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Newspaper
Ellsworth American
Location
Ellsworth, Maine, United States of America
Date
Sep 11, 1901
Page
8
Local notes report Benjamin Tyler and others visiting home from nearby towns. Schools in several districts opened Monday. Grange meetings set for September 26 with Hancock Pomona in Hancock. Programs include music, fifth degree conferring, and a discussion on marketing farm crops led by J M Hatching.
Miss Haynes of Boston visits Mrs. F.8 Nye. J. E. Hastings and wife stay in Waltham for a few days. Mr. and Mrs. C. J. Merrill welcome a daughter. An editorial note urges continual practice to gain skill and artistic touch. An advertisement touts Cascarets Candy Cathartic for constipation with money-back guarantee if not effective.
On a blustery day Mr Tibbs struggles to hang out clothes as wind, frost, and slipping footing turn a simple washday into a comic disaster. Mrs Tibbs bosses the line, proprieties and clatter rise, Tibbs fights kinks, a shirts knee, and the goat and dogs join the tableau before Tibbs abandons the effort.
A curious note from the Arizona Republican compares an ant lifting 20 times its weight to a robust mustard plaster that allegedly outplays the insect in its own arena, humorously contrasting strength and healing skills.
Deer Isle seamen dominate Lake Michigan racing boats with crews on the Pathfinder and Hawthorne. Captains Barber Low McDonald lead a loyal, mobile team. wages run 35 to 40 dollars monthly with meals and lodging. Many Deer Isle sailors relocate to Chicago for higher pay and stronger demand, keeping homes and families there in the off-season.
Ellsy A W Ellin and wife attend Monroe fair as six Blisworth freshmen come from the F George Fernald returns to Redstone NH duties. Various residents travel to Lewiston Presque Isle and Southwest Harbor for fairs and ordinations. A fire destroys Albert Kincaid's building with $1500 insurance. nearby homes escape. Lakewood notes include Ballantyne family’s Boston return and Moore working for Webster Higgins. Embers of campus life and community travel fill the week.
Miss Violet Swett visited relatives in Surry recently. The Indies and society met with Mrs. Clara York of Surry on September 5. A pleale dinner was served. Mrs. Flora Gregory of Ear Harbor made a brief visit to her mother, Mrs. Mark Milliken, last week. Mrs. Elliott and daughter Ethel, who had been boarding with Mrs. Hettie Holt, returned to Roslindale Massachusetts. Mrs. Libby of Roslindale, who occupied Mrs. Charlotte Hodgkins collage this summer, will spend two weeks in Ellsworth before returning home.
The four mast schooner Thallium, built at Bucksport last year by McKay & Dix for the Greenland cryolite trade, was wrecked on the Greenland coast a few weeks ago. the crew were saved but the vessel is a total loss. She registered 596 tons and sailed from Stockholm June 24 for Ivigtut, after passing Elsinore on July 4, Capt. Morris commanding. No particulars of her laws have been received.
In 1895 and reaching a peak in 1900, Cascarets Candy Cathartic became a best selling bowel remedy. The advertisement touts six million boxes annually and proclaims it the best medicine for the bowels, available at all druggists.
A North Ellsworth note expresses deep sympathy for Mrs. Lewis Flood after the death of her mother Mrs. Elvira A. Saunders. Mrs. Flood, hospitalised and convalescing from a critical operation, learned of the burial only after it occurred, as the community laments a good woman.
The Standard Granite Co of Mt Desert will establish a Portland stone cutting yard to dress rough stone brought by schooners for St. Louis projects including Mercantile Trust and Bank of Commerce buildings. About seventy to seventy five workers will be employed, with winter operations a key goal to meet delivery schedules.
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