Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1905-08-09

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seating 235 people. The lecture room,
which can be thrown into the auditorium
when occasion requires, is 21x30 feet, with
40 chairs. The walls will be sixteen feet,
ceiling twenty-five feet, tower 10x10 feet,
seventy feet high. The church viii be
heated by furnace and lighted by cleo
| trieity.
/ There have been a few changes in teach
ers for the fall term of the Ellsworth
schools in the list of appointments as
announced last week, on account of resig>
Enations. At Ellsworth Falls Miss Ruth
| Fields will teach the primary grade in
place of Miss Annie NJ. Davis. At the
Brimmer's bridge school, Miss vina Ray
| will teach instead of Harold Moore, and at
West Ellsworth, Miss Eleanor M. Pomroy
| instead of Miss Katherine Drummey.
| The adjourned meeting of the Nicolin
| club was held at the clubhouse last Mon
| day evening. The occasion was made
| sort of farewell to the clubhouse, the prop
| erty, as was stated last week, having been
| sold. Senator Eugene Hale is the pur-
chaser. What will probably be the last
gathering at the clubhouse will be next
| Friday evening, when the members will
tender days outing to the ladies, serving
banquet at about $50 in the evening.
An alarm was rung in for brush fire on
| Bridge hill at 1880 o'clock last Thursday.
evening. The firemen turned out, but
their services were not needed. Inciden-
| tally the alarm caused something approach
ing panic at Hancock hall, where a play
was in progress. Someone raised the cry
| of fire in the hall, and there was a stam-
| peGe for the doors. Cooler heads stopped
| the rush, and prevented possible accident
| in a rush down the stairways. When the
excitement had subsided, the hall was
| cleared.
| Here's trouble for the Ellsworth
small boy and for some of the big boys,
too. City Marshal Silvy is posting
notices calling attention to the city
| ordinance forbidding swimming except
| when properly clothed in bathing suits.
A bathing suit! Think of it! What a
| hardship for the small boy! But this is
what the almost forgotten city ordinance
says about it: ''No person shall, unless
| phopeilS Siotheui Odtue III any WdteEs
within the city, in the view of any lane,
! street or house."
! Whitelaw Reid, the American ambassa-
dor to England, at London last Friday
entertained at luncheon a number of
prominent Americans who are visiting
London. The guests included Chief Jus
tice A. p. Wiswell, of Ellsworth; Con-
| gresham Charles E. Littlefield, of Rock
| land; Justice GildersIeeve, of the New
! York supreme court; Postmaster William
! B. Wilcox, of New York; Robert j.
| Wynne, the American consul-general, and
Caspar Purdon Clarke, director of the
| Metropolitan museum of art, New York
| Albert E Sargent, of Lamoine, was tried
| before Judge Peters in the Ellsworth mu-
nicipal court Monday afternoon, On a
! charge of assault preferred by Isaac n.
Salisbury, of Lamoine. Harry L. Crabtree
| appeared for the prosecution, and d. e.
| Hurley for the defense. From the testi-
mony it appears that the quarrel be-
| tween Mr.. Salisbury andMr. Sargent which
| led to the assault, grew out of fight be-
tween the Salisbury and Sargent dogs.
| The defendant was found guilty and fined
$40, without costs. He appealed, and fur
nished 800 bonds for appearance at the
October term of the supreme court.
| Freeland and Wilmot Robbins, of Deer
Isle, were brought to Ellsworth Saturday
under jail sentence from the western Han
cock municipal court, of sixty days each
for larceny and bound over also for the Oct
ober grand jury on a charge for burglary.
The Robbins boys are sons of William
Robbins, whose murder last January
remains one of the unsolved myster-
les of Hancock county. There have been
several robberies in Deer Isle and Stoning-
| ton recently, which were finally traced to
| the Robbins boys, who were living on
| Sheep island. Since-their arrival at the
county Jail, Freeland Robbins has been
seriously ill, with typhoid fever symptoms.
! The exhibition of the Ellsworth fire
department Lag Wednesday evening was
fine demonstration of the efficiency OF the
hose companies and the excellence of the
| Ellsworth water system. The two hose
companies started from the engine house
at tap of the fire bell, and ran to the
square. The Senators coupled on to the
hydrant in front of Moore's drug store,
and the City hose company took the
hydrant on State street Both companies
laid four strings of hose of 100 feet each,
and in remarkably short time had four
strong streams going from each hydrant.
The exhibition demonstrated the value of
the new engine plug coupling. After this
exhibition, a bonfire was kindled in the
square, and Chief Eaton, with a patent
fire extinguisher attempted to put it out.
The fire was fierce one, and a severe test
for the extinguisher. 1t was not entirely
extinguished, but the manneh> in which
tie flames were subdued proved the effect
iveness of the extinguisher in putting out
small blaze. The new hose wagons came
in for fair share of admiration.