Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1898-10-12

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many friends during his stay here W ho
hope he will return next summer.
Capt. James Farrell, who has been sail
ing the schooner 'sSarah A. Blaisdell'', has
left her to accept position as janitor Of
a building in Boston. He will move to
Boston with his family November 1. R.
c. Bonsey will take command of the
"Blaisdell'.
After the reorganization OF the Unity
branch alliance club, in the vestry of the
Unitarian church, Tuesday afternoon, it
was voted to hold harvest supper We'd
nesday evening, Oct. 10. Supper from $50
to $50. All Interested are asked to con-
tribute food.
Prof. Ropes, Of the Bangor theological
seminary, occupied the pulpit of the
Congregational church Sunday morning.
In the evening at the peoples meeting
Mrs. Ida Woodbury. spoke Interestingly
OF missionary work among the noun
tain whites Of Tennessee.
Extensive improvements are being
made at the city poor farm buildings. A
main house and ell. The cellar is 61h feet
deep. The house has been raised eigh-
teen inches. Other improvements are
being made on the buildings.
Charles R. Bnrrill has entered Dart.
mouth college for the study OF medicine.
He has been studying in DR.. G. A. Phil
lips office during the summer. He in
tended to enter the Maine medical college
at Portland, but finding after he reached
there that change had been made in the
requirements, he went to Dartmouth.
Mrs. Abbie Perkins, her daug hter, Mrs.
Dora Hopkins, and granddaught Miss
Blanche Hopkins, will soon move to Ban
gor. They expect to leave Ellsworth the
latter part of next week. These ladies
have many friends in Ellsworth who re-
gret their departure. Mrs. Hopkins and
Miss Hopkins especially will be greatly
missed from the social life of Ellsworth.
At Woodbine cemetery decided i'm
provement has been made by the removal
OF the old hearse house. The building
has been moved across the road to
the city farm, and will be used for
storing city road machinery and
tools. Further improvement will be
made at the cemetery by the erection of
an ornamental iron fence along the front.
Bingen's recent race mile in 2.O64 is the
fastest that has been credited to any trot-
ter since 1895, when Azote stepped in
2.04$4. BY this brilliant performance,
Bngen joins the exclusive set of extreme
) list tr7 ~ nat heve beaten . OF. -:z.
AIix, b. M, 20334; Nancy Hanks, br m,
2o4; Azote, b. s., 2,0i4; Dreotum, blk.
h., 2054 Fantasy, b. m, 206; Beuzetta,
ch. M, 2.0634; Ralph Wilkes, ch. h., 2.064;
Bngen, br. h., 2.06$4.
The entertainment "The Crown of
Fame" to be presented at Hancock hall
shis evening under the auspices of the
social committee OF the Congregat ional
church, Will be unique historical and
spectacular entertainment. 1t will in
troduee famous characters of history,
who will compete for the "crown" The
Goddess of Fame" will preside, aud
before her the aspirants for the crown
will make their plea
T. d. Murphy, the special agent of the
Metropolitan life insurance company, of
New York, leaves this week. He has been
in Ellsworth Il trite over year. During
his stay here he has successfully estab-
lished local agency which be leaves in
charge of d. E. Donovan, who will be re-
sponsible to General Agent Zimmerman,
OF Bangor. Mr. Murphy has made many
friends here who will regret his depar-
ture.
Mrs Edward Grindle, daughter of the
late E. Walker Moore, of Ellsworth Falls,
died at her home in West Sedgwick Mon
day night, Of typhoid fever. Mrs. Grin
die contracted the fever in Ellsworth
while nursing her fat her and moth On
the day OF her fathers funeral, she was
summoned home by the news that her
son Harvey was seriously injured by acci-
dentally shooting himself. She was taken
ill soon after returning home. Her son is
recovering.
Messrs. WiswelI, Peters, Giles and
Hagerthy, OF this city, have sold half of
township No. 4, range II, in Somerset
county, to Charles Mullan and others of
Oldtown and Bangor. The purchase price
was little over $4,000. The same Els
worth men have practically closed the
sale Of township in the same locality to
the same parties for $4,000. 1t is under
stood the purchasers represent New York
capitalists, who will build large pulp
mill in the vicinity.
William Henry Clark died at his home
in Waltham, Mass, Oct. 6, aged seventy
nine years. Mr.. Clark was a brother of
Mrs. George S. Peters, formerly Of this
city. He was native of Hallowell. He
went to California in '49 and lived there
until about seventeen years ago, when he
returned East and settled in Waltham.
He was lawyer by profession, and accu-
mulat ed fortuue in The West Mapv of