The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1896-05-07
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| Limerick.
Limerick, May 6-The Limerick House
Hooks very nice in it's new coat of paint.
ANY one in search Of a summer outing
can select no better place to soJourn In
than Limerick.
Mr.. and Mr.. Frank WeddeI arrived
Efrom Cleveland. o., last Friday for the
lsummer.
W. ". Mason, rrvice president Of the
Portland National ban k, Is in town.
Hons. @. Fl. Adams and f. NJ. Hig-
gins were in attendance on Probate court
on Tuesday.
Atsthe next meeting Of fraternity En-
campment, No. SO, four candidates will
be given the. third degree. A baked bean
supper will follow.
Mrs. G. W. Skillings, of Portland, is
in town, tae guest of her father Isaac
Dyer.
A. r. Soule was in town on Tuesday.
| Hon: J. NJ. Mason, president of the
| Limerick National Bank is improving. =
The Phillips Limerick Academy will
| close on Thursday for the summer vaca
ton. There are to be four graduates.
| Fifteen new members were added to the
| \. Z. 5. 9. e. on Monday night. Quite
| pum Der are to attend the convention at
| South Watsrboro on April 9th.
County Commissioner S. L. Puring-
| ton, of Limington, was in town on Mon
| day.
The post office has been thoroughly
renovated both inside and out and our
popular postmaster, s. A. Grant, Is az
pleased with it as child with new
| toy.
One candidate took the degrees in High
land Lodge on Tuesday night.
Fruit tree agents and delivery men are
very much in evidence Just at the pres
enG.
The Misses Mary and Blanche Fender
son were the guests Of +. A. Sadler the
first of the week.
| hTimothya Thrown has entered the employ
of g. II. Kicker again.
Clarence Brown 10 home from FMelrose,
where hs is employed, on q vacation.
MIR. Ernest and Miss Helen Foss, of
Portland, are the guests of their grand
father, Isaac Dyer.
D. w. Chick lis to removed with his
family to Portland, where he is at work
on the Baxter block.
Fred Smith tells US Of trout which
he caught on TUESDAY measuring four
teen and one half inches from tip to tip
If you sportsmen of other climes want
some good fishing, come to Limerick.
Most of our farmers are very busy pre-
pairing for planting.
Mr.. and Mrs. Robert Billings have re-
turned to Limerick for the summer.
Harry Libby is at the present, employed
by the bank as night atchman.
Gray.
Dry Mills, May 6-There will be Uni
verSalist meetings at the Town hall,
Gray, every Sunday afternoon during the
/ Nv Trou Tow vx5f1l oonh
there next Sunday. May 10, at q 80 p. m.
Mr. Gilman Quint has gone to Port
land to work.
| By invitation, members of Gray Grange
paid visit to Wescustigo Grange last
Thursday evening and they report u very
pleasant time.
Mr.. Richard Quint has gone to Rum
ford Falls to work.
| Mr.. Fortune is at work for George Nc
Donald.
Hugh Morrill, is failing.
North Gray, May 6-Arthur Beatty. of
Lewiston, spent Sunday with his father.
| Mr. Fl. G. Foster is at home from
Rumford Halls.
Otis Witham has bought d fnew
horse. He has hired out with John
| Furyes.
MIR. and Mrs. J. N. Morrill,. of Wind
ham. were the guests of her sister, Mrs.
T. J. Mayberry.
Blanche Megquier has finished work
for Mrs. e. M. Sawyer and has returned
home.
One day last week Willie Sawyer, a
boy thirteen years old, con of George
Sawyer, cut off all the fingers on his
right hand on the cutoff saw in the
mill of G. E. Libby in this place.
Frank Knight out his foot quite badly
on the same saw last Tuesday.
North Yarmouth.
East North Yarmouth, May 6-Sohool
in district No. began Monday, April..27,
with Miss May Whitney, Gray, teacher.
Misses Marian and Glare freeman, of
Portland, who have been visiting rela-
tives in town, have returnedshome.
Mrs. Elizabeth NJ. Dunn made visit
20 friends in Oakdale last week.
Two deer were seen in Mr.. Melvin
Fogg's field Sunday.
Mr.. Royal Edwards and two children
spent Sunday at his fathers in Wind
| ham.
Miss Mary A. Lawrence. who has been
| visiting relatives in town, has returned
| to Portland.
The East North Yarmouth base ball
club defeated the Yarmouths Saturday
by score Of 26 to 16.
Raymond.
Raymond, May 6-Mr and Mrs. Isaiah
V. Gould are soon to return to their
home in Portland. Mr.. Irving D. Nor
ton is moving his household goods into
Mr.. Gould's house.
MIR. E. B. Harmon and Master Blame,
made short visit at North Bridgton and
Harrison.
Mrs. Jackson has returned from Port.
land.
Mrs. Esther Libby and two little
granddaughters, Bertha and Beryl Skin
ner, of Portland, have been passing
few days at the village.
ME- Isaiah Gnuld {iS shincrliror his build