Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1907-11-20


GoISe EAST $50 m, 4 AID $50 . III.
GOING WEsT-ll.45. ll3e m. 80 and 8 pm.
No.aunday all.
Senator Hale left Monday for WASH
ington.
Fred L. Mason and wife are in Boston
for week.
Mrs. A. w. Cushman and Mrs. j. A.
Peters, who have bee visiting in Boston,
are home.
Mr.. and Mrs. E. C. Osgood are receiving
congratulations on the birth yesterday
OF daughter.
Sunrise council, Daughters OF Liberty,
will give another dance at Liberty hall
next Friday evening.
The first sociable Of the season given by
the Odd Fellows and Rebekahs was held
last evening. There was large attend
ance.
A shed has been built at the rear OF the
engine house on franklin street for the
storage OF the street sprinkler, road ma
chine, etc.
Mrs. L. E. Treadwell ana her cousin, E.
s. Cousins, left Monday for Lewiston, Bos-
ton and New York, where they will visit
friends and relatives.
On Monday, Dec. 2, Miss Mary A.
Stock bridge will open room in the
Manning block for her annual exhibition
OF water color pictures and Christmas
novelties.
The Ellsworth festival chorus will meet
for rehearsal at Manning hall tomorrow
evening. The books of the opera Aida are
at the Office of Mr.. Crabtree, and members
are requested to call there for them.
!, All the coal has been removed from the
Ellsworth schooner Melissa Trask, ashore
at Little Deer Isle, and an attempt is being
made this week to float her. B. s. Jelli-
son, one Of the owners, is at Little Deer
Isle.
e. E. Bullard and wife, of Charlestown,
Mass, leave to-day to spend the winter in
San Jose, Cal. Mr.. Bullard, who has been
on the Boston police force for many years,
has been retired on half pay, and is now
enjoying well-earned rest.
Twenty young ladies were delightfully."-
entertained at the home OF Miss Fay n.
Whiting last evening, at a handkerchief
shower given in honor of Miss Hazie
knowlton. The decorations and isvors
were appropriate to the occasion.
The stereopticon lecture on 'sThe Land
of the Midnight Sum-, by Rev. G. G. John
son at the Methodist church last Friday
evening, was interesting and Instructive.
and took the audience among some beau
tiful scenery OF the frozen North.
A field agent of the State department of
agriculture is in this section looking for
brown tail and gypsy moth nests. He has
found very few in the immediate vicinity
OF Ellsworth SO far. His territory Is
Washington and Hancock counties. &
The marriage OF Miss Halle Meservey
Knowlton and Kenneth Mckenzie Cam
eron will take place at the home Of the
BRIDES parents, John F. Knowlton and
wife, on Church street, Wednesday even
ing, Nov. 81. A reception will follow.
A casting OF the fire bell at the Franklin
street house was broken during the ring
ing of an alarm last week, and the bell
is temporarily out OF commission.
Arrangements have been made for the
sounding Of alarms by the whistle at
the Union shoe factory.
Harry E. Tracy, an Ellsworth boy who
has been in Boston for some years, has
returned to this city and opened "bar-
gain store" under the Dirigo athletic clubs
rooms, opposite the Manning block. Mr..
Tracy intends later to resolve his place
into regulation dry-goods store.
Next Saturday Misses Mary F. Hopkins
and L. A. Belcher will open their woman's
exchange on the second floor OF the Greely
building, adjoining the First national
bank building. The exchange win handle
on commission all kinds OF useful and
fancy srticles and cooked food, which will
be received from Ellsworth needlewomen
and housewives.
At the Ellsworth Foundry & Machine
Works lslip and marine railway have
been built this fall. The railway win take
boats up to 100 feet in length. 1t will
greatly facilitate the work of the
company ini installing gasolene en-
gines in launches and small vessels. The
steamer E. P. Dickson is now hauled out
on the railway for the winter.
Hon. Warren c. Philbrook, assistant
attorney general Of Maine, was in the
city Monday .and Tuesday. As grand
captain-general Of the grand commandery
Of Maine, K. T., Mr.. Philbrook paid an
official visit to Blanquefort commandery
on Monday evening. The degrees Of the
Orderlof the Temple and Malta werc con-
ferred upon Bert H. Young, OF Bar Har-
Dor. Aibanquet was served at $50. At