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Newspaper
Ellsworth American
Location
Ellsworth, Maine, United States of America
Date
Feb 19, 1902
Page
5
LL Ss Worth Wales hosts Brown from Eastington and Raymond Arey with wife from Bar Harbor as guests of M. Moore. Withem & Son finish harvest, Birches arriving. Whitcomb Haynes adds mill capacity. Florace Bonsey names new dance The Columbian and opens Thursday with a concert by Monmghan's fall orchestra and a supper.
Kane Patton visits trends in Eile worth while Mrs Loex Hamilton visits friends in Eastbrook. Joanna Brown of Eileworth Far spends days with Mrs James Lyne. Miss Josephine Phillips of Auburn stays with Josiah Phillips and Watson McGown family in Hall Cove. The McGowns host in Watson ban with Melvin and wife from South America.
Miss Lula M. Rollins visits friends in the city while Charles O. Garland of Bangor busnew college revisits his parents Mr and Mrs James B Garland. An evening social at the chapel Saturday under Miss Mary A Garland and Eva Moore with Lettie Moore of the high school winning a match against Everett Franklin.
A 145 year old Devoe & Co letter to E J Walsh Usworth discusses selling shoes and customers experience. It claims the firm makes a good deal of paint and paid a share of railroad and scramer property in the United States. The tone asserts cost advantages over lead paint and urges trust in the Devoe brand.
The twenty first Masonic district holds its annual convention tomorrow at Odd Fellows ball in Killsworth. District Deputy A Hutching of Orland will preside. Hiovrels lodge PF and AM of Blisworth start with first degree, Winter Harbor lodge follows with second degree, and West Sullivan lodge handles the third degree in the evening. A banquet at 6 o clock and a social time conclude the day.
Provisions for church services across Unitarian Episcopal Baptist Congregational and other groups list morning worship times at 10 30 Sunday Sunday school 11 45 and evening services 7 00 with prayers meetings Friday and other midweek gatherings including a pastor’s address on Christian ideals and a collection for a public library.
More than five hundred lodge members attended the Hancock county Odd Fellows convention in Ellsworth with twenty three lodges represented mostly from Maine. Banquets fed over a thousand. Bar Harbor led visitors with about 100 members, Bluehill eighty five, Bucksport thirty, Northeast Harbor forty, Brooklin twenty, and Southwest Harbor ten. Grand Master W. W. Cutter and other grand officers presided as exemplifications of degrees followed meals, music, cake walk, dancing, and a final goat caper on a slippery floor as dawn approached.
Western division gathering in Bucksport was cut short by a storm with only three ministers attending by Tuesday. Rev E A Boynton, Rev J L Pinkerton, and Rev S L Hanscom present, others sidelined by illness and weather. The conference closed early with plans to meet in Bucksport in June. Grange activity noted with Roque Bluff and Blue Hill reports. state-wide growth expected.
The article argues the Danish West Indies, comprising St. Thomas St. John and St. Croix, will be annexed to the United States after Senate approval House funding and local vote. It cites strategic naval value at the Caribbean entrance and notes historic efforts since 1865 including offers of 7.5 million to 15 million dollars, with St. Thomas as commerce hub and Charlotte Amalie harbor key to maritime activity. detailed island demographics and geography are described.
The text notes St Croix as the largest island with seventy four square miles and twenty thousand inhabitants, less white residents, and English spoken universally. It highlights agriculture, sugar and rum production for export, and compulsory education. It cites 1900 US exports to the Danish West Indies at six hundred fifty one thousand five hundred twenty four dollars and imports at one million eight hundred five thousand nine hundred thirty five dollars.
In a vivid account from the recent dramatic charge of the Twenty first Lancers at Omdurman one rider loses a thumb and jokes with a fellow trooper about survival. A companion quips of worse injuries, recalling public figures and a quip about reading a controversial book.
A jumble of short items covers visitors and relocations in the town. Bert Gregory and wife from Bar Harbor visited Mrs Miliken and wife. Herbert Pratt and wife of Globe Arizona mourn their little daughter Abbie who died Jan 28 of scarlet fever. Mrs Lucretia A. Adam is writing a town history. Prof W W Stetson lectured at Pythian hall to general approval. Mr and Mrs Jewe Mitchell moved to their new home. Crabtree and Havey engaged stone cutters for a project. Peter H Bunker and family traveled to Gouldadoro to visit friends. Local business remains active with teams hauling wood stone and sod. HD Gordon finished storing 150 tons of tee. Sledding and material shipments continue. An optimist remark closes the note.
A stream of birth notices dated February through February 18 reports newborns to families in Brookville, East Franklin, Orland, Surry, Stonington, Little Deer Telegraph, Cranberry Tales, Manach, Kilworth, Sedgwick, Kiwellhill, Trenton, West Surry, Amberat, Casting, and Bileworth. Names include Chatto, Gray, Hardison, Hutchins, Tigalls, Lealto Ot, Shepard, Spurstog, Kolduson, Thurber, Friend, Kier, McFarland, Annis, Vowden, Jordan, and Weaver among others.
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