Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1908-02-19

No Sunday mail.
Miss Marion Baatlett left Monday for )
visit in Boston.
Aid. G. H. Curtis has returned from
q business trip 10 Boston.
L. F. Giles has been confined TO his
house the past week with the grip. A
Irene chapter, o. E. g., Will give a So
ciable at Manning hall this evening.
Mr.. and Mrs. Ralph p. Cushman are re-
ceiving congratulations on the advent Of
a son, born Feb. 1.
William II. H. Rice relief corps will
meet with Mrs. Charles H. Leland on Pine
street to- morrow evening.
Mrs. William B. Campbell is seriously
i'll. Her daughter, Mrs. G. A. Hanscom,
has also been i'll the past week. sr se7t
DR.. F. F. Simonton and wife are ,receiv-
ing congratulations on the birth of
daughter Tuesday Of last week.
The big dam one day last week was filed
to within eight feet Of its crest, the high
est point to which the water has yet been
raised.
The young ladies Of Ellsworth are
arranging for q leap year dance, to be
given at Odd Fellows hall next Wednes-
day evening.
The readings by Phidela Rice last Mon
day at the vestry OF the Baptist church,
were highly entertaining. He justified
all the press notices that have been given
him.
The Gem theatre is being well patron
lied. Over 200 tickets were sold last
week while the Passion Play" was on.
The programme is changed twice each
week.
Miss Helen E. Bonsey, who has been the
guest of Harry Z. Walker and wife at Exc
ter, n. H., is now in Boston. She at
tended the Ellsworth reunion in Boston
last evening.
church will hold sale Of aprons and
fancy articles, and serve supper at Odd
Fellows hail, Tuesday, afternoon and even
ing, Feb %.
The democratic convention Of the third
congressional district, composed OF Han
cock, Kennebec, Somerset and Waldo
counties, will be held at Ellsworth about
the middle Of April.
Schools in districts Nos. l, 4, 5, Z, 9, 13
and IA closed last Friday for the spring
vacation. School in district II closed a
week earlier, and those in districts 2 and 8
will close next Friday.
Miss Elizabeth E. springham will en-
tertain the boys and girls Of the junior
league of the Methodist church with q
George Washington party on Saturday
afternoon, from to s, at the parsonage.
Mrs. Elmer E. Rowe left last Saturday
for Lewiston, where she spent Sunday
with her son Harry E. Rowe. She left
Monday for Boston to attend the Ellis
worth reunion, and to spend q week there.
The members of the old Dirigo hose
company held their annual reunion at
Odd Fellows hall Monday evening. John
H. Leland was the caterer, and served an
excellent supper. Covers were laid for
fourteen.
Donaqua lodge, X. OF p, will work the
rank of page this evening on several can
didates. Supper will be served after work.
This lodge has q large amount OF work
ahead of it, many new members having
recently been received.
Philip, son of Frank T. Grows, was bad
ly cut on the ankle yesterday, by his
brother Frank. The boys were cutting
brush to be used in decorations for the
''tombola", and Philips foot slipped un-
der the axe just as it descended.
Rev. c. E. Owen, d. D., of Waterville,
district secretary of the anti saloon league,
will speak at the Baptist church next
Sunday morning, at Hancock in the after
noon, and at union meeting at the Con-
gregational vestry Sunday evening.
The Ellsworth board of registration will
Hancock hall next week from Tuesday to
Saturday, from a. m. to p. M, and from
to p. m. each day. The first four days
will be for registering voters, and the last
day for revising the lists.
There will be q recess meeting OF the
DOdIQ VI thio OSOAAh6t 0h0 oA
other meeting next Monday evening for
hearing on petition Of the New England
Telephone & Telegraph Co. for right to
erect poles and wires on Third, Hancock,
Central, Water, Pine and Fourth streets.
The third and last in the series of parlor
talks at the home Of Mrs. L. A. Emery,
under the auspices Of the Park street i'm
provement society, will be given next
Monday afternoon at o'clock by Miss
NJ. A. Greedy, on 1.-THE Work OF the
American Civic Association in its Relation
to Village improvement Societies.
The date for the masonic convention to
be held in Ellsworth has been set back to
March IL to accommodate lodges which are
to do the work. The convention, which
will be held at Odd Fellows hall, viii be