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Newspaper
Ellsworth American
Location
Ellsworth, Maine, United States of America
Date
Aug 07, 1901
Page
1
A long list of residents and visitors is noted in Ellsworth, Maine, with many traveling relatives and social engagements. Shipping news includes the schooner Motto sale and the expanse of local business moves, while town officials prepare for school openings and a county convention.
A rescript from the law court reverses the Bangor municipal court judgment in the Charles I Dean of Brower versus L H Cashman case, with six additional cases affected. Justice Savage drew the rescript. Judge Vose presided. The decision clarifies that mortgagors may sell only the right to redeem without transferring full property, else a conversion occurs and revests possession to the mortgagee. Exceptions sustained.
Unitarian and Congregational notices list pastors and August schedules. Union Congregational Ellsworth Falls and Bayside volumes note morning and evening services, Sunday schools, prayer meetings, and conferences with named pastors Simonton Thurlow and Heffion. Baptist service details include Kerr preaching topics and Sabbath activities with a Friday prayer meeting and Sunday school at noon.
Mrs Frank Fernald and daughters return from relatives in Trenton. Outdoor band concert from Tiornc engine house balcony. Miss Kate Laffin and aunt go to Northfield Ma for two weeks. Nine girls from the village with Mrs Charles Smith as chaperon visit Bayside. Ticonic boys practice for State master at Waterville. Whitcomb Haynes Co mills restart after low water. Union river remains low with no rain since last April floods. Church meeting resolution of thanks to A W Ellis for church repairs. Mrs JONATHAN STAFLES and Miss Kate E Lavris visit Nahum Blood. Rev G H Hermox and F S Watterson visit. Mrs Annie E Gjog her sister this week. C J Treworgy and family occupy new Contention Cove cottage for August. Mrs Margaret Robbins and Blanche with Alfred Jolly visiting J A Austin. Rev F W Atkinson visiting Orono. many friends glad to see him. Miss Mildred Nason returns to Rockland from summer with Aunt Victoria Cottle. Charles D Treworgy visited. Clement-Sellers case settled. Eva M Sellers v William B Clement settled privately. no court argument. Earlier supreme court verdict of $2,000 to plaintiff. Estate of John P Gordon valued at about 14,000. inventory filed in Ellsworth probate court.
A dense list of upcoming gatherings and meetings across Maine regions. Included are church vestry supper in Plenie, Jordan and Tracy family reunions in Triden and Gouldsboro, Hancock Pomona grange field day at Bluehill, county commissioners convention in Bilsworth with Bar Harbor excursion, Hancock Point program with Tuskegee principal Booker T. Washington, and the Fair of Even agricultural society events. Several items mention dates from August through September with various venues and hosts.
An advertisement extols Parcher's Drug Store offering quick prescriptions and compounding as a precise science. It urges customers to telephone for urgent nurse in a hurry service and highlights American Express connections and standard drug standards.
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