Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1905-08-23

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Massachusetts and New Hampshire before
returning to the Pacific coast.
Horace +. Wescott and wife, Charles l.
Staples and wife, OF Ellsworth, and Fred
Moreiand and wife, of Augusta, are spend
ing two weeks at the Joyce cottage, Pleas
ant Beach.
George e. Greeley, formerly of the
Union shoe factory, was in Ellsworth over
Sunday Mr. Greeley Is now travelling for
his brother, A. w. Greeley, manufacturer
of slippers.
The address of Judge l.. A. Emery be-
fore the Maine State bar association on
"Medieal Expert Testimony has been
published. in the August number of the
! American Ldtr Recieg.
Rapid progress is being made on the
foundation for the new Methodist church
on Franklin street. The excavation is
completed, and work ON the stone founda-
tion walls is well advanced.
Schools in districts Nos. /, 2, 4, 5, Z, s, 0,
| 10, II and 10 will open next Monday. This
includes all the schools in the outlying
districts. The high school and schools in
the city proper will open Monday, Sept. IL.
The Lorelei, Capt. F. s. Lord, returned
last Sunday from weeks cruise along
the coast. The members of the party
were J. w. Nealley, A. II. Joy, r. E.
Mason, W. l.. Mcdonald and L. M.
Moore.
| Erastus L. Wall, of Dennysville, who
for several summers has been reading law
in the office of L. F. Giles in this city, was
one OF the successful candidates for admis-
sion to the bar who appeared before the
State board of bar examiners at Portland
recently.
| An error in the circular sent out by the
State board of education announcing the
examination for State teachers certificates
caused mistake to be made in the date.
The examination will be held Friday,
August 25, instead of September %, as an
nounced.
| The excursion of Nokomis Rebekah
lodge to Southwest Harbor by steamer
Rockland will take place Friday. With
| fair weather, the excursion promises to be
a large one. Refreshments will be served
on board the steamer, and there will be
dance at Southwest Harbor.
The steamer Stella Pickert, of Stonington,
will take the place of the Percy " OF the
Ellsworth and Swans Island route for
few trips, while new tubes are being placed
in,the boiler of the Percy V. and other
slight repairs made. The Percy V. will be
back on the route in about week.
John II. Mcdonald and wife left Mon
ds y. for Minneapolis. They will make
their home in the West, probably at Ait
kin, MINI. They were accompanied by
Mrs. McDonald's mother, Mrs. Josephine
Farrell, who has son living in the West,
and who will make her home there.
Miss Ella F. Jordan, who has recently
returned from attending the thirtieth an
nuaI encampment of the Castine normal
association at Sandy Point, had the misfor
tune while there to fracture her arm. Her
many Ellsworth friends are glad to know
she is recovering rapidly from the injury.
W.T. Bradley and wife, and Mrs. Brad
ley's father, John NJ. Cheney, of Toma-
hawk, Wis, are spending a month in
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visit TO Ellsworth since he moved West
five years ago to live with his daughter.
He is receiving the ''glad hand" from his
many friends here.
The auto-school for horses at Wyman
park last Saturday afternoon did not ma
terialize. The track is being put in shape
| for training by Ellsworth horsemen who
| own some speedy horses, and had just
been narrowed, SO that it was in no con-
dition for the automobile. Mr.. Sowle will
carry out the plan, however, if horse-own-
ers who wish to familiarize their horses
with the auto will signify their desire.
wooden manufacturer was in Els
worth last week, who wished to submit
| proposition for the building here of a
woolen mill. The general proposition,
as outlined to officers of the board of
trade, is for the citizens of Ellsworth to
| build and equip mill at cost of about
| $4,000, and the manufacturer will bring
to it his experience as a mill manager.
The mill he suggests would employ
about eighty hands. The proposition did
not look attractive to the officers OF the
! board of trade, and there is little prob
ability that it will be submitted to the
people.
Builder Frank r. Moore has begun the
work OF remodeling the Nicolin club
house just purchased by Senator Hale.
The building will be raised and enlarged.
An extension will be built across what is
now the road to the landing. The dining
room viii be extended through what is
now the kitchen and part of the main
camp, and the building will present
gable to the drive approaching the camp.
The kitchen will be moved to the rear.
The huge fireplace Will be rebuilt of stone.
The present hovel win be torn down, and
new stable built back from the drive to
the camp.
Abram P. Carr, of Mariaville, was tried
before Judge Peters in the Ellsworth mu-