Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1907-07-10

was adjourned for one month owing to
small attendance
The firemen were called out Saturday
afternoon for a fire at the foundry. The
fire started in the roof, and was extin-
guished with slight damage.
Mrs. c. R. Foster entertained group Of
friends last Monday evening in honor OF
the Misses Silsby, Of Cambridge, Mass,
who are spending the summer here.
Charles e. Higgins and Miss PAMELA
Morrison have purchased, through Capt.
8. L. Lord, 200-acre tract Of land in
Trenton Of DR.. c. E. Holt, Of Dover.
About fifty from Ellsworth went on the
excursion by steamer Percy v. to Ston-
ington on the Fourth, enjoying pleasant
sail and good day at the granite town.
Mrs. DR.. Stilson, OF Winchester, Mass. !,
was the guest OF Clerk-of-Courts J. F..
Knowlton and wife last week. She is now
visiting in Bucksport, her former home.
Chester A. Maddocks, Of Ellsworth,
teacher in tie military school ct Borden
town, N. J., is attending the summer
school at the University Of Maine, Orono.
Rev. Charles F. Dole, D. D., minister OF
the First Congregational society, of Ja-
maica Plain. Mass, will preach at the
Unitarian church next Sunday morning.
Albert Mckenzie, who has been at home
from Brockton, Mass, for q short vaca-
tion, returned this week. accompanied by
his wife...They will make their home in
Brockton.
Howard H. Adams and Leslie w. Beck
with were ct home from Boston for the
Fourth. Linwood Beckwith, who has
been teaching in Porto Rico, is at home
for the summer.
The Mt. Desert Transit Co. has con-
cluded negotiations for the purchase Of
terminal site in Bar Harbor. 1t had
bought q tract OF thirteen acres near
Lromwell's harbor.
The Congregational Sunday school is
planning for picnic which probably will
take place some time next week, at q
convenient point which can be reached
both by boat and team.
c. P. DeLaittre, of Minneapolis, Minn.,
was guest over Sunday Of his brother
in-law, Capt. Addison Maddox. Mr.. and
Mrs. DelAittre are spending the summer
at Alumni cottage, Sandy Point.
Superintendent Of Schools John F. Royal
will hold an examination OF applicants for
positions as teachers in the schools of
Ellsworth at the east side grammar school
next Tuesday, beginning at 9 a. m.
Rev. A. L. Hudson, pastor of the Cham
ming Religious society OF Newton, Mass,
who is at his~E East Surry home for the
summer, delivered an eloquent sermon.at
the Unitarian church last Sunday morn
ing.
The annual reunion of the 9Th Name
regiment will be held in Ellsworth Aug.
2s and %. There will be a business meet
ing at Grand Army hall Wednesday after
noon, and campfire in the evening at
Odd Fellows hall.
Mrs. William s. Crippen, who has been
in Havana, Cuba. the past year, arrived
home last week to.spend the summer with
her parents, Thomas j. Holmes and wife.
Mr.. Crippen is expected to return to the
states in September.
Hoyt Stevens, who recently sold his
place on High street to the Mt. Desert
Transit Co..: has purchased of the S. D.
Wiggin estate the lot on Oak street be-
tween the residences of John P. Eldridge
and Henry E. Davis, and will build.
Miss Maud Goggins is home from New
York, where she has been employed for
some weeks. On her way home she
stopped at Holyoke, and was accompanied
to Ellsworthaby her cousin, Fred B. Nc
Givren, of Holyoke, who will spend va
cation Of two weeks here.
Ellsworth's two Wellesley graduates of
the class of '07 are to begin teaching in
the fall-Miss Grace c. King, daughter of
Justice A. w. King, in the high school
at Chester, Mass; Miss Paulene Foster,
daughter OF C. R. Foster, in the Con-
cord school for boys at Concord, Mass.
No definite arrangement for the excur-
sion of the Unitarian Sunday school has
been made. The committee was unable to
secure the same low fare as before for the
trip by rail to Mt. Desert Ferry, and the
plan for having the picnic there has
been given up. Some other
may be made.
J. P. Nichols and Roy Thompson, both
of Frankfort, were arrested in Bangor last
Wednesday and brought to Ellsworth to
answer to charge OF forging check for
$3.50 on Frankfort man, and cashing it at
the First national bank, Ellsworth. They
were bound over for the October grand
iury and furnished $500 bail each.
An interested visitor in Ellsworth this
week was S. L. Hodgdon, of Canton, Ohio,
the home of the late President Mckinley,
whose personal friend he was. Mr.. Hodg-
don is a native OF Trenton, where he
was born away back in 1887. He left here
fifty years ago, and has never been to the
place of his birth but once since, and that