Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1897-08-05

wash Of the "Empressn There Is an un.
usual amount Of interest in yachting this
year, and everyone is hoping for a race
A race is talked Of for Aug. %, when the
tide will be right.
large majority Of Ellsworth school
teachers desire to take the State examin-
alton, and superintendent of Schools
Wharf is making an effort to have State
superintendent Schools Stetson give
the examination here.
Invitations are out for the marriage of
| Miss Annie Louise Joy, daughter OF Capt.
and Mrs. Henry }. JOY, of Ellsworth, to
Fred Wilson Stanton, OF Boston, which
will take place Wednesday evening, Aug.
II, at O'Clock, at the Congregational
church.
Last Thursday Drs. Nealley, OF Bangor,
and Lewis Hodgkins, of Ellsworth, per-
formed an operation on Donald NJ. Stuart
amputating his leg at the knee. For
several days his condition seemed greatly
| improved, but Wednesday he was report
ed as falling rapidly.
The time OF departure of the BIuehill
| boat has again been changed, it being
! found that the boat leaving at O'Clock
did not give as general satisfaction as the
| earlier boat. Until further notice the
stage will leave Ellsworth at 7.3O, and the
boat will leave Surry at $50.
There will be two excursions next week.
On Tuesday the Methodist and Baptist
Sunday schools will go to Bartletts island
| by schooner and tug, and on Wednesday
Monaghan's band and its friends will go
to Shore Acres, at Lamoine Point, by
schooner and tug.
d. F. Tribou opened his new store in
| the Manning block annex on Franklin
street this week. Mr.. Tribou has a very
| tine-looking store. He will carry va
| riety of goods at the store, but will make
a speciality Of small novelty goods which
Will be handled by agents on the road
Col. George Moore Smith, of the Sixty
ninth regiment, y. G. S. n. Y, brother
| OF NJ. ). Smith, of this city, has been ap-
| pointed police commissioner of New
York city to fill the unexpired term of
Col Fred D. Grant. The position is one
of great possibility, and it has Sl0,0
salary attached.
Noble c. Earle, the travelling salesman
whose loss of a wallet containing $50 in
bills and $1,000 in unneEotiable notes was
reported III THE AMERICAN last week
was happy Thursday when Albert Berry
! brakeman on he train between Rockland
and Portland, returned the wallet and
contents The wallet was found in the
car.
Proposals for government work in
rivers and harbors of Maine have been
submitted to Major Hoxie, L. $. engi-
neer for this district. The Eastern
dredging company, of Boston, submits a
proposal for dredging Union river, esti-
mated $1,000 yards at AS cents a yard ;
work to commence in sixty days, finish
in 300 days.
A blackboard party from Bar Har Dor
drove to Bangor Sunday, stopping at the
Hancock house in this city for dinner.
In the party We're E. b. Mears and wife,
Bar IIarbor; Miss Burt, Philadelphia;
Miss Derby and Miss Chaplin, Boston; DR..
A. l.. Fisher, New York; Frederick Hale
and Eugene Hale, jr., Ellsworth; Herbert
jacques, Eden.
Joseph w. Nealley and John W. Cough
lin, two Of Ellsworth's popular arbers,
have formed partnership. Handsome
quarters are being fitted up for them on
the ground floor Of the Peters block, at
the corner of Main and State streets.
They will run four chairs. Nealley &
Coughlin expect to be in their new quar-
ters by Monday.
An interesting set of tennis was PLAYED
at the Ellsworth tennis club grounds
Monday afternoon by Frank Dana who
for several years held the inter collegiate
championship of the State, and +. f.
| Parker, the crack player of the Ellsworth
club. The game was the finest exhibition
of tennis ever seen in Ellsworth slr.
Dana won the set, 6 /.
The school board met Monday. The
question of adopting new United States
| histories at the schools was discussed.
but no decision was reached. The salary
! OF ii. +. Walker, sub principal of the
high school, was increased from :ll to Sl2
per week. II WAS decided to open the
high school September %, the term TO
end November u, giving ten and one
half weeks school. The board Will meet
again next Monday.
Mrs. A. u. Perry, formerly of Ellsworth,
died at the home of her son, Dr. Francis
?, Perry, in Bucksport, last Wednesday
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