Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1900-12-19

For other tocat neics see pages 4, and s.
Donaqua lodge, X, Of r., will have a So
cia BILE tomorrow evening.
Lejok lodge, I. o. o. F., will work the
second degree Friday evening.
Prof. II. c. Emery is home from Yale
college for the Christmas recess.
Henry FIye and wife, OF Brook lin, are
| guests OF l.. F. Hooper and wife.
A Ave- horse electric motor has been set
up at II. w. Dunn's marble works.
Luther Hapworth, one OF the oldest cit
liens Of plantation No. 8, is seriously i'll
Miss Della q. Pickett, of Franklin,
pianist, is organizing class in Ellsworth.
Rev. J. P. simonton left for Rockport
yesterday for a few days visit with his
mother.
F. F. Simopton, principal of Phillips
high school, is at home for the Christ mas
| vacation.
The Partridge shoe store will be closed
Jan. l. Mr.. Partridge is now selling
out the stock.
Mrs. B. c. Reynolds, with her little
daughter, OF Bar Harbor, is vieiting her
mot her, Mrs. L. J. Call.
Mrs. H. N. Joy was taken suddenly i'll
last Saturday evening. To-day her con-
dition Is reported as greatly improved.
Miss Florence Davis, of Bar Harbor, re.
turned home Monday after spending a
| week with her aunt, Mrs. fl. +. Davis.
Walter Lawrie, Of East brook, is study
ing in DIR. Fl. w. Haynes dental rooms.
| He expects to enter dental college next
| year.
The receipts OF this customs district
the Frenchman's bay district, for the
past year, according to official report,
amounted to s5i7 81.
A. F. Burnham and wife left last Sat-
urday for Brockton, Mass, where they
will spend the winter with their daugh-
! ter, Mrs. ID. +. Brown.
| The county commissioners were in
| session Tuesday, assessing the plantation
road tax. Next Wednesday he board will
| meet for he closing session of the year.
| VIM. II, II. Rice post, G. A. R., has a
| public installation OF officers at Grand
| Army hall, Monday evening, Jan. Z.
| Members Of the relief corps and their
| friends are invited.
Columbian hook and ladder company
! is arranging for its annual ball, which
will be given this year on Friday, Jan. %,
instead Of on Washington's birthday, as
| for several seasons past.
The supper given by the high school
foot ball team last Friday, was bat simly
| attended. There was food enough for a
| dinner the following day. The net pro-
| ceeds from supper and dinner were about
| %.
| Hon. John D. Hopkins says this has
been the longest cold spell SO early in
December witt hin his memory. For over
a week the thermometer has been at zero
or below every morning, and yesterday
morning 1t touched nineteen degrees be-
J low in some places.
Nokouiis Rebekah lodge last evening
elected officers as follows: Mrs. Sara h
Holmes, N. g.; Mrs Annie Springer, V.
G.; Mrs. L. F. Giles, secretary; Mrs.
Henry Brown, treasurer. The board OF
trustees will be nominated and elected
at the next regular meeting.
A spark from match which was
stepped on in the central telephone
office Saturday set fire to the covering OF
wires back OF the switch board. Prompt
discovery OF the blaze averted a serious
fire. The blaze was soon extinguished.
Two or three wires were burned off.
j. A. Isaacson, salesman at Lewis Friend
& Co.'s store, is to appear in the role of
| Santa Claus on the afternoon OF Christ
mas Day. He will give away a barrel OF
candy to the children Of Ellsworth, at 8
| O'Clock in the afternoon. The children
are invited to be on hand promptly at
| that hour.
Marie Grant, Dorothy Whiting, Hazel
Knowlton, Muriel Davis and Julia Cush-
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