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The Portland daily press., 1896-01-02
PERSONAL.

q Mr.. J. W. Woodbury.. double bass play
or with Grimmer's orchestra, and organ
ist at the India street Universalist church
leavess Monday for Richmond, Va, where
he takes the place of Mr.. J. W. Harring-
ton.
On Thursday morning next Mrs. Eta
Osgood of Portland, will meet her newest
class in parliamentary usage in the palors
of the Ycurg Women's Home. This
GLASS was partly organized before the
holidays, but there is chance for four or
five ladies to join yet, and Thursday
morning will be the opportunity. The
session will begin at g. 10 a. m.-Lewis-
ton Sun.
Mrs. Payson Tucker and Miss Hannah
Tucker, Mrs. Blabon and Mrs. Hugh
Chisholm of Portland, arrived in Angus
ia Tuesday afternoon and will make a
short visit with Mrs. Elias Milliken.
:. Rev. B. P. Snow, principal of VAR
mouth Academy, was in the city yester-
day.
School Supervisor Joseph A. MCGOWAN
and wife, entertained several people at
their residence on Congress street, yes
terday afternoon.
Capt sSoule of Shepley Camp, S. of ",
has received gayel made of the native
wood of Minnesota, present from the
camp at Monticello, Mimi. to Shepley
camp.
These were among the arrivals at the
Falmouth yesterday: H. q. Yates, f..
A. Hemenway, E., e. Dawson, g., R.
Seward, Thomas Fl. Dooley G. H. ,Bax-
ton. +. T. O'Reilly Boston; F. n. Ellis,
North Arson; j. M. Mason Limerick
Geo. L. Green, Springfeld John B.
Donovan Allied; J. Spear, New York.
/ Tie following werc registered at, the
Preble house yesterday: Mr.. and Mrs. E..
Z. Tolman, Lawrence; Hon. F. M. Hig-
gins, Limerick Secretary of State Nicho-
las Fessenden; E. E. Knowles, Corinna ;
G. B. Moore, f. W. Holmes. j. M.
Mackie. W. F. Sawyer, Geo. d. Pike, Bos-
ton; G. B. Flynn, A. D. Purvis, New
York
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Marine Notes.

Z
The effect of the storm was not fell
apparently far at sea. The Gloucester
schooner Harvester arrived yesterday
with 40, 600 pounds of cod and haddock
for J. W. Trefethen. She was 100 miles
off shore when the storm struck and felt
it SO little that she was kept under full
sail.
The coal barges reported overdue, rode
out the storm at Salem. The good news
that they were all right reached here yes.
terday morning greatly to the delight Of
the families of the captain of one of the
barges and some of his men.
The Greoian had one stowaway, ar
American citizen born in Iowa, but
caught In London down in his luck. HI
pleaded hard to be allowed to land but
Inspector Fogg was forced to order Cap
tain Moore to take him back to London
The man had but SO with him, and q
stowaway could not in any case have
been allowed to land.
In general the offices of the steamer
companies were closed yesterday and be.
cause it was holiday but little freight
came in and only two down specials
were received. The Grand Trunk if
obliged to keep holiday in Canada,
made up for it here and stared five spec.
ials from here during the day and even.
ing.
There was very odd occurrence a,
Harpswell during the storm of Tuesday
The schooner Maud B. Wetherel was al
anchor and was taken on the very ores
of what was almost tidal wave. apf
carried nearly to high ground, something
never heard of there before.
A number Of schooners anchored of
Orr's Island during the storm, parted
their cables, but were not seriously dam
aged. The wind all along the coast wa.
something fearful and it is feared tina,
damags will be reported when the Quite,
islands are heard from.
The Portland daily press., 1896-01-02
Annual Church Meeting.

The annual church meeting of State
Street church was held tuesday evening.
This was not the annual parish meeting
which is held later.
The pastor, Rev. J. L. Jenkins. D.
D., made an interesting address on the
work accomplished during the past year.
He congratulated the church on the re-
suit. The election of the church com.
mittee for the ensuing year resulted as
follows:
Church Committee-Rev. j. L. Jenkins,
Deacons-Rufus H. Hinckley, Sylves-
ter Mari, Warren Sparrow; Superin tend
emit Ansel 6. Dewey of the Sunday
school. Dennis W. Clark, Israel 7. Dana,
Charles A. Brown, Edgar r. Payson,
Mrs. Mary A. Ellis and Mrs. j.. f.
Hawkes.
Clerk-John r. Prince.
Treasurer-HerbertM Bailey.
Assistant Treasurer-Alber5 T. Free
man.
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Johnson,s Encyclopedias.

