The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1900-05-24
BRIEF JOTTINGS.

There win be a meeting of the Super
rooms, City Building, Monday evening
next, at 40 O'Clock.
Mrs. B. NJ. Eastman will entertain the
members of the Ladies' Circle and their
friends OF Clark Memorial church, at her
home, Il Pleasant avenue, Thursday af-
ternoon and evening. Supper served from
$50 to 7.30 o'clock.
f. w. Packard of Lewiston, state
Christian Endeavor transportation man.
ager met quite a number of those of this
vicinity interested in the London excur-
sion at the Y. NJ. G. A. parlor last eve
ming. Considerable interest was mani
tested in this excursion by those present
The annual meeting of the Portland
Athletic club win be held ON the eve
ming of June 4th.
Considerable new building is being
done in the East End of the city which
viii add considerably to that already
pleasant resident section.
The small pox scare is largely a thing
of the past, for.the quarantine has been
removed from the house on Paris street,
where the disease broke out in the Cope
land family. So
Extensive alterations are in progress
at the upper coal wharf of the Maine
Central, formerly the Portland & Og-
densburg deep water terminus. A new
and improved coal run is being built
and the dock is being dredged out SO as
TO take in larger vessels.
A correspondent recalls the fact that
on the 10th of May, 1896, it was remark
ably warm, the thermometer standing at
81 in the middle of the day and Sc at 6
O'Clock.
Lumber dealers, planning mills and
door sash and blind dealers, will close
their places of business ON Saturdays at
12m., during the months of June, July,
August and September.
Yarmouth Island Land company has
been organized at Portland for the pur
pose of developing land properties with
$40, 900 capital stock, of which 500 is paid
in The officers are President, Charles
NJ. Hartford of South Portland; treasurer,
George Royal Pulsifer of Newton.
Yesterday morning street department |
crews completed the laying of the first
layer of stone ON the Eastern Promenade |
macadam work. Crews are engaged in
relaying sidewalks ON Pearl street and
cobble stones in Fox court
:, Percy Babb of Bowdoin has been coach |
ing the p. II. 5. track team for the past
month.
Instructor Ross of the Y. NJ. G. A,
no md FOL
Brunswick Saturday and may act as an
official at the meet
AT the registry of deeds yesterday was
recorded the transfer from the Harp
swell Steamboat company TO George W.
Campbell of White Plains n. Y, of
their five year lease of the Merryconeag
house and wharf privileges, South Harp
swell, dating from November /, 1891.
Contractor Hodges, who laid the rails
of the Portland railroad company in this
city, is at work relaying the rails of the
Biddeford and Saco railroad, con
trolling interest in which has recently
been acquired by Portland capitalists.
1t is understood that the entire system
is to be relaid with new and heavy rails.
A storage battery is also to be erected
there TO reinforce the power house, and
new cars are to be put on and the ear
house enlarged to meet the demands of
the present business.
, Assistant Postmaster King has received
from Postmaster Barker box of 80 fine
trout the result of the first days fish
ing of the postmaster and his son at Red
dington. They were handsome specimens
averaging in weight half pound each.
Evangelist n. ID. Smith will hold a
Gospel praise service Sunday afternoon
at O'Clock, and Sunday evening at 7.30,
at Mrs Morey's house, 40 Merrill street.:
A new lodge Of Odd Fellows will be
instituted in X. Of p. hall, Bath, next
Friday afternoon at $50 o'clock. All |
members of the order are invited to at |
tend