Local affairs and notices from Springfield region
Local notices list fire and life insurers, sheriff sales and hardware stores, plus social events in Ellsworth area. Mentions Bluehill business visits, church activities, dances, club meetings, and a wreckage sighting near Highland Light. Includes obituaries, school updates, and civic appointments with numerous named residents and organizations.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Springfield Fire & Marine Tncurnee Co
Niagaen Fire
Etna Life
AH Walker
Hooper—Sheriff Sales
Cushman & Son
Stratton—hardware
EW Thomas
Rational Medi
Maine Destroyed by Explosion in Havana Harbor
Reports confirm the battleship Maine was destroyed by a boiler dynamo explosion in Havana harbor, killing and drowning over two hundred sailors. Early suspicions of Spanish treachery faded as officials noted no infernal device. rescue pumps and fire crews aided the wounded and missing. Captain Sigsbee dispatched notes from Havana, detailing the devastation and casualties aboard the 6082 ton vessel built in 1889 at a cost of $2.5 million.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States
Maine
Harbor
Fire Department
Havana
Sigsbee
Washington
Ward Line
Key West
Jenkins
Mer
Gen
Bar Harbor
LED ON THE RAILROAD DEATH OF ELLSWORTH CITIZEN AT DEPOT
Jacob Stevens elder Ellsworth resident dies after being crushed between a freight car and platform near the depot switch. A coroner's inquest held exonerated the railroad company. He leaves eight children and one sister. funeral held Sunday with Rev. C. S. McLearn officiating.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jacob Stevens
Ellsworth
Bob Stevens
Ells Worth
Stevens
Mr. Stevens
D. J. Fields
Frank
Lord
A. R. Devereux
O. W.tapley
G. W. Higgins
John P. Eldridge
Michael Brady
Surry
Baltimore
Moses
Hoyt
Pearl
Benjamin Stevens
Levi C. Beckwith
Edward Green
Louise Stevens
T. J. Southwell
Boston
C. 8. McLearn
Son of Maine Lumberman Dies in Michigan at 79
Darius Eddy, born in Eddington and longtime Bangor resident, died in Saginaw Michigan last Tuesday at age seventy nine. A lumber man, he moved to Saginaw in 1884 and ran operations there until retirement. He was twice married, first to Eliza Blackman, and his widow Eliza Tapley of West Brooksville survives four children.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Maine
Michigan
Darius Eddy
Eddington
Bangor
Saginaw
Mich
Eddy
Tive Nuare
Raddy
Eliza Blackman
Eliza Tapley
West Brooksville
Ler
City Schools to Close for Washington Birthday
All city schools will be closed Tuesday in observance of Washington's birthday. The high school class of 1898 has hired the Columbian Orchestra of Lawrence MA for graduation exercises and reception. E D Pratt of the commercial school will lecture on bookkeeping to ninth grade students at several city grammar schools Monday, visiting Central, West Side, and Fallas grammar. The commercial school will close.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Means
Water Street
E. L. Curtis
Curtin
John Dorgan
Bar Harbor
Ellsworth
Mr. Dorgan
John Dorgan Jr
I Harbor
Joseph Dorgan
Rockland
Arthur B. Cook
Lizzie Loring
Boston
Dresser’s
Miss Loring
R. Wesley Dunn
Waterville
First National Bank of
Greely
Aldert
F. W. Chapman
York
Westminster Kennel Club
Judking
Hancock County
Wharf
Hancock Hall
Washington
Columbian Orchestra
Lawrence
Mass
E.D. Pratt
Commercial School
Eant Aide
West Side
Falla Grammar
Commercial
Chamberlain's Cough Remedy Praised For Croup
E Wonk, Clerk of the Circuit Court in Fernandina Florida, endorses Chamberlain's Cough Remedy as an excellent treatment for croup and colds. He notes a single dose is usually sufficient and that the medicine rapidly eases his children's illnesses. Sold by GA Parcher, druggist.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chamberlain
E. Wonk
Fernandina
Fla
GA. Parcher
Religious group events fill February and March calendar
The notice lists vestry meetings and social events from February 16 to March 30. Activities include entertainments, receptions, and a Unity club supper at Hancock hall, with multiple lectures titled What do [denomination] Believe delivered by various pastors. All meetings are free and open to the public.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Congregational Vestry
Young People’s Society
Hancock Hall
Apollo” Quartette
King’s Daughters Society
Unita le
Hancock
of Worth
Unilarian Vestry
EB. L. Hunt
Mr. Wood
H.W. Wharff
W. R. Hunt
City Hose Company
Also Mentioned on This Page
K. Hinckley
Bluebill
R. Smith
Charles Bordeaux
Somesville
L. F. Giles
Erva
Maude Goodwin
Oldtown
Gertrude Buck
Orland
C. R. Foster
Epworth League
Methodist Church
the Indies’ and Society of the Free Baptist Church
Marcellus
Highland Light
C. E. Woodcock
Free Baptist Church
Orland and
Dedham
Mark Hertz
Lewis Friend & Co., Clothiers
New York
Meutting School
Hertz
Harman
Elsworth
Wits
Leiviston Journal
Agnes Lord
King's Daughters
I. C. Hodgkins
Sociey
Annie Stockbridge
City Base Company No. 2
Frank K. Moore
Treasuer
Hollis Davis
Harvard Cook
Arthur Davis
Daniel Hurley
George Dunn
Charles E. Bellatty
Eagor
Whig and Courier
Bellatty
Elmer F. Murch
Unitarian Church
Odd Fellows
Pst
Baker
Amus
I. L. Hulman
Dirigo
Satuday
Mer. Hato
Ohio
Ellsworth Falls
Scotland
Llisworth
John D. Hopkins
Hopkins
Mr. Hopkins
Avoe
C. C. Burrill & Son, General Insurance Agents
Buruitt Bank Bupg
A. W. Cushman & Son
Franklin
Eniswonth
Henry E. Davis
Nealer
Franklin St
Ellsworth, Me
Pont
Sage Gomfort Fuiie
Ellsworth Loan and Building Association
H. W.cusumay
A.W. King
Douglass
Mama Sic Marden & Coots
Joy
Wy Coombes
Cats
Telephone
A. L. Douglass, M. D
Dutton Hous
Feb
C. L. Morang's
Royal
Geo. A. Parcher
Sworte
Lewis Priend & CO
Manning
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