The Portland daily press., 1901-01-01
Watch Night Services at The Meth
Odist Church.
Ball of Westbrook
Lodge K. of P.
Man Injured At Paper Mill--
School Begins Today.

WeEIDIOOk OUhtE1Eu tno DAt3o VI shC ASN~-
century and the advent OF the goth cen.
fury in an appropriate manner. Last
evening commencing at nine o'clock a
watch night service was held at the
Methodist church. The sermon during
the first hour was delivered by Rev. Geo.
b. Ilsley, ID. D., pastor Of the baptist
church. The sermon was followed by
testiomny and praise service, lasting un-
I'll 10 30 o'clock. An intsrmission Of
thirty minutes was devotsd to sociability.
and at eleven O'Clock the second sermon
Of the evening was delivered by Kew. W.
| q. Mann, pastor of the Warren Congre-
gational church. At twelve o'clock the
service concluded, when greetings and
good wishes for the new century were ex-
changed between the assembled indiyidu-
ais.
at mid night twelve strokes were
sounded on the fire alarm signal service
OF the city. This obser vance was he'd in
acoora with the decision reached a day
or 90 aGo by Mayor j. L.. Horr and Chief
Engineer Howard Stevens iof the fire de-
partment.
westbrook lodge No. "a, Knights OF
Pythias, held a grand bali last evening
at the Westbrook opera house which was
we'll attended. and much enjoyed BY all.
From to o'clock Portland company
No. 8, Uniformed Rank, knights OF
Pythias, under the direction OF Captain
p ID. Higgins, gave fancy drill. The
drill was ably executed and was much
appreciated by all, A fine order Of canoes
was furnished for the ball. The music
for the dance was furnished by Lemieux' $
orchestra Of Westbrook.
A midnight mass Was observed at st.
Hyaointn's Catholic church last evening,
which was well attended by commune
cants OF the church and citizens. Wigam' q
mass was sung by the church choir I'M
der the direction Of the organist, Miss
Bernadette Moreau.
MIR. wingate @. Titcomb received a
sprained ankle while at his work at the
paper mills on Saturday. He win be con.
fined to the house some little time as q
result OF the accident.
MIR. George q. Pike, Rocky Hill dis
trict, has harvested over 1910 cakes of ice
from his artificial pond this season and
only about one-half the surface of the
pond has been out.
The public schools of Westbrook opened
yesterday after the Christmas vacation of
two weeks The winter term of school is
to last for ten weeks.
The Westbrook Universalist church
Melted $675 20 from their annual fair held
two weeks ago.
At thu Warren Congregational church
Sunday Rev. W. q. Mann the pastor of
the church gave an illustrated lecture on
" The Prodigal Son. The stareoptioon
Views were exhibited by Mr.. George
Knowlton.
A seizure Of a small quantity OF liquor
was made Sunday from the store of Isaac
Gross on Bridge street.
A lively game of basket ball was
playe1 last evening at the armory Of
the Cleayes Rifles. between teamss cap
tained by L. +. KiDmond ana Private
Munson. The game resulted in a victosy
for Sergeant Kinmond's team by SCORE
of 80 to A. The teams were composed az
follows: Team No. 2, Il. Il. Kinmond,
captain; Walker. Anthony, Wheeler and
Cook. Team No. 4, Munson, captain;
Bryns, F. NJ. Libby, Knight and Lund.
Capt. j. W. Graham OBLIGATED as umpire
AMI SERGEANT II. B. Spar as referes. The
next game in the series Will be played
Friday evening between teams captaineu
by Messrs. Spear and Hooper.