Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1906-08-08


1t is related that once when Daniel Web
ster was speaking, a deaf man in the au-
dience inquired who the speaker was.
When told, he said: 81 can't hear a word
he says, but, oh, doesn't he do the mo-
tions splendidly"
The writer sympathizes with the deaf
man; although he saw and heard it all,
he confesses his utter incapacity adequate
ly to describe it, and he gives it up be-
fore he begins, by simply saying:
"Didn't they do the motions splendidly!"
The only man competent to report an
affair of the sort that took place at the
town hall last Friday evening is a Kreh-
biel, but for obvious reasons a Krehbiel is
not available as a reporter. Yet who but
a Krehbiel can do it justice?
Just as the first sight OF Raphael's
Sistine Madonna at Dresden dazes one,
and irresistibly attracts him so that he
never tires of gazing at it in awe and
wonder, so the sound of Kneisel's violin,
or Taper touch of the piano, or the
magnetism of Krehbiel's presence, renders
one incapable of expressing in words that
which he feels way down deep in his soul.
I Every number on the programme was
gem; and each differed so widely from ev
cry other as to prevent any suggestion OF
fatigue, and when the last sound died
away it was with the utmost reluctance
that the audience left the hall.
Mrs. Taper, Mrs. Krehbiel and Miss
Bach were heard here in public for the
first time, and by their work take places
in the hearts of their hearers alongside
the performers at last years concert. II
to express any regret is justified, it is that
more was mo- heard of Mr.. Theodorowicz
and Miss Bach.
The stage was charmipgIy decorated for
the occasion, and from the floor made
beautiful picture.
The hall was filled with a most appre
cative audience. 1t goes without saying
that the concert was a financial success,
between 500 and 5000 being realized; this
sum Will be expended, as were the proceeds
of last years concert, on the building of
road between Bluehill and Parker Point.
Aug.6. SPEC
Miss Elizabeth C. Ciough is at home
from Boston.
Mrs. Everett Johnson, of Portland, is
visiting her father, Ira Grindle.
Capt. R. G. F. Candage, of Brookline,
is spending few weeks in town.
L. w. Peters, of West Roxbury, is spend
yocat ion ar the old home
Miss Susie Cousins, of Stockton Springs,
is a guest OF Miss Emma Hinckley.
George A. Gray, Guy Hinckley and Miss
Moody, of Boston, arrived Sunday.
A report of the centennial of the Baptist
church will appear in next weeks issue.
Irwin Morse and family and Miss Lizzie
Morse, of Chelsea, are at George A.
Morse's.
Rev. H. w. Conley and family, of
Monson, were guests of e. W. Mayo and
wife last week.
Mrs. Fanny silsby and daughter, of
Aurora, and Mrs. Buzwell, of Bangor,
have rooms at w. E. Grindle's.
Miss Nellie Douglass attended the re-
union of the alumni of the Eastern State
normal school at Sandy Point.
Mrs. DIR. Merrill and family, of Dorches-
ter, are occupying the old colonial house
on South street owned by Mrs. V. p. Kline.
Mrs. ID. w. Bunker, of Bar Harbor, at
tended the Kneisel concert here Friday
evening, Aug. 8. Ellsworth was well
represented.
News has been received from Portland
that Bert johnson, son of the late Kim
ball Johnson, of this place, had suffered
shock of paralysis and was in weak con-
dition.
Rev. G. Mayo, wife and daughter, of
Winter Harbor, attended the exercises of
the centennial of the Baptist church. Mr..
Mayo was pastor of the church few years
ago.
Aug. 8. M.