The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1898-07-18
SOUTH PORTLAND.

Peoples meeting at the Brown Hill Meth
odist church, and class meeting in the
vestry Of the Knightyille NJ. f. church.
The new Elm street III. E. church is
rapidly nearing completion.
Bayard lodge, No. 4, K. of P. will
work the rank of Esquire on one candi-
date next Thursday evening. The D. o.
G.'s are requested to be present to make
plans for their picnic next Saturday af-
ternoon.
Merriman's band of Knightville will
furnish music for the Veteran Firemen
from Pittsfeld, Mass, on the occasion of
their visit to Portland, August 18th.
Peter McCullum. door keeper at McCul-
lum's theatre is still quite i'll.
Ocean View Commandery, U. o. g..
c., will have an installation of offers
tonight.
Miss Belle Parsons led the Epworth
League meeting at the Peoples n. T..
church last evening and the subject was
"Exhortations to Earnestness. Eccles.
8, 10.
Major Buck of Portland is in charge of
the bicycle check room at McCullum' g
! theatre.
Mr.. A. G. Haskell and family are at
Bowery Beach for few days.
| Mr.. Charles Davis of Westboro is the
guest of his cousin, Miss Hattie Braokett.
Miss Lillian Small of Midway, is the
guest of Mr.. and Mrs. G. E. Brackett.
Mr.. Il. G. Small, who has been the
guest of Mr.. and Mrs. E. j. Benner has
returned to his home in Richmond.
Work will commence at once on the
new room in the Evans street tschool
house.
The soldiers at Camp Burdett were
astir early Saturday morning and hardly
had the last notes of reveille sounded
Soon wonderful transformation was
effected for what Ia few minutes before
was mall white village soon looked like
a deserted waste. Hurriedly were traps
packed up, overcoats rolled, equipments
adjusted, wagons loaded, in short every
thing was got in readiness for the signal
of assembly and the formation of the
line for the last time on. Prospect Hill
Crowds of interested friends including
many ladies, witnessed the proceedings
and on every side were heard expressions
of regret at the inexorableness of military
orders which make such separations one
of the incidents of war.
The command March was given and
the troops proceeded to the corner of
Broadway and Preble street where three
cars and two trailers were in readiness to
transport them to theSoity. All along the
line of the electric road handkerchiefs
were waved as parting salute and reach
ing Monument Square the men lost no
time in alighting and the march was
resumed through Congress street to the
Union depot where the s O'Clock train
was boarded which was to take them to
Mantle.
In all frankness it can be said that
South Portland regrets the departure of
| the Connecticut Volunteers for during
| their stay in our midst many warm
| friendships were cemented which are
| likely to abide as most pleasant memories
Miss Oracle Prescott, assistant teacher
of the South Portland high school, has
returned to her home in Warren, N. H.
Mrs. Myrtle Butler, of Portland, has
been visiting her mother, Mrs E. L. Lit
tie.
Saturday noon an electric car of the
Cape Elizabeth railway collided with a
team driven by two young women on
Broadway, South Portland. 1t appears
that the car was waiting on the siding
on Broadway and the young women
were driving up Sawyer street. At the
corner Of Sawyer and Broadway the wom-
en- halted the horse as they though the
car was ready to start around the turn.
The motorman started the car supposing
the horse would be held back. One of the
| ladies became frightened and stuck the
horse blow with the whip. The ami
NAL leaped forward, only to have the
| car dash into the team. The ladies were
/ upset and it Is feared.that one of them
sustained a broken arm.
FORT PREBLE.
Recruits for the battery at Ft. Preble
have arrived so Frequently of late that
| it has been found necessary to pitch
tents on the parade ground to accom-
modate them. When this battery reached
Ft. Preble about two months ago it's en-.
listed strength was only abont "a, now
/ tbs over $40. The same condition apply
to the two batteries at the head.