The new edition of John sons Encyclo.
padia is completed and is being delivered
to subscribers. Mr.. W. e. johnson, the
agent for Maine and New Hampshire,
has sold 700 sets Of the work in these states.
and 2700 have been sold in New England.
The revised edition is great improve
ment over the first edition which
everybody who is familiar with it knows
was an exceedingly valuable work.
The Portland daily press., 1896-01-02
1896.

Over the piano was the motto ''Port-
land Y. NJ. g. A.' set in triangles, the
emblems ofSthe association.
The guests were welcomed by most
efficient corps of ushers, composed of 20
OF the young lady members The first
part of the evening was devoted to music
and games, after which this delightful
programme was enjoyed.
Violin Solo, Miss Davis of Island Pond
Reading, Miss Jennie K. REYNOLDS
Piano Solo, Mr.. Albert Smith
Each of the performers had to respond
TO enthusiastic enoores. Refreshments
were then served and received full justice.
1t was most delightful affair, thorough
ly enjoyed by all and the officers and
friends of the association are to be CON
graduated on SO suspicious an opening
of the new year.
The Portland daily press., 1896-01-02
Y. w. C. A.

: The Young Women's Christian Asso-
citation and the Young Mems Christian
Association held union service at 10
O'Clock yesterday morning in the Young
Mems rooms. An all day service of payer
was held in the Young Women's rooms
At O'Clock the service was in charge
OF Mrs. Moves; at O'Clock Mrs. Purdy led
and at Miss Mary Plummer. Last eve
ming MIS-. James Hawkes. conducted the
exc! Of ,es
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THE PRESS.
NEW ADVERTISEMENTS TO-DAY.
WEDDINGS.
14eighton-Sweetser,

OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES.
A very pleasant wedding occurred on
New Years evening at the home of the
BRIDES parents, 142 Main street, West
brook, when Maud Woodbury., the only
daughter of Mr.. and Mgs. Alfred S.
Sweetser, was united i'll marriage to
Rev. George e. Leighton, pastor of the
Universalist church at Skowhegan. The
ceremony was performed by Rev. W. H.
Gould of Dexter in the presence Of their
immediate relatives. There were many
beautiful and choice wedding presents
and the happy couple.will receive the
good wishes of a wide circle of friends.
Rev. and Mrs. Leighton will be at home
to their friends on Tuesday evenings after
February 1st, at 10 Madison street,
Skowhegan.t ME.
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y. M. c. A.
A Brilliant Reception Held Last Even
ing.

The New Year receptionat the Young
Mems Christian Association hall last
evening was a most brilliant affair."
About 800 ladies and gentlemen attended.
The hall was very handsomely decorat-
ed with flags, lanterns. bunting and large
Japanese fanssmost artistically arranged.
Over the entrance to the hall was great
transparency inscribed:
WELCOME
NEW YEARS,
The Portland daily press., 1896-01-02
Sunday School Work,

The executive committee of the Cum
berland County Sunday School Associ-
alton will hold meeting at Westbrook
next Friday. On the afternoon of the
same day there will be meeting at
Strnudwater of Sunday School mmit-
tees from Portland andsneighborin COM
munities.
The executive committee of the State
Sunday School Association will hold its
annual meeting in about two weeks.
The Portland daily press., 1896-01-02
A Fine Time.

The first supper of the Absent-Minded
Whist club was held at J. II. S. Wefer-
ling's, last evening. A most elaborate
menu was served and delightful even
ing passed by all pr esent.
The Portland daily press., 1896-01-02
Longfellow Lodge X. of p.

Longfellow Lodge, No. 4s, z. of p,
elected the following officers for the en-
suing term:
G. Garry W. Way.
V. C.-Uriah Durcan.
Prelate-Fred B. Thompson.
NJ. of the W.-George NJ. Hathaway.
M. at A.-Wilber Quint
z. of r. and SO. e. Manter.
N. of I'm. A. Floyd.
N. Of E-Frank L. Howe.
!. G.-S. W. Joy.
o. Coco A. Stewart
Representatives to Grand Lodge for two
years-A. M. Hezeltine and L. A. Gould.
Alternates-Wm. Galley and S. d.
Lincoln.
Trustee for three years.. G. Ripley.
Representative to Pythian Hall Asso-
citation for IS months-Frank L. Howe.
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The Evening School,

There will be 40 session of the evening
school till next Monday, owing to contin-
ued repairs on the Spring street school
house,
The Portland daily press., 1896-01-02
NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.

