The Portland daily press., 1898-04-28
WESTBROOk.


May and, are now on sale at ID. u
Starts and C. B. Woodman's. Inc enter
tainment will consist of cantata by oo
children, scarf drill by seven misses
braiding of the May pole by IA misses
skirt dance by three little girls, ooii ariii'
violin solo by pupils of Fred GlVen' a
drill by 26 little girls and tableaux.
The following are the advertised letters
at the Westbrook post office for the week
ending the 25th: Mrs. Allen. Peter LOT
Get, Mrs. NJ. E. Dow, Isabelle Dyer MRS
William Dyer. Sadie E. Libby, Mary MO
Cartney, P. S. School, John stone
| baptlste Talon, G. A. Thomas.
Union Fast Day services are to be held
this evening at 7.3O O'Clock at the Berean
Advent church. Rev. John f. Clothey,
the pastor, Is to preach the sermon OF the
occasion.
There will be baseball game at Warren
park this forenoon at $50 O'Clock be-
tween the Saccarappas and the Murphy
Balsams of Portland. The Saccarappas'
battery win probably be Henderson,
| Bryson and Barton. There will be a re-
turn game in the afternoon at z. 80 o'clock
on the Portland baseball grounds, Forest
avenue, Deering.
Fast day the general delivery window
of the city post office will be open during
| the following hours: Westbrook, z to g.,
| IL to 1.30; Cumberland Mills, to g. II to
2, and to s O'Clock. The offices at Duck
Pond and Pride's cornsr will be open all
day as usual. The city offices, schools and
Trust company will be closed for the day.
Thee funeral services of the late Albert
Boucher will be held this morning at
eight O'Clock from st. Hyacinth's church.
Burial at Catholic cemetery.
| Several Westbrook citizens are display
ing American flags from their residences.
Let others take up the idea and show the
patriotic spirit of Westbrook.
The Westbrook Dramatic club will
present the drama "The Trustee this
| evening at the Westbrook, under the aus
pices of the senior class of the High
school.
The Ladies' circle connected with the
Universalist church were entertained at
the church vestry last evening by Mrs.
b. A. Craigie, Mrs. John Bnrnell II and
Mrs. Charles Graham. An entertainment
was enjoyed and during the evening ice
cream and cake were served. 55s,
Yesterday was ths occasion of the
gathering together of a large number of
the members of the several oranges repre-
senting the Cum berland County Pomona
grange, at the Friends church, Riverton
road, Deering. The local grange, Pre-
| sumpscot grange, entertained the County
grange and there were present members
from North Yarmouth, Oak Hill, Cor
ham, Pleasant River, Westbrook, Gray,
Raymond and Cape Elizabeth.
The morning session was devoted to
routine business At noon the mem bers
enjoyed basket lunch. At two O'Clock
the master of the County grange, W. L.
Bickford of Gorham, called the meeting
to order and introduced as the speaker of
| the afternoon, W. W. Stetson of Auburn,
state superintendent of schools. The sub
ject assigned Mr.. Stetson was 1.-THE
Grange as an Educator, and his remarks
were listened to with the closest atten-
ton. At the conclusion of Mr.. Stetson' IS
remarks, Mr.. Charles R. Chaffin of Cor.
ham read an original story of the Irish
mans visit to poultry show.
| The remainder of the afternoon was de-
voted to the discussion of the following
subjects: Advantages and disadvantages
Of modern methods of Poultry Culture, .
the discussion of this question being led
by Mr.. Augustus JONES' The second
topic "Should farmers plant sweet corn
the coming season." was led by Mr.. N.
s. Shurtleff. Among those in attendance
were the following: L. B. bennett, Port
land; Mrs. A. G. Shenault, Mr. and Mrs.
j. 81. Gowen, Westbrook; Levi Jordan,
Raymond; N. S. Shurtleff, Mrs. E. j.
Shurtleff. North Yarmouth; Mrs. S. F.
Jameson, Mrs. j. L. Hardy, Fl. K.
Griggs, Westbrook; G. L. Gronard. Mr..
and Mrs. L. L. Gronard, Gorham; Mrs.
A. R. Jones, Mr.. J. 7. Jones, Eli
Stone, South Windham; E. ]. Mitchell,
New Gloucester; Mrs. E. S. Gilpatrick,
Windham; f. 81. Witham, Luther r.
Cole. Cyrus Witham, Raymond; Moss X.
Cobb, Westbrook; Mr.. and Mrs. Greedy
Prince, Miss Kittie Prince, North Var
mouth; E. P. Foster and wife, West Gray
6. W. Hatch. New Glouoes er; N. p.
Hunnewell, Scarboro; W. I. Biokford,
Charles r. Chaffin, Gorham; VIM. G..
Morrill, and wife, Windham; Miss w. M.
Scholl. Mrs. M. S. Roberts, Westbrook
Mr.. and Mrs. A, G. Jones, Frank A.
Walker, Deering; Mr.. and Mrs. H. Z.
Walker, Portland; Phillip Scholl, Mrs.
George Q, Halves and wife, Mabel Gordon,
Effie Pride. Eliza Gowen, Annie Hardy,
Alice Jameson, O. L. Newell, Edna
Hawkes., Westbrook; Nelson Newoomb
and wife, W. j. Corthell, Gorham.