The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1897-06-07

The dull, muggy weather continues.
Yesterday was Whit Sunday and was
celebrated in the Episcopal and Catholic
churches.
1t is reported that the Cape Electric
company has purchased the Goddard
property, and that it will be used for a
large hotel or picnic grounds.
The depositors of the Fraternity bank
will please bring .theirl savings to the
Fraternity House, today, June 18th, at
four o'clock, according to previous ar
range1nent with Miss Flagg, director.
Fern lodge, No. g. U. o. of I. o. L.,
will celebrate their anniversary, Wednes-
! day, evening, June 9th at their hall in
Harrington block. Each member may
y bring friend. The banquet will be at
ss9 p. m.
The loss on o. Fl. Fellows printing
office was adjusted Saturday by the ad
juster of the Norwa1k Insurance Co.
L, The sum allowed was $S45. Is. The fire
5 which damaged this office; occurred Fri
day morning.
That the order for curtain draperies,
etc., for the new theatre has been given
into the hands of Owen, Moore Z Co.,
is pleasant news to Portland people, as
the exceptional taste and rare skill in all
/ interior decorations of this firm is well
known.
In the municipal court Saturday, Wal
ter F. Howard, accused of assault, was
discharged. Charles f. Brogan, as a
common drunkard, will spend 60 days in
Jail.
This summer the train leaving Portland
at sos D. NJ on the Maine Central will
run through to Rockland.
All members of the Portland Veteran
Firemen's Association are requested to
meet at Mills & Gilmoure's machine
shop, on Commercial street, Tuesday
evening at $50 sharp to try the engine.
A dove committed suicide last Thurs
day morning by hanging himself on a
hook just below the tower on City hall.
His dead body is in plain sight from
the street and the doves who formerly
made the roof of the big building their
play ground have now deserted it,
tt The regular meeting of the Central La
Dor Union will be held this eve
ming Every delegate is requested to be
present as several important matters are
to come before the meeting.
Miss Flaggs club, 1.-THE Enterprise
club,' number of young women, who
have been enjoying the pleasures of the
fraternity house this past winter, spent
Thursday in Boston. The Public Library,
the Art Museum and many other points
of interest were visited with Miss FIagg.
That evening when the club returned to
take the steamer for Portland, they all
voted that, although thoroughly tired,
this had been the best day of their lives.
Woodbine Rebekah lodge will have
their annual picnic Saturday, June Goth.
A committee has been appointed to make
the arrangements and will report at the
nxet meeting.
The subject of "Hypnotism' was con-
cluded last evening, before the Portland
Philosophical society. Next Sunday the
subject will be ''Sleep and Death'' The
hall and circulating library will be open
Wednesday from to and from to p.
M, for readers and enquirers
Officer Pillsbury went to Gray on
Saturday to try his luck on the trout
brooks. He met with good luck and re-
turned with twenty-seven speckled
beauties
BARLEY McCallum and his Peaks Island
theatre company arrived in the city yes
terday on the New York boat A part of
the company numbering twenty-one in
all, went to the islands Immediately,
while fifteen are registered at the
Falmouth for the present.