The Portland daily press., 1895-08-03
SOUTH PORTLAND

Miss Margaret Pillsbury, prineipal of
the Willard Grammar school is in Saco
attending the summer school She will
remain until the session closes
Miss E. W. Rand is visiting friends in
Boston, and other parts of Massachusetts.
| For some, time pa st tho ''Deake', house
has had but few occupants, but this week
the Italians are at work again in Willard
on the electric road, and the house is
swarming once more. They are quiet
and peaceable lot and cause no trouble in
the village. The rails of one of the tracks
of the electric road through Willard are
being moved two feet nearer the side of
the street. No orders have been received
to remove the double track yet, and until
such orders are received it will remain,
which probably will be forever
| notice that the Argus in speaking of
the new iron turnstiles that are being
put in at the ferry landing, speaks cutie
decidedly about their remaining, and
gives the impression that the public III are
satisfied with the present arrangements.
This is not so. The public at large are
very much opposed to the existing state
of affairs, and express themselves yery
freely on the subject Several persons
have been hit by the projections and hurt
quite badly, and many have said they
only put up with it because they have to
until the electrics run.
| Edward Fields, son of the governments
superintendent at Portland Head, is sick
with bad case of appendicitis. DIR.
Cousins in the absence of Dr. Gordon is
attending him. Thursday, accompanied
| by his mother, he went co his home in
Gray for a few days
Mrs. Rachel Shanning and daughter
Mabel, have been the guests of Mr.. and
Mrs. Victor Shanning, Willard, the past
week.
Monday evening Mr.. Jeremiah Loveitt
gave lawn party and supper to large
number of invited guests The afternoon
and evening were perfect and helped to
make it very pleasant occasion.
Mr.. Charles Berry from Western
Nebraska, is spending the summer with
his uncle Mr. John Berry, Willard
Mrs. Carrie Gilbert is entertaining Miss
Simonton's Cove.
Carpenters are at work finishing the in
terror of Mr.. Albert Smiths new house.
in Willard. 1t will be ready for occupancy
in month.
Haying is over at this part of the town,
and the late rains have made the fields
look green and beautiful again, almost
spring like, w were it not for the touch of
October we feel in the air.
Rev. G. Everett Bean and family are
passing the summer with Mrs Beams
parents Mr.. and Mrs. William A. Allen
at their summer residence on "Uncle
Enochs Hill. :"
Miss Rena Pillsbury will entertain
few friends this evening (Saturday) it
being the anniversary of her birth.
Thursday, the Pythian Sisterhood,
Myrtle Assembly No. 2, went on picnic
races, chowders and fun.
Mr.. David Huston, who suffered
severe stroke of apoplexy, Thursday, is
much improved.
Mrs. Charles abbott of Boston, who
has been visiting her sister, Mrs. Ellen
Willard at Simontons Cove, has returned
home. Her daughter, Miss Martha, will
pass the remainder of the summer with
her aunt.
Mrs Olive Hanson, Stroudwater, is at
the old Homestead with Mrs Young,
for a few days.
At the hearing before the selectmen of
South Portland of the Portland, Cape
Elizabeth Electric Co., there was no op-
position to the proposed location Mr.. S.
P. Mayberry proposed that the location
be granted if the company lighted the
street through which they passed in the
villages of South Portland, and not if not
lighted. No action was taken in regard
to this proposal.