Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1908-07-01

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tjury under charge OF larceny.
Mrs. P. &. Halleron, who was Miss Julis
F, Ellington, of Annapolis, Md, is in the
city for visit among relatives and friends
The Helpsomehow society Of the Baptist
church will serve dinner at the Baptist
vestry on the Fourth. The Methodist So
ciety will serve dinner and supper at Odd
Fellows hall
The city is advertising for bids for this
years State road work in Ellsworth,
under the provisions OF the new highway
law. Bids will be opened Saturday,
July 25, at p. m.
On Thursday, July %, at the School
street schoolhouse there will be an exami-
nation for teachers who may wish to ap.
ply for vacancies which may occur in the
Ellsworth schools during the ensuing
year.
L. M. Moore is expected home with his
bride the last OF this wesk, Mr.. Moore,
who was taken ill while in Massachusetts,,
is now improving, and is spending few
days in Portland before returning to Els
worth.
The Children's day exercises at the
Methodist church have been postponed to
Sunday, July Il. Last Sunday evening
the pastor, Rev. w. F. Emery, preached
memorial sermon for the late ex-President
Grover Cleveland.
The schooner Commerce, owned by Capt.
Sterling Anderson and Harry Torrey, OF
Surry, bound from Surry for Bar Harbor
with wood, went ashore near the toll
bridge Monday. She was fioated Tuesday,
and proceeded to Bar Harbor.
Announcements have been received in
Ellsworth Of the marriage at Dorchester,
Mass, on Saturday, June q, Of Elizabeth
Anna Grove, Of that city, to George I.
Grant, formerly OF Ellsworth. Ellsworth
friends of the bride and groom extend
hearty congratulations.
Mrs. F. W. Rollins is home from Massa-
chusetts where she has been spending
the past six weeks among relatives and
friends. She was accompanied by her
daughter, Miss Harriet, an instructor in
the high school of Shelton, Conn.,, who
will spend the summer here.
The June issue Of Telephone Topics, the
official paper Of the New England Tele-
phone & Telegraph Co., contains an ex-
cellent cut of George H. Grant, manager
OF the company's Ellsworth district, and
some "reminiscences by him of early days
in the telephone and telegraph business in
this section. :.
The Helpsomehow society of the Baptist
church met last evening with John E.
Quinn and wife on Central street. A
pleasant evening was enjoyed. Refresh
ments were served. The business meeting
was taken up with plans for the Fourth of
July dinner which the society will serve
at the vestry.
| The many friends of John D.. Newman,
of New York, who had spent many seasons
at Shady Nook, where he owned cottage,
will regret to learn of his death in New
York on June Is, aged fiftyfour years and
six days. The death of his wife few
years ago was severe blow to him, and
her loss dou ubtless hastened his own.
| The steam yacht Wissoe, owned by Mr..
Mccormack, summer resident of North
east Harbor, which has been overhauled
at c. H. Curtis & Co.'s shipyard, was
launched yesterday and went out OF the
| river. Mr.. Curtis now has his crew at
work on the sixty-ton schooner which
| he is building and which is now timbered
| out.
The Hancock County rural carriers as
sociation will meet in Ellsworth on July
4. A business meeting will be held at the
custom-house from u to /. The rest of
the day will be gwen over to the celebra-
ton of the day. Frank E. Gray, of Els
worth, is president of the association;
Harry l.. Wheelden, of Ellsworth,
secretary.
The commissioners appointed by the
governor to investigate the present sys-
tenn of taxation and make recommended
tions to the next legislature, will have a
public hearing at the court house in this
city Tuesday, July 7, at las o'clock. All
taxpayers are invited to appear before
the commission, or to send suggestions to
the State tax commission at Portland.
Mrs. Abigail Coggins, OF South Surry,
died Sunday at the home of her daughter,
Mrs. Wellington c. Bellatty, in this city,
with whom she had made her home the
past winter and spring. Mrs. Coggins
was in the seventy-fifth year Of her age.
She leaves besides her daughter, Mrs. Bel
latty, two sons-Charles F., of Lincoln
vile, and Clifton, of Winterport. One
sister, Mrs. Frank Smith, of Surry, sur
wives her. The remains were taken to
South Surry, where funeral services were
held to-day.
With the rapidly growing list of resi-
dence telephones, and the location OF q
telephone at the fire station, great num-
Der of alarms of fire are now turned in by
telephone; In fact, the telephone circuit in
Ellsworth is rapidly developing into an
efficient fire alarm system. Telephone
subscribers are urged to use the telephone
in turning in an alarm of fire, but they are