The UeGtheT to00y
Is liksJv to be
fair.
PORTLAND. Jan. I'd, 1896.
w : ask st: you s'' tn ioa tx
ahead a bit.
To next summer if you
please, to your possible
needs five or six months
hence.
Curtains for the sum-
mer cottage.
Several seasons ago
our Draperies buyer in a
burst of enthusiasm, in
the exuberance of his APP.
probation of what seemed
to him to be the prettiest
fabric for drapery cur
tains ever made in the
world, bought too many
B Q m b a y Madrasses,
bought enough to stock
a New York Store, four
or five times as many
yards of them as we
could sell. They're here
yet, some of them, and
they're still pretty and
still have the original
value in them, that's why
we've hesitated all this
time to mark them down,
hated to put the knife in.
to such nice stuff, hoped
your old ones would have
become worn out by this
time and that you'd be
coming for more.
We are tired waiting,
they must go now, their
room is needed and they
are to be sacrificed.
About twenty-three
part pieces ii the LOT, all
different, beautiful as
sortment.of colors, hand
some designs, As and so
inches wide, some with
shot figures in self color
or a contrasting tint,
others with a silk cross
stripe, ali clean and in
per e c t condition.
They've been from soc
to SI.Io a yard, we've
marked the entire lot for
to-day's selling at Ioc a
) yard, and we have no
hesitapcy in saying it is
the greatest bargain the
draperies room has Of
fered in a twelvemonth.
Nothing could be better
for summer house cur
tains.
The Portland daily press., 1896-01-02
1t is Known
BY Its Cures

It IS not what we say, but what
Hoods Sarsaparilla does, that tells the
story of its merit.
The thousands of people whom it has
raised from disease and despair to happi-
ness and health, are the strongest and
best advertisements Hoods Sarsaparilla
has. No other preparation in existence
has such record of wonderful cures.
This is why Hoods Sarsaparilla has the
largest sale, and requires for its produce
ton the largest laboratory in the world.
Now II you need a good medicine, why
not try that which has done others SO
much good. Remember
The Portland daily press., 1896-01-02
NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.

d. H. LIBBY.
Holidays are over.
Hustling days are here.
MlERE'S A TRUMP CARD
we've been hiding up our
sleeve, we play it Thursday
on .:Bargain-apolis.'
One hundred and fifty Phlladel-
phia Knit Underskirts, light color
good texture. !,
Thursday morning from $50
o'clock, until sold, price Is cts.
0EPARATE SKIRTS. A small
- ish lot of exclusive ones to
close out, price-cut as fol-
lows:
Crepon Skirt, latest fashion, lined throuhout,
Fancy Weave Crepon, was s14.oo, now 81 90
Different Weave CreEon,, was sl2.00
: Wide VALE Diagonal, was SIS. 90, now $3.50
Basket Weave Fabric, was $1,000, now $500
Fancy Crepe. was $500, now $3.50
Another Basket Weave, Was Sl3 90,
just half-price you see.
- HILDREN'S JACKETS. To
~ go out before stock taking.
The radical price lever applied.
Scotch Mixture with cape, was 500.
now $500,
Another is.edged with Astrachan. was $3.50
now $3.50
Plain, red black fur around cape and cuff,
price was $3.50, now $500
ADD LOT Of Long Garments
~ for Misses IL, IA and Is
years old. Prices were
5000 and 1000, cut-down to $500.
II AIDES MUSLIN UNDER
WEAR Sale still marching
Newest style Night Robes, Corset
Covers, cut in the latest styles and
decorated with newest embroidery
and lace.
Elegant Lingerie Sets, 8 and 4
piece sets.
x TTENTION is CALLED to
IN seven Special Bargains in
Cotton Underwear.
I. Ladies' Tucked Underskirts,
25 cts
II. Ladies' Tucked Drawers,
fancy feather stitching, well made,
all sizes, 20 cts
III. Children's Hamburg trim
med Drawers, small sizes, 25 ct.
quality, II cts
". Ladies Hamburg trimmed
Night Robes, all sizes, full sweep,
large sleeves, so cts
V. Extra size Night Robes,
$1.OO, 1875, $50
VI. Extra size Drawers, extra
q lality cotton, perfect shape and
work, tucked, 80 cts, so cts.
VII. Extra size Hamburg trim
med Drawers, so cts
DRESS GOODS.
cIXTEEN THOUSAND DOL
~ LARS worth of Spring Dress
Goods bought, to arrive.
French, German and English
spindles flying to make them.
Cnaca r,ust he ho6 bora +o rooo;,,o
The Portland daily press., 1896-01-02

new handsome
plaids in a good variety
of styles---still in great
demand for waists and
girls dresses---5o cts, 50
cts, rs cts, $780,
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Some extra gooi

