Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1906-01-03


No Sunday mail.
Miss Marie Grant is visiting her aunt,
Mrs. w. A. Alexander.
Curtis DurEain, of North Brooksville,
was in Ellsworth yesterday.
Mrs. w. H. Dresser left yesterday for a
! short visit with relatives in Cherryfeld. !,
N. H. Means had pig slaughtered last
week, seven months old, which weighed
$50 pounds.
Lygonia lodge, F. and A. M, will elect
officers this evening, and Esoteric lodge
tomorrow evening.
DIR. Harry c. Mason and wife, who
spent the holidays here, returned to
Stonington Monday.
e. X. Hopkins and wife have returned
from a visit to their daughter, Mrs. $. T..
Campbell, at Island Falls.
Miss Julia r. Cushman left on Monday
nights train to return to her studies at
Bridgewater (Mass.I normal school.
The ladies' auxiliary of the Congrega-
tional church.w will meet with Mrs. George
A. Parcher on Tuesday, Jan. 9, at 8 o'clock.
oh. Bradbury, who recently returned
from Nashua, n. H., has been seriously
ill, but during the past few days has inn
proved.
DR.. ]. Fl. Patten and II. T. Silsby, Of
Amherst, were in the city yesterday in
the interests OF the Union River telephone
company.
The John Davenport Murch place at the
mouth OF the river has been sold to
Ernest J. Harrington. The property con-
sists of the buildings and about thirty
acres OF land.
While the official call for the masonic
district convention has not yet been an
nounced, it is understood that the con-
vention will be held in Ellsworth, on
Thursday, Feb. q.
Mrs. Clifford G. Royal has received word
OF the illness OF her son, Hoyt Austin,
with scarlet fever in the hospital in Bos-
ton, where he has been the past year
studying to become a trained nurse.
DR.. J. T. Mcdonald left Monday night
for Aitkin, Mimi, to accompany home his
brother, John II. Mcdonald, whose
health has failed greatly in the past few
weeks. They are expected home next
week.
Chief Justice A. P. Wiswell and wife at
tended the wedding of Miss Sydney Sewall
Manley, daughter of the late Joseph HI.
Manley, and Duer Dupont Breck, Of
Garden City, n. Y, at Augusta last Thurs
day evening.
The rehearsals of the Ellsworth festival
chorus will be resumed tomorrow even
ing at Manning hall. A full attendance is
earnestly requested. The miscellaneous
music is expected to arrive this week.
Miss Ruth Wilbur, of Lakewood, and
Granville T. Tate, of Bayside, were mar
ried at the Methodist parsonage in Ellis
worth on Monday, Jan. 1. They will re-
side with the BRIDES mother, Mrs. A. IL.
Tate, at Lakewood.
T. r. Newgent, Of Yale divinity school,
preached at Ellsworth Falls last Sunday
morning and evening, and will occupy the
pulpit again next Sunday. Mr.. Newgent
may be called to the pastorate of this
church for next summer.
The January committee of the Congre-
gational church is to give party next
Friday evening at o'clock at the home of
Judge l.. A. Emery, to which the public is
cordially invited. The proceeds are to be
for the benefit OF the society.
Acadia r. A. chapter elected officers last
evening as follows: Arno w. King, E. H..
p; John F. Knowlton, X; John III. Brim-
mer, S.; Arthur W. Greedy, treasurer; !;
James E. Parsons, secretary; Harvard c..
Jordan, c. H.; Albert l.. Witham, p. s.,
Marks Hertz, R. A. c.
Elmer Trueworthy, who was employed at
the Hooper mill ON Branch pond, cut his
right hand badly on a trimming saw yes
terday afternoon. The hand was badly
mangled, but DIR. Woodruff, who attended
him, thinks Mr.. Trueworthy will retain
the use of all his fingers.
The county commissioners were in ses-
sion in Ellsworth last week, winding up
the years business and assessing the
plantation road taxes. They resumed
meetings to-day, and are now at work
auditing the county treasurer's accounts,
and preparing the annual report.
At the annual meeting OF Lejok lodge, /
o. o. F., last Friday evening, officers were
elected as follows: w. A. Alexander, N.
g.; Horace F. Wescott, v. g.; F. L. Mason,
secretary; J. A. Cunningham, treasurer;
John P. Eldridge, Harvard G. Jordan and
James E. Parsons, trustees. A feature Of
the evening was the presentation Of
handsome past grands' collars to Harvard