The Portland daily press., 1898-11-18
BRIEF soTrtNas.
1esterday was mild and sbowery.

Yesterday was mild ana sDoWery.
The streets are again full Of scraps OF
paper and other refuse matter. A we'll
known citizen called at the Advertiser
not quite as essential to clean the sGreets
in the fall as in the summer. -AdSer-
tiser.
It is also a good plan to ;get the leaves
out of che CUTTERS and the catch basins.
Don't forget the missionary meeting
to be held in the Bethel church, Friday
at s D. m. This meetingEis held to honor
the birthday of Miss Annie Gould, who
is now laboring in Pao-ting-fu, North
China.
The Grand Trunk Commercial Travel
lers' Association will have a meeting at
the Falmouth hotel Saturday evening.
The steam yacht Neckan will soon sail
for southern waters. She will cruise in
West Indian waters this year, among our
new possessions.
The International Cooperating Company
has been organized at Portland for the
purpose of doing general printing and
publishing business. with $4,000 CAPT.
tai stock, of which nothing is paid IN.
Tt< officers are: President, d. Howard
Fuller Of Boston; treasurer, Lyman ii.
Nelson of Portland.
Mischievous boys in the western part OF
the city stick single under front
door, put big stone on the single and
then ring the bell. When the door Is
opened the stone falls and rolls down the
front steps with tremendous CHATTER.
Woodbine lodge. D. of B., No. 81. is to
celebrate their eighth anniversary on Sat
urday evening by banquet at 80, fol-
lowed by an entertainment by the Pnli'
harmonic club, consisting Of vocal and
instrumental music and readings. They
are to have as guests Ruth lodge OF Au-
burn, the grand master and the pfesl-
dent of the Hebekah assembly. A full at
tendance of the members of Woodbine is
expected.
The members of Pine Tree lodge, Is.
of p, are reminded that this evening,
accompanied by their ladies, they are re-
ouested to meet at Castle hall and take
part in entertaining Bayard lodge and
their ladies.
A case of diphtheria is reported at No.
is Larch street
A sneak thief entered the house of Geo.
E. Davis, 1876 Cumberland street. on
Wednesday afternoon, ransaoked the place
and secured S2l in cash.
DR.. Bailey Of the cattle comm issioners
went to Cornish Tuesday and quaran-
tined two carloads containing SIS cattle
that arrived last week over the Mountain
division without having complied with
our quarantine regulations.
Deputy Sheriff Firth has in his poss es-
sion curiosity in the shape of slab OF
slate, exhumed from the quarries at
Brownville, Aroostook County, that bears
Impressed upon it beautiful fern. No
one knows how many thousand years ago
the fern was imbedded in the slate.
The mission circle connected with the
Church of the Messiah will hold its an
nuaI meeting on Friday afternoon at
O'Clock.
Attention is called to the advertisement
of W. S. Parker company on the first
page of this issue. It will interest all
ladies.
The Paint and Oil club will give a ban.
quet at the Falmouth hotel Saturday eve
ming.
A party of Westbrook people.consisting
of George B. Murch. Stephen Hopkinson,
Guy P. Woodman, Ernest Jameson,
William Beatty, George Perrin and Fred
Spear leave today for New Haven, where
they.wilI see the Harvard Yale football
game.
The regular weekly meeting of the W.
C. 4. u, will be held at p. m. today,
The annual election OF st. George So
riety viii be held tonight.
The new Methodist church at Yarmouth
will be dedicated today.
Steps will lie taken next week to orga
nize in Portland naval reserve veteran
association, and all naval reserve meI
are requested to keep their eyes upon The
papers for notice as to when and where
bhe meeting will be hold.