Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1899-07-12

got newspaper experience enough to last
him lifetime, and went back to teach
ing. Prof. Sampson left Ellsworth h
Thursday to attend the American Insti-
tute OF instruction at Bar Harbor
Among Ellsworth people who attended
meetings of the American Institute Of
instruction at Bar Harbor during the
past week were Hoyt A. Moore, Ernest L..
Moore, Elmer f. Murch, Mrs. II. C..
Hathaway, Miss NJ. A. Greedy and Miss
Minnie Moore.
Friday afternoon at 2.30 at the Free
Baptist church a council appointed by the
State ministers association will examine
Henry Parsons, of Hancock and II. A..
ckenbach, of Ellsworth, for ordination.
The ordination services will take place in
the evening at 7.30 o'clock.
The new lamps and dynamo for the new
system OF electric lighting have arrived.
The dynamo has been set up and the
lamps are being installed as rapidly as
possible. The new system will be thor
oughly installed by August l. when the
contract with the city goes in force.
Howard +. Butler and wife, of Boston.
are the guests OF Mr.. and Mrs. George w.
Whiting. Dr. o. NJ. Drake and wife, and
Mr.. and Mrs. Sanborn, Of Boston, are
guests OF Mr.. and Mrs. 5. *. Whiting, I'd.
Nine. Henry Whiting and T. j. Whiting,
OF Boston, are guests of Mr.. and Mrs. A.
w. Cushman.
The at ,jaci ipy nd optf
Nelligan have about completed work on
Park street, toward which the Park street
improvement society contributes half the
expense. A concrete sidewalk and gutter
have been laid from the railroad to Oak
street. The street has been widened
slightly. In the hollow between Oak
street and the School street school, the
| road has been filled in somewhat.
1t is evident that neither Ellsworth nor
Cherryiield will have the Goldberg coat
| factory. The Bangor Ne,6s says: "Lcuis
Goldberg, clothing manufacturer, has
| leased the store on Central wharf occu-
pied for many years by Thompson &
Kellogg, and will open a clothing and
gents furnishing establishment there
about the first OF August. The upper
| floors will be used for manufacturing
purposes"
Charles l.. Morang has purchased OF
| Mrs. A. c. Hagerthy the store building
occupied by him. Mr.. Morang will make
extensive alterations in the building, and
will use it all for his business. The side
| stairway will be removed, and the front
opened up for the mems clothing depart
| ment. DR.. A. c. Hagerthy, who has been
occa yng Offices on the second floor, has
moved to his former offices over Parcher's
drug store.
A party made up of A. X. Cushman, l.
NJ. Moore, w. II. Whittemore, George s
Foster, George 2. Woodward, DIR. Har-
ward Greedy as chaperon, all under the
general charge of Commodore j. w
Nealley, leave next Saturday for a cruise
along he Maine coast. They go in the
yacht "Lorelei", Capt. Maxwell, and ex-
pect to be gone about two weeks, visit
ing Portland, Boothbay Harbor, Port
Clyde, Martinsville, Rockland, Camden,
Belfast, Castine and other points east.
The literary editor of the Lewiston
Journal says: $50 far as we know Hon.
Eugene Hale, OF Ellsworth, is the only
subscriber in Maine to Lady Randolph
Churchill's new review, The Anglo-Ssxon
Review A partial list OF subscribers
published in the Book Buyer for July, is
headed by the Prince of Wales. 1t is to
be pu blished quarterly in volume, or
nun ber, OF $50 pages, at S12 each elegantly
illustrated with plates IN photogravure,
lithography and wood"
Alden V. Carter, OF West Ellsworth b,
was found guilty Of cruelty to animals in
the Ellsworth municipal court yesterday,
on complaint Of o. II. Guptill. One OF
Mr.. Guptill's cows strayed into Carter's
pasture, and Carter attacked her with a
jack knife, plunging the blade in her
udder. Judge Peters considered the
crime deserving OF penalty beyond the
jurisdiction of his court, and held him
for the grand jury. Bail was fixed at
s300 and Carter was committed in de-
fault.
At Old Town on the Fourth, in the 80
class, A. W. Ellis four-yesr- bay
gelding "Salinas", by "Donum', took
seCOHd IHoiey. ne COit Cdplur6u tue
first and fourth heats in 2 3354 and 80 y
respectively, the best time of the race.
In the other three heats of the race Salinas
trotted second to c. G. Andrews "Scott"
The performance of Salinas in this, his
first race, marks him as good one, like
others OF Donum's set. He could 90 in
the list without effort this year. He went
an exhibition mile at the county fair in
Ellsworth last year, paced by his sire in
2 30A.
Ellsworth will be well represented at
the State firemen's muster in Bangor next
month. The Senator Hale and Dirgo
hose teams will be in the race. The
Dirigo, jrs., encouraged by the good time
made here on the Fourth, are talking OF
entering the big hose race. Both the
junior teams of Ellsworth have been
voted into Eagle hook and ladder COM
pany as volunteer tiremen and are thus
eligible for a freman's race. In the
engine contest Ellsworth will be repre-