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Newspaper
Ellsworth American
Location
Ellsworth, Maine, United States of America
Date
Jan 03, 1900
Page
1
Ellsworth calendar highlights numerous community notices. county commissioners and loan association meet, business ads for shops, damask dinners, and charity suppers. local residents including Miss Simonton and Miss Whiting plan travel and study. church groups, lectures, and club meetings fill the week with social and civic activity.
Church notes list weekly prayer meetings sermons and Sunday services across multiple congregations including Union Congregational Bayside Methodist and Congregational churches. Jan 7 services feature sermons at 10 30 am 2 pm and 7 30 pm with Sunday school and youth activities. Out of town guest Rev Simonton and Rev Coar also noted with gatherings and promotions for district events.
A Monday storm kept many away from the Senator Hale Hose Company annual concert and ball in Ellsworth. The Cecilian quartet of Portland delivered a high quality program. still attendance was light and the event was not financially successful. About thirty couples danced late into the night after a midnight supper, with careful planning by the Senators despite poor weather. Weather clerk and school storm signals noted for the guidance of pupils and annual lodge meetings list upcoming dates in Lygonia and Byoleric lodges.
Bismarck's iron nerve traced to splendid health and indomitable will. If you seek similar vitality and success, Dr King’s New Life Pills develop brain and body. Only 2e at Waards’s drug store.
Donaqua lodge and Lejck lodge elected officers including John A. Lond and Herbert O. Dodge respectively, with later elections at Blanquefort commandery and Acadia chapter naming a slate of leaders. Installations noted for January 15 and new finance committees formed.
A period advertisement claims a lovely woman stays attractive by health. It asserts constipation, kidney trouble, or impure blood cause pimples and a sallow complexion. Electric Bitters is touted to regulate stomach liver and kidneys, purify blood, and improve appearance. Available for 50 cents at 8. D. Widam's Drug Store.
The note emphasizes that the season of Christmas decorations has passed, yet the demand for flowers persists. It argues that modern life creates a year round need for plants and flowers, highlighting their continued relevance beyond festive displays.
A series of events is listed: Tuesday Jan 23 Ellsworth Mesonic convention with Grand Lecturer Frank E Sleeper. Tuesday Jan 9 Unitarian church Stereopticon lecture by Rev Charles E Lund on The History of Co operation in England and the United States admission free with collection. Thursday Jan 11 Odd Fellows hall Lejok lodge sociable. Wednesday Jan 3 Methodist vestry Indies circle supper. Wednesday Jan 3 Congregational chapel supper 25 cents.
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