Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1900-08-15

from this section has been this cause OF
considerable damage each year. This
spring 1t caused . bad washout on Main
street just above the railroad.
Capt. Alonzo Jordan is expected home
the first of next week to spend a vsca-
tion while Capt. A. J. Higgins goes trip
In his schooner, the "Pepe Ramirez.
The schooner will sail from New York for
Surinam Saturday.
The Standard Oil Co. has erected the
tank at the Ellsworth freight yard.
Clifton Woodward has been engaged to
drive the tank wagon in Ellsworth, max
ing regular trips to supply the retailers.
He began work Monday.
George Cline, OF Hancock, was In Els
worth this morning with handsome colt
by Roscoe Holmes Game Bird. The colt
was two years old June %, and weighed
this morning 995 pounds. The colt is
already broken to harness.
The Trenton lumber company's new
mill ut Bayside began running Monday.
The mill is ON the same general lines as
the old one. 1t is fitted with modern
machines, and there Is no better equipped
mill for its size In the State.
A new switchboard has been placed In
the Ellsworth central telephone Office to
accommodate the increasing business.
The new board carries the trunk lines
through Ellsworth. 1t gives room for
three operators at Ellsworth central.
B. F. Gray and wife, Roscoe Taylor and
wife, d. l.. Fields aud wife, John Malone
| and wife, and John W. Malone and wife,
| left this morning to attend the annual
| reunion Of the sixth Maine regiment at
Dexter.
George II. Brown, Of Sioux Falls, s. d
a former resident of this city and once a
prominent lumber manufacturer here,
spent few days last week among rela-
| tives and friends here. Mrs. Brown is Il
| sister ot Henry l.. Moor.
MIR. aud Mrs. George A. Chute, OF Ded-
ham, Mass, aud Miss Abbie K. Wood, OF
Brooklyn, n. Y, are the guests OF Mayor
A. W. Greedy and wife. MIR. Chute for
| meriy lived in Ellsworth, and Miss Wood
was a former teacher in the Ellsworth
schools.
AT the races at Fairfield last week e. II.
Greely's Addison toJk the $50 race. Best
time, 2.27A. Tnis is a pretty good mark
for green horse, but Addison can do
better. Mr.. Greely's Vulcan took second
| money in the 2.3J class, winning the first
TWO heats.
Mrs. Susan d. Springer, OF Hancock,
died at tue home OF her son, Charles
| Springer, at Detroit, Me-, last Wednesday.
| Mrs. Springer WAS the mother of +. E.
Springer, OF Ellsworth, with whom she
| had lived much OF the time for the past
few years.
Miss Lora V. Parsons expects to leave
Ellsworth Aug. IS for New York, where
she Will take course of instruction in a
school OF piano-forte accompanying.
Hiss Parsons is already well known as
skiilfui accompanist, and she proposes TO
perfect herself in this branch of piano
playing.
LleweIlyn B. Alley, Of Orland, formerly
| OF Ellsworth, was tried in the Ellsworth
municipal court this morning for beat
ing his thirteen-year-old daughter
Blanche. He was found guilty and
sentenced to thirty days in the county
jail and costs. Alley has been in the Jail
before for wife beating.
Frank H. Milliken, Of Stoug hton, Mass,
and his sister, Mrs. Frank Davis, OF East
Boston, have been for the past week
visiting relatives and friends at their old
| nome in f sworth. While here they
| had he remains of their father, Capt
Nathaniel Mliiken, removed from the
Bonsey Tot, on the river side, to their new
| tot in Wood bne cemetery.
Culhane, Chace Il Weston's MINISTRIES
are cooked to appear at Hancock hall
| next Tuesday evening. The company is
reported as being fine one, presenting a
| strictly high class performance. Besides
| minstrelsy it includes character artists,
acrobats, jugglers, not to mention the
famous Felix sisters-three of them.
street parade and band concert will be
given on the day OF the performance at
noon.
One young man showed wisdom
which should entitle him some day to be
president of the United States, by select
ing Ellsworth as his native place, even
against the wishes OF his parents. His
| mot her, who is Mrs. Luther E. Cotton, was
on her way from Portsmouth, N. H., W here
her husband is employed, for her home
In Columbia, on Monday. At Ellsworth
she left the train and went TO the Han.
cock house, where an hour later DIR. n. c.
King announced the arrival OF a boy.
That young man should be named Els
worth Cotton and he ought some day to
be great man.
c. H. Burleigh, of the Boston Reduce
tion Co., which has leased the lower mill
dam, arrived in Ellsworth yesterday. He
at once closed contract with Austin NJ.
Foster to remove the ruins OF the old