Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1900-10-03

10 suo IoCeut tecOto OI Ou0 VI inc prayers.
Arrangements are being made for match
game, 1000 points continuous pool, to be
played on the club table. The loser will
pay for dinner.
DR.. J. F. Manning arrived home from
his western trip Monday night, looking
brown, rugged and happy. He says he
has not seen a livelier town than Els
worth In all his travels.
VIM. II. H. Rice relief corps will hold
its regular meeting Friday evening Of
this week. In addition to its regular
business, it will entertain Bluehill relief
corps. All members are requested to be
present. A picnic supper will be served.
At the home Of Capt. and Mrs. Joseph
Pomroy Saturday evening there was a
pretty wedding, when their daughter,
Miss Lula NJ, was married to Harry 8.
Jones. The ceremony was performed by
Rev. ]. P. Simonton in the presence of
friends and relatives.
George J. Stafford and a friend from
Bar Harbor, who spent Sunday In Ellis
worth, started for home about midnight.
took fright at something and bolted up
on the sidewalk. TIE carriage struck the
hydrant and both men were thrown out.
Mr.. Stafford's face was badly cut and
bruised.
Ellsworth friends of Frank Brimmer
heard with regret OF the death of his wife
At their home In Minneapolis, Minn., last
Thursday. Mr.. Brimmer's broth her, John
H., left Thursday night for Minneapolis.
Mrs. Brimmer was q native Of Illinois,
and had never visited in Ellsworth. She
leaves besides her husband, one son, John,
who spent the past summer with his
uncles In Ellsworth.
Merle E. Nary, the ht-year-o son
OF Mr.. and Mrs. F. e. Nary, OF Revere,
Mass, was run over by an electric car last
Thursday. The boy was playing in the
street and ran In front of the car. The
car ran over his left leg. The leg was am
putated at the hospital but the boy died
soon afterward. Mrs. Nary is a sister OF
Mrs. Herman E. Hill, OF Ellsworth. The
boy visited his aunt here this summer,
going home about month ago.
Mrs. Julia Dorman Higgins, wife of ex-
morning at her home on Water street, in
the fifty seventh year OF her age. She
has been in poor health long time.
Mrs. Higgins was of q retiring DISPOSE
tion, but to her friends she was cordial
and sincere. She was woman OF natural
refinement and Intelligence. In her home
she received her friends with rare charm
OF manner. No word of il-will or bad
report against anyone ever passed her
lips. Mrs. Higgins had no children. For
the husband VINO is left alone, much
sympathy is felt. Funeral service was
held at the house this afternoon.
A striking and picturesque figure on
been a large negro-a typical southern
negro OF the "Uncle Tom" type, but in
stead Of being bent and feeble with years,
he is tall, straight and rugged in spite OF
his years. He is eighty-one years old.
His name is John Thomas, and he has
travelled all over the eastern part Of the
United States on foot. A popularity of
shoes, he wears strapped on his feet in
sandal form, pieces OF sole leather, his
feet being wrapped in cloth. He is over
six feet tall, and large in proportion. He
is of more than ordinary intelligence,
talks well, and can speak French f1uently.
His home Is in the Shenandoah valley in
"Ole Virginy", as he told THE AMERICAN
reporter. He left there about six months
ago, and has walked all the way to Ellis
worth, stopping at cities along the way
for few days at a time. He Is bound for
St. John, N. b., from which place he
expects to find opportunity to return to
Virginia on some vessel. This is his
second trip to Maine; he was here twenty
five years ago, but did not visit Ellsworth.
He is an ex slave. He was in Louisiana
that he had been sold four times.
"Massa Abe's proclamation meant a good
deal to me-" be said.
Ellsworth high school football team
went over to Bucksport Saturday to play
the seminary team. They came home
covered with glory, in which their coach,
e. E. Bellatty, shared no small part.
They had met and vanquished much
heavier team, and proven again the su-
periority of head work over muscle. The
Bucksport team would average we'll up to
175 pounds in weigh ht; one OF their guards
weighed 2l9 pounds. The Ellsworth
team averaged less than 14O Yet with