The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1900-10-11
MAINE TOWNS.
Items of Interest Gathered by Our LO-
cal Correspondents.
CAPE ELIZABETH.

Cape Elizabeth, Oct. 9.-W. d. Murray
and SOD are building cottage at Low
eitt's Hill, Willard, for Mr.. Howard e..
Soule of Portland.
DR.. E. M. Jordan and wife of Maiden,
Mass, are visiting his parents, Mr.. and
Mrs. A. NJ. Jordan of Pond Cove.
Mildred, the little daughter of W. s..
Libby, OF Bowery Beach, who has been
sick quite, is improving.
Mrs. Frank II. Hill of Rockland, Wis
tied relatives at Pond Cove, this week.
Mr.. Orln P. Hannaford of Pond Cove
is taking two weeks vacation and has
gone to Lighthouse Cove to go cunning.
He will occupy Mr.. Murray's small cot
tage.
The Misses Florence E. Dyer and Inez
Rand have returned from Lisbon, where
they have been the guests of Mrs. G. A.
Buker.
Mr.. and Mrs. Fred P. Murray and son
Clinton, of Bowery Beach, are visiting
Mrs. f. Fl. Hill at Rockland,
The Misses Lucia Anthoine and
Eleanor Murray of Portland, are spend
ing their vacations with Miss Murray's
parents, at Pond Cove.
POWNAL.
PownaI, Oct. 9.-Granite Grange, No.
4, held their annual field day at POwnal
Centre on Saturday of last week, the
principal attraction for the day being
display similar to fair, same being
held in MaIlet hall. Tables were arranged
around the hall for the general exhibit.
Different divisions were set apart for
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excellent and most systematic arrange
ment made of each separate article. added
greatly to the pleasing effect. A general
Invitation was extended to the town peO-
pie to help in the exhibit and hearty re-
spouse was the result. The unusually
fine quality of the various products
shown made fully evident the fact that
aside from the hay and grain crop, this
has been most prosperous year for the
tiIlers of the soil. The display of apples
was simply wonderful In size far above
the average and the cOlOring was rarely
beautiful. Those represented In this eX
h1b1t TO a considerable extent ware Mr.
Fred LOring, Mr.. A, K. p, Dresser, Mr..
Alroy Noyes, Mr.. @. III. HOdsdOn and
some others in smaller amount. The
potato exhibit was fine. MI j. A. Snow
led in these by having an exhibition of
eleven different varieties. q. W. Tooth
acker also had fine exhibit 1t is said
that his present years crop when bar.
vested will exceed 700 bushels. H. B.
True has some fine specimens in the eX-
hibit. Frank Knight had the largest z 8
to size. The youngest for men who con
tributed to this department. was Morris
Snow, aged z. Prominent amOng those
shown by his elders was placed a crate Of
his own workmanship and same was
filled with potatoes the outcome of his
own I'm aided efforts, All other field prod
ucts were shown in abundance. A large
1ocT,
much attention, A fine show of peaches
was noticed. Grapes and plums were
shown by Mr.. Fogg of North PoWnal.
The ladies also came in for their share OF
the display. A large table of canned
fruit was goodly to look upon. Unfortu
nately it was SO placed on the table that
all of the exhibitors names could not be
observed, but we noticed Mrs. Fred Lor-
Ing, Mrs, Kate Knight, Mrs IL. b. True
and Mrs. Mellon Tryon. Mrs. j. "A
Snow had on exhibition a quilt which
had In It's construction nearly. 5000 pieces,
Miss Elsie Sawyer showed another which
must have represented fully as many.
Mrs. h, B. True had as an exhibit a
most beautiful geranium. Mrs. May
Knight had fine pen Of her Plymouth
Rock pullets. Mrs. Ettie j. Latham
showed trio selected from her Rhode |
Island Reds. John True exhibited a box |
OF beans. The box was divided intOs six |
compartments and the several varieties |
were all grown this year The list already |
given is very SMALL but it will suffice to |
show in a general way how large a di =
play was contributed, After the dt mt + |
was served the entertainment arranged |
for the afternoon was given, same con- |
sisted of speeches, readings and mu SIC. |
Altogether it YVES certainly most n os-
porous and stimulating for the sight farm /
Ing industries # oWnal.
Tee entertainment given at Mallet hal |
on Friday evening Of last week, bv Mr
L. r. Cook OF Yarmouth, for the be It |
OF the Ladies' Aid Society was very fine
and deserved much larger audience than /
what were in attendance. Mr.. Cook j a /