OOOU
values in Black Goods.
Figured novelties in
patterns at s3.4s and
1896.
A A inch India Twill
heavy and fine---a good
Use quality, but selling
now at 80 els.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1896-08-21
Made Him Tired.

The old gentleman rose painfully
from the park bench and looked out over
the sea wall at the blue waters of the
lake, broken here and there by lines of
white. Then he turned and surveyed
the smooth expanse Of the lake shore
drive and the row of stone residences
along its farther side.
eff [ were rich,' he said, thought
fully stroking his chin and speaking to
the man on the other side of the bench,
IF were rich, instead of on my last
financial legs, I would buy one Of those
houses and come over here and live
just feel the air1 Fresh and cool off the
lake and loaded with the blessing of
health -
The man on the other end of the
bench shook his head sadly
TITS all right early in the morning.
he said. 'But during the day them
bicyclists come along and pump it into
their tires and carry it off. By night
there amt enough left to breathe. -
Chicago Tribune.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1896-08-21
In Quarantine.

Good gracious'' calculated the bak-
ing powder drummer, who had been
tilted back on the porch of the Squa1-i
Corners grocery store swapping yarns
with the proprietor. ''What has that
weary looking dude from the east been
guilty of, that those men and boys
should be driving him up the hill with
guns and pitchforks?''
Il don't s'pose he has done anything
he could help" replied the merchant
but he's been mopin around the tav-
ern for day or two, an this mornin he
confessed to the landlord that he'd got
turrible bad case of ong-wee. An so
the neighbors are driving him up to a
little shanty away off in the woods,
where they are goin to keep him till they
find out whether the disease is ketchin
or not. It's pretty tough on him, but
we can't afford TO take any risks on
that account. New York World
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1896-08-21
A PRETTY PEACH PACKER.

