The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1896-04-04
WEST END CONGREGATION
VAUGHAN STREET.
SOUTH PORTLAND.

muuy Things TO 90 aDOuG Un6 exterior yet,
such as walks. piazzas. etc.. but the main
building is about completed. The walls
have been shingled and stained dull
brown, the trimmings being painted q
light shade. Work on the interior will
commence at once.
Mr.. Willis +. Strout will be the gen.
eral superintendent and Miss Emma
Smith will have charge of the ladies'
department.
The ball given Wednesday night in aid
of Albert Willard netted about $50.
The ball and concert given by Merri-
mans band Thursday evening at Will
lard's pavilion was we'll attended al
hough the severe storm kept m any at
home who otherwise would have attend
ed.
| The entire family of Mr.. Levi Jewett
are quite sick and MIR. Jewett was obliged
to leave his position OH the life saving
foroe and hire substitute for time.
: The History club met Wednesday eve
ming with Miss Margaret Pillsbury,
| School street, Willard An Easter pro-
ing of original papers by Miss Cole. Miss
| Stevens and Mr.. J. Cobb, Mrs. Young
closing with the Easter number of the
club paper. which was very good. Re-
freshments were served at 10 O'Clock on
the beautiful old china which is an neir-
loom in the Pillsbury family. After the
collation. was partaken OF, fruit punch
was served, and while the glass went
round MIR. George I. Spear and Capt
A ndrew Smart responded to toasts, after
which Mrs. M. G. Young presented Miss
| Pillsbury with an Easter egg as she said
"a club egg" amid the cackle of the en-
| tire club. At II. 80 the guests took a spe-
Lott no r fnr how mr. n yy.ln
| Mr.. and Mrs. William Pebbles and
daughter are visiting MIR. Pebbles father
at Bowery Beach.
| 4 Monday night Masconomo tribe, No.
| 49, of Improved Order of Red Men, will
work the hunters degree. This lodge
has taken into it's ranks about seventy
new members and is in very fourishing
| condition. A supper will be served in
the banquet hall after the work is over.
| h Edwin l.. Field, ESQ.,, superintendent
of public works at Portland Head. has
| taken Mr.. Browns cottage ct Deep Brook
| for the season. Work will begin on the
| fortified tons as soon as theSfrost leaves
the ground soft enough to work easily.
The Easter services at the Bethany
church at 2. 10 p. M, will be entirely de-
voted to the day. In the evening the reg
ular service will be held. The Mendels-
| sohn Quartette will furnish music. Dur
ing the service thirty persons will be
| baptized.
John Hutchinson of Cornell, N. Y,
| Is visiting his father on Pleasant street.
| Rev. Clinton Simonton OF Yarmouth
will assist Rev. G. e. Andrews in the
services at Bethany church Sundays
through the summer.
The conductors and motormen who
have changed from the Cove line to the
| Rigby line some months ago will resume
their old route again Monday, much to
the satisfaction Ct the Cove line people
| Mrs. isabelle D. Pillsbury died at the
residence of her daughter in Willard
Friday afternoon at 2 O'Clock, aged 80
years, 10 months. She was one of the
Oldest residents anywhereabout here,
well retained mental faculties, particu-
larly endearsd her to all. She was as
much interested and good compan-
| ion for young as we'll as old. She was
| comparatively we'll. and was able to be
out on the street and move about the
house, fully as well as most persons at
sixty. Tuesday night the family left
her sewing when they retired and We'd
nesday morning when Mrs. Simonton
entered her mothers room she found
Mrs. Pillsbury laying with her face down
on the carpet beside hor bed. She had
prepared for bed, having taken her
clothing off and put on her night dress,
1 wv Atat liOd pO0h al bONs houO 0Ffuonbly
had stroke of paralysis just as sha was
about to get into bed. She lived in an
| unconscious condition until Friday
Once she rallied for q moment, but could
| only articulate two or three words The
deceased was the wife of the late Daniel
| P1llsbury, who was a merchant in Will
lard for many years, and very prominent
in the place. Mrs Pillsbury will be
greatly missed not only by her children
and grandchildren, but by very large
circle of friends and acquaintances. The
| Pillsbury family are one of the oldest in
Cape Elizabeth, being descended from
Joshua Woodbury., who was one of the
first to land at Simonton's Cove and set
tie there, and "Aurft BELIEF as everyone
called the dear old lady, was the last link
between the old and the new generations
| The time Of the funeral at this writing
| had not been decided. The interment
| will be in Mount Pleasant cemetery.
| The Rev. +. A. Leitch of West End,
Portland, will preach at the Peoples
church on Sunday at $50 p. nj. Sacra-
| mont will be administered. Several who
have recently been converted will BIZ re-
| oeivsd into the church. The Rev. VIM.
| Wood will be absent next week attend
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