Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1909-06-02

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There will be dance at Society hall
Friday evening.
Mrs. John Wakefield is visiting friends
and relatives in Bangor.
with Mrs. W. r. Parker.
Mrs. .. A. Goodwin leaves to-day for
Boston to meet her husband.
The many friends Of Henry Whiting are
pleased to see him out after his long ILL
| ness.
| Rev. H. b. Haskell and family have
gone to their home at Stonington for the
| summer.
The regular monthly meeting OF the city
| government vii. be held next Monday
evening.
| Edward w. Austin, of The AMERICAN
force, is spending vacation of two weeks
in Boston.
Mrs. j. T. Crippen arrived from Boston
last week. She is at present at her home
on Pine street.
| Oscar A. Tompkins and wife, OF Bangor,
were guests OF Fred NJ. Blaisdell and wife
for Memorial Day.
| Mrs. Shirley Norris, OF Bar Har Dor, with
infant son Douglass, is visiting her mother,
Mrs. G. F. Newman.
| j. Fl. Donovan has sold out his restau-
rant on Main street to Mrs. Ellen Linne-
han, who has already taken charge.
f. NJ. Gaynor and wife have gone to
Northeast Harbor, where they will open
their hotel, The Gaynor, for the season.
Howard w. Dunn, jr., who was down
from Bates college for ten days assisting
his father in work, returned to college
last Saturday.
Mrs. Fred snow and family move to-
day to Stonington, where MIR. Snow has
been employed for some time by the tele-
phone company.
The PASTORS stewards of the Methodist
church will serve supper at the dining
rooms at the church this evening, from 5
O'Clock until all are served.
Mrs. G. R. Caldwell, who has been here
Tor few weeks, the guest Of her parents,
Mr.. and Mrs. L. d. Foster, leaves to-day
for her home in Somerville, Mass.
Wivurna encampment, I. o. o. F., closed
the seasons work Monday evening by a
special session, with work in the royal
purple degree. Refreshments were served
Rev. W. F. Emery has been invited to
deliver an address at the tenth annual en-
campment of the Eastern Maine Veteran
association at Jacksonville, Wednesday,
June %.
Miss Marion Bartlett, who was operated
upon for appendicitis at her home last
Wednesday afternoon, rallied quickly
after the operation, and is steadily i'm
proving.
B. ID. Perkins and William II. Hooper
and their wives, OF Castine, accompanied
and were present at the Memorial Day
exercises.
Charles l. Staples and George Pierson
returned Monday from Ledge falls the
proud possessors of sixty trout-as hand
some string as has been brought to town
this spring.
George U. Hamilton, of Boston, was in
Ellsworth a few days this week to attend
to the removal Of the remains of his
father, James Hamilton, to the family lot
at Brooklin.
Senator W. A. Walker, OF Castine, who
delivered the Memorial day address here,
was accompanied to Ellsworth by his
wife. They were guests OF John A.
Peters and wife while here.
Mrs. Charles A. Bcllatty, who has spent
the winter in Boston, has returned to
Ellsworth for the summer. Her son, c.
E. Bellatty, and wife, will come in July
for few weeks at the Bellatty cottage,
| Contention cove.
| The steam dredger Hercules has been in
Union river few days during the past
week to make experimental dredges with
the view of entering bid for the govern
ment dredging to be done here this year.
The bids for the work will be opened at
| Washington June 4.
Capt. F.. B. Sadler, of tbe schooner
Portland Packet, found the body OF Sam
uel McGachey, OF Bangor, aged forty-five
years, in the Penobscot river at City Point
| yCotoNudy. Ac0HnCucy uhu oocu iulssiuk
two weeks. There was nothing to show
how the man met his death.
Clarence Morgan, who has been en-
ployed in Belfast the past few years, has
returned to Ellsworth with his wife, and
opened restaurant in the Gaynor build
ing on Water street. There will be
general restaurant on the ground floor and
ladies' dining room on the second floor
The body of George w. Davis was
moved from the Davis family tomb to
the handsome tomb built last year as pro-
vided for in his will. The body was de-
posted in the sarcophagus, but the tomb
will not be sealed until fall. w. Howard
Davis, OF Bar Harbor, superintended the
removal of the body.
The body OF Abram B. Strait, formerly