The Portland daily press., 1895-10-23
Richmond,

REVEALS meetings are being held in the
Town hall, conducted by Rev. j. b. Jor-
dan, evangelist. The meetings are held
under the auspices of the Free Baptist,
Methodist and Congregationalist church-
es, and viii be continued week or more
longer
Hon. L. j. Southland has presented his
former Office building to the Universal
lists for vestry, and it is now being
moved to Church street, where it will be
fitted for the uses intended.
The postal telegraph office has been re-
moved to new quarters in the newly re-
paired STUART block, corner of Main and
Front streets.
moved last week to it's new banking
rooms in the same building, andl after
the Richmond library will reoccupy the
quarters from which it was driven by
the fire of last March.
A fair for the benefit of John Merrill,
Jr., Post. No. 1877, G. A. R is to be
held in Merrymeeting hall Wednesday
and Thursday evenings of this week.
Mechanic Falls.
Mechanics Falls. Oct. ga set of
buildings owned by Elmer Faunce and
located on Pigeon Hill (part of the town
OF Mechanis Falls). We're entirely con-
sumed by fire last night about 80
O'Clock. The buildings were occupied
by Mr.. G. +. King and family, which
consisted of his wife and six children.
Mr. King had just been out to the barn
to feed his hog and saw no signs OF fire
or smoke and in five or ten minutes the
barn was all on fire. There were some
10 or 20 tons of hay in the barn besides
oohir,o borCa raj and all the
farmging tools. All were the property OF
Mr.. Faunce. Mr.. King got out the most
of his household effects but he is left
homeless with six children and in rather
straitened circumstances. There was a
small insurance on the buildings.
IIarpswell.
East Harpswell. Oct 22-Mr. H. O.
Coombs' new house is nearly finished on
the outside. He expects to get into it
before winter.
Mr.. Grovenor Raymond's family have
gons to Liyermore Falls for the winter,
as usual.
Several raccoons have been captured in
this vicinity this fall and foxes seem to
be quite numerous.
f. Curtis and =. West have finished
their tour of the neighboring towns with
threshing machine They have thresheu
about fifteen hundred bushels.
Mr.. Abel Holbrook has about five bar
rels of cranberries harvested in prime
condition, and entirely uninjured by the
frosts.
The fall term of schools close this
week.
.s7sWest Harpswell, Oct. 22-Charles d.
Ring, from Freeport, who is attending
Gray's Business college III Portland, has
been visiting his uncle here, Mr. Paul
A. Durgin. He returned to Portland
Monday. Charles X. Durgin and Chester
L. Slower also left Monday to attend
Gray's Business college in Portland.
Mr.. Comfort Larrabee and son Webb
from Webster Corner, are visiting friends
here.
= Margaret Randall, teacher in No. s. en-
tcrtained her pupils at her home Friday
evening A good time was repored.
Miss Mercy Slower is having her build
ings thoroughly repaired this fall. Frank
Slower is doing the carpenter work and
Benjamin Webber the mason work.
Mrs Carrie NJ. Slower went to Portland
Monday to attend the funeral of her
father, Samuel H. Ridley, who died at
that place Saturday, Oct. 18th.
Windham Centre, TOct 22-Mrs Mary
Morrell, of Sugar Hill, n H., has been
visiting relatives at the Centre and East
Windham.
Mrs Ida Hancock and Miss gillian
Stuart, of Bolsters Mills, were the guests
of Miss Cora Hall, for few days last
week.
Mrs Lizzie Holmes called on some of
her friends at the Centre Monday.
The pupils of the Windham Centre
High school, will give an entertainment
at the Town hall, Friday evening, Oct.
25th. The programme will consist of
Calisthenics, School Paper and debate on
the question, Resolved, That poverty is
a blessing to a boy, not curse. A socia-
BILE will follow the entertainment, to
which all are invited. Admission to
other than scholars, 10 cents
Miss Ethel Foster, of F'reeport. is
spending a few days with Mrs. Jason
Knight
Mrs. Mary Fellows has been visiting
her mother, Mrs Sarah Fellows.
The Windham Centre Library has re-
ceived a gift of four hundred dollars
from the trustees of the Walker estate.
The Friends Quarterly meeting will be
held in their church. Saturday and Sun
day, Oct. Goth and 9th.
West Buxton, Oct 22-Howard Davis
ESQ.,, of Boston, is spending few days
at home He returns to Boston this even
ing:
Inc members OF Ghe "A. h. "A. cluD nelu
it's yearly meeting at this place last Sat
urday. Twenty five years ago the mem
bers of the club wishing to perpetuate
their friendship and cordial relations as
boys and companions, formed this club
and at each New Year held meeting to
see the old year out and the new year in.
And to add still further to tt cir enjoy
ment, the most elaborate supper that the
village hotel could produce. was served.
Until very recently the annual meetings
were held at New Year, but on account
of the health Of some and the long dis
lance that some are obliged to travel it
was deemed best to change the time of
the annual meeting to October. With
the exception of one or two meetings all
the members have been present and as
the members are scattered from Maine to
California, and make point of being
present each year it shows what boyish
friendship, when kept up, will do to keep
fresh in the minds of the companions
their old homes and boyhood days. Far
better would it be if every one in every
community woula resolve themselves
into like club Friendships would be
perpetuated, children would grow up
with respect for their elders and all would
be better citizens The annual supper