Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1895-12-12

The Colby shopping and Information bureau.
NEW YORK:
Scribner's Magazine.
Howard F. Whtcomb was in the city
Monday.
Miss Isabel Moore is visiting relatives
in Boston.
Fred Hale was in the city last week for
few days hunting.
A. B. Walker Saturday.
Miss Florence SWEET is home from
Bates college for the holidays.
Rev. E. A. Mason exchanged pulpits
with Rev. d. l.. Yale Sunday morning.
Sylvanus Jordan, formerly of this place.
has moved from Bangor to Bar Harbor.
j. p. Eldridge is now engaged in fitting
the Odd Fellows building with hot water
heating apparatus.
Mrs. Eunice Y. Gould left Monday for
a month visit with her sister, Mrs. NJ.
E. Buckley, at Brooklyn, n. Y.
Various degrees of temperature We're
reported for Tuesday morning, ranging
from four to ten degrees below zero.
Probate and insolvency courts at Bucks
port to-day Wednesday,. Register Dorr,
accompanied by Judge button, rode over
Tuesday afternoon.
George Estes, employed at the Union
shoe factory, caught finger between cog
wheels Saturday. The finger was ampu-
tated by DR.. Hagerthy.
Miss Charlotte S. Dorman, of Harring-
ton, who so successfully taught the inter
mediate school at the Falls last year, has
been engaged to teach the Shore Road
sub-grammar school the coming term.
The topic of the Epworth league
prayer meeting, at the Methodist vestry
next Tuesday evening, will be "The First
Missionary Journey"-Acts 13: Ala; 27.
B. #. Sowle leader. The public invited.
have been at Jonesboro for the summer,
returned home to this city Monday. Mr..
Stover will return to Jonesboro the last
Of the week. He is engaged in mill busi-
ness there.
Chaplain d. II. Tribou, in Bangor Sum
day, preached at Grace Methodist church
in the morning and at the Hammond
street Congregational church in the
evening, and in the afternoon addressed
the Y. NJ. G. A.
State Superintendent of Instruction w.
w. Stetson was in the city last Tuesday.
One object OF his visit was to procure a
photograph Of the North Lamoine school
house to be used in connection with his
next annual report.
The teachers and officers OF the Con-
gregational Sunday school are requested
to meet at the vestry at $50 this (Wednes-
day. evening to make the final arrange
ments for the Christmas concert for Sun
day evening, Dec. p.
Capt. Roland c. Bonsey, late OF the
schooner Harry W. Haynes arrived
home last week. Capt III. w. Holt has
assumed command OF the schooner, which
has chartered for Port au Prince and ex-
poets to sail Monday.
Snowslides have been of frequent oc-
Annie Mullan and Mary Gaynor were
struck by the snow sliding from he roof
of The Peters block, Saturday afternoon,
and barely escaped serious injury.
"A Summer Shower" in the middle of
December may seem little out of season,
nevertheless it is promised for next Mon
day evening at Hancock hall, by Comedian
Arthur c. Sidman and his company
One feature of the play will be grist
mill in actual operation, and another will
be sure-enough shower. MIR. Sidman
and his company come highly recon-
mended.
The annual fair and supper of the Uni
tartan society will be held at the vestry
this Thursday evening. Dinner will be
served at noon, supper at the usual hour
Home made candies and fancy articles
will be displayed for sale. A number of
fancy baskets made by the Indians of
Oldtown, have been sent to the society
by Mrs. Georgia Pulsifer Porter, and will
be sold.
The course of study for the coming term
of the commercial school, which will be-
gin Dec. %, will include practical book
keeping, commercial law, arithmetic,
civil government and penmanship. The
Ellis system of bookkeeping will be
used. Pupils must be not less than fifteen
years of age and must be as far advanced
in the common school studies as is re-
quired for graduation from the grammar
school. As the attendance will un-