Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1896-01-09

cock County Towns.
The grim reaper passed lightly over
Hancock county last year
The defender" boys are home again.
So is DInraven. We hope he is done
ravin'."
We can forgive tue New Year for Civ
ing US such cold shoulder, after Decem :
ber's warm EN- braces.
East Sullivan hunters are on the war
path, looking for the bear that has been
seen near Turk pond.
The neurology of Hancock county for
1895, published in this issue, makes an in
teresting column, though to many it
brings a sad reminder.
Skating parties and candy pulls are the
present fad at Great Pond. The pond,
by-the-way, has lately been given the
more euphonious name "Silver Lake.
The cold snap has put an end to the
wait for winter up-river, which WAS be-
coming somewhat monotonous to the
lumbermen. The swamps are frozen !;
now give us snow.
THE AMERICAN received this week two
news communications, one signed
Betsy, the other "Topsy", but as the
editor is unable to identify the writer's by
these names, the items cannot be used.
1t wasn't a very big blaze ut the court =
house in Ellsworth last Thursday, but it
wiped out ga, 900 of county bonds. The
county commits toner's officiated at the
cremation, and several interested spec
tators were present.
at is leap year! What will the new
woman do with it?' queries one of our
correspondents. The leap year girl must
take advantage of this year, as she will
not have another chance until 1904. The
year 1900 will not be leap year.
John Paul Gordon is a veritable Santa
Claus in Franklin. On Christmas each of
his sixty or more employees received a
fat turkey and other membranes.
That Mr.. Gordon is loved and esteemed
in the community in which he lives is
not to be wondered at.
There's money to be made in pork, 1t
would seem. J. S. Condor, of Orland, on
the 25th of July last, bought for $40 hog
estimated to weigh, dressed, about 800
pounds. The hog was killed Dec. 26, and
weighed, dressed, 853 pounds, thus show
ing gain in weight of about 40 pounds a
month.
Hancock county, with its record of thir-
teen deaths during 1895 of persons over
ninety years of age, and one who had
passed the century mark, claims recogni-
ton as a county OF longevity, and Sedg
wick, with its record of three mona
genarIans, is the banner town of the
county.
The natural beauties of Green Lake, the
most beautiful of Names many small
lakes, have at last been recognized, and
Hancock county is promised another
fashionable summer resort. The Green
Lake scenery, the heathfulness of the
locality and the advantages for fishing
aud hunting assure the success OF Green
Lake.
The statement OF resources and LA
bilities of the county, which appears III
the county commissioners report in this
issue, shows the county to be III eA-
cellent financial condition, largely due to
the capable management of the county
affairs by the present and preceding
boards of county commissioners. OF the
10000 debt incurred by the erection oil
the new county buildings ten years
ago, and whlcA at the time caused CON
sternaIlon among some Taxpayers, less
that S7,00J now remains, and at the rate
which has been set The past two or three
years, another year or two will see that
wiped out.