Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1901-10-09

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tie Gray in Brooksville this week.
Henry l.. Rowe and wife, OF Aurora,
spent a few days last week In Ellsworth.
There will be harvest supper at the
Methodist vestry Wednesday evening,
Oct. 16.
Rev. j. p. Simonton left Monday for
Boothbay.
Senator Hale hose company will give a
social dance at Odd Fellows hall to-
morrow evening.
The harvest concert announced for last
Sunday evening at the Methodist church,
was postponed to next Sunday.
There will be pie sociable and enter
tainment in the vestry OF the Free Baptist
church Thursday evening, Oct. 10.
The annual meeting of the Unitarian
society will be held at the vestry this
evening" following parish supper.
WI Ryan will soon make his twen-
tieth annual tour through Maine, selling
copies OF the Old Farmers almanac for
1902.
The Clark minstrel troupe will give an
entertainment at Rural hall, East Surry,
Friday evening, followed by a social
dance.
The Congregational society held its
annual parish meeting last Friday even
ing. The old board of officers was elected
throughout.
The winter time table will go into ef-
feet on the Maine Central next Monday
The service will be substantially the same
as last winter.
M. Y. McGown, book-keeper of the
First national bank, is spending his
vacation in Boston, accompanied by
Mrs. McGown.
At the annual meeting OF the Ellsworth
Associated Charities, the officers elected
at the temporary organization last spring
were reelected.
There will be special meeting Of the
ladies of the relief corps tomorrow even
ing. Every officer and member is urgently
requested to attend.
Miss Mary F. Hopkins, who is at the
Bar Harbor hospital, continues to i'm
prove. 1t is hoped she will be able to re-
turn home by next week.
Mrs. Isaac Murch, formerly of Els
worth, who has been living with her
children in Maine and Massachusetts, is
visiting relatives and friends here.
Mrs. May Sealander, of Caribou, spent
few days last wesk with her parents, Mr..
and Mrs. David Friend, in Ellsworth.
She was accompanied by Miss Leta Hates,
OF Caribou.
Rev. c. s. McLearn, of Bar Harbor,
formerly pastor OF the Baptist church
here, will occupy the pulpit here next
Sunday morning and evening in exchange
with he pastor, Rev. David Kerr.
The Ellsworth high school football
team will play its first game Of the season
with team from the Shaw business
college, Bangor, at Wyman park Saturday
afternoon. The Ellsworth town team is
trying to arrange for a game with Mill
town the same day.
The proposed excursion of Ellsworth
business men to Swans Island and Ston-
ington, arranged for last Friday, has been
indefinitely postponed. The postpone
ment OF the fair from Thursday until FRI
day on account of the rain, made it
impossible to have the excursion on that
day, and suitable arrangements could not
be made to have it on later date.
Next week for three nights-Tuesday,
Wednesday and Thursday-the bazaar OF
the Catholic society will take place at
Hancock hall. 1t will doubtless be one of
the biggest successes in this line OF enter
tainment ever scored in Ellsworth. The
general plans for the three evenings have
already been outlined in THE AMERICAN.
On the first evening there will be con-
cert. On the second evening, the draw
ings for prizes and the voting contests
will take place. The crowning feature OF
the bazaar will be the minstrel show on
the last evening. A special train will
run from Bangor on the evening of the
minstrel show.
A pleasant incident of the carnival days
for Senator Hale hose company and a
number of the visiting firemen took place
at the engine house Thursday afternoon. |
The only man who didn't seem to know |
Just what was going on was Foreman Roy |
j. Goodwin, of the Senators. He found |
out little later, when Charles FL. Leland,
on behalf OF Senator Hale hose company,
presented him with gold badge. Fore
man Goodwin was surprised out of speech; |
he simply looked his appreciation. The |
badge is OF the same design as the regular |