Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1921-09-14
Swans Island.

The island has certainly been ia
vored this season with more summer
visitors than ever before. In At
lantic this was especially true. Now
! that time for opening of schools is
at hand, most of the visitors have
| returned home, and in almost every
case eYr rcgsicns of appropriations for
the hospitality 0cA good time at
forded them in their vacation were
heard.
Frank Wheeler. c. A. Rose, E. r.
Edwards and F. j. Kissel of Rock
land, John Call of Boston, Clyde
Libby of Portland and George E.
Fox of Providence, R. l., were re-
cent visitors at the Stanley house
at Old Harbor
Yacht Tallahassee, Capt. Mervin
Staples, while cruising in this vicins-
ity, anchored in Mackerel Cove Mon
day night while the captain visited
his parents, Capt and Mrs. Win
field Staples, at Atlantic.
Large schools of herring or tinker
mackerel have been noticed in Mac
kerel Cove.
Great improvement in the appear
ance of the old Barbour house at
Atlantic has been made by the pres
ent owners, Livingston and Monta-
que. The house has been painted,
the grounds cleared and tennis
court constructed.
Mr.. and Mrs. Harry Gilley and
children, Enora and Carlton, Of
Southwest Harbor, are visiting Mr..
and Mrs. Charles Staples.
William Kelley of Swans Island
and Mrs. Annie Squirting of Atlantic
| were married by Rev. F. N. Johnson
at Minturn on September l.
Miss Edith Stanley of Boston is
visiting. her father, Lewis Stanley,
at Old Harbor.
| Last Saturday, in a return base
| ball game, Swans Island team de-
| feated Brooklin by a score of to 4.
| The large lobster smack Fanny
Powell, en- route to Boston, is in
| Mackerel Cove to take Holsters to
| market for Capt Maynard Herricl;,
his smack, the Crustacean, being out
of commission on account of dis
abled engines.
/ Miss Helen Bennett, who has spent
her vacation at girls camp near
Boothbay Harbor. is making a short
visit with her mother in Atlantic be-
fore returning to Worcester, Mass.
The Swans Island minstrel corps.
having nobly served it's purpose, has
received rehabilitation orders. and
individual members may receive
honorable discharge certificates by
applying to the adjutant.
George Carter and family are now
at their Atlantic cottage.
Miss May Joyce leaves Friday to
teach in Rockland, and Miss Luella
Joyce leaves the next day to teach
in Rockport.
The Swans Island Minstrel Troup
has announced that the entire pro-
ceeds of the recent successful per-
Torrance at Stonington, as we'll as
that given here, will go into the
benefit fund, by unanimous vote of
the company. The total amount is
$135.9S, which will be sent by the
secretary, Frank Milan, to the ben
eficiary, Clarence Gross, at Rock
land. The personnel of the minstrel
company is as follows: Frank Milan,
interlocutor and secretary; Bertrand
Smith, endman and clog-dancer;
Tom Gibson, endman and speciality
artist; Carlyle Stockbridge, endman
and specially artist; Forrest Staples,
endman and soloist; Dewey DAILY,
cornetist Eddie Robinson, must
clan; Alfred Sprague, property man
and chorus Winfield Merithew,
chorus and speciality artist; Herman
Staples, l.. Perry, Percy Squirting,
chorus; Clyde Torrey, chorus and
specially artist: Oscar Bridges, For
rest Stanley, Basil Joyce, Clifford
Stanley; Keith Greenlaw, Nelson
White, Carl Sprague and Donald
Joyce, chorus; assisted by Ernest
VanZandt, president; Stewart Steph-
ems, musical director, and by others
in executive and advisory capacities.
Sept. s. G.