Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1906-03-28

JUST couiS IOH WaleS Nnere refuarka ole
revival has been in progress, is expected
to speak at The Baptist church Friday
evening of next week.
Joseph A. Bryant and wife, of Brook
on the advent of a son, born March Il.
Mrs. Bryant was Miss Helen c. Davis,
daughter of Henry +. Davis and wife, of
this city.
Chandler Hale and wife are receiving
congratulations on the birth at Washing
ton, on March 25, of son. The youngster
has been named Eugene Sd, in honor of
his distinguished grandfather, Senator
Eugene Hale.
A. x. Cushman has secured position as
travelling salesman with John r. Ainsley
q Co., of Boston, and was here this week
on his initial trip. He has Maine terri
tory, from Calais TO Bath, and can be at
home every Saturday.
All the Ellsworth schools, including the
high school, will open rext Monday for
the spring term with the same teachers as
last term. Arrangements have been made
to have the no-school signals sounded on
the whistle of Union shoe factory as we'll
as at the hardwood factory.
Leroy Cousins, one OF the crew of the
Lejok, who was taken off i'll with typhoid
fever after the collision, as reported else
where, died in Boston Saturday night.
Cousins was about nineteen years of age.
He came to Ellsworth from Bar Harbor
only few years ago, and had made his
home with s. Scott Estey. The body was
inferred at Mt. Hope cemetery, Boston.
AT the regular meeting of Lejok lodge,
/. o. o. F., last Friday evening, hand
some past grand's collar was presented to
F. S. Call, in recognition of his faithful
and efficient services as an officer and
member Of the finance committee of the
lodge. The presentation was informal,
w. II. Dresser speaking for the lodge and
Mr.. Call responding briefly, expressing
his thanks.
All who remember the readings given
by Miss Agnes Stafford on her former visits
to Ellsworth will be glad to hear her next
Friday evening at the home of Rev. S. w.
Sutton. Miss Safford's rendering of
Browning's Pippa Passes has been very
popular all over the State for the past four
years, and the Ellsworth audience can an
ticipate a great treat. There will be
music, and refreshments will be served.
The funeral of James Lord was held at
his late home on Pine street last Thursday
forenoon. Rev. P. A. A. Killam, pastor Of
the Baptist church, officiated, and also
rendered solo, ".Lead Kindly Light"
The pail bearers were John F. Whitcomb,
Joseph M. Higgins, Charles Fl. Curtis and
Horace +. Wescott. The remains were
deposited in the tomb at Woodbine ceme-
terry. Final interment will be at East
Surry.
The new board of assessors-George W.
Patten, John F. Royal and Lorenzo d.
Foster will be in session at the alder
mems room during business hours on all
secular days from April to April Is, for
the purpose of receiving from tax payers
lists of the real and personal property of
which they were possessed on April 1.
Failure to make such return bars a tax
payer from appeal to the county commits
sioners.
An attractive addition to the store of
E. G. Moore, druggist, is cigar stand
and case. The stand is forty-two inches
high, ten feet long and twenty-seven
inches deep. The front and ends are of
plate glass and the framework is of
ebony. A gun metal rack, on which the
goods are displayed, rests on marble
base, and electrical effects are produced
from an imitation of the dome of the
national capitol.
r. B. Holmes, John A. Peters and How
ard B. Moore have cut some fine logs on the
Swazey lot in the town of Orland, pur-
chased last year. The logs have scaled
about seven logs to thousand feet, which
is an unusually high average for the pres
ent day in this vicinity. About 100000
feet in spruce logs, and considerable stave
wood have been landed in Branch pond,
and will be taken to the Branch Pond
Lumber Co. IS mill.
Nokomis Rebekah lodge next Tuesday
evening will appropriately celebrate its
tenth anniversary. The grand lodge
officers have been invited to be present.
River View lodge, of Bucksport, which
instituted Nokomis lodge ten years ago,
has been invited to be present and work
the degree. Unison lodge, of Bar Harbor,
has also been invited. The programme
will include supper at 6 O'Clock, work in
the evening followed by social time.
A telegram last Friday announced the
sudden illness of Emory F. White, the
tenor soloist who was to appear here that
evening under the auspices of the Help
somehow society of the Baptist church,
and caused the indefinite postponement of
the recital. The society had prepared the
refreshments to be served, and as these
could not well be postponed indefinitely,
there was sale of ice-cream, cake and
candy, and a social evening was enjoyed.
Mr.. Justice Emery leaves next Monday
to hold term of court in Bath. At the
conclusion of his term there he will go to