Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1923-07-25


Will Stanley of Rockland is visiting
old friends on the island.
Mr.. and Mrs. Fred Turner of Min
turn welcomed a new daughter on Fri
day night.
Capt. Herrick has opened the Ocean
View hotel at Old Harbor. He already
has several guests, and more are ar
irving daily.
Wallace Belcher and son Holden, of
Flushing, n. Y, and Mrs. Griffith and
Mrs. Borgmayer of New York went to
Bar Harbor with Sherman Joyce via
motorboat and automobile Mrs. Grif-
fifth returned to Atlantic, the others
going to New York.
Mrs Lucy Staples is visiting with
Mrs. N. B. Trask in Atlantic. Her
daughter. Mrs. Rilla Staples Grover, is
expected later.
Haddock have been plentiful in
Placentia sound. Capt. Burns took a
party of summer visitors out fishing in
his motorboat, and the party exceeded
all records for the last ten years in the
number of paddock caught by one
party handlining.
Mr.. and Mrs. Hudson and children, of
Rowley. Mass, are visiting their
daughter and her husband, Rev. and
Mrs. Bradstreet, at the parsonage at
Atlantic.
Mr. and Mrs Donald Joyce are en-
PERTAINING friends from Vinalhaven.
The Mt Desert ball team is still
waiting for an engagement to play
against a team from Swans Island at
Atlantic.
Harold Hart and family enjoyed a
| fine trip in their new automobile and
returned to Stonington. At the Ston-
| ington dock, while loading the car
| aboard the boat for Swans Island. the
| snub-lne broke and the car, with Mr..
| Hart in it, crashed down the incline,
| across the deck and through the OPP
| posite rail into the water. Mr. Hart
| was rescued with difficulty. The car
was insured. Mr.. Hart has abandoned
| it to the insurance company. The car
| contained much valuable property
which Mr. and Mrs Hart had pur-
| chased while away.
Mrs Laura Lindsey of New York is
| guest at the Ocean View.
Mrs. David Massie has closed her
| house in Minturn and gone to Bangor
| to live with her daughter.
| Mr.. and Mrs. John Dewitt, and Jack
| and Teddie, from 1rvington- on
Hudson, N. Y, and Mrs. Tyson OF
| Baltimore, are spending their Vaca-
| lions with Miss Wilson at her cottage
| at Black point.
The attention of the good people OF
| the villages of Swans Island. Mlntufn
and Atlantic is called to the fact that
| the correspondent for the Rockland
Courier Gazette and the Ellsworth
| American is not serving as PAID re
| porter and does not search the lsianc
| for the news, but as matter OF ac-
| commodation writes and reports sucf
/ items and incidents as come TO ms
notice while quietly attending to ms
| own affairs. For the good of the
island community. and for your owr
| interests, and to let the world know
| that Swans Island is worth -Whll'
place on the map, it is your duty to re
port arrivals and departures of guests
| and items and incidents of interest t'
| DR. Gage at Atlantic, who will prompt
| w forward them. If more conNenlent
| YOU may leave your news notes at th'
| Nfn+urn Dostoffice or with Mrs Stan
lev at the Stanley House in Old Har
| Dor. 1919,
Automobile owners who make
business of carrying passengers 10
| hire in addition to the State double
registration, must also have a fedora
license and pay the internal reVenu
tax to the deputy collector at Bangor
| July 10. W.