Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1907-10-23

tor,xis considering q proposition to tax
change. In the event of an arrangement
being made, the house will undergo exten
sive repairing and in every respect b,
put in first-class order. Should Mrs
Cunningham return to Ellsworth, she viii
receive hearty welcome.
Misses Mary F. Hopkins and Elizabeth
A. R6lcher are soon to open women.
exchange on the second fioor of the Greels
building, adjoining the First nationa
bank building. Fancy W; rk and cooked
foods will be sold on commission. The
exchange will be opened about the middle
of November.
MrR. Isaac E. Bridges has closed her
home on the Hancock road, and, with her
children, has gone to Weehawken, N. j.,
to live. One son remains in Ellsworth to
attend the high school. Two OF the boys
are employed on steamship plying be-
tween New York and Savannah, Ga. The
other two sons and the daughter are with
her.
A school Of instruction E. and A. M.
will be held at Masonic hall in the Nam
ming block next Wednesday, opening at
10 a. m. There will be instruction in the
unwritten work in the forenoon and after
noon. AT $50 o'clock, supper will be
served. In the evening the third degree
will be worked by Lygonia lodge. This
will be followed by inspection OF both
cnd ,v-or:c I,5 rsoo +
The entertainment which will be given
by the Dirigo club in connection with it's
Thanksgiving eve ball will be in the
nature Of musical comedy, entitled,
s.Popularity," and will be made up largely
OF scenes from ''Fifty Miles from Boston,,
'sThe Time, the Place and the Girl" ssThe
Spring Chicken and 1.-THE Mayor of
Tokio''. 1t will be presented by local
cast OF twenty-five. Rehearsals will
begin next week.
George Parcher Bartlett, native of
Ellsworth, died at Edmonds, WASH, Sept.
30, aged seventy-fou years. Mr.. Bartlett
left Ellsworth about fifty years ago, and
viyited here but once, thirty nine years
ago. He was one Of the pioneers of Ed
monds. He leaves son and daughter. OF
his own family, one brother and two sis
ters are living Edgar F. Bartlett, of Ed
monds, Mrs. w. P. Woodward and Mrs.
M. NJ. Whitaker, of Ellsworth.
Miss Ellen M. Stone, the missionary
whose capture by Macedonian brigands q
few years ago stirred the world, will lee
ture in Ellsworth next Thursday evening,
the place to be announced later. Miss
Stone was for 172 days held captive by the
brigands, awaiting ransom, and subjected
to grossest cruelties. She is now lectur-
ing through the East under the auspices
OF the Eastern Branch Of the Women's
Board of Foreign Missions. Wherever
she appears Miss Stone is drawing large
audiences. The lecture is free, but COL
lection will be taken.
There was a hearing before Judge-of
Probate E. E. Chase last Wednesday,, in
the Jordan will case, review OF which
was printed in The AMERICAN recently.
Mrs. Lizzie Gott, OF Bluehill, one of the
witnesses to the will, was examined. She
F. Marks, which names were signed to
the will as witnesses, represented one and
the same person, and that she, Mrs. Gott,
knew Mrs. Marks was a beneficiary
named in the the will when the will was
signed. She testified further that she did
not see Mrs. frankie M. Jordan sign the
will, and did not see her name signed to
the will when she affixed her signature as
witness. Judge Chase has not yet rem
dered his decree in this important case.
Rev. v. F. Hendee, pastor of the Ellis
worth Methodist church, was the princi-
pal speaker of the evening meeting of the
East Maine conference in Brewer Monday.
The reporter of the conference in the Ban
gor Ne,os says: "Mr. Hendee said that
not of his will but OF others was he pres
ent as the speaker, adding that the place
might better have been given to an older
clergyman. If, however, Mr.. Hendee re-
gretted the fact that his name had been
placed on the evenings programme, he
was alone in his depreciation, for it is sell
dom that q privilege like that of hearing
such an address as was heard on Monday
night is given to Brewer audiences, and
the congregation regretted only the fact
that there were no more present to share
such an opportunity. The sermon was an
expression of deep, involved and profound
theology, not a complicated version of
creeds with the show of technique its sole
object. 1t was a sermon in which was re-
told simple and beautiful truth clad in
language as appealingly beautiful. He
spoke as preacher speaks who is listened
to with the most rapt attention, earnestly
and not in vain, for it is safe to say that at
the close of Mr.. Hendee's sermon there
was not a single person whose mind had
strayed from the speaker and his words"