Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1896-01-16

News ana NOteS OF interest OF Han.
cock County Towns.
Isle au Haul boasts of q boy fifteen
years old who weighs go pounds.
| The farmers have been improving the
January dry spell by burning brush.
Hancock's grange store has declared a
dividend Of 26 per cent. That's not bad.
South surry is a community OF good
neighbors. Three "chopping bees" is the
record OF one week.
The year 1900 Will not be leap year.
A child born Feb. % this year will not
have q birthday anniversary until 1904.
There are twenty-seven Baptist church
organizations in Hancock county, with a
total mem bership of LIS. The oldest is
| at Eden, organized in 1893.
Bluehii is early i'll the field with trot-
ting dates. There will be meetings at
Mountain park, Jane 8, July 4 and Aug
10. The dates of the fair have not yet
been fixed.
last week All AMERICAN reporter met q
man coming out OF the woods wit b a rifle.
We are curious to know what game he
was hunting for.
1t really looks as though the Frai klins
were to be left out in the lcoId ly
Shore Line. 1t is said the road will cross
the river at West oul.ivan, mile west of
the present ferry.
Hancock county is congratulating itself on
the fact. that whereas in ISIS the net debt of the
county was $4,000. 1t now falls little short of
s10O.-Kennebec Journal
And isn't that cause enough for con-
graduation?
Oliver Van Meter, distinguished as the
only colored man in the town OF Deer
Isle, with its population OF 5000, Was
married recently. MIR. Van Meter is
seventy-seven years old, but that is just
the prime of life on Deer Isle
w hat record of growth and progress
is that of BROOKLYN lodge, l. o. .. r. Or
gained only ten month ago, with eleven
members, and is erecting a three-story
French roof building, 70xi1 feet.
1t won't be long before We will be ring
ing up Green's Landing on the telephone.
Deer Isle is talking of a telephone to con-
meet with the long distance line at Sedg-
wick. Deer Isle is too big town to be
left long without telephone, even il
cable has to be laid across he reach
A little Ellswort h girl is the owner of a
cat which she loves dearly. But Tom
is thief, and general good for mot Ii
ing Among other crimes laid up against
him is the killing and making meal Of
pretty, pink eyed guines-pig y hiuh had
been gwen his little mistress. One day
recently the little girls mother said she
guessed Tom" would have to be killed
Instead OF the expected tears, the little
ones eyes frightened with happy
thought, and she exclaimed: And then
we can get the guinea out of him!n
Deer Isles pride is aroused because
THE AMERICAN last week, in speaking Of
the number OF aged people who had died
in the county during the past year, called
Sedgwick the banner town, because
of its record of three deaths OF mona
genarians. One OF our Deer Isle cores
pondents writes:
"bcer Isle has at least four people over
ninety wears Old, and hale and hearty now and
fer eighty year old people we have 30 many
that we don't keep count of them. SO pass the
banner the reach, please.
This is all very we'll, ard Deer Isle has
every reason to be proad of her aged
citizens. But perhaps il We were to
publish the record OF living mona
genarisms, Sedsw .ck. or some other town,
would wrest the banner from Deer Isle
One OF our correspondents writes US as
follows:
In your last issue you state that the wear
1900 will not be leap year. VIII you please
explain why, as there seems to he question in
the minds of some here, who think it should be-
OF course there is no necessity for us to
explain that the introduction of an addi-
tional year into the calendar once in four
years is necessary to prevent the average
year from being too short. This year with
the additional day is known as leap year.
As matter of fact, this additional day
once in four years little more than
makes up the shortage. The additional
length is very slight and accumulates
slowly; but nevertheless it does aecumu-
late, and by the end OF century amounts
to nearly day. For hat reason once in
a hundred years the leap year is omitted,
and the average length of the years is
reduced. But still there is a discrepancy, I
and even finer adjustment is necessary.
The one day, or leap year, omitted once
in century makes the average wear |
little too short. To remedy this defect,
once every four centuries, beginning with /
the year 2O00, the leap wear will NOT he |