Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1900-05-09
LOCAL AFFAIRS.
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nounced her "a daisy. Then they began
! to figure out how many slaves aud how
much "dead heit" she would carry. They
are still figuring, and waiting for her to
| load. The dimensions OF the "Julia
! Frances" have already been printed in
/ THE AMERICAN. Her mailing port will
, be changed at once to Ellsworth. She
| viii load with slaves for Rondout.
the Eliss ortb Wafer Co has finally de-
/ cidad to sdd power circuit to It's eiec-
/ trio plant, and withia two mouths 150-
horsepower generator, 500 volts, will be
| Installed at The station. The plant will
| then DO rs com ,,iete as any in Maine. The
| capacity vii lie increased as business de-
mands. Already the company has orders
! for electric motors from several shops,
among them Bonsey' mill, b. b. Walkers
machine shop, IL. w. Dunn's marble
works anu Isaac Il odg kins' wood wor king
saop.
! T.. II. Geeely thinks the clerk OF the
weather has cheated him out of the snow
storm on which he has been reckoning
! the past few weeks. Last Saturday 1t
showed bot h sides OF Eiisworth-at Ston-
ipgtou on the south and Great Pond on
the north-out Ellsworth did not see
| fake. Mr.. 3reely's sleighs have not been
put up yet, however. MIR. Greedy says
that April this year WAS the first In
twenty five years that he had not had a
sieig h ride.
| The first baseball game OF the season
in Ellsworth will be played at Wyman
park Saturday, between the Bucksport
seminary and Ellsworth high school
| mines. The high school boys have stirred
up a little more baseball ent husiasm than
was evident early In the season, and with
a little public encouragement, may be
looked for to put up pretty fair quality
OF bail. The nine has a return game
scheduled with Bucksport at Bucksport
and also games with Cherryfield
academy at Ellsworth June 2 and at
Cherry field June9.
Before the adjournment OF the school
| superintendents' and committeemen's
meeting last Wednesday, q permanent
organization was formed by the Hancock
county superintendents and committee
men present. Hon. Parker Spofford, Of
Bucksport, was elected president, NJ. E.
Rideout, OF West Sullivan, vice. president,
and Mrs. Il. A. Whitmore, OF Verona,
secretary. The organization will be
known as the Hancock county school
association. Its purpose Is to study
matters relating particularly to school
superintendence, by discussion and ex-
change OF ideas. The association will
work In conjunction with the county
teachers institute, and its next meeting
will be during the institute In Bucksport
next fall.
Saturday, May %, has been decided
upon M the date for the field games be-
tween Ellsworth high school and Cherry
field academy at Wyman park. The boys
| will make OF 1t n gala day. special
train will run from Cherry field to Ellis
| worth, and the visitors dou btless will
bring up a big crowd OF "rooters". The
programme OF events as agreed upon Is as
follows: 100-yard dash, putting shot,
bicycle race, 200-yard dash, standing
broad jump. hurdle race, standing high
| jump, half mile run, running broad
jump, pole vault, mile run, running high
jump, I0-yard dash. relay race, throwing
hammer. Tue winner OF each event Will
score five points, second, three points and
third, one point, making a total OF 1876
points In the fifteen events.
The heavy rain last Thursday after n Don
caused a washout at Mullan's brook, a
mile east OF Ellsworth depot. The up
train, due at Ellsworth at 5 81, came
through all right. but there was water
over the rails. The down train three
quarters of an hour later, could not get
through, and backed to the Ellsworth
station and waited until arrangements
were made to transfer passengers for
both Bar Harbor and the Washington
County road. A work train from Bangor
had the road in passabie condition before
midnight, and the night train from
Washington county was only two hours
late. The rain did considerable damage
u roads about Ellsworth, and Main street
cellars were flooded as usual. The water
played havoc with l. l.. Halman's garden
on Oak street. Last year Mr.. Halman
laid out considerable money on this
garden. having many loads OF rich soil
put on it. The soil was ready for plant
ing Thursday when the floods came and
swept across it. When the waters sub
sided, most OF the rich top soil had dis
appeared, and a rocky clay bed remained.
A whoop from the wilds OF Narraguagus
caused a commotion in the central teie-
phone Office at Ellsworth last week.
Cherry field depends upon telephone COM
munication with Bar Harbor by way OF
Ellsworth to find out when the Frank
Jones" is due. Last Wednesday Cherry
field did not get satisfactory replies, and
somebody got left. Then they got mad.
} Then the Cherryfied Times took up their
tale OF woe and walled: "Since the steamer
Frank Jones' resumed her route much