The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1895-06-21
BRIEF JoTTINos.

On next Tuesday afternoon, the chill
dren of the third grade, Butler grammar
school, will hold geography exhibition
from 2 p. m. to 4. 80 p. m, in the upper
corridor of the school,
The Boston & Maine employees on this
end of the road held their second annual
outing at Pine Point yesterday A large
number of railroad employees were pres
emit
The members and friends of the West
End M. E. church will hold reception
this evening for their pastor, Rev. Arthur
Leitch and wife, in the yestry of the
church.
Mrs. William Cookson is preparing an
appeal from the decision of Judge Pea
body, taking her child away from her and
giving him to her husband.
All children who are to take part in
July 4th celebration, to be given in City
Hall under the auspices of Portland
Woman's Council, are requested to meet
to-day at City Hall at 4 80 p. m.
The 18th Maine Battery will hold its re-
union at Long Island at the house of the
1st, 10th and goth regiment, today.
The annual banquet of the .Bowdoin
Freshmen will be given in Portland this
evening.
The coroner's jury in the Stickney case
will meet today.
The street commissioner began to re-
plank Clark st. bridge yesterday
Tho rayu o11rxo nd cxry;foI, fo,, a. D,,4
land Railroad Co. at Congress Square is
arranged SO that there is no shifting of
passengers from one Spring ST. car to
another.
'The-- indications for summer tourists
in Maine for the looming season surpass
anything that we have ever known" says
Col. F. E. Boothby, of the Maine Cen
trail
Car 63 of the Congress street line went
off the iron at High street yesterday af-
ternoon. One side fell into an excavation.
causing momentary panic among the
passengers.
Yesterday was another fine summers
day.
Schooner Yacht Atlantic, of the New
York Yacht Club, New York for Bar
Harbor, with party on board, came into
the harbor yesterday noon.
So thick smoky haze hung over the
city yesterday morning that not build
ing was visible from the lower harbor
and the Cape
The regular meeting of the school com
mittee will be held next Monday at 4.3O
p. M. Probably teachers will be elected
at this meeting for the coming year..
j. L. Brackett is putting I'D new
house on Robert street.
j. M. Lane is building two houses in
Deering for the Deering Land Co.. one
on Fessenden street and another on
School street
Capt Bennett of the Cottage City re-
ports having seen large school of whales
about Is miles off Cape Elizabeth and a
school of black fish about miles from
the same point. This according to fisher
men accounts for the remarkable school
ing of mackerel along Falmouth Foreside
at present
special business meeting of the W.
G. I. U. will be held at So Oak ST. to-
day at o'clock
Commencing July 1, city mail is to be
made up by railway postal clerks. A
new scheme of distribution is being pre-
pared by which direct packages will be
made up for each carrier and for the
different sections of the distribution in
the office Under this system it will dis
pense with the services of the clerks
formerly sent to make up local mail
The Union Safe Deposit Company will
close Saturdays, at / o'clock from June
% to September 10Th.
There will be special meeting of the
Ladies' Auxiliary, A.O.H., Saturday
evening, June 20 at s o'clock All mem
bers are requested to be present
The PRESS night force will go on their
field day tomorrow to Duck Pond.