Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1905-07-19
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The A. A. Smith shoe company is soon
to move its factory from Hampden to
Brewer. The output will be doubled.
lightning struck the farm buildings of
James Metcalf at West Rockport Wedpes-
day night, burning them. Loss, $1,000.
IL is announced that President Roosevelt
may be in Maine for a short visit this
summer, the guest of Senator Washburn
at ms summer home near Livermore Fails.
George Smith, aged twenty-five single.
While trying to put belt on a moving
paiiey at the katahdin Pulp and Paper
Co.'S mill at Lincoln, was caught in tbe
shafting and instantly killed.
Percy Foster, aged twenty-three. a MEM
Der of the Rye Beach, N. H., life-saying
station, who was spending the summer va
cation at Machiasport, was capsized from
row boat and drowned SATURDAY..
Benjamin Il. Hnrd, OF Bangor weI,-
known orick mason, and foreman of the
sewer department Of Bangor the past
fourteen years, died suddenly last satur-
day, OF heart failure He was sixtv-tive
years of age.
Inc state assessors have completed the
annual assessment of tax ON express COM
panies, which is 2 per cent. of the gross
receipts for business done wholly within
the State. The American Express ca. viii
pay So, 1851.
9ohn h. Cumming, well-known news
paper man, died at his home in Brunswick
Sunday, OF blood poisoning Mr.. Dun
ming had been connected with the Bruns-
wick Record for several years as its bust
ness manager. He was forty-two wears
Of age.
Mrs John Sumner Heald of Portland.
state president of the International SIM
SHINE society, has received the honor ban
ner for the best state organization in the
United States. Every county in Maine
out one has at least one branch of the So
ciety.
Rev. Charles A. Moore, for eleven years
pastor Of the First Congregational church
at Rockland, has accepted a call to the
pastorate Of the Central Congregational
church, Bangor, to succeed the Rev. John
Simpson Penman, whose resignation will
take effect Sept l..
Roscoe A. Eddy, of Bar Harbor, has been
appointed special agent of the State bu-
reau OF industrial and vital statistics by
Commissioner s. W. Matthews. Mr.. Eddy
will be employed especially in acquiring
information for the bureau regarding the
labor organizations of the State, their re-
lations with capital, etc.
The three masted schooner William r
Campbell, of Machias, bound from New
York to Bangor with cement, went ashore
on Bronze Island Lodges, off Rockland,
Thursday, in dense fog. The vessel was
fioated at high tide, Wednesday and lowed
to Rockland leaking badly. The Campbell
was built at Cherryfield in 1893 She was
"a gross tonnage, 112.S feet long
BY an arrangement between Professor
Charles j. H. Ropes, d. D., head of the
department of the New Testament in
! Bangor theological seminary, and the
trustees of that institution, Rev. Warren
j. Moulton, M. A. Phi. D., pastor of the
| Congreg tional church at Athol, Mass.
has been secured as an associate to Prof.
Ropes in the work of that department.
The law court of Maine settled the
SANFORD cruelty case last Thursday, de-
claring that the Rev. Frank w. Sanford.
OF Shiloh, is not entitled to a re-trial of
the case in which he was convicted of
excessive cruelty to his son. John Sand
ford, and that the verdict of sguiIty''
must stand. Mr.. Sanford is now sailing
foreign seas on his yacht Coronet, and is
beyond the jurisdiction of the Andres
coggin county supreme court. He is
liable to a jail sentence if he returns.
William McGray Woods, of Belfast. died
Thursday, aged eighty four years. He re-
tired from business several years ago He
served one term as treasurer of Waldo
county, and had represented Belfast in the
State legislature. He was director in the
Belfast & Moosehead railroad and one of
the incorporators of Belfast savings bank.
He is survived by one brother, Henry j.
Woods, of Newton, Mass, father of Prof.
G. d. Woods, director of the Maine Agri-
cultural Experiment station at Orono.