Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1895-12-26
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News ami NOTES OF Interest OF Fan
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/ catches.
Gran berry Isles reports two drowning
accidents this Week.
South Deer Isle has tried the "cohweb
| party" and pronounces it a success.
The appointment of {. c. Homer rs
postmaster al Buckspoft Was confirmed
by the Senate last Wednesday.
South Brooksville is feeling happy over
an order for 135, 900 paving blocks. 1t is
indeed good news after an idle summer.
Sorrento came near losing two young
citizens last week. They poured powder
on fire to see ii puff. 1t puffed. The boy.
are still alive.
The petition for the pardon of Calvin
Graves, the game warden murderer has
been laid before the governor. 1t con-
tains : 900 signatures.
Two brothers, of Cranberry Isles, have
been drowned from the same sloop
within few months. And down among
the islands they say the si9Iop i. hoodooed.
The most valued possession OF II. W.
Smith, of Bucksport. i. The eomm.s- ion
of Jonatha Buck, the founder OF the
village, as first lieutenant of Il company
ordered to invade Canada. 1t Is signed
by Thomas Pownal, governor of Massa
chusetts, and dated March 10, 1853.
The most -prized Christmas present
ceived by Mrs. Moses Cottie, of Els
worth Falls, is pair of stockings knit
this fail by her mother Mrs. Sarah Grin
die, of Orland, who is in her ninetysec
oud year. she spun the yarn and knit
the stockings .thout the and of glasses.
Bar Harbor : noA ,ainIns of a big
pleasure pavilion, Win bOnHnz alleys,
billiard room, rite range DIcyc.r track,
refres hmeul booths, etc, as one OF he
possibilities OF next season. POSSIBLE
ity' Is good the swimming pool aspred
to the dignity of probability and
still.
Edgar Roberts, of Brooksville. dug a
we'll on his farm two miles from salt water
and on high land, Eight feet below the
surface he came to layer of mussel and
clam shells, and the farther down he
went he more plenty the shells became
Now the Brooksvllllans want to know
nov those shells came to be there, and if
tins Vicinity Has at one time beneath the
ocean,
West Franklin people attribute the
warm weather to ne!ghbor's neW stoEc.
After suffering with the cold, which
made il necessary for the family to draw
their beds abous the kitchen stove, this
man sent to Portland for a stove that
could be guaranteed 10 heat the house
Now he keeps the doors and windows
open, and his he gabor- say that stove Is
warming up all outdoors. He viii be
petitioned to send the stove back to
Portland, or else to keep hi. doors ana
windows closed.
y thrifty Penobscot farmer viewed with
pain the reckless depredations of skunks,
and forthwith set trap. Ere the morn
ing sun had gilded the eastern sky, and
while the dusky shadows of departing
night still hung about the earth the far
mer was astir. Cautiously he approached
the trap, and when within few yards of
it he stopped, fearing to go nearer. In
the dim light he saw something wriggling
in the trap. OF course it was a skunk !;
what else could it be? El&ted with sue
cess he seized long pole, and with many
vigorous blows pounded the helpless
animal to a jelly. When he deemed it
safe to approach he did so. There is one
hen missing from his flock now.