Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1903-06-24

Feline Oak, who accompanied him to
Wellesley. Miss Friend expects to be In
Ellsworth about July 6.
The members OF the Usona club will
give shirt waist party at Odd Fellows
ball next Friday evening.
Col. Q. Q. Burrill, F. G. Burrill and
Charles r. Burrill left yesterday noon for
Portland. They will participate to-day
In the celebration of st. Johns day.
Evangelist Williams will preach at
South Hancock next Sunday morning;
in the afternoon he will preach at Han
cock and in the evening at Mt. Desert
Ferry.
H. Carr's interest in the schooner
"Wiliie l.. Maxwell", Capt. J. A. Bowden,
has been sold to o. w. Tapley. The
maxwell" is at Sullivan loading stone for
New York.
The store recently occupied by G. F.
Davis & Co., who have moved to the ma
sonic block on State street, has been
rented to M. Downey, who will shortly
open a market.
The building on Main street occupied
by E. j. Davis as furniture store is to
be repaired. Among the Improvements
will be plate glass front. F. R. Moore
is the contractor.
A Children's day concert was held In
the Baptist church last Sunday evening.
"Cautal's Character Building" was rem
dered In most creditsble manner. There
was q large attendance,
DR.. J. F. Manning leaves tomorrow for
his trip to the Pacific coast. He will be
joined in Portland by Mrs. Manning, who
will accompany him West. They expect
to be gone several months.
Next Sunday will be Children's day at
the pastor, Rev. j. p. Simonton, will
preach a sermon to the little folks and in
the evening there will be a concert.
Her bert 8. Hall Is visiting his sister,
Mrs. o. W. Tapley, for few weeks. Mr..
Hall has been station agent at Costigan
for several years but has recently been
transferred to Old Town as operator.
Miss Ethel Rowe has resigned her
position as assistant -bookkeeper and
stenographer with che Ellsworth Hard
wood Co., and accepted similar position
with Leighton, Davenport Co., OF Bar
Harbor.
The firemen were called out yesterday
| noon by fire in the grass around the
Standard Oil Co.'s tank on High street.
The prompt response Of the firemen pre-
vented what might have been a danger
Gus fire.
Mrs. James Hickey, of Brocktou, Mass,
ATTENDED the wedding of her sister, Miss
Della Langley, this morning. Mrs. Hickey
will spend the summer with relatives in
Lamoine. She will be joined later by her
husband.
O'Flynn's Stone Wall" will be in Han
cock hall next Tuesday evening. This
company comes to Ellsworth highly rec
commended aud will probably draw a good
house in spite OF the counter attraction
| of Sautelle's circus.
Fred W. Joy, OF Rogers, Peet & Co.,
New York, arrived in Ellsworth last Sat
urday evening for his annual vacation
His many friends are as glad as ever to
greet him. He expects to remain about
two weeks, and possibly longer.
F. Simonton left this morning for
Brunswick to attend the commen cement
exercises OF the Maine medical institute,
from which he will graduate. He will
| return Saturday and Immediately begin
practice in the Office OF DR.. Manning
Judge j A. Peters, jr., and H. w. Cush-
| man and their families are occupying
| their summer homes at Lamone. A. /.
Saunders and wife are also at Lamoine for
the summer. Shore Acres at Lamoine
Wednesday.
Sautelle's circus showed in Biddeford
last Saturday. The Record, OF that city
says: "The Ssutelle circus surprised the
natives. 1t had not been paraded as the
| 'graudest, greatest show on earth,' but
surprised the people with it's magnitude,
with its street parade and its spread OF
| canvas"
The college students are arriving home
for the summer vacation. Miss Louise
| Dutton, of Vsssar, is already here; Rowe
Parcher and Knowlton, of Bowdoin are
here; Miss Marion Treat, of Columbia, is
here and Misses Helen and Harriet
Rollins, of Wellesley, are expected the
last of this week.
The summer colony at Shady Nook is
| fast gathering. The Phillipses and
| Dodges arrived this week. new conner
this season is Mr.. Pringle, of Boston,
| who purchased the Foster cottage last
| fall. Another new conner is Mr.. Tay lor, of
Bangor, who will occupy the Norris cot
tage. The Burrills will occupy their cot
| tages soon, and the Parchers are getting
ready to go. The Parsons family went
down Vesterdav