Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1908-07-29

DIR. ]. H. Patten, Of Amherst, is in
Ellsworth to-day.
There will be social dance at Society
hall Friday evening.
Arthur L. Higgins is at home from Bos-
ton for his vacation.
Milton Beckwith spent few days last
week with friends in Steuben.
George G. Davis, of Holyoke, Mass, is
spending weeks vacation in Ellsworth.
Miss Virginia Carter is in Bangor for an
extended visit with her aunt, Mrs. John
Graham.
| Miss Alice Simpson, of Belfast, who has
been visiting Mrs. Harry Brown, returned
home last week.
! DR.. Harvard Greedy is attending the
meeting Of the national dental association
at Boston this week.
! Forrest o. Silsby, of Amherst, republi-
can candidate for sheriff, was in Ellsworth
yesterday and to-day.
| Misses Clara Z. and Alice M. Mullsn
and Frances B. Doyle are guests at the
Gaynor, Northeast Harbor.
| Frank Cook, of New York, is spending
short vacation with his parents, James L.
Cook and wife, in Ellsworth.
| Miss Melicent Flynt, of Bangor, visited
Mrs. Augusta Emery and Miss Evelyn
Atkins on State street over Sunday.
Oliver l.. Anderson and wife, of Cam
bridge, Mass, are spending vacation Of
three weeks with relatives in Ellsworth
and Cherryfield.
Rev. Albert J. Lord, wife and son, Of
Meriden, Conn, are spending vaca-
ton Of several weeks with relatives in
Ellsworth and vicinity.
Miss Bertha l.. Giles, who has spent the
past winter and spring in New York
singing and studying music, arrived home
I for the summer last Saturday.
Rev. r.. b. Mathews, of the Congrega-
tional church, was taken suddenly i'll Sum
/ day morning, and there was no service at
the church. He is now improving.
E. L. Moor will move his barber shop
| to the rooms on the second floor of the
new Holmes building tomorrow. The
rooms have been attractively decorated.
Mrs. d. j. Harden, OF Elgin, ILL.,, who
will be remembered as Lessie Chamber
lain, is a guest at the American house.
She expects to remain here through
| August.
DIR. Percy Bartlett, wife and daughter
Elizabeth, Of Hanover, N. H., accompanied
by Mrs. Bartlett's sister, Miss Iva Potter,
of Canada, are visiting DR.. Bartlett's
mother, Mrs. Maria L. Bartlett.
There wereino bids for the State road
work in Ellsworth, advertised to be
opened Saturday. The city sent in bid
to the State highway department to do
the work for q ,25O.
Mrs. A. w. Greedy and her sister, Miss
| Nancy NJ. Dutton, will entertain group
of friends this evening in honor of
her guest, Mrs. G. H. Closson, who leaves
tomorrow for New Hampshire.
The recent sale of the stallion Bingen is
interesting to the people of Ellsworth, as
Bingen was at one time the property of q.
H. Greedy, of this city. According to re-
port the new owner of Bingen, William
Bradley, of New York, paid $4,000 for
him.
Harvey W. Morang cut his wrist badly
last Wednesday afternoon, and narrowly
escaped severing the main artery. In
catching large glass jar which was fall
| ing from a shelf in his store, the jar broke
and the sharp edge cut a deep cash across
his wrist.
Mrs. F. A. Coombs, with son Frederick,
who has spent two weeks with her par
ents, James e. Parsons and wife, in Els
worth, has returned to her home in East
Orange, N. j. Her son Whitney will
spend the remainder of the summer with
his grandparents.
The board of registration has completed
the work of revising the poll lists Of Ellis
worth. Fifty-six names were taken off
the Ist-nine because of death, and forty
seven because OF removal from the city.
Thirty seven voters were changed from
one ward to another.
Announcement is made OF the engage
ment of Miss Grace G. King, daughter of
Associate Justice and Mrs. Arno w. King,
Of this city, to Glenn A. Lawrence, Of
Lubec. Miss King is Wellesley, '07, girl.
During the past year she has been teach
ing in the high school at Chester, Mass
Mr.. Lawrence is Bowdoin, '07, man. At
present he is in the employ of the Union
Trust Co., of Ellsworth.
The Methodists and Baptists were
favored with delightful weather for their
excursion to Newbury Neck last Thursday.
A happy crowd Of nearly 500 thronged the
decks of the schooner LAvolta, which, IN
tow OF the tug Little Round Top, carried
the excursionists to the Neck. The day
by the sea was thoroughly enjoyed. A
seven-inning baseball game between the
"Solid Muldoons', with a. W. Dunn, H.,