Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1904-10-26
lal,INrl NEWS.
BLuEHILL

Chelsea, Macs.
Merrill p. ainckley hiss gone to Boston
on business.
Slight earthquake shocks were felt SAT-
urday, Oct q.
Ms. Ira GrindIe and Mrs. WIN Greene
have been visiting relatives In Portland.
S. K Hinskley aud wife will celebrate
the a,tisth anniversary of their marriage
Nov. Is
The senior clsss gave supper recently
the proceeds to go toward the expenses OF
graduation.
Miss Maria F. Wood has gone to Ded-
ham, Mass, to visit her sister, Mrs
George A. Chute.
Norman Mayo has been confined to the
house wit a painful sbseess since his re-
turn from Boston.
Mrs. Henderson has bad a windmill
erected over the well recently dug on her
placs on Tenney hill.
DIR. E. C. Barrett g. d. wife. and Post.
master A. C. Hinckley and wife have gone
to Boston for few weeks.
| Mrs. L. j. Osgood aud Miss Emma Os-
good have returned from Boston where
they have been ON business.
| The members of the laaies' Baptist cir
| Gle held their annual Harvest Home
Thursday, Oct. 20. fne supper was
furnished 10 a goodIy number and the
occasion was pleasant one.
II was the mistake of your correspond
ent that the invitation gwen last week
4 was not worded a. folIows: Mr. and
! Mrs. o. Tyler Hinckiey will be pleased 10
receive their friends after p. IN. Friday.
oet. IS, 1904.
Capt. j. W. Kane placed bis flag at half
mast Sunday in respect to the memory OF
Hon. George p, Weseost, as the house IN
which Capt. Kane lives was that owned
and occupied by he Wescott family until
their removal 10 Portland.
In the death OF 4. L. Gross, which
occurred last week, the town has lost
good citizen. He bad the respect of
| large circle OF friends and acquaintance
by whom be will be greatly missed. HE
remains were taken to orlAnd, Saturday,
for burial. He leaves widow, two sons
ana two daughters, who have the
sympathy of many friends.
The news OF the death OF Hon. George
P. weseott, of Portland, came as a sad sur
prise to many who knew him well here in
his native town. II was here In the town
schools ana academy that he acquired he
educstion, and his interest in the friends
OF bis youth. and In the educational ad.
| vantages of the pace never waned. A few
years ago he gave a thou-and dollars to
| the fluid OF the BIuehin academy, and
| within q year be made provisions for the
| repairing OF that school building, work
on the foundation having already been
completed.
| II is something unusual that so many
sad events are GRO wded in one weeks rec
| ord from so small a town as this, but there
Is one more To be added to the
| aumbef. News has been received
that Mrs. Annie Trip, Of Minot, North
Dakota, lost her youngest daughter,
Maud Avis, by typhoid fever and very
soon after her only son Horace was killed
In railroad accident. Mrs. Trip Is the
widow OF h. A. Trip, esq, and dsughte
| OF the late Einathsn HinckIey and wife.
der relatives and friends here synpst hize
with her in her sad beresvements.
| Oct. Is. NJ.
Word has been received here OF the
death on Oct. IA near Lone Tree, D.,
OF Horsce c., son OF he late Harrison A.
Trip, formerly of this town. He was
brakeman on the Great Northern rail-
road, and fell from freight car and was
cut 70 pieces under the wheels. His
father was an attorney residing and
praet3eing FIRST at Biuehili, and later in
Utica, n. Y, and 81. Paul and Barnes
VILE, Mibn., who lost his life in a
railroad accident at Princeton Junction,
M Aug. q. Is9S. His wife was Mise
Annie ID. HiBckley. OF this town. There
were four children, OF whom Horace wss
toe second, and the only son. He was
bora IN Bluehill in March, 1852, and had
been I'm the employ OF the Great Northern
Tor some ssvsn years. A year or two ago
he wac transferred from GAINESVILLE,
Nina, to Minot. n. D., and his mot her
afterwards moved 10 that place In order
to make . boEe tor him. Tue youngest
daughter died Oct. 10. and 10 the letter
Informing her brother in-law. o. IL.
Trip. OF Roeklsnd. OF this event, Mrs.
Trip spoke especially Of her son, what a
help and support be wss 10 her In her
trouble. Her oldest daughter IL the wife
OF Congregational clergyman named
Griffith, and resides In Minnesota; the
second daughter, Flora, Il teaching In
Eosston, Minn. Mrs. Trip, who is sis
ter OF Arch W. Hinekiey, will spend the
/ winter In Maine.
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