The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1899-03-28
PERSONAL.

MIS- ueOTRt Auhlus osASSet
is visiting Mrs. II. II. Hamilton Of New
York city.
Mrs. Abbie Carter of Danforth street is
entertaining her brother. Mr.. .. ID. W.
Emery, of Boston.
Superintendent George II. Raymond
of the electric light company, is visiting
his son, Charles A. Raymond, OF Balti-
more.
Mr.. Chas. Z. Woodbury., who has been
seriously i'll at his home on High street
for several weeks, has been taken to the
Maine General Hospital.
Mrs. Actor Durham gave a colonial tea
to the whist club of which she is men,
Der at her home on North street Saturday
evening.
Mr.. and Mrs Charles B. Showers an
nounce the engagement OF their daughter,
Miss Nellie Maude Showers to Mr.. James
4. Jack OF Foxcroft.
The Engagement is announced Of Miss
Caddie Cay ford of ,Skowhegan and DR..
Burrill Of Boston. Miss Gaylord is the
Red Cross nurse who had charge of the
nurses on board of the Bay State, which
made trips between Boston and Santiago
during the war. DR.. BurriIl was the
head physician.
Invitations have.been received by Maine
friends to the wedding of Miss Carrie G.
Merriman and Mr.. George Burt Berger
in ID nver, April 5. Miss Merriman is
the daughter of Maj, Gen. and Mrs.
Henry c. Merriman. General Merriman
was formerly of Maine.
Lieut.. Wright of the Woodbury., has
been ordered to Alaska to join the reve-
nue. steamer there, and will proceed at
once.
Capt. Dunphy left yesterday for weeks
trip TO Providence and Boston.
Tonight Grand Master Joseph A. Locke
assisted by his Ietinue of the grand OFF,
oers of Maine will dedicate the new Ma
sonic Temple at Gardiner.
DR.. and Mrs. b. L. Sanborn of the Au-
gusta hospital are attending the meeting
of the New England Physiological Socie-
ty which will be held at the new hospital
for the violently insance at Med1eld
Mass
Mr. and Mrs. VIM. Rowell are on their
way to Minneapolis, Mimi, where they
will make their home. They visited
Gsorge S. Rowell Saturday.
F. J. Watson, district freight agent for
the Grand Trunk railroad, is in town on
business
Dr. Richard d. Small, son of ex-post-
master Small ,one of the physicians in the
Worcester, Mass, hospital, is to locate in
this city. During the absence Of DR..
Ring in Europe, he will have charge of
that DOCTORS office.
commercial department of the Horace
Mann high school, Franklin, Mass. is
spending % weeks vacation at his home,
No. 81 Mechanic street, this city.
Among recent arrivals at the Royal
Palm hotel at st. Augustine, Fla, are
MIR. and Mrs. ELIAS Thomas, Miss Helen
B. Thomas, Elias Thomas, Jr., W. W.
Thomas, Mrs George S. Hunt, and Mrs.
Ii. p. Chisholm of Portland.
About p. IN. Monday, Secretary @. Il.
Baker of the board of overseers of the
poor, was seized with severe attack of
indigestion on Pine street. He fell to
the sidewalk and was carried into the
home Of Edward Knight. He was after
ward taken to his home. His condition
is greatly improved, and the attack is not
thought to be serious.
Everett B. Norton of Pennington, was
registered at the United STATES hotel last
evening. He is on his way home from
Warrington. Mr.. Norton Is assistant
clerk of the ways and means committee.
Mrs. Willis McDuffee and Miss Lillian
Pearey Of Rochester, n. Y, are at the
Prsble.
Capt. F. j. Quinby. u. S A., and wife,
are registered at the Preble house.
j. Fl. Ambrose of Orono, was at the
Preble last evening.