Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1898-06-01
AFFAIRS.
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staf correspondent of the Lewiston Jour
nal, and representative in this section
OF the Boston Globe. He made THE
AMERICAN very pleasant call yesterday
William E. Skillings and J. IL. LANCE,
OF Boston, spent all last week at Nicolin
and made some excellent catches Of trout
and salmon. They returned to Boston
last Saturday, highly pleased with their
visit to this section. Mr.. Skillings is a
member of the firm Of Skillings, Clark q
Co., who operated the hard wood factory
at the Falls last winter and who intend
to increase the plant this fall. MIR. LANCE
is of the firm of LANCE & Roberts, patent
lawyers, of Boston.
Chief Justiee Peters has made the as
signments OF justices for the ensuing
year. The assignments for the three
terms in Hancock county are as follows:
October, Judge Wiswell; January, Judge
Haskell; April, Judge Emery. The other
assignments Of Judges Emery and Wis
well OF Ellsworth are as follows: Judge
Emery-Septembe Waldo; October,
Peno bscot; December, Somerset; Jan
uary, Washington; March, Knox. Judge
Wiswell-August, Peno bscot; Septemb Der,
Aroostook; December, sagadahoc; April,
Cumberland; May, York.
Prof. Chapman, director OF the Maine
music festival, was in town last Wed
nesday, and conducted the rehearsal OF
the Ellsworth chorus. He expressed
himself as highly pleased with the work
dnpa ainco
evening was spent in rehearsing the war
songs that are to be sung at the great
symphony concert to be held at various
places in Maine this month-the concert
at Bangor to take place June 10.
Special inducements to attend this con-
cert are offered, the details of which may
be found elsewh here in this issue.
l. l.. Halman returned Monday from
New York, bringing with him his
brother, Samuel L., who will remain
here about two months. Young Mr..
Halman arrived in New York on the
"Fuerst Bismarck" last Friday. For some
years past he has been employed in the
foreign exchange office of the banking
houses of Gradstein & Co., and OF
Oppenheimer & Co., of Berlin, where he
has acquired a thorough knowledge of
the business, and from whom he has
most excellent letters of recommended
ton. 1t is his intention to remain in
this country. He is an expert linguist,
speaking besides German, the French
Italian, Polish, Russian and Scandinavian
languages, and after getting hold of
English he intends to enter the banking
business in New York.
new timetable will go into effect on
the Maine Central next Sunday. Els
worth will have Sunday train, and an
additional train each way on week days,
and the time of the present trains will be
changed. The morning mail from Ban
gor will arrive at us instead of 7.59, and
the afternoon mail will arrive at 500 in
stead OF 5.45. This afternoon train from
the west will not lay over an hour in
Bangor as heretofore. The additional
week day train from Bangor arrives at
7.54 p. m. Returning the trains leave
Ellsworth as follows: 11.52 a. M, 5.27
and S.54 p. m. The freight or mixed train
runs on the same time as before, arriving
from Bangor at 1910, and returning
leaves Ellsworth at 1872 p. IN. The Sun
day train arrives from Bangor at us a.
M, and returning, leaves Ellsworth at
5.27 p. m. This schedule will remain in
force until the summer schedule goes into
effect, proba bly, late in June.