Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1903-09-16
FROM BAR HARBoR.
Seott-Chapman Wedding Arrested
for Debt -Festivai Chorus.

Seott-Chapman Wedding Arrested
for Debt-Festivai Chorus.
| BAR HARBoR, Sept. is (specisD-A
society wedding took place at the Episco-
pal church last Saturday at noon when
Miss Evelyn Scott became the bride of
Clarence Cheney Chapman. The bride
is the granddaughter of the late Walter
s. Gurnee, weilklown banker and a
former mayor of Chicago, whose summer
residence at Bar Harbor is among the best
here. Miss Scott has spent several
seasons here with the Gurnees, and is
very popular in large circle of friends.
| Mr.. Chapman Is a member OF leading
Chicago family, and is a broker OF ability.
The church was beautifully decorated by
William Miller, manager of the Mt.
Desert nurseries. Green and white were
the prevailing oolors.
Before the ceremony began there were
solos by Maurice c. Rumsey, organist,
Carl Rissland, vioiinist, and Oscar Schultz,
'celiist. A march was played as the we'd
ding party entered the church, and Men.
delssohn's wedding march as they left the
altar.
The ceremony was performed by Right
Rev. William Lawrence, bishop Of Msssa-
chusetts, assisted by Rev. Stephen Il.
Green, rector OF st. Saviour's.
Walter II. Chapman, of Chicago,
brother of the groom, was best man; Mrs.
George r. Dyer, of New York, a sister of
the bride, matron of honor; Miss Mary
Evelyn Scott, niece of the bride, flower
girl; Miss Mccormick, Miss Elsie Nc
Cormick, Miss Isham, OF Chicago, aud
Miss Florence Martin, OF New York,
bridesmaids; Col. George X. Dyer, w. s.
Gurnee, jr.; Ralph Otis, Edwin Bacon,
Stuart Webster and Dyer Hubbard,
ushers.
After the ceremony wedding breaks
was served to about forty guests. On
Friday evening MIR. Chapman gave
dinner to the bridal party at the Louis
burg.
The Dali Construction Co., of New
York, has been awarded the contract for
the Z. q. Fsbbri house which is to be
built here this winter.
The house is to be a very large one, con-
tanning some fifty rooms, and the cost, 1t
is understood, will be over SIS 600. The
bids for the Emo cottage, which will also
be built before anot her season, have been
put In, and the contract will soon be
awarded.
Mrs. Bion E. Whitney had the bones OF
her right arm broken Sunday evening as
a result of the collision OF a carriage la
which she was driving with a cutunder,
on Eden street.
The shock of the collision threw Mrs.
Whitney to the bottom OF her carriage,
and ia some manner her hand and arm
went between the spokes of the wheel.
The bones were set by Drs. Hagerthy and
Stokes.
Joseph Letter, of New York, had an
unpleasant experience in Bar Harbor
while here on brief visit at the cottage
which his father, Lavi z. Letter, is occu-
plying during the season.
Mr.. Letter came Saturday and left Sun
day night. During this short stay in
town be was arrested for debt on COM
plant of G. E. Soper g. Son, the Cottage
street market men. The bill was for sup
plies which the Sopers say were furnished
by them for Mr.. Letters yacht last sum
mer, and which have never been paid for.
B. $. Higgins and T. L. Roberts became
sureties for the appearance OF Mr.. Letter
at the October term of court.
In conversation at Bar Harbor Monday,
County Attorney Bedford E. Tracy, OF
Winter Harbor. said that there appears to
be considera BILE evidence that the death OF
Edward Jennings, the lobster fisherman
whose body was recently found in the
water near Isle au Haul, was due to foul
play. The county attorney said that a
thorough investigation into the matter
will be made and the cause OF death ascer-
tanned, If such thing Is possible.
jennings body was recovered last Fri
day and taken to Stonington, where an
inquest was held Saturday by Deputy
Sheriff Fields. AT the inquest there was
not sufficient evidence that the man met
his death as theSesult OF foul play.
The rehearsals of the Bar Harbor choral
society began last Thursday evening
under the direction of Maurice Z. Rum
sey. A special rehearsal was also held
Monday evening. The work being done
at present is in preparation for the Maine
music festival which begins at Bangor
Monday, Sept. IS. 1t Is expected that
twenty-five or thirty mem ers of the
chorus will attend the festival.
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