The Portland daily press., 1897-05-26
nAINE TOWNS.

| bur Chapman the salutatory in Latin and
Miss Albertina Jordan the poem. They
are all residents of this town.
Mr.. Elmer E. Riggs has purchased the
| Amos Eveleth farm In New Gloucester
one of the best in that town, and will re
move there the present week. He has rent
ed his place. He will be missed in this
town and the best wishes of his many
friends will go with him.
| Mr. Sumner Strout and Mr.. Irving j =.
Strout, of Topsham, have been calling on
relatives in Raymond.
. Mr.. George B. Strout is employed by
the Cushnoc Fiber Co., Augusta
Mr.. George Gerry has his new set Of
buildings nearly completed.
S. N. Jordan and o. P. Jordan have
been at work on the new boarding house,
The Films, at Raymond Village, the prop.
erty of Messrs. J. B. and F. W. Plum.
| mer.
Raymond, May 25-Mr. Lyndon O.
Skillin has been having his buildings
painted. The work being done by Nj.
Wallace Hodgdon and Mr.. Charles Emery
of Portland.
| Messrs. Fred Hayden and Charley Saw.
yer, of Portland, came out on their wheels
to the Central House, where they were
guests from Friday until Sunday.
Misses Lily Harmon and Angie Plum
mer were the guests of Mrs. Ida Hooper,
Of Sebago Lake Saturday
The Sunday school has reorganized A
cordial invitation is extended to all to at
tend.
Messrs. Irving D. Morton and Irving
Hayden were recently in Portland
A party of twenty seven wheelmen from
Portland dined at the Central House the
oath.
Messrs. Woodman and Tolman have
been here during the past week in the
interest OF the electric road from West
brook to Naples
Mr.. J. c. Sawyer came out from Port
land Sunday on his wheel to visit rela-
tives.
Mr.. Sumner J. Plummer has returned
| from Portland.
Mr.. and Mrs. Charles Plummer, of
| Woodfords, were in the place calling on
! friends last week.
FREEPoRT.
| South Freeport, May 25-Messrs. Doug
lass, Foster and Whittemore, evangelists,
| held an interesting meeting at Jones hall
Sunday afternoon and will hold evening
meetings during this week.
| The Congregational society of this place
are to build new vestry the present
season.
DIR. L. G. Verrill who went from here
to Mechanicsville, VT, has already a
rapidly growing practice at that place we
learn. His family will join him there
very soon.
S. Allen has bought of Mrs S. P.
Grant her house on Freeport street, now
occupied by G.. D. Fogg.
Master Gilbert Coffin, second son of f.
H. Coffin, while wrestling with school
mate in the high school yard last Thurs
day, was thrown to the ground in such
way as to badly fracture his collar bone
an injury from which it will take him
several weeks to recover.
The wharf where the steamers land has
| been repaired and made much safer.
Among those on the sick list are Mrs.
Jane Chase and Mrs. J. Brown. A.
Winslow and E. S. Wilson have been sick
for some time past, but both are consider
ably better now.
Canton, May 25-The new Grange hall
| Mrs. Mary E. Ward, her daughter Min
ME and lady friend are at Herdsdale fo-'
| few days.
About 100 Italians who work on the
railroad are quartered near here.
Hutchinson & Houghton is the
name of the firm in the old Cool
idge store, Carol L. Hutchinson and
Chas. R. Houghton entering into CO.
partnership.
Indications are that the hay crop will
| be good
! Oldham & Oldham are getting out the
finish for the new Grange hall.
The street from the village towards Mt.
Hartford is being put in nice repair by
| Mr.. K. DeCoster, surveyor.
Miss Louise Staples assisted by her
pupils, give recital at the Free Baptist
church the Goth.
! Brook trouting is at it's height.
o. f. Taylor, of East Sumner, con-
templates opening a store here for the sale
| of general merchandise.
| The poor prospect of the Poland Paper
Co. rebuilding their pulp mill at Gilbert
vile, makes the people there as well as
at Canton feel blue.
E. D. Thompson has sold his stand ut
Gilbertville to Rev. Mr.. Carver.
E. Harlow, who is in charge at Herds
dale, received an arrival of horses from
Boston last week, about dozen in all.
/. Cyrus 7. Bonney is very low.
: The game of ball Saturday at the park
between the Cantons and Livermore
Falls, was won by the Cantons.
Mrs. Stephen L. Cushman has gone to
the hospital tor treatment.
Mrs. d. Bradford is mending from an
attack of the grippe.
Miss Nellie Stanwood is teaching her
first school in the Stetson district,
sPRINGvALE.
s.Springvale, May 25.-Rev. W. B. Shum-
way has gone to Hebron, where he is to
give an address at the commencement ex-
ercises at the academy.
Some parts of the work started up in
the Shaw & Cooling shoe shop last Mon
day.
W. S. Cheney has sold out his grocery
business to Morrison & Berry
W. r. Usher & Son have connected
their two factories by covered bridge
between the upper stories.
The rain came in good season, as the
top of the soil was getting dry, and the
dust in the streets with the high winds
we have been having was getting to be
intolerable.
Miss Minnie G. Leavitt, NJ. D., gave a
very excellent lecture to large audience
at Town hall last Sunday evening.
Woodbury. Dam of Everett, Mass, called
on friends here this week, who were much
pleased to see him, he also took trip to
his old homestead in Shapleigh, where he
had not been for eighteen years
Memorial services were observed at this
Baptist church last Sunday afternoon.
The opening service commenced with