shoe manufacturers have
SO many orders to fill that they run day
and night.
DR.. b. F. Beardsley of Hartford, Conn.,,
is giving a course of lectures here on
temperance physiology and kindred
topics, which are much appreciated by
large audiences.
Fish Commissioner Henry j. Lord Of
Biddeford, has placed a lot Of young
salmon trout in the Long Mousam
Pond in Shapleigh, for which he deserves
The thanks of the community.
Evangelistic work is being taken up
by the several churches III town. The
Baptist church is to labor at Springvale
Highlands, Free Baptist at Buffers
Corner, and the Methodists at some of
the outlying districts.
Mrs. A ST. Mead returned home last
Saturday, after an absence of seven
weeks during which time she visited
fitsnds in Lawrence, Lowell, Somervll g,
Mass, and Providence, RI
The Fair which was held Wednesday
and Thursday evenings of last week in
Town Hall by the ladies of the Baptist
society. proved a success, the amount
received after all bills were paid being
500. There has been quite boom in
real estate here the past two weeks. The
old General Frost homestead with sew
erai acres Of land surrounding it, owned
by Mrs. Martha Frost, has been sold to
E. E. and j. ". Goodwin. Other property
owned by Mrs. Frost has been sold to
Edmund Coffin. The Gideon Ross place
has oeen sold to Joel Kicker, the agent
of the cotton factory.