Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1899-06-14
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a. m. AT the Congregational church,
there will be Children's Day vesper ser
vice at 4 o'clock. At the Methodist
church there will be a Sunday school
concert at in the evening.
To fill the existing vacancy on the
board OF Bowdoin college overseers, the
alumni have been requested to send in
their votes for one of these four grad
yates who are given out as the "eligible
| list" Hon. De Alva s. Alexander, 20, Buff
falo, n. y; Rev. E. s. Stackpole, II, Au-
gusta; Judge A. p. Wiswell, '73, Ellis
worth, and William T. Cobb, II, Rock
land.
Eugene Hale, jr., arrived in Ellsworth
Monday night, for the summer. He re-
Gently returned from trip to Manila,
making the outward trip by way OF Suez
canal and returning by way of San Fran
cisco, thus completing the circuit of the
globe. The trip was full of interest. He
saw some fighting in the Philippines at
close range, and met distinguished Off
GERS who are now making history in the
far East.
In renewing his subscription to THE
AMERICAN, j. b. Osgood, OF Washington,
ID. c., writes: CATER a service Of thirty
six years and four months, my health is
such that | cannot longer continue in
Office" Mr.. Osgood was an operator here
in he early days OF telegraphy, but went
to Washington in the early '60., where he
has been ever since in the government
learn OF his impaired health.
The month OF June never fails to bring
Fred w. JOY OF Rogers, Peet q Co., OF
New York, back to his old home for as
much OF the month as he can be spared.
He is now here, open to propositions to
visit Patterns pond, Mill meadow brook,
| Lynch's woods, Weymouth Point, or any
other pleasure producing spot. He is
accompanied by his brother, Z. Z. JOY,
formerly in the iewery business here.
Old friends are glad to greet them both.
Schools Nos. 1, ,, s, 10, II and 10 will
close Friday OF next week All other
city schools will close Friday of
this week. Graduation exercises will
| be held in the primary and inter
mediate schools on the afternoon of
| closing. Graduation exercises in the
! East Side grammar school will take place
| Monday afternoon at l30, and in the
| West Side school at $3.50 the same day.
The graduation exercises OF the Ellis
worth Falls grammar school will take
/ place IN the church Saturday evening at s.
| In the Ellsworth municipal court Fri
day. ). Decatur JOY was the defendant in
an action for tres puss of sheep on t! e
| band OF one OF his neig hbors, MIR. Robin
son. The plaintiff claimed 800 damages.
! Mr.. Joy denied that sheep owned by him
had trespsssed on Mr.. RObinson's land,
| but admitted that some lambs which he
| was pasturing for another man had res
| passed, and that he was liable for the
! damage done by them, which he said was
slight. Judge Peters fixed damages at 10,
! which was paid. y. W. King appeared
! fov plaintiff; j. +. RedmRn for defendant.
/ Harold H. Clark, son OF Mir. and Mrs.
A. w. Clark OF this city, Will graduate
| from the University OF Maine this week.
/ Mr.. Clark received scholarship honors,
ranking fourth in a class OF ortysix and
4 being but , per cent. behind the leader.
! Mr.. and Mrs. A. w. Clark and Miss Clark
will attend commencement exercises. At
! the banquet OF the senior class Saturday
1 evening, Mr.. Clark presented the toast,
"Our Introdu action Motor" Mr.. Clarl;
/ will spend few days at home the latter
part of the week, before leaving for Wa
tervile, where he will be employed by
HoIIingsworth < Whitney.
The concert given by the Onasouson
club at the high school last Friday after
noon was very pleasant affair. About
| 125 people attended and enjoyed an ex
cellent programme OF music and recita-
! tons. The programme was printed in
full in THE AMERICAN last week, the
only change being that Miss Harriet
Rollins played the violin in place OF Miss
Bessie JOY, who was unable to be present.
/ Helen Rollins played the accompani-
ments. She played Romance by |.
| Becker, and for an encore" I'm der Chris
nacht" by w. Hanekam. The sum of Si2
was added to he piano fund
p. G. Wooster, OF Pasadena, Cal, writes
! to THE AMERICAN under date OF June 3:
81 have just received a very pleasant call
from a. McC. Howard and wife, formerly
OF your city, but now OF Miles City, Mon
| tana. Mrs. Howard is OF the family of
Remick, and when girl lived with her
aunt, Mrs. Dudley Hodgkins, i'll what is
| now Marlboro, l believe, but then Han
cock, across the river We had right
good chat together in our 'foreroom', and
talked about our old friends and neigh
bors back home, calling up many pleas
ant and funny incident. Mr.. Howard
at one time owned Sheep Porcupine islal
| in Frenchman's bay"
| A school of instruction for the wom-
ems relief corps of Bar Harbor, BIuehill
and Ellsworth will be held in Ellsworth
Friday. There will be sessions in the