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Ellsworth American

Location

Ellsworth, Maine, United States of America

Date

May 09, 1900

Page

8

West Eden News Notes and Local Installations May 7

Mrs Eliza Emery visits Mrs Alma Higgins in West Eden while Miss Alta Higgins visits Bar Harbor grandmother Mrs M H Mayo. Granite lodge officers were installed by L D George W Mayo. J E Hamer and others named. Several residents, including Mrs Drusilla Mason and J B Brainerd, are mentioned amid town notes. May 7 marks high Teddy pond water after rain and an upcoming East Orland Hall dance on May 18.

West Eden Eliza Emery Salisbury Cove Alma Higgins Alta Higgins Bar Harbor M. H. Mayo Emma Peach Granite Lodge 1 C.G.T L. D. George W. Mayo J. E. Hamer T. Gagie Walls V. T Lottie Knowles J. T Willie Norwood Jessie Leland D. M Josie Paine Jamie Stover Charles Stover Luella M. Sargent Bernice Fogg J. B. Brainerd Florence Johnson J. Leach North Bluehill M. J. Leach Dr. Abrams Mabel East Orland Hall Teddy Pond

Local notices from Orland and North Brookville May news

County notes record a string of visits and illnesses including Mrs Mary Nickerson death at twenty three, various neighbors travels to Bangor Belfast and Portland, renewed sickness and recoveries, teachers starting new terms Carrie Snowman and Louise Rowe, schooners loading at Chatto's wharf and the new Esta brook steamboat wharf nearly complete.

Joseph Grindle A. P. Harriman Bartlett A. W

Ladies Social Library Annual Meeting Highlights Gifts

The annual meeting re elected the officers: Mrs. Mabel E. Chase president, Mrs. M. E. Mayo vice president, Carrie J. Lord secretary treasurer, Lizzie M. Hinckley librarian, with Mrs. Mary Wescott, Mrs. Helen McIntyre, Mrs. Abbie Stover and others on the executive committee. Capt. Candage of Brookline donated twenty World’s Classics volumes and promised ten more plus a large dictionary. Miss Maude Stover donated a framed portrait of her father, George Stover, and furnishings for the new town hall library room. The association thanked Candage and Stover for gifts and noted books in good order but needing more space. May notes list local absences, visitors, and hospital transport.

Ladies’ Social Library Mabel E. Chase M. E. Mayo Carrie J. Lord Lizzie M. Hinckley Mary Wescott Helen McIntyre Abbie Stover Wescott Villa Greene Brookline Mass Candage Capt. Candage Maude Stover New York George Stover

Local notes from Bar Harbor to Bangor and Branch Pond

Fragments report residents visiting relatives in Bangor and Bar Harbor. Edward Cochran and Charles Leslie are mentioned with local movements. Salmon caught at Branch Pond and rotary work at Greniy mill referenced. Households moved: Henry Colplite and wife left Charles McCartney’s farm for their own home.

FA. Peaker Bar Harbor Sendey Moore Bangor Bisister Mine Hogi A. Cara M.D Edward Cochrane Charles Lestie Cher Fifield Inet Oscar Staples E. Gray Coe Cay C. W. Prezoe Greniy Henry Colplite Charles McCartney Mr. McCartney Waterville Shep Aabar

Oasis Band Social Attracts Town’s Ice Cream Social

Warren Duffy visits relatives as Oasis band hosts an ice cream sociable at the band ball last Saturday night. The ladies’ society meets with Mrs. George Fullerton on Thursday afternoon, May 10. Mrs. Arthur Moon of New Hampshire visits aunt Mrs. Abigail Staples with two children. Mr. Thomas of Surry buys and takes the Banker house vacated by Mr. Brenton. Christopher Clough of Ellsworth Falls moves his family into Wilt Smith house. Clough works in Bayside mill. May 6.

Warren Duffy Oasis Ladies Wit Society George Fullerton Arthur Moon New Hampshire Abigail Staples Thomas Surry Brenton Christopher Clough Ellsworth Falls Wilt

Local Illnesses and a Death Mark May 5

von Lewis Flood is ill with Zumbago Rebecca Auitia is 111 with pneumonia Josiah Phillips is ill with rheumatism Mrs Ezra Saunders slowly improving Augusta King has returned to Bar Harbor Mrs Nelson Heden called home from Brooklyn N Y by her father Galen Maddocks Miss Mary James dies at seventy five Funeral services held at the church Tuesday Rev J P Simonton Ellsworth Methodist church officiating May 5

Lewis Flood Rebecca Auitia Josiah Phillips Ezra Saunders Augusta King Bar Harbor Nelson Heden Brooklyn N. Y Galen Maddocks Mary James J.P. Simonton Ellsworth

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