The Portland daily press., 1900-10-26
SOUTH PORTLAND.

for squash raising at the Cape, the cab
bage crop will be proportior2tely small,
partly owing to the severe drouth and
partly to raYages Of the cabbage worm.
The farmers are only getting s. a ton
for squashes but they are hopeful Of a
high price for what marketable cabbages
they will have The sharp frost OF the
18th inst, ruined large quantities Of cele-
~ in both towns.
A number Of farmers both in this town
and at the Cape, have invited the neigh
bors to enter their orchards and carry
away the fallen apples that must other
wise decay on the ground. Even the hogs
and cider mills fail to consume them.
Mr.. j. G. Clemens, who lately sold his
house furnace to the city for use in the
ToWns House corner school house, viii
replace 1t with steam heating apparatus.
Rev. William F. Eaton Is very sick at
his home on West Broadway with pneu
monia. DR.. Thombs attends him. Miss
Edith Soule is nursing him.
Mr.. William Mariner has accepted an
invitation to visit friends at BoWery
Beach for week and Mrs. Hannah
Libby, who has been his bousekeeper
for some time past, will go to her home
in South Windham.
William Turkenton OF West Broadway,
a lad Of about 16 years, who from early
boyhood has suffered from an abnormal
growth in one cheek, went to the Maine
General Hospital, Thursday, to have 1t
removed. The physicians pronounce 1t
a tumor.
A supper was given at the home Of Mr..
and Mrs. Willard K. Woodbury. at Dan
forth cove, Willard, Wednesday evening.
in aid of the North Congregational
church. There was large attendance.
The large dining rooms were most taste
fully decorated for the occasion with
ferns and autumn leaves, and on the
sideboard was large pot of nasturtiums
in full bloom. The tables were presided
over by Mrs. Woodbury., Mrs. W. A.
Cobb, Mrs. George Smith and Miss
Sarah Swift, assisted by an efficient corps
of young ladies, Among those seated at
the tables were Mrs, and Miss Hutchin-
son OF the Columbia. Mrs Quigley of the
Sherwood, Portland; City Treasurer Ed
win Thompson and wife, Rev. Mr.. Law
ton and sister, Fred H. Jordan and sis
ter, Josiah Cobb, Harry Rand and sister,
Miss Eliza W. Rand, W. A. Cobb and
wife, Mrs. Nathaniel Dyer, Miss Prince,
Mr.. and Mrs. Harry Taylor Miss
Marguerite Pillsbury and others. The
affair was one OF the most successful ever
held by the ladies OF the society and net
ted nearly 500.
Rev. W. F Eaton is dangerously i'll
with pneumonia at his home on Broad
way.
Fred Wood has succeeded Albert P.
Bartlett as Waterman at the KnightvilIe
power house, and Mr.. Bartlett has re.
sumed his old place as conductor on the
Cape electrics.
Miss Annie Hutchinson, who, with her
parents, occupied the Woodbury. house &C
Danforth's during the past season.. left
Wednesday for Reading, Pa, were she
will pass the winter.
Miss Sarah Smith OF Boston Mass, is
the guest Of her cousin, Mrs. W. X.
Woodbury., Willard.
Rev. DR.. Blanchard OF Portland will
preach in the new Universalist chapel on
Sunday afternoon next.
The second eleven OF the South Port
land grammar school viii play the regu-
lar team Saturday on the bicycle
grounds.
The young boys AMI girls of South
Portland and Willard had party last
evening in the Willard hose house, which
was very pleasant affair. Games were
played and refreshments were literally
served.
Charles Griffin has sold his hennery
with about twenty fowl to Captain James
York, and will go out Of the poultry
business.
Another well blooded animal has bsen
added to the string in Mr.. Pittee's stable.
Nat Gordon has just put there his colt
dam Bessie Wilkes, sire Westland, for
the winter. Not long since the colt got
frightened in the pasture by a lot Of boys,
and breaking away was so injured as to
require the services Of a veterinary sur.
geon to sew up the wounds.
Miss Agnes Fisher RETURNED ye sterday
from a ten days visit in Massachusetts
Mr.. Edward Innis has arrived no me
from a six weeks mackerelirg trip. Mr..
Innis will now be employed on a pilot
boat, plotting large English steamers.
Mr. William Taylor has arrived home
from a fishing trip with Capt. Doughty
of the sloop Annie Belle.
Leslie Brown, the right half back of
the South Portland grammar school foot
ball team, cut the forehnger Of his right
hand quite badly Tuesday. while chop
ping wood. This accident may prevent
him from taking part in Saturdays
game.
Mrs Henry Loyeitt of Willard IS con-