The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1898-10-01
SOUTH PORTLAND.
supper by The Ladies of the Universaiist
Society.

The ladies of the Universalist society
will serve a supper at the Union opera
house, Thursday, Oct. 9th, from to s
O'Clock. After the supper SOCIAL time
will be enjoyed and an informal reception
will be given the Rev. and Mrs. W. n.
Kimmeil who will be present on the &C.
casion.
Members of the parish and their friends
are invited. The tables will be decorated
with autumn flowers and that the supper
will be q success is assured from the facb
that the following ladies are on the COM
mittee: Miss Patience Thompson, Mrs.
N. e. Gordon, Mrs Barbour, Miss
Latham, Mrs. Amanda Cole. Mrs. Star
board. Mrs. e. L. Cole, Mrs. ]. E. Mer-
riman, Mrs. W. E. johnson.
The Cumberland Association of the
Young Peoples Union will meet with
the South Portland Union, the second
Sunday in October at the Union opera
house.
Mrs. W. E. johnson has kindly given
the ladies of the Universalist circle the
use of rooms in her home and they will
meet there every Tuesday afternoon at 2
O'CLOCK to make up garments etc.
Lewis L. Pettsinaill. the popular clerk
at Wilson's drug store, corner Sawyer and
Front streetss has gone on his annual va
cation. He will take in the Rochester fair
during his absenos.
The Board of Selectmen made a tour of
inspection, Thursday, of the Cape Eliza
beth electrics with a view of ascertaining
If the company had lived up to Its agree
ment in the matter of grading the road
H., %Io iIc o,1d
The results of this investigation have not
yet been given to the public but it Is un.
derstood that they will call the attent ion
Of the managers of the road to certain i'm
provements which the Board thinks
should be made along the line for the
public good.
The folly Six" who gave such sue
organized and propose to give several en-
tertainments during the coming season.
Miss CLARA Henley has returned from
short trip to Boston.
Miss Florence Merriman will enter upon
a course of study at Shaw's business COL
1ege, beginning Mond ay next.
The Ladies' Circle of the Peoples
Methodist church gave an enjoyable
picnic supper at the parsonage on Thurs
day which was we'll attended.
Niles Nelson is making repairs on his
green houses, putting in new glasses,
new boiler shed and otherwise improving
the surroundings.
Ing her sister. Mrs. ERNEST Elliott, Bean
street. has returned to her home in
Natick, Mass.
The mem bers of the French Club will
have bicycle outing at the Cape today.
There was quite party from South
Portland In attendance at the Jefferson
last night to see "Faust.
nuicr
and Miss Sarah Baumgertner of Marshall
Hall, Maryland, are visiting relatives in
South Portland.
Miss Ethel Mcdonald has opened
millinery parlor on East High street.
Nat Gordon has returned from bust
ness trip in Bangor
A party of young people will spend
Sunday at Higgins's Beach.
The Universnlist Sunday school will
meet tomorrow at 1870 p. m. and it is
desired that all teachers and scholars be
present.
Miss Berths Skinner of Pine street is
visiting friends In the CITY,
Miss Minnie Cole of Baltimore who has
been spending the summer with her uncle,
Mr.. r. II. Cole. has returned home.
At the monthly meeting of the South
Portland Hose company, Wednesday, 1t
was voted to hold supper, Oot IL.
Mr.. Ed ward Shorey, who has been the
guest of Mr.. and Mrs. Eugene Shorey,
has returned to his home In Clinton.
DR.. Syphers Is moving into his new
house on Sawyer street.
James Craig, Edwin Dyer, Robert Tut
tie, and George Studley four sold iers who
have been sick with typhoid fever at their
homes in South Portland, are now recoy-
ering their health as rapidly as can be
expected.
The funeral services of the late Patrick
I1uo r<,HS~ Actqnx q
ternoon will be held this morning at s
o'olock at the residencesof his son, James
A. Conwell, AZ Front street, South Port
land. followed by a requiem high mass at
st. Dominics church, Portland at g.
O'Clock.
Henry Wilson of South Portland and
Margaret O'Connor Of Portland were
married Monday in Portland at the church
of the Sacred Heart by Rev. FIR. O.Dowd.
ORCHARD THIEVES.
There are gang of boys from fourteen
to seventeen years old and some persons
of maturer growth who are making a
practice of robbing apple orchards. 1t
should be remem bered that theft is theft
even though the property taken be an
apple from tree. This gang NOS content
with taking the apples persist in running
the trees. Thursday night raid was
made on Nat Gordon's trees and the boys
were caught in the act and nothing but
Mr.. Gordon's good heartedness will save
them from prosecution. If this practice
Is not soon stopped, some one will come
to sudden grief and will find that the jail
is not a good place to forage from.
PLEASAN TDALE.
The following are the names of those
Who have not been absent in the Browns
Hill Sunday school: MIR. Walter Huston,
Mrs. Walter Huston. Mrs. Granville
Libby ,ssMiss Ella Cotton, Mrs. Ada Royal
Mr.. Harry Skillings, Mr.. Samuel Libby,
Mr.. Fred Mayo, Miss Lillian Mayo. Miss
Mamie Nutter Miss George Cash, John.
ME Burney, Everett Bean and Bertha
Huston.
Rev. William Jones and wife of Peaks
island, are the guests of their daughter,
Mrs. Judson Baker.
Mrs Charles Orr of Ours island has
been the guest of her daughter. Miss
Rhoda Orr.
Mrs. W. A. Dyer and daughter Beulah
of Chapel street, passed Thursday at the
home of Mrs, George Dow, Oakdale.
uiLo T o1ioc' in WAC entartained of tho