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Newspaper
Ellsworth American
Location
Ellsworth, Maine, United States of America
Date
Aug 06, 1902
Page
4
Last evening the Republicans of Ellsworth renominated F Carroll Burrill for representative to the legislature. A full ticket for State and county offices, with numerous districts, is listed as ready for the Monday Sept 8 election. The article stresses loyalty, public service, and party unity in Hancock County.
A garbled Maine gossip column notes Surry area curiosities including a deer on a toll bridge near Bar Harbor, moose sightings, and crops hurt by wet spring. It lists state gift totals to the McKinley memorial and details Grange field meetings in Hancock County with a Bluebill spring picnic on Aug 2. It also covers toll-bridge tales, ex mayor Abram Hewitt’s 80th birthday tributes, and a postal route dispute between Surry and South Surry with two competing schedules and manager W. S. Spal lenberger overseeing.
Rev. 5. F. Pearson, famed parson sheriff of Cumberland county, died at White Oak Springs hotel in Poland near midnight. He was sixty, served in the Civil War, entered ministry around 1579, and had been an active temperance worker since 1872. Elected sheriff in 1909, he opposed liquor salting in Portland. Campaign news notes Rev. SL Hanscom of Bar Harbor as independent sheriff candidate, opening his campaign last Monday night in Franklin, planning countywide speeches.
Capt. J Atwood Bowden of the schooner Wille L Maxwell volunteered to sail into a burning St Vincent harbor with provisions and clothing for distressed residents. After a British warship offered to take the cargo, Bowden agreed, earning a parchment testimonial from the British Board of Trade and praise from naval officers.
Everett W. Lord, recently named assistant commissioner of education for Porto Rico by President Roosevelt, is a Surry native with a long career in Maine schools. He has served as superintendent in Belknap and Bellows Falls, studied at Boston University, and taught in Dorchester. Fluent in Spanish, he prepared extensively for the role and will depart for his new field in a few months.
John Reed a laborer at Trout Brook farm near Patten accidentally drowned last Monday in a stream near the house. The horse stumbled and fell into a deep hole pinning the man to the bottom, resulting in his death.
Advertises Devoe's Gloss Carriage Paint priced from 75 cents to 1.60 with a claim of superior weight and longer wear. Claims better coverage and equal to new work. Sold by Wioain & Mooxs.
Bar Harbor man I Henscom announces bid for sheriff of Hancock county as an independent. He cites Maine constitution temperance provisions and pledges enforcement. He criticizes current enforcement and urges GOP voters to back him to uphold law and order against liquor interests.
Bartlett's Island is bustling with activity. Capt Dix reports growth on Bartlett's Island with apple trees and buds, while visitors like Herr Lawler and Mrs Lawroe visit. Residents travel to Quincy and Beverly for doctors, vacations, and hospital care. Local families guests include Fuller, Ashley, Robertson, Bragdon, Doyle, Moran, and others. The piece notes church service by Mr. Williams of Northeast Harbor and a meditation on modesty in women, followed by medical travel and social visits.
Funeral services for Mrs. Sare F. Hall were held Friday at the Congregational church in Eilsworth, conducted by Rev. J. M. Adams. The service featured floral tributes, musical selections by the choir and Miss Nancy M. Dutton, and a tribute from Rev. Adams noting her twenty years as church organist. Bearers included Mayor Greely, Dr. Harvard Greely, G. K. Hopkins, and J. H. Bermmer. Interment followed at Woodbine cemetery.
Sorror to All Whom it May Concern Bererick Aiken and Winfred F Aiken owned land and seek to prove their claim. The State Assessors will meet at the Court House in Manekek county on August th at 9 oclock to adjust and equalize valuations of wild land across townships per state law. Clerk Janne Pum.
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