The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1896-09-12
SOUTH PORTLAND.

nave Deem spending the summer here
nave moved back to Portland.
a largely attended Democratic rally
was held last evening in Union hall.
Mr. Willis Il. Cole presided and intro
ouoed as the speaker of the evening Hon.
Flefre Numbers, Jr., of Boston, who
spoke for about an hour and a half on
one silver question. Very little enthusi-
asm. was manifested.
Ahe young men about the town are
making preparations to put into the
HELD first-class foot ball eleven. Mr..
ueorge Studley win captain the team.
Inc grounds have been secured and
iaia out On East High street and the
team will soon begin it's work.
capt. Elmer York has taken command
OF the brigantine Henry B. .Clsayes and
Will sail on her in a few days with a
cargo Of lumber for Martinique.
Capt. B. 3. Henlsy has taken command
OF the four-masted schooner J. s. Wins
low and will sail in few days for
Philadelphia where she will load with
coal for the island of st. Luui In the West
Indies.
Capt. James York will make trip in
the schooner B. ]. Willard, which is
now discharging clay at the Portland
stoneware Company's wharf in. Back
bay.
Capt. ]. G. York. who has been quite
Ill, Is able to be out again.
The choir of tie Peoples Methodist
church will begin its labors again on
Sunday after brief vacation.
Miss Edith Dyer, bookkeepsr for @.
r. ). Dyer Is back at work again after
few days illness.
MI. Daniel Dimmens has accepted
situation at the shoe factory in Deering.
A former resident OF this town while
riding on his bicycle in Bar Harbor,
with his wife. met with peculiar 40
oidont While ooasting down hill he rem
into board fence and knocked out his
teeth. He is now looking for another
false set.
The Volunteer hose company will give
dance at Willard, October 6.
1t was pay day at B ort Preble the first
OF the week and many of the new silver
certificates are in circulation in the town
as consequence.
Mr.. B. K. Thompson is In Boston on
a business trip.
MI. Charles Skillins, formerly of this
place, but now Of Lynn, is visiting
friends and relatives here for a few
days.
Mr.. Charles Gilmore, who has been
confined to the house with sickness for
several weeks. is able to be out again.
Thu new sidewalk from Pine street to
the bicycle factory is nearly completed
and will be greatly appreciated by tie
employees of the factory.
Miss Bertha Gray, who has been assist
ing her friend, Miss Minnie Thompson.
returned to her home on Milton last
night.
The lighthouse steamer Lilac is on the
marine railway receiving O coat of
paint.
The big four-masted schooner Angus
tus Palmer is also on the railway for re-
pairs.
Mr.. Harry Doughty, who has been
camping at Peaks for the summer, has
returned home.
Mr.. Joseph Shea is entertaining his sis
ter from Bar Harbor.
Mrs. Fred Gatohell of Kinoaid street.
who has been very Ill, is slowly improy-
ing.
The Democratic town committee or
what there is left of it, is utterly dis
couraged at the result of canvass re-
Gently made. Besides such leading spir.
Its as Thomas B. Haskell, Byron Small
and others who have hpIted from the
Democratic ranks, there. are rs men who
have heretofore voted the straight Demo-
cratic ticket. but who have kicked over
the free silver traces this year and will
help swell Powers's majority. And this
is not all, for there are many other mon
In South Portland who are still guessing
and who will probably flop before Mon
day next. South Portland which has
heretofore nearly alwaysabeen counted
by the Democratic state committee as al
most as steadfast as the Solid South,
is out of the Democratic column and
will be large Republican town by No
vember.
The warm weather Of yesterday doomed
the travel on the electric road up to sum-
mer proportions and numbers of.people
took advantage Of the day and visited
the Willard resort
Mr.. and Mrs. c. H. Day of Fairport
N. Y, who have been visiting friends
In town, have returned home.
Mr.. Henry East, who has been Ill for
several weeks, is again able to leave his
house.
Work at the bicycle factory is begin
ming for the season.
Mrs.. S. Il. Randall Of Duxbury, Mass.
Is the guest of friends in town.
Mrs. e. +. Morton and daughter and Miss
Alice Maud De La Haye of Ipswich,
Mass. were the guests of Mrs. Harvey
McClearn last week.