Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1900-10-17

the Dcer Isle boys, VINO, OF course, VIII
sail the cup defender! Deer Isle will
make good her promise to offer q q GOO
cup for a contest between the crews Of the
two racers In handling sails, etc.
= Over in South Penobscot there's Q man
named Norton-N. F. Norton. Every
body knows him; everybody knows his
appies-they 60 together, and are equally
famous. Ask THE AMERICAN force to-
day who's the most popular man in Han
cock county and they one and all-from
the chief pencil-pusher to the new devil
only two days In the business-will cry,
bet ween monthfuls, Morton"
Stephen Dun ham, Q lobster fisherman,
seventy Ave years Of age, says q stoning-
ton correspondent, has fished all summer
In small row boat. Mr.. Durham, a.
though feeling somew hat the infrmities
OF old age, has been ont almost every
week day, and his CHEEKY, ambitious
manner gives him the appearance of q
much younger man. He can be reckoned
as one VI Deer Isles smart old men.
The poet who has sung the lay Of Els
worth's centennial, in speaking of the
su ourbs chants:
Lovely forests they centre near
Shelter grouse and hare aud deer.
Then wider stretch unbroken thence
All beautiful to finer sense,
Where toothsome duck and bowling goose
Old bruin disturb, or rarer moose"
Rarer moose is all rig hit, il anyone likes
1t cooked that way, but this "howling
goose" must be the Indian devil reported
as lurking in the vicinity of Ellsworth
Lepiston Journal.
Here's another Hancock county boy
who, like Carroll Everett Frost, OF Bar
Harbor, has nine grandparents. The
Deer Isle Messenger says:
Yes, Deer Isle can boast as much as any other
town. Miss Kathleen Haskell, whose papa was
one Of the defender boys" on boaru both the
defender" and Columbia" has nine grand
parents, eight of whom live on Deer Isle,
namely Capt. and Mrs. j. W. Haskell, Capt.
and Mrs. Albert Haskell, Capt. and Mrs. George
Powers, Deacon and Mrs. William Powers, and
Mrs. Paris, of Rockport- IT'S hard to get
ahead of Deer Isle on any thing.
Deer Isles two centenariaus-"Uncle
'Thaniel" Robbins and "Aunt Salome''
upon the town. One centenarian Is
enough for most towns some whole
states worry along without any. But
Deer Isle stOck-the stock OF which cup
defehuer cr-~s Is made-is rugged. Babies
together 1OO ears ago, schooiinates over
ninety yea . ako, neIg oors full century!
Think of 1t! IL these two remarkable old
people live untN January l nexl-anu
there fs every reason 10 oeIleve they will
they vii have -een he light OF three cen-
turtles. They were born In the last year of
the eighteenth Century, they via then
have lived through tne entire nineteeLh
century and ON January !, 1901, tney ~i.I
see the dawn OF the twentieth century.
The B0ston Journal man, who writes
"chiefiy about people", tells the story of
William Muldoon's fall from the window
Of the Dirigo club In this way. During
the firemen's muster at Ellsw orth, Me-,
last week, one Ut the tremen, who had
been practicing running during the
afternoon, retired al n hotel, where q
friend of niue WAS staying. About mid
nignt the guests were aroused by loud
cries, and shortly afterward TINS fireman
darted out Of his room into the hallway,
ran the length of the hall, went through
window, and fell Q distance OF iuree
stories. He said that he usa ueeu dream
ing about running wi tue Ola tub.
The result VAS two beoken wrists, u
broken leg and three broken ribs, also a
severe shaking up.
The &C. A. p" man had better advise
his friend to keep away from prohibition
Maine. The water evidently does not
agree with him. By the way, let's have
one of those handl no running races next
year.
David Henry Con ners, of Sullivan, VI no
has lived in this country forty five years,
was natural Zsd at the present term of
court. Mr.. Corners, though not a citizen,
has been voting in sullivan twenty years.
He supposed until two or three years ago
that he had a perfect right to vote, in
fact, he thought he was q citizen. This
understood. Mr.. Corners was born in
Nova Scotia. His parents came here when
he was three years OF age. His father
lived here over twenty years before he
was naturalized. Had David been under
twenty one years OF age when his father
was naturalized, he would have become
q citizen under his fat hers naturalization,
but as he was over twenty one at the time
1t was necessary for him to take out
papers in order to become 8 citizen. So
David Henry Conners, q foreigner, has
been enjoying, innocently, all the privi-
leges OF American citizenship. But David
Is good citizen, nevertheless, and now
when he finds his error, hastens to take