Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1922-08-09
LOCAL AFFAIRS
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change of plays. These will be the
Metropolitan sensations. THE Flap
per-" THE Fighting Parson," and
Married Life The artists in sup
port of Mr.. Urban are said to be par
ticularly versatile, each one doing
several specialties, which enables
the management to assure daily
change of high-class vaudeville be-
tween acts, making each performance
really continuous from curtain to
curtain.
In the garden of A. w. Curtis, a
Civil war veteran, there is variety
of bean of remarkable size and quail
ity, with something of history con-
nected with it. A string of the beans
which he recently brought to The
American office, has four pods on it,
each eight inches in length. The
seed, which originally came from
Marblehead, Mass, seventy-five years
ago, was planted by Mr.. Curtis for
several successive seasons until three
years ago, when a frost destroyed, as
, he supposed, his Hamilton" bean.
Fortunately, five of the previous
years seeds were found, which he
| planted last year. producing over a
quart of seed. Mr.. Curtis expects to
get a good crop from this years
planting.
There was large attendance at
the republican mass meeting at Han
cock hall last Friday afternoon, most
of the towns of the county being rep
resented by prominent men and
women of the party. S. S. Scammon
of Franklin presided. The speakers
were R. ]. Peacock, chairman of the
State committee, Miss Betsy Edwards
of Indiana, from national headquar.
ters, Congressman John E. Nelson of
this district, and Hon. Leon F. Hig-
gins of Brewer. Mrs. Guy P. Gan
nett of Augusta, vice-chairman of the
State committee, was also with the
party, but did not speak. The
! speeches were brief and snappy, and
the whole atmosphere of the meeting
indicated that the republicans of
Hancock county are not going to al
low the election to go to the demo-
Gratis by default.
E, E. Doyle has accomplished the
impossible-at least all agricultural
experts told him it was impossible to
grow loganberry in this climate,
but he has done it. Mr.. Doyle, re-
turning from visit to his son at
Portland, Ore, early last year,
brought back some roots of the
loganberry, a fruit resembling both
the blackberry and raspberry, and
known to the people in this part of
the world principally as one of the
most delicious of canned fruits. Mr..
Doyle planted the roots, but the
vines did not thrive last year. Dur
| ing the winter he carefully protected
the roots, and this spring the vines
were still alive and fourishing.
Sunday, Mr.. Doyle picked fully
matured ripe loganberry, and there
are four others on the vine. At
tempts to grow the loganberry have
been made here before, but this is
the first time, it is believed that it
has been done.
| \ Capt. Willis l.. Pratt and Perry J.
as the result of an exciting fishing
trip down the bay last week. The
string brought home does not fairly
represent the number caught, as the
mackerel were biting freely, but
| there reason. capt. fTdIt anu
Mr.. Langley were fishing at Conten-
ton Cove, from small boat, really
large enough for only one man.
| Capt. Pratt was sitting on an i'm
provised seat-a board placed across
the thwarts. The board broke under
him, and when his PA pounds shifted
from dead center of the boat, over it
went, spilling the fish back into their
natural element, and incidentally
splitting the men into an unnatural
element. 1t really was rather seri-
Gus predicament, for the men were
some distance from land, and while
Capt. Pratt is an expert swimmer,
Mr.. Langley is not. They chung to
the overturned boat, however, until
help came from the shore. They
came home, very wet, and with one
fish.