Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1905-08-02

mer at Brooksville, his old home, was in
Maine for only short vacation.
Miss Margaret Monaghan is spending
her vacation of two weeks with her sister,
Mrs. Edmon Emo, at Shore Acres, Lamoine
Beach.
+. e. Cooke left for New York Thursday,
when he begins his third season with the
Fielding amusement company's produc-
tion, s'Wedded but no Wife,"
Charles s. Grows, son of Mr.. and Mrs.
Frank T. Grows, of this city, left Saturday
for Bath, where he has secured a position
in the draughting of tho Bath Iron
Works.
Charles Fl. Curtis is building an eighteen
foot open launch for George Hamor, of
Marlboro. The boat will be fitted with a
two and one-hslf horse power Ellsworth
engine.
MartinlLampson, for many years driver
OF public carriage in Ellsworth, died
Sunday at the city farm, where he had
been for only..a few weeks. He was sixty
five years of age.
e. G. Moore has purchased of e. F.
Redman the.house on State street at pres
ent occupied by Henry NJ. Hall. He
expects to move into the house about the
first of September.
The seventy-five Ellsworth excursionists
who went to Swans Island on the Percy
V. last Wednesday returned home de-
lighted with the sail, with Swans Island
and Swans Islanders.
Curtis r. Foster was the victim of
pleasant surprise party one evening
last week. A birthday cake with-well
1t won't do to say just how many candles
was one of the features.
Mrs. John E. Emery and family, of
Winchester, Mass, were the guests of
Mr.. and Mrs. w. B. Campbell few days,
returning yesterday to Sullivan, where
they are spending the summer.
Rev. A. H. Coar, of Pennington, for
merly pastor of the Ellsworth Unitarian
church, who is spending the summer at
Lamoine Point, preached at the Congrega
tional church Sunday morning.
Pearl B. Day, the railway mail clerk,
who was injured in the smashup on the
Washington County railway few weeks
ago, is slowly but surely recovering. He
is able now to go out of the house.
Mrs. j. T. Crippen, formerly of Els
worth, who is now living in Allston, Mass,
is in the city for few days. She leaves
tomorrow for Southwest Harbor to visit
her daughter, Mrs. George Harmon.
The Knowlton and Whiting families have
returned from Contention Cove, and the
Bellatty cottage, where they have been, is
now occupied by DIR. c. S. Bragdon's fam
lily and Miss Mary F. Robinson, of Brock
ton.
George s. Foster and DIR. Walter l.. Fos-
ter, of Portland, spent Sunday with their
parents, Lorenzo d. Foster and wife.
Mrs. George S. Foster, who is here with
her little daughter, will remain through
the summer.
Mrs. Margaret Thomson Brock, mother
of Mrs. Henry NJ. Hall, of this city, died
at her home in Florence, Ala, on June %.
Mrs. Hall and the two children, who have
been South for several months, are ex-
pected home next Monday.
Miss Julia r. Cushman, a member of this
years graduating class of the high school,
will enter the Bridgewater (Mass.) normal
school the coming fall. She successfully
passed the entrance examination during a
recent visit to Massachusetts.
Arthur L. Gould, son of Mr.. and Mrs.
George Gould, of this city, was among the
candidates who successfully passed the
examination of the Maine board of regis
tration of medicine and surgery, and was
admitted to practice in the State.
Oliver Anderson and wife, of Cam
bridge, Mass, are spending a vacation at
Mr.. Anderson's old home on the Surry
road. Mr.. Anderson, who is a graduate
of THE AMERICAN Office, is now en-
ployed ON the Cambridge Chronicle.
The crew at work laying concrete walks
in Ellsworth, has completed repairs to
walks on Main, State, Water and Park
streets, and is now at work on the new
extension of the Main street walk to the
railroad. The curbing has been set, and
the walk will be laid in a few days.
George E. Packard, who is now travel
ling salesman in New York and New
England for A ID. Farmer & Sons type
foundry, New York, is spending vaca-
tion of two or three weeks with his
parents, A. w. Packard and wife, in Ellis
worth. He is accompanied by w. H.
Lemley, editor of lions Watchnsan, of
Albany, n. Y, with his wife and two
children.
Capt Sidney Goodwin will take com
mand of Capt. Charles Hodgkins'
schooner, Helena, on which he sailed as
mate, the last trip to Porto Rico,
whence she has just returned. Capt.
Goodwin is successful navigator, having
been several trips as master in his father