Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1904-12-14
FROM BAR HARBOR.
sewing Clubs sales-Of for South
America His Leg Broken.

a me#rs, c. C. Morrison and L. b. Dessy
have placed on the market another block
of lots in the Shannon estate which they
nurchased couple OF years ago. The
lots are laid out from plans made by
Edgar |. Lord, civil engineer. and extend
from waIdron road on the south to Mt.
Insert street on the north, and along
Lsdgelswn avenue and proposed extern
sion OF Glen Mary road.
The strip CONTAINS forty-three lots,
averaging In size forty by ninety feet. and
includes some fine houseiots.
Next spring Glen Mary road will be ex-
tended through the property from Wal
dron road to Mt. Desert street, and viii
he forty feet wide as far as the Bridgham
lot, and thirty feet wide from there to Mt.
Desert street.
Thursday afternoon and evening the
Rebekah sewing club held a Christmas
sale of fancy articles at q. A. X hall.
The rooms were filled during the alter
noon aud evening, and the sale was very
successfui, something over 500 being
taken. In one corner was fish pond
presided over by Mrs. g. F. Alien aud
Mrs. George Loring where one could try
his luck with a bamboo pole, piece OF
Irvine, with a pretty little girl to bait
your hook. This was favorite spot and
lots OF money was made.
In another corner plscard announced
that Zaza and Cleopatra, palmists, would
tell your fortune for ten cents. Here
business was good, and fortunes were
made in minute, "whiie you wait"
In another room tables were set up for
the sale OF ice-cream, cake and coffee, and
trade was brisk. This department was in
charge OF Mrs. Edwin q. Parker and
Mrs Bryant Bradley, pastmasters In pro-
viding good things to eat.
la the afternoon from 4 to there was a
matinee specially for children, and the
little fox had jolly time. Santa Claus
and his wife were present and received
the children aud sold bundles from two
wel-lsden treea which were in charge OF
Mrs. Roscoe EDDY.
Santa Claus made his entrance into the
room through scuitie in the root because
he was a tritis large for the chimney, and
this part OF the programme was great
delight to the children.
The committee In charge Of the fancy
table was Mrs. Everett Brewer aud Mrs.
Milton 8 Arey; candy table, Mrs. Margs-
ret Dyer and Miss Jennie Marshall apron
table, Mrs. Wellington Mcfarland and
Mrs. Althea MARSHALL; cake table, Mrs.
John e. Bunker, jr., and Mrs. Talbot. |
Joys orchestra rendered music during |
the afternoon ana evening, and dancing |
wound up the evenings pleasure.
The Bar Harbor high school basket ball |
team returned Thursday from Machias
where they played the Machias team
Wednesday evening. Machias won, 26 to I
IA, but the high school boys were well
satisfied with their trip, as they were play
Ing against last years championship team
Of the State. The high. school players
were Newman, centre; Wakefield and
forwards; C. Cieaves and SILK,
backs. The team was accompanied on the
trip by Manager Elmer G. CleavesY and
Henry Martin, physical instructor at the
Y. Nj. {. A.
Stephen 8. Bunker, young civil engi-
neer of Bar Harbor, started Friday for
South America, where he will be
engaged as one OF the engineers In the
Of a railroad line In the
Of Bolivia.
MIR. Bunker was accompanied by his
wife and little daughter. They sailed
from New York for Colon, Panama, Dec.
20, with a party OF eighteen engineers, a
physician and several ladies and chil@ren.
The trip to La Paz, capital OF Bolivia, will
take about a month. La Psz will be the
headquarters OF the railroad builders, and
there the ladies will be left.
The preliminary survey for the road
will take about year, aud the coustruc-
tion two or three years longer. Mr.. Bun
ker Is the son OF Mr.. and Mrs. ID. A.
Bunker, OF Bar Harbor, and graduate
from the engineering course at the Uni
versity OF Maine, class OF 1897.
he Is young man Of much ability In
his profession and has had considerable
experience in railroad work, having been
employed on the Washington County, the
Muscogee Southern, in Indian territory,
In Virginia, Pennsylvania, and Ohio.
Inc ladies' OF the congregational sewing
society held their annual Christmas sale
at the church parlors Wednesday after
noon and evening, Dec. ID. Many people
were present and about s65 was put into
the treasury. On eacn table was small
Christmas tree, and the articles for sale
were artisticaily arranged.
Those In charge OF the different ables
we're: Fancy work and aprons, Mrs.
George Fifieid, Mrs. Luther A. Leach and
Mrs. Ackiey Bray; candy, Mrs. w.
Bunker, Mrs. John Hartman and Mrs.
Vernon Wasgatt; dolls, Mrs. J. E. Bum
ker, it,, Mrs. Heman Richards and Mrs.
Frances Miller; bundle table, Mrs. 8. L.
Kingsley, Mrs. George E. Hagerthy and
Mrs. Horace Yeaton; ice-cresm, cake and
coffee, Mrs. Frank o. Alley, Mrs. Andrew
Babbage and Mrs. Oscar Snowman.
Eugene Wiley met with serious acci-
dent Tuesday morning. He was at work
on the roof of house on Greedy avenue,
and slipped and fell to the ground, break
Ing one of his legs. Drs. ID. w. Bunker