21 May 1902
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Newspaper
Ellsworth American
Location
Ellsworth, Maine, United States of America
Date
May 21, 1902
Page
1
A busy Ellsworth column lists train timings for east and west routes, local business changes, social visits, school events, and upcoming Memorial Day preparations. Updates include shipments for Steuben, arrivals in town, church and lodge activities, and plans for water system funding at Woodbine cemetery.
The report notes Ellsworth participants finishing fourth of fifteen and recounts the death of Marie Lyons Joy in Waterloo Iowa. It also covers social updates in Ellsworth including a new club named Usona, church events, and upcoming Masons excursion to Belfast with plans for a steamer trip and a third degree ceremony.
Ellsworth buzzed with talk of Grace Bilings daughter of Mr and Mrs Herbert Billing eloping with Dexter Brooks a traveling salesman from Worcester Mass Brooks who has a wife and two children reportedly joined her on the road to Ellsworth Falls and they boarded the 531 trains at the Fells depot with Brooks leading the plan and Grace leaving home yesterday after a goon Parents protested but efforts failed to deter the pairing.
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