Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1897-10-07

| Is being organized. Mrs. |. II. w. Wharf
will be the superintendent. Mr.. aud Mrs
Wharf will represent the Ellsworth h
league at the district convention in Win
terport this week
Miss Margaret Bresnahan, an employee
in the Union shoe factory, caught her
| hand in the machine on which she was
working last Friday morning. The tips of
two fingers of the right hand were badly
lacerated and the bone slivered, but it is
| hoped it will not be found necessary to
| amputate the fingers at the first joint as
at first feared
With the opening OF the new library
building and reading room this winter,
the Kings Daughters reading room in
the Manning block will be closed. The
Kings Daughters are now discussing
plans looking to the continuance OF their
good work in the city in some new direc-
ton. A gymnasium for boys and girls
has been thought Of. No definite action
has yet been taken.
Lillian Tucker, supported by good
company, is playing at Hancock hall this
week. Monday evening the play pre-
sented was "a Partisan Princess" and
Tuesday evening "a Hero in Rags. Fol-
lowing are the plays for the rest of the
week: Wednesday, LADY Audley's Sc
cret"; Thursday, "a Bachelors Wife;
Friday, "Pygmalion and Galatea" Satur-
day, "Her Sister,. There will be mat
inee Saturday
The deer season opened last Friday.
Several deer have been killed in this
vicinity, but none has been hung up in
the Ellsworth markets as the marketmen
have not yet received their licenses to re-
tail venson. This is the first year OF the
law by which the marketmen are required
to have license, and to keep record of
every deer bought and of whom bought.
This record must be open to the inspec-
tion OF game wardens, and failure to keep
it properly or to comply with the require
ments of the law will result in with
drawal OF the marketman's license.
The renewal of the mission at the
Catholic church last week we'll at
tended, and many eloquent aud practical
missionaries, Frs. Zilles and Otterbine
On Sunday morning FIR. ZiIles gave
most powerful and eloquent sermon ON
temperance, which deeply impressed his
hearers. The services were closed most
impressiycly sunday evening by FIR.
ZlIles. From here the missionaries go to
Schenectady, y. Y, where they will give
n E'r
visit to Ellsworth and during his stay
here ne Won many warm friends.
rev timetable went into effect on
the Maine Central last Sunday. There are
now four trains each way on the Mt.
Desert branch Trains arrive from the
west at I 80 and 1875 a. m, 800 and 7.5i p.
m. Leave for the west at 9.22 and II 81 a.
M, 5,27 and S.54 p. m. For the next two
Sundays, Oct 10 and Il, there will be one
train each way, arriving from the west
at 9.1l a. IN. and returning leave ELS
worth al 20 p. m. The change in trains
OF course effects mails. Mails now arrive
fat depot from west at I 50 a. IN. 500 and
ID p. m, from east at II - a. m. and ) %
p. m. Mails close (at post office for west
at l1.20 Il. m. and 40 p. m, for east at
7.30 Il. m and 100 p. m.
The following from an Illinois paper
Will be read with interest by many in
Ellsworth; "Luther Griffin, aged sixty
four, and Mrs. Carrie Griffin, tiftyiive
years, We're united in marriage ut the
home of W. b. Davidson, / tica, H., FRI
day, Sept. Il, by the pastor of the Baptist
church. Mr.. Griffin WAS married when
young man. His wife lived but a few
years. For many years he has lived a
" dover. Mrs. Griffin was the wife of
one Of Mr.. Gritiin's brothers Jeremiah
Gritl.a, formerly OF Ellsworth and has
been widow for twenty-five years.
They were schoo-cAildren together.
they TOOK the train for Chicago, where
they spend week before returning to
their home IN The south part of the town
Mrs. Griffin is the daughter of Mrs C. c.
Royal, Of Ellsworth.
Among visitors to the city during the
past week We're the following from Han
cock county towns: George b. Hatch, l..
:. Stratton, {. c. Ladd, +. 5. Goddard,
Paul Hunt, X. :. higgins, q. ;. higgins,
Walter Hodgkins, +. l., Carter, NJ. c.
Foster, G.. \. Richardson, l.. NJ. Foster,
John L. Bunker, jr., f. 3. Mears, l.. b.
Deasy, }. A. Morse, Ii. !. Hodgkins, J. II.
Knowles, f. {. Higgins and wife, George
j. Stafford, b. L, Hedley ana wife, f. T.
Greey, Frank Cunningham, Bar Harbor;
l.. f. Benson, Bass Harbor; Julien Emery
and wife, Salisbury Cove; +. b. Colcord,
Henry Boynton, sullivan; J. P. Gordon,
Franklin; Bert Currier, Sedgwick; o. II.
Buzzell and ife, Amherst; a. 5. Penney,
Mariaville; Judge +. Z, Chase, Bluehill;
Edward Swazey, Bucksport; j. G.. Reed,
\. IL. Mayo, Brocklin.
The steamboat war on the route between
Ellsworth and Rockland is over, and