Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1899-08-23

For other local nevs see pages 4, s and 8.
Miss Harriet Mason is the guest Of Miss
Maud Smith in Harrington.
Mrs. II. M. Hall, ST., is seriously Ill. She
| is reported as very low to-day.
Hon. John w. somes, OF Somesville, was
in Ellsworth one day last week.
The Ellsworth festival chorus resumes
its rehearsals at Manning hall this
evening.
Arthur j. Hastings, Boston, is spending
his vacation visiting his parents, Mr.. and
| Mrs. Alfred Hastings.
Mrs. Stillman Kench, OF New York
city, is visiting her niece, Miss May
Youtman, Of this city.
A new thirteen wire switchb board has
replaced the eight-wire board in the
Western Union telegraph office.
Frank Hamlin, esq, Of Chicago, spent
Sunday and Monday with his brother,
Col. II. E. Hamlin, in Ellsworth.
John w. Malone, wife and little daugh-
ter Hannah Frances, are in Cherry field
| attending the 9Th Maine reunion.
The State examinations OF teachers will
| take place at the high school Friday.
Supt. Dresser will conduct them.
Ernest F. Osgood, OF Berlin, N. H., is
spending a short vacation visiting his
parents, Irving Osgood and wife, in this
city.
II A och nf ba Eroo
Baptist church, will exchange pulpits
| Sunday with Rev. Henry Parsons, of Han
cock.
In the races at Hartland Saturday E. H.
Greely's Vulcan took third money in the
2.2S class, in which there were seven
horses.
The old Mosley house on the Trenton
road Was burned last Wednesday night.
1t was unoccupied. Loss S100; no i'll
suranee.
Rev. A. J. Lord, of Hartford, VT,
preached in the Methodist church last
Sunday. A large congregation enjoyed q
fine serWn.
Arthur L. Higgins, lately in the employ
OF George A. Parcher, has secured posi-
tion with a Boston drug firm. He left
for Boston Sunday.
| Mrs. j. F. Davis and Miss Sylvia, who
| have been spending the summer here, ex-
| pect to leave for their home in Chicopee
Falls, Mass, tomorrow.
| AT the reunion OF the First Maine
heavy artillery at Harrington last week
Charles W. Beal, OF Ellsworth, was
elected one OF the directors.
Miss Marion Treat, OF Rutherford,
N. j., arrived Saturday to spend the re-
mainder of the summer with her mot her
Mrs. A. 8. Treat, at Labrador farm.
Miss Harriet Rolf, who was seriously i'll
at the home Of l. L. Halman In this city
last week, so far recovered as to be able on
Monday to accompany David Friend tc
| Caribou for a visit.
| E. w. Lord will leave for Gardiner Fri.
day, from which place after short visit
he will go to Boston and thence to New
York for a visit previous to the opening
OF Boston university next month.
The Washington County railroad will
run an excursion from Ellsworth to East
port next Saturday, leaving Ellsworth al
7.24 a. M, and returning at 1888 p. m
The fare for the round trip will be $1.5O.
Thomas Abbott and George Treadwell
were down the bay in small sail boat
Friday fishing. A squall struck the boat
capsizing her. The men clung to the
overturned boat an hour before helI
came.
Eugene Tompkins, the millionaire Bos-
ton theatre owner, was in Ellsworth one
day last week. Mr.. Tompkins' steam
yacht is sailed by Capt. w. s. Treworgy
OF Surry, and he was cruising In this
vicinity.
Ellsworth to-day sent quite a delega
tion OF veterans and their wives te
Cherryfield to attend the reunion Of thu
9Th Maine regiment. A good many Of thu
boys who went to the front from Ellis
worth were in the 9Th Maine.
Miss Mabel Monaghan gave song re-
cital at Hotel Sorrento last evening. II
spite Of the inclement weather, thu
spacious parlors were crowded. Wore
| IIOm SOrEeuLO Says tAne oAc ouHk ocAik Nv
fully, and was enthusiastically received.
Amasa Sargent, the veteran salesman
representing l. w. Munro & Co., OF Bos'
ton, was in Ellsworth last week on hi
seventy-sixth semi-annuaI trip. Few
salesmen on the road can beat this record
Mr.. Sargent is in his eighty-third year
joys orchestra, Of Bar Harbor, vii
play at dance to be given at Gilpatriek'
hall, Northeast Harbor, on Friday even
ing, Aug. 25, and for another to be giver
at Hancock Corner on Tuesday evening
Aug. 20. At the latter place d. II
Saunders and II. G. Hodgkins are th'
managers.
The many Ellsworth friends OF d. N
Hardacker, one OF the most popular trav
elling statesmen visiting this city, regre