Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1908-08-05
place OF Curtis r. Foster, deceased, who
was the nominee Of the regular caucus.

place OF Curtis r. Foster, deceased, who
was the nominee Of the regular caucus.
The ladies OF the Main street division OF
the Village improvement society will hold
sale of cooked food and candy Saturday
afternoon, Aug. 8, at the residence of Mrs.
Alexander B. Black. Ice-cream and cake
will be served on the lawn. II stormy,
the sale will be held at the vestry OF the
Unitarian church.
Among the attorneys in Ellsworth
yesterday and to-day, in attendance at the
Dunbar will hearing before Judge Chase
in the probate court, or on other business,
were L. B. Deasy, E. 8. Clark, Charles H.
Wood, B. E. Clark and E. N. Benson, OF
Bar Harbor; E. P. Spofford, of Deer Isle,
and o. f. Fellows, of Bangor.
There have been frequent complaints re-
Gently Of the speeding of automobiles in
the city limits, particularly on State street.
Two dogs have been run over and killed
recently. City Marshal Brann has been
instructed to keep his eye out for the
''scorchers", and someone is likely soon to
furnish an expensive example to other
automobile speeders.
The Calendar society Of the Methodist
church will run an excursion to Newb bury
Ellsworth Falls band will furnish music.
The society will serve fish chowder at
the shore. The excursion will leave at
8 o'clock sharp. The proceeds are for the
fund for improvements recently made on
the church and grounds. lfstormy Friday,
the excursion will be on Saturday.
The schooner Henrietta A. Whitney,
which was ashore on ledge at the
entrance of Fox Island thoroughfare, was
floated Sunday night and towed to Rock
land Monday for repairs. Late reports
indicate that she is not as badly damaged
as first feared. She was floated after
third of her cargo Of coal had been taken
out, and ii is believed can be taken on the
railway and repaired without removing
the balance OF cargo. John o. Whitney
and Charles II. Haynes went to Rockland
yesterday.
Az the annual meeting at Skowhegan
last Wednesday and Thursday of the asso-
citation of clerks OF courts Of Maine, John
F. Knowlton, clerk of Hancock county, was
homo ed by being elected president of the
association. The object of this organiza
tion is to secure, so far as is possible,
uniform rules OF procedure in court, in
legal blank forms and in Office routine.
The choice OF the clerk of this county, one
of the smaller counties of the State, as
president of the association is highly
co.ss.limeptary to Mr.. Knowlton.
Ellsworth was visited by thunder
showers of unusual severity last Wednes-
day night and early Thursday morning.
The morning shower, which was the most
severe, followed the local electric light
wire into the power station, and burned
out the $500 horsepower generator.
The damage at the power house is reported
elsewhere. Lightning struck trees in
several places. On the Franklin road, be-
tween the railroad aud the poor farm,
four separate bolts struck, three splinter
ing trees and one striking a fence post.
bolt which struck tree opposite the
poor farm, followed the telephone wire
into the farm house, broke windows and
did other slight damage.
The contract for the George w. Davis
mausoleum at Woodbine cemetery has
been awarded to H. w. Dunn, of ELS
worth, who will do the granite and marble
work, and John Preble, of Bar Harbor,
who Will do the mason work. George W.
Davis, OF Boston, in his will, provided
5000 for burial expenses and tomb. The
tomb will be by far the finest piece of
monument work in Woodbine cemetery.
A circular plot will be surrounded by
twelve-inch cut granite curbing, set four
feet into the ground. The tomb will be of
polished Vermont marble, 10x12 feet, and
twelve feet high. The body of Mr.. Davis,
now in the family tomb at Woodbine
cemetery, will be deposited in this mau-
soleum.