Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1897-11-11

N. P. Sumner and wife, Of Amherst,
were in Ellsworth Monday.
Miss Annie Tapey, OF Lynn, Mass, is
visiting the family OF d. II. Eppes.
Widows pension has been granted to
Mrs. Mary A. Higgins, OF this city.
The county commissioners were In
session Tuesday, transacting routine
business.
There will be pie sociable at the Free
Baptist vestry this evening from to 9
O'Clock. The public is cordially invited.
The Senator Hale hose company will
give another OF their social dances at
Odd Fellows hall this "wednesday
evening.
There will be a meeting OF the Nine
teenth Century club at Mrs. A. l.
Saunders on Tuesday, Nov Is, at 10 a. m.
A full attendance is requested.
There will be a meeting OF the Village
Improvement society at Mrs. J. D. Hop
kins' on Tuesday. Nov. 16, at 73O p. m,
to transact matters OF business.
Mrs Samuel A. Goodwin and daughter
will accompany Capt. Goodwin in the
schooner "Harry w. Haynes" this winter
They left for New York Saturday.
The supper by the Kings Daughters
society last Friday evening was a success,
though not as well patronized as past
suppers have been. About go WAS
cleared.
f. W. Lord, OF the class OF 1900, Boston
university, is sub master in an evening
school at Meeting House Hill, Dorches-
ter He is still carrying on his regular
college work.
The revival services being conducted by
Evangelist Jones at the Methodist
church have been we'll attended. The
| services Will be continued through next
week, with meetings every afternoon at
2 aud every evening at 7,15.
Miss Varnum, of Bangor, is trying to
organize dancing classes in Elsworth--a
juvenile class to meet in the afternoon
and an adult class in the evening. Miss
Mary F. Hopkins is receiving names of
those who wish to enter either class.
Peter Kane, who when he gets in
trouble always gives Ellsworth free
advert tisement by calling it his home, is
held at Odtown charged with stealing
overcoat, gloves, scarf and hat from a
hotel. He will answer at the supreme
court.
The change in train and mail service
IA inI, ,yiS no
winter mail train arriving here about
6 p. M. viii go into effect next Monday.
This train will replace the trains now
arriving AT 5 and 7.54 p. m. The change
is generally appreciated by Ellsworth.
Mrs. Fred Hodgkins left Tuesday for
New York, " here she viii meet her hus-
band She will accompany Capt. Hodg-
kins in he "Jerome Z. Look" this winter.
From New York Capt. Iodgkins will 90
to Norfolk to load coal for Trinidad,
where he will take pitch for New Orleans
or Galveston.
The house of Robert NJ. Reed on the
Shore road was burned at O'Clock Mon
day morning. The fire originated in the
shed, and was burning fiercely before the
alarm was given. The nearest hydrant
was on State street, near the B. +. Cole
shoe factory, and the tiremen laid l,40O
feet of hose to reach the fire. Most of
the contents of the house was burned.
The loss is about 81, 200; insurance, $500.
Miss Abbie Il. Smith and William T.
Jellison, both of Ellsworth, were mar
ried last Wednesday evening at the home
of the groom, in the presence OF about
forty relatives and friends. The cere-
mony was performed by Rev d. L. Yale.
The bride was becomingly attired
in white. The room was tastefully dec
Grated with evergreens. After the cere-
mony refreshments were served. The
bride was the recipient of many hand
some presents
The schooner ''Agricola", from Bangor
for Boston with lumber, sprung sleak
and filled with water last Thursday, and
when about eight miles eastsoutheast
from Monhegan was abandoned. She
was picked up by the schooner Emily,
Capt. Lampson, of Ellsworth, bound from
Bangor for Boston, and with the as
sistance of the Burnt Island life-saving
crew was towed into Boothbay Harbo..
No cargo lost; vessel apparently not
damaged. The "Agricola' formerly
hailed from Ellsworth.
e. G.. Smith left Monday for Boston,
where he will join his wife and little son
Dana, and start for the Pacific coast,
where they expect to make their home in