Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1897-07-15
well attended. Miss Stevens is travelling
in the interest OF Boston manufacturer
Of food commodity.


| sion Tuesday auditing bills for repairs
| made about the courthouse and Jail.
| The grading, concreting, resetting Of
| steps, etc, and improvements made in the
| jail house cost about 800.
Mrs. d. II .Tribou, of Charlestown, Mass,
| Mrs. Thomas c. Page and Mrs. Frank L..
Howard, of Chicopee Falls, Mass, are in
Ellsworth, called here by the serious ILL
ness OF their father, James +. Davis.
They are accompanied by their husbands.
The premium list OF the Hancock
county tair association is out. The asso
citation offers the usual liberal premiums
which should induce farmers to make
large exhibits. There will be many
special premiums which will be an
nounced later.
Charles a. Fullerton has purchased the
| thirty eightton schooner "Myra Sears"
from Charles Curtis and others. She will
run as a packet to Portland. Messrs.
Eaton and Webber, of Brooklin, who
have been running the Sears, have
purchased a larger schooner.
ID. j. Cham mberlain and wife, of Elgin,
H., are guests at the American house.
Mrs. Chamberlain was formerly an Ellis
worth girl, and will be remembered as
Miss Lessie, daughter of the late j. II.
Chamberlain. Their many friends here
are always glad to greet them.
Bids for the soap factory building have
been opened and the contract will be
awarded in few days. The building
will be 30X60 feet, three stories and base
ment. it is expected to have it COM
pleted by October /, and the factory will
be in operation within very short time
| thereafter.
Rev. c. f. Woodcock, pastor of the
Free Baptist church, is spending two
weeks vacation at his home in Lewiston.
In bis absence the pulpit was occupied
last Sunday by Rev. 5. c. Whitcomb
! State secretary of the Maine Free Baptist
assoc citation. There will be preaching
next Sunday ut the usual hour.
| At the raees in Pittsfied last Saturday,
T.. L. Fisher, formerly of Ellsworth,
/ captured first money in the $50 class with
|
money IN the 223 class with the
b. Z. jake. There were large fields
in uoJH rsees and i'll the 2.23 class six
| heats we're ,rotJed Mr., Fisher winning
! two.
The state treasurer has completed the
| spportionment OF the school fund and
| r,il TAX. The total amount apportioned is
! 1853 %. and tire number OF school
| children in the State is 2l0,264. This
ALLOW, fraction over =. Il cents for each
child of school age. Hancock county will
receive I'll ,o56. Ellsworth will receive
something over $3 500
On Monday Charles Eaton lost over 800
belonging to the Drlgo hose company
money which had been won in the fourt h
OF July races. Eaton had charge OF the
money intending to turn it over to John
A. Stuart, treasurer of the company. He
had the money in his pocket when he
went to his work in Whiting Bros store
Monday morning. At noon he missed it.
| There is nothing to add this week to
the report first published in THE AMER
ICAN that George Nixon Black was in
| consultation with the trustees of the
Ellsworth public library with view Of
obtaining II library building. 1t is Mr..
| Blacks laudabe desire to aid the city
very materially in securing a library
building.
Car Is of the b., O. & o. railway, which
left Bangor at 12.3O p. III. Monday had
| three solid men among its passengers.
| They We're +. 7. Salisbury, OF Ellsworth,
weight 292 pounds; Charles ii. Welch, OF
| Philadelphia, 260 pounds, and Thomas
| Gibbons, of Bangor. 31i pounds-a total
for the three of S66 pounds, average
2oo9i pounds. Conductor Sproul thinks
that if there We're many passengers
| like these the time schedule of the road
would have to be rearranged. Bangor
| Ne,cs.
| At the annual meeting of the Josselyn
botanical society, at Foxcroft last week,
| Miss Mary A. Clark, of this city, de-
livered paper on "The Story of Our
Summer Club; an Experiment", which
recited in an interesting way the trials
aud successes of the Outing club, of Ellis
WORTH Miss Clark was elected one of the
vlce-presidents of the Josselyn society
Prof. Lane, of Coburn classical institute
is president.
1t was unfortunate that at the ELS
worth races on July ), Belle Wyman, en-
tered in the three minute class, suddenly
vent lame in the first heat, when she haG
been picked for winner by all who knew
her and were acquainted with her con
tending horses. She Was brought to TIM
city and surgeons he'd much difficulty il
locating the seat Of the injury, as at ont
time it appeared to be in the shoulder
and at another in the foot. Finally it wa
decided that tn" trouble was IN the coro
net of the foot. She can, when in con
dition, go better than 80. Bangor Com
merciai.
The Brewer hose team IS anxious t.
race the Orioles, of Bar Harbor, anC
Chris Toole, Of Bangor has offered t.
put up purse OF S100 for race at Maple
wood park. The race will probably tax