The Portland daily press., 1895-10-29


a great improvement to the looks of is
premises
Scott Merrill has been liking up the
house on his farm short distance from
this village and is living in it at the
present time. He has lived in the lower
part of the town until quite recently.
Herman Royal, of East North Var,
and her little daughter of Freeport and
also by Miss Oracle Royal, stopped at
the home Of their sister, Mrs. James
Stevens, last Thursday night, on Their
way to Bolsters Mills to visit relatives
there.
An entertainment was held in Centen-
NAL Hall, last Thursday evening, under
the auspices of the Lend-a- Hand club.
The drought here does not seem to
grow any the less severe as almost every
family is obliged to haul water or to
carry it some way.
New Gloucester.
Intervale, Oct. 2S. The people here are
wishing for rain. It has been many years
since the wells have been dry for so long
a time. Those who have one that has
not failed are very happy There is one
we'll in the vicinity that supplies water
for drinking and cooking purposes, for
fifteen different families.
A fire caught in the grass near the Grand
Trunk station last week, from the sparks
from an engine, and ran some distance.
1t came very close to one house. 1t is a
bad time for fires, there being such a
scarcity of water.
w. S. Nevins and wife, from Salem,
Mass, are visiting at his fathers, A. ID.
Nevins of this place.
Mr.. Alfred Nevins, father of +. II.
| Neyins, of this place, died quite sudden
| ly while on a visit to his daughter, Mrs.
Katie Bickford of Boston. The remains
| were brought to Portland to Mr.. Polk
Jordan S, where funeral services were
held, then to this town for burial in the
cemetery at Upper Gloucester.
Two young men from Peoria, Illinois,
have been the place in taking blograp n
cal notes of different families for the BIZ
ographical Review of Cumberland Coun-
ty,' soon to be published.
The Parish fair, which is to take place
Wednesday, Thursday and Friday after
moons and evenings of this week. prom
ises to be quite attractive for each even
ing. Thursday afternoon and evening
will be given up to the cold Folks enter
tainments. A quilting i'll the afternoon,
OAes
Folks concert in The evening. The en-
tertainment for the other evenings is evil
IDENTIFY to be known only to the commit
tee who have it in charge, until the even
ings come. The ladies have worked very
hard, and we trust the fair will be well
patronized
Acton, Oct f2S-The Congregational
I1rrrn N1 rhnH Tta
board and into the floor few days ago
and Mr.. Lawrence the pastor, arrived
just in season to put it out and save the
house The people of the society are
busily at work repairing the house now.
j. o. Gerrish is building an ell and
shed on to the house at the old place near
the village with view of making per-
manent home if he likes.
W. M. Lord has put a steam saw mill
on his Hersom lot and will clear the lot
this winter.
M oses Kicker, of Watertown, Mass, is
in town.
E. N. Hurd's farm buildings at South
Acton. were burned on the night of Oct
18th. Loss $4,000. Insurance $500.
Scarboro,
West Scaboro, Oct 2S-The Good Tenn
plars are making many repairs to their
hall inside and out.
Augustus f. Moulton will soon move
to Portland for the winter.
Last Saturday, while a mason was at
work on the underpinning of the Good
Tenn lars hall, he found a Portland
PRESS nicely laid away under the
south corner of the hall put there by
Lemuel Milliken, of Scarboro, Oct. 18th,
1879. The date of the paper was Oct.
16 1879.
1t pays to take care of your orchards.
Lemuel Milliken of Scarboro, raised a
large amount of apples this year as we'll
as last. He has a fine looking orchard of
some fifty trees which he set fifteen years
ago, and number of them were SO full
Of apples that he was obliged to prop
them up and when he picked them he
had over IT'S bushels of nice winter apples
besides large number of bushels of fall
apples that he has carried to market as
fast as they came on. He had more APP
pies this fall than all of his neighbors put
together. 1t must be the care of the
trees that makes them produce apples
every year in SO large amount. If any
one is in doubt whether apples pay let
him ask Mr.. Milliken and he will con-
vince them that it pays to set apple trees
and take care of them.