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

Oct. =. Eco.
southwest Harbor.
Capt. William Gilley is on grand jury
duty in Ellsworth this week.
Ralph Robinson has painted J. T. r.
Freeman's store.
Miss Alice Carroll leaves this week for
Rockland where she is to learn dressmak-
ing.
Mrs. Julia Holden has closed the Dirigo
and leaves for Belmont, Mass, this week
Thursday.
Mrs. Hannah Gilley has been visiting
at her old home in Sullivan for the past
two weeks.
Mrs. Harry Gilley and daughter have
returned from Bangor, having been alb
sent several weeks.
Miss Alice j. Dolliver was away on va
cation last week. Mrs. James Crockett
took her place in the store.
There will be harvest concert by the
Sunday school in the Union church next
Sunday evening, Oct. 16, at 7.3o.
Mrs. William Mason has been stopping
with her parents, Mr.. and Mrs. }. G. VIII
son, at Mckinley the past two weeks.
Amos Brown has had new cellar built
under his house and new stone founda-
ton laid. Henry Tracy ana son Merle
did the job.
John Carroll left Monday for Portland,
where he has a job rs mason on the
United States Qualifications being COR
structed there.
J. +. Il. Freeman aud wife have be, n
absent the past week on trip TO New
York and Albany, going to the latter
place by the Hudson river, beautiful trip
nj this season OF autumn foliage.
The county conference OF Congregations
alists at North Ellsworth was attended by
a delegation of five from this place Mrs.
Augustus Clark, Winnie Hodgkins
Flora Gilley, Frank Gilley and Rev. g. H.
Heffion.
The hunters hereabonts report hat par
tridges are rather more plentiful in the
woods this fall than last. Those wood
pirates that have supplied Bar Harbo- ho
tells with the birds this past summer did
not get them all.
j. W. Cooper, OF Camden. n. j., one OF
our summer people on the back shore, has
purchased Of parties at Seal Harbor the
yatch "Aphrodite'. She is thirty-two
feet long and very handsomely finished.
Capt. Robert Cot is hauling her up for
the winter.
One thing this village has to congrat
ulate itself upon is its supply OF pure
water. There is a deal OF malarial illness
in many places around us due to impure
water. The surface DRAWINGS and ditch
water and cistern slops with which our
neig bors imperil their mortal existence
and magnify their doctors bills, have no
part in this village where water from 175
feet OF solid rock supplies the homes OF
most Of US.
A small boy with stick in his hand, at
the farther end OF which dangIed a dead
snake, was seen chasing a dozen small girls
down the road by one Of the school
houses the other day. The girls were all
squealing in high c with horror and dis
may, and the small boys soul was filled
school house door bolted the girls and in
after them went the small boy, thrust ing
the snake nearly into the teachers mouth
as she came to the doorway to see what
in the world was the matter. She gave a
shrek that nearly lifted the shingles off
the roof and woke up the light house
keeper on Bakers island. The small bog
retired to the street with a dismal pre-
sentiment at heart that he had rather
overdone it this time. Five minutes
later the teacher placed a smooth round
stick into the small boys outstretched
hand so kind of hurriedly that it seemed
to him to bite like a serpent and to sting
like an adder.
Oct 10. STYLUS.
Mrs. I. p. Farmer, who recently gave
tea party to her aunts, very much re-
GREETED the absence of three OF her aunls
her mothers sister, Mrs. Rachel c.
Allen, OF Waltham Mass, and her fat her S