Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1905-10-04

whipped up to drive by the auto. Tn,
horse ran, and hooked into one of tn,
wheels of Mr.. Wescott's carriage, demol
ishing it. Mr.. Wescott's family camt
home in Mr.. Sowle's auto.
| Al Carter, OF Bar Harbor, was brought t,
the county Jail last week to spend month
He was sentenced in the Bar Harbor mu.
nicipal court to pay fine of SO and cost,
for assault committed upon Lewis A. Had.
ley. In default of payment he was COM
mitted to jail.
James Eaton, former resident of Els
worth, now instructor in mechanical arts
in the University OF Vermont at Burling-
ton, was in the city Monday, en- route to
Bluehill to attend the funeral of his
mother, Mrs. Sarah j. Eaton, who died
| there Sept. 30.
The annual meeting OF the Unitarian
| society will be held this evening at the
vestry at o'clock. The business meeting
will follow picnic parish supper, which
will be served at 6 O'Clock. All members
of the church and others interested in the
welfare of the society are invited to at
tend.
Street Commissioner Newman is relay
ing the large drain just south of Main
street. About 1876 feet of 30-inch tile drain
is being laid from point near DIR. H. l..
ID. Woodruff's barn to the Gaynor build
ng on Water street. The tile drain
connects at each end with a stone drain
The work is being thoroughly done, and
is in line with the policy of making re-
pairs of this kind OF a permanent nature.
The w. c. T. U. held special meeting
Monday evening at Mrs. Fl. c. Strattons.
Superintendents of departments were
elected as follows: Mrs. FL. W. Dunn, of
railroad employees; Mrs. H. C. Stratton,
OF flower mission; Mrs. j. P. Langley,
OF homeless children. Milton Beckwith
was elected president of the Pine Tree
loyal temperance legion. The next meet
ing will be next Monday evening with
Mrs. J. P. Langley.
Philip II. Sheridan council, Knights of
Columbus, has leased the hall on the third
floor of the building formerly occupied by
s1biiOh Hsho, Ol Dtdtc sbIttb, as II tOuHCli
room. This hall, which was originally
fitted up for the old Emerald band, is ad-
mirably adapted to the uses of the council,
and will make a pleasant meeting place
Tomorrow evening the regular meeting
will be held in the new hall, and as impor-
tant business will come before the council,
full attendance is desired.
The Bar Harbor & Union River Power
Co. will soon begin the work of laying
main from Ellsworth to Washington
junction. The distance from the present
terminus of the main on upper Main
street to the Junction is two miles. A
three-inch pipe will be laid. The city
government at its meeting Monday even
ing expressed itself in favor of putting
the water in the poor farm buildings.
The water company has also secured prom
ises of owners of houses along the route
and at Washington Junction to put in
water, and it is probable that one or both
cemeteries will take city water.
The city government will install three
additional arc lights and eleven series
follows: Arc lights-Main street, near T.
o. Tracy's; State street, at Town House
hill; Ellsworth Falls, junction Waltham
road and State street. Series lamps-Court
street, near Stephen Monaghan's house;
Surry road, in Blacks hollow; Surry road,
corner Grove street; corner Washington
and Water streets; corner Hancock and
ut otr Oaly
lane; Beal avenue, near F. L. Mason's; cor
ner Oak and Park streets; corner Central
and Royal streets; Mill street near Levi
Benefits; South street, near j. T. Giles
house.
A public entertainment under the aus
pices of the Pine Tree loyal temperance
legion, an auxiliary of the w. c. I. U. of
Ellsworth, was held last evening at the
Free Baptist chapel. The following pro-
gramme was rendered: Address of well
come, Merle Beckwith; drill by twenty
boys; recitations by Basil Robbins, Wal
ter Barron, Ethel Taylor, Alice McGown,
Alvin Barron and Curtis Taylor; solo
Ethel Taylor; duet, Mrs. Beckwith and
Merle Beckwith; solo, Basil Robbins; Mrs.
II. Greedy, organist. Refreshments We're
served. The committee in charge were
Mrs. NJ. A. Salisbury, Miss Rubie Gurney,
Miss Estelle West, Ralph Holmes and Mil
ton Beckwith.
City Clerk T. E. Hale this week received
from j. P. Harrington, friend in Manila,
P. l., with whom he worked in Niagara
Falls, Boston, and elsewhere, an invitation
of the general executive committee and
the Manila electric railroad and light
company, to take part in the excursion on
the electric road in honor of Secretary Of
War w. H. Taft and his party. The
excursion took place on Aug. S, as the
invitation was received little too late for
Mr.. Hale to participate, as he otherwise
would. Among the names OF the executive
committee appears the name of Richard L.
Latin, Hancock boy, who now holds an
imnortant nosition with the Manila