Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1895-01-17
ELLSWORTH FALLS.

ELLSWOkIH FALLS.
Mrs. P. H. Conley has been i'll for a
week wit h a severe cold.
j. o. Whitney returned Monday from a
weeks trip up river
Miss Mamie Anderson, of Trenton, was
in the place over Sunday.
Joseph Severance moved into the AL
Higgins house last week.
small party met for social time at
Eustis Ginn's last Monday evening.
Mrs. Sarah F. Jones returned from
Boston Wednesday of last week.
William Conway is lying very low at
his home and cannot survive long.
Henry Wood has recovered from a cold
that Frustrated him for two days.
Capt. Charles Gray and wife left for
Orono by team last Sunday afternoon.
Nathan Sargent, jr., left Saturday night
for Holden, where he will work in the
mill for Stanley & Severance.
Mrs. Gertrude Holden, of Bar Harbor,
visited her parents, Mr.. and Mrs. L. c.
hastings, from saturday nlSnI 10 ueS-
day morning.
E. A. Flood and wife spent Sunday in
Waltham with Mrs. Floods parents, J. A.
Woodward and wife.
Mrs. s. F. Brown, who was taken ill
while visiting relatives in West Eden,
returning home week before last, is rap
idly recovering.
Wonder if anyone else saw the pretty
and unusual sight on Tuesday, just
after dinner, of bow in the heavens
Just north of the sun? Does this portend
anything?
Isaac Webber is getting better after his
illness, reported some time ago. While
he was i'll two of his neighbors, women,
tired of waiting for some young men
who promised to do it, laid hold of about
a cord of wood lying at his shed door, and
in very short time housed it for him.
L. A. Flood, while teaming on the
Boggy Brook road one day last week
picked up deer's horn close beside the
road. 1t had apparently just been shed
as he butt end of it WAS slightly bloody.
There We're four branches growing out
from the main stem of the horn. Such
find as this is rare, as it is said these
horns are usually buried.
Last Saturday evening there was a
meeting in the engine house of those
young men who propose to organize
themselves into reading club. Organi-
cation Was effected by the election of the
following officers: President, Charles A..
JOY; vice president, Judson Austin;
board of directors, Charles NJ. w hitcomb,
Martin NJ. Moore, Martin II. Haynes, II.
w. Conley, William II. Brown; commit
tee on rules. Hoyt a. Moore, Arthur Ha-
ney, John F. Whitcomb.
If reports are true, it is quite generally
known that for some time past lottery
tickets have been sold and prizes of con-
siderable value, including money, drawn
right here in our quiet village. Those
who are reported to have had hand in
the matter know they are violating the
law. Reports so generally known and so
| continuously circulated are likely to have
basis in fact. 1t may be better for all
concerned to quit, or the law may take a
hand.
There was lively time when Will
Browns colt got out on the icy streets
last Monday forenoon. The colt was
unshod and feeling very coltish, and the
ice was very slippery. The rate of speed
she attained and the number of times she
fell, regaining her feet only to fall again,
We're exciting and alarming. Her antics
were finally put stop to by some one
holding her by the head while she was
down and tying her feet, The colt is
apparently none the worse for her little
skate