The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1895-04-25
MAINE TOWNS.
Items of Interest Gathered by Cores
pondents of the Press.
Raymond.

Raymond.
Raymond, April 24.-Mr. Eugene
Hayden and MIR. Albion Knight have
gone to Lake Station to work on the
logs.
Mr.. George Knight made short trip
to South Windham.
The ice left Jordans' Bay of Sebago
Lake on the 27th, the earliest for many
years
On Sunday about forty of the men
engaged in the search for Mr.. Rritton,
the missing man, and those who were
from out of the place were furnished n
Lice lunch Of hot coffee and eatables
provided by Mrs. VIM. II. Smith and a
few ne ighbors, on the grounds con-
nected with the Central House. Mrs.
Smith is hostess of the above hotel, and
as this lady was in charge it is sufficient
to say every QUE was well serY ed.
Ine concert which was to have been
given at The Union church ON Easter
sunday, owing to tbs storm was post
poned until April 21st,on that evening
a. goedly number gathered to listen to
the exercises, which were mostly by the
| children connected with the Sunday
I School. Each one performed their parts
very nicely and the concert was enjoyed
by all who were present.
Your correspondent happening in the
| Central House Tuesday evening, April
23rd, heard Mr.. Smith, proprietor of the
house, read from the Portland Eastern
Argus a paragraph stating that Mr.. N.
p. Lombard of Raymond Informed them
that he saw Mr.. William Milliken, Mr..
Joseph Delean and Mr.. Henry Britton,
on Easter Sunday night at Smiths
Hotel, and that they left there together
liquor. Mr.. Smith will be pleased to
have this corrected and he positively
states that neither himself or any MEM
Der of his household saw either Miiliken
or Delean at his hotel on that day or
evening, but that Mr.. ~Britton did call
there and purchased a cigar as was
stated in the columns Of the PRESS.
Gray.
| Dry Mills, April 24.-The big storm
damaged Matthew c. Morri1 about
hundred dollars.
Miss Anna Leavitt has gone to her
sisters, at North Windham.
Gilman Quint has gone to Portland to
work at his trade.
John NJ. Libby is at work for M. C.
Morrill,, in the stava mill at ,Suckefyille.
| The farmers in this vicinity are pre-
pairing their land for early planting.
Mrs. George Quint has been visiting
her sister in Boston, Mass. the past
week.
There was forty at the Reform Club
meeting last Sunday evening. The meet
ings are held every Sunday evening.
Boothbay.
1 Boothb bay, April "a. Mrs Frank Car
| Isle who has been sick for a long time
is now, we are happy to announce inn
proving quite fast.
One Of our alewive fishermen got
three hundred lot of fish in his weir one
| day last week, aud when smoked sold
like hot cakes.
A. Il. Perkins is having his barn
moved from the old site to about ten
rods west on the same side of the road.
The frost is getting out of the ground
very fast, and some of our farmers have
planted peas and potatoes.
A good many Of our young men are at
work at the Cum berland Bone Co.'S.
| factory.
Pigs are in fair demand this spring
They are selling for IS. SO AID 81 a piece.
Mr.. Charles Light and family, who
have been in Boston for number of
years, has moved back onto the ol6
homestead at Boothbay. His mother is
also with him. We welcome home Mr.
Light and family and hope them pros
porous future. MIR. Lights wife died in
Boston few years ago, the result of a
| runaway accident.
| NJ. e. Dodge's mill is shut down for a
few days for repairs.
A number Of gentlemen from town are
attending court this week at Wiscasset.
Brunswick
| Brunswick, April "a. The Musical
Club entertained some of the mem bers
of the Edward Warren Co., now playing
in Townhall, at their rooms, Tuesday.
Most of the business blocks and num-
Der of the residences are being connected
with the sewer.
! A curious fact in connection with the
life of the late Sifania Bowman, former
| " of T0psham who recently died in
Gardiner, is that although well ad-
vanced in years, he was never on a rail-
road train, and was never outside of the
State.
A party of bicyclists are to ride to
Harpswell Fast Day.
| Mrs. W. II. Wellington has gomez to
| Harpswell, where she will spend The
| summer.
Miss Ida Stetson is operating in the
| telephone Office.
The Edward Warren Company played
"The Shadows Of Life" in Town hall,
Tuesday evening, to a small audience.
| A ludicrous sight at Tuesdays base
ball game was that of two of our valiant
policemen escortng a small boy off the
grounds. 1t seemed to be necessary to
keep close grip on the urchin's collar.
Needless to say, the students fave red the
officers with a good deal of advice as to
the best way to cara for such a ferocious
| captive.
Wheeler and Haskell, Bowioin 1875,
| were delegates to a meeting of the Maine