The Portland daily press., 1897-08-31
MAINE TOWNS.
Items Of Interest Gathered by Cores
pondents of the Press
RAYMOND.


has been dormant for some little tilne ns'9
been re-organized and vigorous steps nave
been taken to revive interest IN one
matter.
Miss Jennie Plummer has been vlslulhg
friends and relatives at Cumberland
Mills.
Mr.. and Mrs. William Colby are Vlsle-
ing at her fathers, Mr.. Fl. M. Cash.
The following schools in town are no"
in session: No. began August y, MISS
Fannie L. Mains, teacher; No. .. August
16, Miss Bertha E. GRAHAM, teacher; NO.
8, August e, Mr.. Loring S. Mains; NO
Is, August 30, Mr.. William 5. Cole,
teacher; No. Z, August 80, Mrs. Eva y.
Robinson teacher; No. 9, August 81. MIS-
Addie f. Winter, teacher; No.10, Auguso
80, Mrs. Addie G. Neal, teacher; NOS. !
and begin next Monday. Fall schools
will continue weeks.
The home missionary concert occurred
at the f. W. B. church, Sunday evening,
August 30. 1897. The exercises consisted
OF speaking by the children, music, and
an address by the pastor, Mr.. Mcleod.
The music was very fine. being rendered
by the Raymond Hill choir. Six dollars
and fifty cents were realized for missions.
Prince t. Nash, who has been very Ill
with typhoid fever is slowly gaining.
Mrs. William P. Woodbury. is slightly
better at this writing. She has been
seriously i'll.
Miss Lizzie 81. Mason of North Wind
ham has been visiting friends and rela-
tives in the place.
PORTER.
Kezar Falls, August 80. The water In
the river is getting down, SO they are re-
pairing the dam and f1ume.
Prof. E. G. Ham, of Dartmouth Col
lege, has been stoppingi the plao for
few days with his parents.
Hugh Pendexter a teacher at Norway,
is stoppinga few days with his parents.
Herbert Norton, of Buffalo, N. Y, Is
visiting his mother and brother of this
town.
q q Sidney G. Stacy has returned to his
school at - 80.
Mt. Waterhouse and wife, of Portland
have been stopping in the place for day
or so.
Mrs. Lizzie Wadleigh, nee Kezar, is to be
brought to this place and buried Monday.
The South Hiram base ball team won
both games at Cornish fair.
The circulating library has made a
large addition to their books
Dr. Clinton Stacy, who has been in
Portland Hospital for the past year is at
home now.
Blsckberries are quite thick and very
large and juicy.
The Pillsbury House is full of board
ers. The greater portion are from Bos-
ton.
The fall terms of school are about
to begin, we Understand there are but few
changes in teachers in this section.
sTANDIsH.
Standish, Aug. 80. Messrs. Walter H.
and Alvin G. Dresser of Portland spent
Sunday at the home of their father.
Mr.. d. HI. Hawkins, of New York,
was in town last week on business.
Mr.. III. B. Hartford is remodelling one
of the new buildings that he lately built.
He intends to transform the upper part
into tenement, and the lower into a
blacksmith's shop. q
after a long illness of several months.
One daughter survives him.
Mr.. Chas. 6. Files, of Cornish, was in
town last week.
Miss Coris Smith, of Castine, is visit
ing her aunt, Mrs. Almon Rand.
Mr. and Mrs. Albert b. Cole, of Frye
burg, spent Sunday at j. F. Coles.
Mrs. Asa Smith, Of Oak Hill, died last
Saturday morning She was buried from
her late residence Sunday afternoon. A
husband and two sons survive her.
West Gray, Aug. 30. The schools in
this town commenced Monday, Aug. 80.
Miss Alma Seavey will teach the school
at West Gray; Miss Edith Allen of this
place teaches at East Gray; and Miss
Maria III. Allen at North Gray
George L. Freeman will go to Oorno
this week to enter the Maine State I'm
iversity. Mr.. Freeman graduated from
Penneu Institute last spring.
Otis M. Bryant, of Boston. has been
stopping at the Mountain View House
the past two weeks.
Charles S. and Robert L. Allen of
Portland with their wives have been
spending weeks vacation at their faith
er's, Mr.. r. A. Allen. They returned
home on Sunday.
B. A. Libby visited Portland and West
brook, Friday and Saturday
Miss Maggie Lane of Red Beach has
been stopping with her sister, Mrs. Wal.
ter Huston.
Miss Bertha G. Twombly will 40 to
East Hampton, Mass, to take charge of
graded school in that town.
Miss Fanny Lawrence of Portland is
visiting at her uncles, Greenleaf Frank
Recent visitors are Mr.. G. Fl. Freeman
and daughter Lucy with relatives in
Brownfield; Mr.. Frank Knapp, of Law
renee, Mass, at G. II. Freeman and
Miss Lillian Frank at Greenleaf Franks.
Joseph B. Allen, of Portland, spent
Sunday with friends in West Gray.
CLIFF ISLAND.
Cliff Island, Aug. 80. Mrs. A. C.
Griffin's baby is quite sick with indiges-
ton.
Miss Alice Pettingill, of the United
States Hotel, is spending her vacation
with her mother, Mrs. Charles Harmon.
Mr.. EMS and family. who have been
here for few weeks, have returned to
Portland.
Work is in progress for a new house
for Albert Loveitt.
A. II. Southland has gone to Poland
to work.
The parties from Westbrook and Port
land, who have been camping on Stave
Island for two weeks, returned to their
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