Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1903-02-18
AT BUCkSPORT
The Steamboat War goes NIerriiy on
Items of Interest.

Items of Interest.
Capt. Traces Hess ~, oeen home
from Boston for few days
Tue engagement OF Miss Addie Lowell
and William Fl Nye has been announced
Miss Maud Nichols has gone to Philas
delphia ia visit her sister, Mrs. aenrs F
Page.
The schooner Hattie II Barbour,
Capt Geo. A Erskine, Is in port for slig bit
repairs.
Mrs. Caroline Hin Gem is visiting her
brother, William Hill, who is til at his
residence in East sullivan.
The ssw-mili OF Pooler & Dean belo
Fort aox hss shut down for six weeks OF
SO on account of the cold weather
Capt. Joshua B. Abbott i. home on
visit after an absence OF nearly two years
as master OF barge on Long Island
sound
The Biodget tsnneries continue to fur
nish about the only business OF the town.
Business has been good at the tsnneries
and wages have been increased
The winter term OF the East Msin'
conference seminary closed on Thursday
night for vacation Of two weeks before
the opening OF The spring term
Nothing deaqite has heen heard ahau'
the revival Of sh'p building Ut ne slcKsy
& Dix yard at Verona, but report has it
thet the prospects are good for work there
this summer
Indications are that there is consider
able pocket pedting going on In town,
but 1t is done very siyy 1t looks as II
some Bucksport people we're laying up
trou HE for themselves.
John Quimhv Wool, who has beer
visiting his pare ts in town, left iast
week for Nev Yprk TO sail for Milan
He intends to op,n an A ne-tcsn law
office in some important city In Italy. Il
new deal in the C, at question Is
promised in town. A. NJ Devereux. OF
Css'Ine, announces his intention OF land
ing a cargo OF Scotch coal here. which
will be sod ut very reasonable figure.
NJ. A. Chick. OF Brewer. was injured at
the Pooler & Dean mill on Friday. HIS
leg wss jtmmed between a log and the
saw carriage with sufficiept force to frac-
ture It. He was attended by DR.. Snow and
taken to his home In Brewer.
The annual town meeting comes on
March 2. but as yet there has been but
little political talk The only contest In
sight seems to be for third select man, for
which place I-aac Homer is a candidate
in opposit ion to Walter Snowman.
A rumor has II that q big coal concern
Is after options on the waterfront
property known as the Buck. Hail am
Central wharves, tn esta b i-h Coz
pocket. Nothing definite can be learned
in reg ard TO the matter which seems too
good to be true.
The schooner ada Herbert", COM
msnded and owned by Capt. Winfield
Fogg. went ashore on the ledge on the
Prospect side below Fort Knox on + he top
of the THE, aud settled In such way as to
nearly break In two, and will be total
loss. She will be strip ped and her hull
burned.
Two Bucksport YES. els, the schooners
1T. NJ. Nicholson" and he EVA bet NJ,
OF T. NJ. NichoIson's Fl ct are stuck fast in
the ice in the Bay OF Islands with lutte
prospect OF being reiessed until
spring. The "T N Nicholson" is H.
command OF Capt. NJ urdick McInnis ard,
ha. cargo of saI.u herring. The
elizabeth M, Capt Matberson, is light.
Tue STEAMBOAT war goes merriiy on
The Bennett boat, the "Golden Rod", and
the Kerst stea mer, "Merry coneag," steam
away every morning for Camden, ah"s
the interested speci ors count tue pss-
sengrrs and wonder how io' & the excite.
| ment Is going to last The patronage T.
about evenly divided. The Merge,
neas" being a larger md IA ter boat MAKE
little the best time, but the ''GoideD
R"d" Is not so sxpen-ive 20 run, So ths'
cond tions are abou even. The solicit
! ing OF pa sengers on the Bucxsport train
aud on he eiectrics has been stopped by
those corporations and ONE OF the more
| interesting episodes OF thu contest are
10 There seems no p osp -cts of truce,
| a"o both par les are iaiking OF fssts
boats and reducing fares. The situat on
| Is rather lamenied by he friends Of tie
| managers at the competing hosts, aho
| would he much bette OF Financially II an
agreement OF Soma kI was reached