Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1910-08-17
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DR.. Charles r. Cole and wife, Of Paw
tucket, r. L., ars in towu. Mrs. Margaret
Cole has been here several weeks.
Miss Alice Adams, Of Newtonville,
Mass, is spending her vacation with her
parents, John @. Adams and wife.
Mrs. Arthur l. Saunders gave delight
full reception last Saturday from II to 1, in
honor Of her guest, Miss Dorothy Whit
ing.
| DR.. q. H. Gibbs and Miss Gibbs, who
have been visiting Miss wilhelmina Frost,
have returned to their home in Livermore
Falls.
| Miss Carrie Cunningham, teacher OF
| German in the Portland high school, is
the guest of Mrs. G. r. Cunningham at
the American house.
| Charles Pierce and wife, OF South Bos-
ton, and Frank Cushman and wife, OF Bos-
| ton, were guests OF John p. Eldridge and
wife Saturday and Sunday.
Maurice Downey and Nahum P. Murch,
veterans OF the fighting ''1st Maine
heavy, attended the reunion OF the assoc
| clation IN Iogus yesterday.
Walter ). Clark, jr., and wife, Arthur
Frazier and wife, and Eugene Moore and
wife spent Saturday and Sunday at the
Joyce cottage, Pleasant Beach.
LlewelIyn Dorsey, OF Augustq, has been
the guest Of w. F. Aiken the past week at
his camp at Patterns pond MIR. Dorsey is
the son OF P. 8. Dorsey, formerly Of Ellis
] worth.
There will be democratic rally at Han
| cock hall next Tuesday evening, Aug. %.
The speakers will be w. r. Pattangall, OF
| Waterville, and John E. Bunker, of Bar
Harbor.
Miss Lulu Barnes, who has been the
guest OF Mrs. Harry w. Haynes the past
few weeks, left Thursday for New York,
where she joined her sister, and sailed
Saturday for two years in Europe.
| Senator and Mrs. Hale and Senator and
Mrs. AIdrich are sailing to-day on the
Rhode Island senator's yacht. This, says
the senator, is ''Simon Pure pleasure
trip; all politics strictly forbidden.
| Thomas A. Weaver died Tuesday at the
home Of his sister, Mrs. X. F. Remick, at
Bayside, in the seventy-eighth year of his
age. Mr.. Weaver's boy hood home was
here, but for more than forty years he
lived in California. He came east little
over year ago to make his horne with his
sister.
| Mrs. Sallie Jones Palmer, of North Cam
bridge, Mass, and Mrs. Charlotte Jones
Mum and daughter Marion, Of
Lowell, Mass, are spending August with
their mother, Mrs. Harry S. Jones, on
High street. DR.. Mum and Mr.. Palmer
are expected to join them the latter part
Of the month.
| Miss Bernice Giles entertained Tuesday
afternoon from 4 to 6, the occasion being a
handkerchief shower in honor OF Miss
Annie l.. Lord. Miss Lord will leave to-
morrow for Porto Rico, where shortly af-
ter her arrival, her marriage to Linwood
Beckwith will take place. Her many
friends wish her safe journey.
| The old barn at the Whitmore field on
the Franklin road was burned at midnight
Friday, with contents, which included
about eight tons Of hay, owned by Whit
comb, Haynes & Co., and two wagons
owned by NJ. J. Drummey. The building
was owned by Charles Whitmore. There
was no insurance. The fire is supposed to
have been caused by tramps.
Eben l.. Milliken died at his home in
Quincy, Mass, Aug. 13, aged seventy-seven
years, eleven months. Mr.. Milliken, was
a native OF Ellsworth, and followed the
sea until within the past fifteen years,
since which he has been sufferer from
rheumatism, and has lived very quietly.
| He was a brother OF the late Nathaniel
Milliken, of Ellsworth. He leaves several
nieces and nephews. His remains were
brought to Ellsworth for burial.
Miss Frances NJ. Fernald. OF Washing
ton, d. c., former stenographer in the
office of Hale & Hamlin in this city, is
taking prominent part in the world con-
gress OF Esperantists, which is being held
in Washington this week. Miss Fernald
has been studying Esperanto only about
two months, and has in that short time
mastered the language which its enthusi-
astic adherents predict will in few years
become the universal medium Of COM
munication between peoples of all the
world.
The State board of assessors were in ses-
sion at the court house in Ellsworth last
Saturday, meeting selectmen and assessors
from many Of the towns of the county
and receiving and imparting information
OF value to each. The object of this meet
ing was to secure a more equable assess
ment OF taxes, or rat her OF tax valuations
throughout the State, and also to investi-
gate cases Of concealment of property
from, taxation, OF under-valuation, and OF
failure to assess property liable to taxa
Iion.
News was received here Saturday of the
death at Lowell, Mass. OF Miss Mary A