Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1909-01-27

Mrs. H. L. Russell has returned from q
weeks visit in Rockland.
Donaqua lodge will work the second
rank on two candidates this evening.
Mrs. l.. NJ. Moore left this noon for .
visit of two weeks in Boston and vicinity.
The woman's relief corps will have a
supper at G. A. r. hall tomorrow even
ing.
George B. Stuart has taken rooms above
| the Burrill national bank on Main street
as law offices.
Mrs. F. G. Allinson, of Providence, r. L.,
is visiting her parents, Chief-Justice l.. A.
Emery and wife.
John o. Whitney, NJ. Gallert and Henry
M. Hall left to-day ON business for the
Ellsworth board of trade.
Invitations have been issued for a socia-
bic to be given tomorrow evening by
Donaqua lodge, X. OF p, at Odd Fellows
hall.
Harry w. Haynes and l.. F. Giles are
building a sixteenfoot launch which will
be equipped with a two-horse power en-
gine.
I Officers of Philip H. Sheridan council,
Knights of Columbus, will be installed
tomorrow evening by Edward e. Brady,
district deputy. A banquet will follow
installation
Rev. P. A. A. Killam, and Miss Cora An-
derson and Mrs. Ida Byard as delegates
from the Ellsworth Baptist church left
| to-day to attend the anniversary confer
| ence in Bangor.
Quite number of Ellsworth people to-
day took advantage Of the excursion rates
| on the Maine Central railroad to attend
the matinee performance of "The Merry
Widow" at Bangor.
Mrs. Rufus H. Young died ar her home
in South Hancock Monday after long
illness. Funeral services were held at the
home to-day, Rev. P. A. A. Killam, of
Ellsworth, officiating.
The January social committee Of the
Congregational society, Mrs. F. H. Osgood
chairman, will have sale of cooked food
at the Office of Judge A. W. King, next
Saturday afternoon, beginning at o'clock.
Mrs. Perry Bowden, James Bowden and
Herman Sinclair, who have been in Sho-
shone, Wyo., several months, where sew
erai Ellsworth men are employed by the
Ambursen Hydraulic Construction Co.,
arrived home last week.
c. L. Morang has not yet completed the
work Of taking stock in the Gallert dry
goods store. which be has purchased, and
this work may occupy several weeks. The
taking of stock in the shoe store was COM
pleted last week, and the store reopened'
B. b. Walker and George Haynes, of the
Ellsworth Foundry & Machine Works,
are in Boston this week attending the
New England motor boat and engine
show in the interest Of the Ellsworth
foundry, which is exhibiting two gasoline
engines.
The girls basket ball team OF the Els
worth high school will play the Bar Har-
Dor high school girls at Hancock hall next
Friday evening. This will be the first
game the Ellsworth girls will play with
an out -of-town team. Dancing will follow
the game.
Officers of Lygonis lodge, F. and A. NJ,
were installed last Thursday evening by
the retiring master, Rev.. r. B. Mathews,
assisted by T. E. Hale as marshal. The
installation was public to members OF
Masons families. After the installation
there was sociable, with dancing, cards
and supper.
Patrick Larkin, one Of Ellsworth's very
Oldest citizens, being in his ninety-sixth
year, has been critically i'll the past week,
but now seems to be gaining strength.
His sons, Peter Larkin, of Wsterville, and
Thomas Larkin, Of Bangor, who were
called here by their fathers illness have
returned to their homes.
Officers Of Blanquefort commandery, No.
10, Knights Templar, will be installed
next Wednesday evening, Feb. 8, by R. e.
Arno w. King, grand commander of the
grand commandery OF Maine. The in
stallation will be public to families Of
knights. There will be banquet at $50.
Dancing will follow the installation.
]. A. Leonard, chief-engineer OF the Bar
Harbor & Union River Power Co., returned
last Thursday from New York, where be
has been several weeks as an electrical ex-
pert witness in a law suit involving .
large sum Of money. Mr.. Leonard has
recently been elected an associate mem
Der Of the American Institute OF Electrical
Engineers. This is the second high honor
conferred upon him within year, be hav-