Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1894-08-02

East Eddington, and has many friends in
Ellsworth and vicinity, who were pleased
to see her and her husband.
Frank Davis, engineer of the steamer
City of Bangor, and his brother, Fred
Davis, of Boston, are visiting their father
in this city.
The democrats of the third district
are still securing around for candidate
to run for Congress. Amos Gerald oil
Fairfield is now talked of.
Clifford a. Jordan and sister, Miss Eve
lyn Jordan, of Brooklyn, N. Y, were in
the city, last week, the guests OF Capt
and Mrs A. K. Woodward.
The Maine Central special from Port
land carried about 600 excursionists to
Bar Harbor Sunday. The train stopped
at Ellsworth about O'Clock.
John Coughlin and DR.. W. L. West
were at Branch pond fishing last Thurs
day. They caught eight black bass
weighing seventeen pounds.
Mrs. Samuel Dutton will observe her
eightieth birthday this "wednesday
evening by receiving friends at her hos
pitable home on Main street.
About seventy-fiv new books have been
added this week to the library of the
Methodist Episcopal Sunday school, and
more are to be purchased soon.
The B. E. Cole & Co. shoe factory in
creased its weekly output this week from
fifty cases to seventy-fve cases. About
thirty more hands will be employed.
Mrs. A. S. Caswell and Mrs. L. A. Has
kell, of Lynn, Mass, are visiting Mrs
Wellington Haslem. They will also visit
Bar Harbor and other places OF interest.
The regular meeting of the Kings
Daughters for August will be held this
Thursday evening, August 2, at 30.
All members are requested to be present.
The sociable announced to be given by
the young peoples society of the Congre-
ational church last Tuesday evening has
been postponed until early in September.
S. NJ Hamill general manager and
secretary of the Brush electric company,
and l. r. Prentiss, of.the same company,
both of Cleveland, Ohio, We're in he city
this week.
Mrs. A. j. Grant, wife of the editor of
the Enterprise, with the children, joined
her husband here last Saturday. They
are keeping house in the old court house
on Bridge Hill.
John I. Mccarthy, died at his residence
| an Water Of Iact Tuesday
| aged forty-nine years. Mr.. Mccarthy had
| been ill for only ten days and his death
was quite unexpected.
II. f. Hamlin, NJ. Gallert, S. G. Stevens
H. NJ Hall, jr., of Florence, Ala, and A
S. Treat, of Rutherford, \. j., took q
pleasure trip to Camden on the steamer
'H. f. Hamin" last week.
The Methodist and Catholic churches
are the only ones here in the city that
will hold regular services during August
The Congregational, Unitarian and Bap-
tist are closed for the month.
An article on ''Cat holic Maine" written
by our gifted lowtownsmen, Rev. I
F. Butler, and republished from the
| August number of Dondhoe's Magazine
may be found elsew here in this issue,
The members OF the local w. c. 7. t
are requsted to meet with Mrs Maria b
Perry next Saturday evening at 80, tc
make arrangements for the county con-
vention to be held in this city, August 8
Last Saturday Schuyler F. Higgins, he
is ct work for the Day improved spring
bed company, cut off the end Of his
! right thumb with a machine used in
rounding the ends of the stats DR.
Manning.
Work of repairing the Brimmer bridge
began Tuesday, and will probably be com
pleted to-day, when the bridge will be
reopened for traffic. The Doyle and Hal
bridge, which will be rebuilt, is closed in
definitely.
Rev. Henry II. Morse of Connecticut,
nephew of A. T. and O. r. Burnham, anC
Mrs Elizabeth Harvey, of WatertoWn
Mass, a sister of the Messrs. Burnham
are visiting here and expect to remain
some weeks.
There will be a collision of dates mex
Monday evening-circus and board o
aldermen. One of the aldermen remarked
Tuesday: ''Ill bet dollars to doughnut
there won't be a quorum at the alder
mems meeting"
List of letters remaining uncalled for a
the Ellsworth post-ottice, July IS: Mis-
Inez Beale, Edward T. Carnas, II. Z
Emery, W. M. Mayo, Frank l.. Miles
Mrs Della +. Quinn, F. S. Smith, AlVil
Staples. Prof. w. B. Wedgewood.
Miss Margaret H. Hayes, cashier at TIL
AMERICAN Office, is away on much
needed and well-earned vacation. She
at present visiting relatives in Boston
| -,..i la.l Viii ,.isit in nt her nIace. i