years ago, that destroyed thousands OF
orchards worth over 1000, 900. The
same craze once seized the Delaware
farmers, and they paid high prices for
land that was before almost useless. A
glut in the peach market, followed by
the appearance of the peach yellow,
which killed acres of trees, checked this
enthusiasm few years ago, and there
are Delaware farmers today who hate
the very name of the fruit. They are
the men who paid from $500 to $500 an
acre for land and planted peach orchards
only to lose the savings of many years.
But in Georgia today you will hear
stories OF small growers who have sold
their peach crops for fabulous prices
They say that a Triton grower sold
peaches in New York for $I2 a bushel
in 1894, and that another man realized
$1,000 an acre for his crop. With these
unusual if not exaggerated figures as a
basis of calculation the enthusiastic
orchardist or prospective peach grower
sits down and figures himself out a rich
man with very little exertion. As re-
suit some of them are sorely disap-
pointed.
But many farmers are doubling their
incomes by raising peaches as an extra
crop. Orchard land can be bought for
from So TO $50 an acre, and with a cap
ital of a few hundred dollars quite re-
spectacle orchard can be planted. The
cultivation is comparatively easy, and
while his trees are reaching the produc-
ing point he can raise early vegetables
and other products sufficient TO make
living. When his trees begin TO lear,
which requires but three or four years,
he can realize handsomely. Young trees
will produce about two crates TO the
tree, and he will probably clear from 81
to So per crate. Twenty acres of peach
trees should yield a net income of from
81, 800 to So, 600 year.
Along the line of the Central Railroad
of Georgia there are more than 2,0OO,-
900 peach trees in bearing and fully as
many more that will be producing fruit
in year or two. When you consider
that peach tree will continue to bear
for from 20 to 80 years you can calcu-
late that it will be a long time before
the peach crop will fail entirely, unless
some unforeseen catastrophe overtakes
the orchards. CYRUS SYLVESTER.
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Of them can be seen from an observatory
which rises from the great central pack
ing shed. There are II miles of drives
through the orchard, which is laid ont
with streets and avenues intersecting at
right angles. Just now fully 500 people
and 100 horses and mules are kept very
busy picking the ripe fruit from the
trees, packing it in baskets and crates
and shipping 1t in refrigerator cars north
and west
When the season Is at It's height, 10 or
y carloads of peaches are shipped every
day. A car holds $50 crates. This wear
there are about 10, 900 crates to be picked
and shipped, and the work has been un-
der way since the middle of July. a
merry and busy time it is on a big peach
farm like this. While the picking is
largely done by colored help, the lighter
work of packing is done by the Young
white people of Houston county. Every
night after work there are sounds Of
merrymaking, for the colored folks in
duIge IN breakdowns and jigs to the
music OF the banjo, while the white peo-
pie dance quadrilles and waltzes ON the
broad verandas of the boarding houses.
When the demand for fruit falls off
by reason of a glut in the market,
then the canning factories are started,
and the ripe fruit is saved from spelling
What do you do with so many
peaches?" was asked Of a Georgia farmer
who was expatiating to visitor on the
amount of fruit he raised in his little
orchard.
''Oh, we eat what we can, and what
we can't we cam was his reply.
And that is exactly what they do.
Canned peaches, as you know, are a
cheap and staple article the world over.
Another big Georgia peach farm is
that of Mr.. S. II. Rumph He is called
the peach king of Georgia, not because
his orchard is the largest, but because
it was he who first attracted attention
TO the money making possibilities of
peach growing. You will still be told
in Georgia of the great crop of 1887,
when from an orchard of less than 200
acres Mr.. Rumph cleared $50, 900 Since
then he has been known as the peach
king, although larger and perhaps more
profitable orchards have been planted
since. But Mr.. Rumph has been plant
ing peach trees since then, too and last
year he made net profit from his Or
chard and nurseries of 500, 900.
You may be sure that. with cotton
down to bedrock prices, the Georgia
farmers have not been blind to the
money making chances which this com.
paratively new industry opens to them.
They have fully realized that no other
crop, that can be raised in Georgia pays
better on the investment than the peach
crop, and consequently every year more
than million new trees are put into
the ground. OF course this will eventu-
ally result in glut in the market that
will last all through the season, but
until that time arrives new orchards |
Will be started.
The peach raising fever in Georgia is
similar to the craze for planting orange |
groves in Florida, which received a |
1eathblow- by the snowstorm of two |
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= REAL PUNCH JOKE.
1t Had a Good Point. but Was Not In the
Paper.

1t Had Good Point, bat - as Not In the
Paper.
1t is possible to find such an ingen-
ious method Of escape from a dilemma
that its very ingenuity shall react or
. the head of the too clever originator.
Mr.. Spielmann, in his History OF
Punch, gives an amusing case in point
On the occasion of the wedding OF
the Prince Of Wales a brilliant compa
ny assembled at the publishing Office of
Punch to see the cortege pass. Sothern.
one Of the invited guests, arrived on the
other side of the way, but was unable
to cross because of the dense crowd. His
friends caught sight of him and pointed
TO a policeman. SOthern took the hint
sect me through" he Whispered,
land III give you sovereign.
Afraid 1 can - said the man re-
gretfulIy, but III try
He did try, but unsuccessfully, for
the closely packed crowd Indignantly
protested against being disturbed. Soth-
ern was at his wits end. He could not
bear the thought of losing such din
ner and in such company. Then an
ingenious idea came to him.
Put your handouts on me and drag
me across and I'll give you two SOW
ereigns, he said to the policeman.
The man seized the idea and Sothern
at the same time. He slipped ON the
handouts and with loud, MAKE way
there' dragged his prize through the
mass of humanity which before had re-
fused to stir, but which now parted and
squeezed and gave all its energies to the
task of assisting the custodian of law
and order in his efforts to arrest a law
breaker. After much pushing and some
rough handling, the disheveled come
dian was landed at Punch's publishing
door.
You'll find the money in my waist
coat pocket, said Sothern.
But he did not observe that after the
policeman had secured the money a
stealthy addition was made to it by one
of his Punch's friends, who found Soth-
ern's device so original that it suggested
to him a further development. The po-
liceman suddenly disappeared in the
crowd, and not till then did the come
dian realize that timely bride had left
him to mix with his friends for the rest
of the day and to eat his dinner with
his hands firmly secured in the man
ac1es. Youth Companion.