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Newspaper
Ellsworth American
Location
Ellsworth, Maine, United States of America
Date
May 07, 1902
Page
8
The store proclaims enlarged departments including carpet, drapery, house furnishing, ready-made wear, and hosiery. It touts a new show room with full lines of carpetings, curtains, rugs, and house furnishings plus a second floor for ready-to-wear. Highlights include spring stock of costumes, suits, waists, undergarments, wash fabrics, and lace goods with low prices and free alterations.
The selectmen appointed eighteen surveyors with assigned districts including Walter Snowman, Anson Lampher, Eugene Curtis, and others. Seminary notes report visits by Rev. L. Hanscom, Rev. Sutcliffe’s return, the East Maine conference decisions shaping the school, and the Willing Workers event raising funds for a chapel. May 5 entries from Newbury Neck mention rapid wharf work, a White Birch picnic, and local visits, with school terms resuming and Burns faced by injury.
Weeston area notes residents back home on Saturday include Liliien Kane and Angie Hinckley teaching at Frankito. Auguste op official business, Parker Point house building for Mr Johnston of Cleveland, Emma Osgood returns from Boston, Seaside local union sessions, Congregational supper well attended, electric road survey progress boosts land boom. Remains of Mrs Bean moved for burial. John Clough dies. Schools list teachers. post office changes hands. Sedgwick boom underway. repairs and renovations underway at several homes. May 5 closing line references local trades and properties.
Mrs Anna B Ficharty former W T U superintendent in Galesburg Illinois writes from Chicago praising Peruna as an invigorator after illness. She notes health improvements for herself and daughter including appetite digestion and sleep and states she would not be without Peruna. She mentions her late husband was first president of Nebraska Wesleyan University and that her daughter is confirmed valid. The letter offers a free book Summer Catarrh by Dr Hartman and the Peruna Medicine Co Columbus Ohio.
Admirant County News reports Clayton Gilley moving his family to Bar Harbor and four Italians arriving to work in the quarries. Florence Noyes returns home from Charleston, Mt. Desert steamer to start daily trips Tuesday, and Agatha Grindle visits Bar Harbor. Local assignments include paving cutters at work, Stella Pickett resumes business, a quarryman union organized with Luther W. Weed president and Charles Berdine secretary, and various residents traveling to Boston New London and Boothbay Harbor.
Boston Capt N P Johnson is reportedly securing Bartlett's Island Me to convert it into a large sheep pasture. The island once housed twenty seven dwellings now nine, with a school of nine boys. The syndicate has already taken most of the land and will demand vacating residents. Johnson claims a method to prepare adjacent fish as animal feed, ensuring winter sustenance for the sheep.
Albert Hutchings enlarges his stable while Ralph Grindle and Willie Wardwell recover from illness. Lumber shipments by Capt. Burke Sellers and Capt. William Sellers arrive for local firms. Opening of schools varies with mumps in Leach district. Miss Howden, Lucy Patten, and Mary Jaquis named for local postings. Several residents travel, visit, or plan new buildings in Bangor, Brewer, and East Oriana as May approaches.
The Bayside community reports several updates including Annie Kingsbury visiting, Joseph Morrison moving to Davenport March, Lester Smith visiting Otis relatives, and Fred Hail of Brewer as a notable event. Rev J P Simonton is reappointed for another year. Mrs Hannah Banker died at eighty, native to Cran Island, with funeral services led by Rev J P Simonton and interment at Cranberry Inlet.
R H Garland returned home from the Penobscot River drive on Saturday. Emery C Frazier and Richmond Moore have joined the flak battalion in work. Wilmot D Garland has entered the Eastern Maine Insane Hospital to train as a nurse for two years. Visitors Sunday included Mr and Mrs Rich mood Moore and their two little boys Winnie and Bennie, plus Miss Mabel Moore of Ellsworth Falls, W S Strong of Hancock, and Jobo Wilbur of Eastbrook.
Hiram Haskell moves his family into the Joseph Cain house. Benjamin Carter of West Surry dies after a shock in his barn while milking. he aged sixty six and leaves a widow and one daughter Mire Hattie Haskell. Dora M. Leach begins school in Perkins district. Hortense Wardwell of Penobscot visits Mary Lee Wardwell. Mrs. Percy Wardwell returns from Boston. Dunbar district school opens led by Lida Perkins. Mrs. Cera Leach returns home from Orland visit. J. W. Leach returns from Camden. Leroy Wardwell returns from extended stay in Boston. Roy Webster becomes fireman on the roamer Castine. Ambrose Stanley plans a grocery business in the Sewall store. Blanche Roberts of Waltham visits Stanie. Fred Parker returns from West Rockport to rejoin work on Geb wharf. Lettie Stanley to Boothbay for training, then stays with relatives and moves to Sorrento.
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