The Portland daily press., 1897-10-25
DEERING.


enlargement of constituencies of their
friends Among those mentioned in con-
nection with the mayoralty are Ruel
Small, John E. Sawyer, Aldermen Aver
and Matthews, Hon. Augustus f. Moul-
ton and the present incumbent, Mayor
Henry Davis.
PROF E. Ward of this city has been
rendered end accepted the position of
organist at the church in Lewiston, in
charge of Rev. Father Wallace. He will
commence his duties about the first of
November
Mr. Mast of the Westbrook Seminary
football team, who was injured in the
game at Kent's HILL week ago, is not
recovering as fast as could be desired
and will probably not be able to play
again this season.
MIR. A. >. Wentworth of Cumberland
Centre, while driving along Forest ave-
nue., Saturday forenoon about 10 o'clock,
was thrown from his carriage and severe
" injured, His horse became frightened
by the steam drill at the corner of Moves
street and Forest avenue, where work in
the sewer is being done. While trying
to quiet his horse the breeching of the
harness broke and caused the horse to
become unmanageable so that Mr.. Vent
worth was thrown out onto the ground.
dislocating his shoulder and receiving a
bad cut over the front part and side of
the head. The sufferer was taken to the
Eye and Ear Infrmary where it was
found that the injuries were not as seri-
GUS as at first feared. Mr.. Wentworth
was until few months ago a resident of
Deering, living at the corner of Grant and
Mechanic street, but recently removed to
Cum berland Centre where he owns a
farm.
The street commissioner men are at
work on the so-called lower bridge at
Stroudwater, raising the bridge and
putting in new abutments and replank-
ing the bridge.
The street department men are at work
putting in wooden pipe boxes at points
along the cutters on Fessenden street,
where teams drive across the gulleys
The old system of stoneware pipe protect
ed by plank was not satisfactory as the
water freezes badly in the winter and
causes an overflow in the streets. With
the new system of wooden pipe the top
part of the box can be removed and the
ice broken up as occasion demanded
From the general appearance of things
it is evident that not only the general
appropriation for streets for the year of
1878 has run out as stated short time
ago in the papers, but in the judgment
of the several members of the city govern
ment the special appropriation of SIS, 900
for the widening, and macademizing of
Forest avenue must be reaching a low
ebb. The work has been done under the
direction of the committee as individuals
and not as a whole, and up to the present
time no reckoning has been made as to
4he condition of the appropriation. The
work has been given into the hands of
the street com missioner and he employed
an expert on road building, Mr.. Thomas
Randall of Massachusetts.
The difficulty comes between the indi-
vidual members of the committee issuing
orders from time to time to either the
street commissioner or Mr.. Randall, and
expecting each of these gentlemen to car
ry out every order issued without regard
to economy. The aldermen, will on Mon
day evening go over the bills thus far
paid and determine how much more work
can be done. 1t is the general opinion
among the aldermen that no further
appropriation should be made this fall
to continue the work, if the original
sum has been expended or nearly SO as
it now appears.
The brick sidewalk on Forest avenue
and Woodfords street, around the Odd
Fellows block, was completed Saturday
afternoon.
The first floor of the building being
constructed for the New England Furni-
ture company at MorriIl's Corner has
been laid and the timbers and joists for
the second story are now in process of
erection.
The ledge work necessary for the exca-
walton of the cellar to the new High
school building at Deering Centre will
be completed early next week and the
remainder of the foundation wall will
then be put in.
The clock to be placed in the tower of
the Odd Fellows building arrived in
Portland on Friday and is to be brought
to Deering and placed in position some
time during Monday.
Late Friday evening a stranger was
driving along Forest avenue in small
top buggy and when near Noyes street
the horse stumbled into the trench being
dug for the laying of the new sewer pipe.
The driver was thrown from the carriage.
The horse regained his footing and in
doing SO succeeded in demolishing quite
a portion of the buggy. The horse con-
tinued on.his mad run along the avenue
in the direction of Morrill's corner. The
of the team was not injured and
soon after wended his way homeward on
foot. The demolished buggy is now on
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