Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1898-07-20
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One Weeks Winnowings of News
Novelty and Nonsense.

Novelty and Nonsense.
The annual camp-meeting OF the Pc
nobscot Spiritual Temple association will
be held at Verona Park, August 5 to %.
| The thirteenth annual reunion of the
Twenty-sixth Maine Regimental essocia-
ton will be held at Winterport Wednes-
day, Aug. II.
Patents have recently been granted to
Maine inventors as follows: F. w Bah
bidge, Rockland, toy; c. r. MacCall,
Rowland, thill-tug; j. H. Wallace, Fort
Fairfield, chimney holder.
Bangor has discovered a new fre-ex-
tinguisher which ought to prove popular.
At small awning fire last Thursday
lemonade from a refreshment wagon was
used to extinguish the flames.
The eighteenth annual reunion OF the
9Th Maine veterans association will be
held at Rockland ON August %, "a and 25.
Railroads and steamboat lines will furn-
ish round trip tickets for one fare.
The schooner emma M. Fox', OF and
from Bangor, with lumber for New York,
went ashore north Of Plymouth beach
ing crew assisted Capt. Hopkins and his
crew to the shore. Capt. Hopkins says
the thick weather led him astray. The
schooner has gone to pieces.
The annual reunion of the Sixteenth
Maine Regimental association will take
place at Newport on Wednesday and
Thursday, Aug. 10 and II. A business
mil ho baII A
day. Banquet at p. m. Business meet
ing at q. m. Thursday, after which there
will be an excursion by steamer to Camp
Benson. Reduced rates on railroads.
The State treasurer has completed the
airport comment OF the school fund and
mill tax for the current year to the sew
eral cities, towns and plantations in the
State, the total amount apportioned being
S514 ,15422. The total number of pupils,
as returned to the State treasurer by the
State superintendent of schools, is 209 ,297,
making the apportionment at the rate of
fraction over S2.45l5 per pupil.
George H. Smardon, CT Portland, who
WAS the original agent for the telephone
in Maine, has one of the original circu-
lars published by the N. E. Telephone Co.
| 1t is amusing to note the small claims
then put forth by the company, as COM
pared with the present reality. The
statement of what this invention would
do is laid down as if the public would
consider it as fairy tale. The wild as
sertion is made that "the length of these
lines varies from few feet to thirty
miles.
The Maine State Firemen's association
will hold its muster in Bath on Wednes-
day and Thursday, Aug. 3 and A. The
headquarters OF the association will be at
the Phoenix hotel, and will open there
, Aug. 2, the day before the convention
The drawing for positions in the contests
. at the muster will take place at the head
quarters Wednesday, Aug. g. at 9 p. m
In the event of any company not having
a representative present at the drawing
, its position will be drawn by some dis
, interested person. The Maine Contra
railroad has made rate Of one half fare
and will transport all apparatus free.
The annual examination Of teachers fol-
State certificates will take place Friday
! Aug. 26. The places at which examina-
! lions will be held will be so arranged as
far as practicable that every teacher tax
ing the examination can leave home In
the morning, take the examination In
full, and return the same day. The sub
jects in which teachers will be examined
are reading, writing, spelling, arithmetic,
geography, English grammar, U. s. his
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science or nature studies, civil govern
ment, theory and practice OF teaching,
and school law. All desiring to take this
examination must register on or before
Aug. 20, by forwarding to the State su-
perintendent of public schools prelim-
mary examination reports, blanks for