Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1903-04-01
FROM BUCKsPoRT.
Breezy Bits from the River Town
What Is going on at the Seminary.

Breezy Bits from the River Town
What Is going on at the Seminary.
Ten. a sn,i.a has qustitied rs Executor
Of the estate OF Mrs, Susan stuoos.
A Bert Hagerthy has been home from
Bowdoin medical college for a short stay
Mrs. Fl. n. Bancroft, OF Grand Menan,
is in town, the guest OF Mics Jennie sin
nett.
II Ia understood that new con mRud-
ants quarters may be built at Fort Knox
this season.
The schooner "Hsttie II. Barbour. Capt.
g. A. Erskine, has towed to FIansfort to
load stone for Philadelphia.
The cottsge OF Emmett CorrigaD at
Verona is to be remodeied and enla. geo
before the owner strives for the summer
The ladies OF the Methodist society are
arranging for an Old Folks concert,
under the direction of Mrs. Carrie Ward
well.
Indications point to lively season at
Verona park. Inquiries have already
been received for cottages, and several
new ones will be built.
Mrs. Joseph Clay has gone to New
York to ioio her husband. She will visit
her daughter. Mrs. Forest Goodwin, In
Boston, before her return.
The old Pond house, next to the
Robinson house, and now owned By
Buckley & Preble, Is to be thoroughly
renovated and repaired for use this
summer.
Fertilizer for transshipmept continues
to arrive in large quantities. The schoon-
ers "Nettie Cushing, with $50 tons, and
"Mary B. Wellington, with $50 tons,
were in port this week.
The schooner John Nye", Decatur
Bridges managing owner, has been
libelIed by L. S. Marshal Hasty, and Fred
Crocker put on board as keeper. A Glou-
cester firm has claim for supplies.
Charles Douglass has resigned as super
OF the death OF his wife. Several csDdi-
dates are after the plsce, among whom
are Abel Lowell and Treat Atwoot.
The fleet of the Eastern Dredging Co
consisting OF the dredge "Freeport" and
scows, arrived Monday night in tow of
tug "Mary J. Finn" to commence the
work of dredging the harbor which will
take several months.
Special agent Everett on Wednesday
held an examination OF candidates for
carrier on the new rural free delivery
route soon to be started. Two csndidat es.
Daniel Desmond and Adelbert Quimhy :,
were examined.
The local lodge n. E. o. P. has been
making extensive preparations for the
entertainment OF the grand lodge, which
conveues here on Wednesday. The ses-
sions will be held In A. o. u. W. hail,
which has been handsomely decorated
for the occasion.
The steamboat war between the Bennett
boat "Golden Rod" aud the Kerst boat
"MerryeoDesg". still goes on as usual.
Sometimes one boat has the best of it,
and at other times the other boat gets the
big share OF the trade. There seems to be
no signs OF truce.
The smelt season closed on Tuesday
night. The fishermen have had an ordi-
nary run OF luck here this season, and few
will make much more than fair wages at
the business. The most of them are hop
ing to make up on salmon, with the pros
poets OF an early season and a good run
while the prices are holding high.
William F. Hartman, a weil-known
and longtime resident of Bucksport,
died Tuesday at the Hartman homestead
on the shore road, now occupied by John
Kennedy, after a briei Illness. He was
sixty-seven years old, and unmarried,
his earest surviving relative being bis
slater, Mrs. John Kennedy. The funeral