Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1909-02-03

No Sunday mail.
| Miss Carrie Morang ia ill OF peritonitis.
| Miss Altha A. Stevens is visiting friends
in New York city.
Donaqua lodge, K. of p, will work the
first rank on four candidates this evening.
Monaghan's dancing school and extra
will be held ct Society hall Monday even
ing.
The woman's relief corps will have .
supper at g. A. r. hall Thursday evening.
Supper served ct 6.
The Thursday club will meet with Mrs.
Lewis Hodgkins this week. All members
are requested to be present.
The boys basket ball team Of the high
school will play Northeast Harbor team at
Hancock hall Friday evening.
The literature club will meet Monday
evening with Mrs. Isabel H. Robbins at
the home OF Mrs. Barlow Hall.
The ladies' aid society OF the Methodist
church will meet with Mrs. Fred Snow on
High street to- morrow afternoon.
The amateur minstrel show for the
benefit OF the carnival fund will be given
at Hancock hall Monday evening, Feb. is.
There will be special service OF COM
munion and baptism at the Methodist
church next Sunday afternoon at O'Clock.
A supper will be served by the ladies of
the woman's alliance at the Unitarian
vestry on Wednesday evening, February
II.
Arthur Parcher and Robert King,
Bowdoin students, are at home for short
stay during the period Of midyear ex-
aminations.
The Ellsworth high school girls basket
ball team are planning to play a return
game with the Bar Harbor girls Friday
evening of next week at Bar Harbor.
William Munroe, of Bucksport, for
merry OF Bangor, was here yesterday on
business. While here he called on friends
whom he had not seen for twenty-six
years.
Chief-Justice Emery on Monday and
Tuesday of this week delivered his course
Of four lectures on eWhat to Do in Court,
and How, at the University of Maine
law school in Bangor.
Misses Myrtle Monaghan and Frances
Doyle went to Bangor last evening to at
tend the amateur performance of the
comic opera ''IdIewilde". Herbert Mon
Afghan is musical director in the presenta-
tion Of the opera.
Owing to illness in the family OF E.
e. Brady, district deputy, who was to in
stall officers Of Philip H. Sheridan council,
K. Of c., last Thursday evening, the install
lation has been postponed to date to be
announced later.
The city government has sent a formal
petition to the State board OF railroad
commissioners for hearing on the re-
quest to the Maine Central railroad for
gates, fagman or automobile signals at
the Ellsworth Falls crossing.
There will be party at Walter Bonsey's
West Ellsworth, this evening, under the
auspices of Mrs. w. F. Emery's Sunday
school class of the Methodist church.
Sleighs will leave postofice square at 2
o'clock for free transportation.
officers Of Blanquefort commandery, No.
IS, Knights Templar, will be installed this
evening, Feb. 8, by r. E. Arno w. King,
grand commander OF the grand command
cry OF Maine. The installation will be
public to families of knights. There will
be banquet at $50. Dancing will follow
the installation.
A ~ koc .a
sued against Mrs. Clara d. Buckmore,
under the recent decision Of the Ellsworth
municipal court, and City Marshal Brann
left with her last night for Alton, N. h.,
where her husband gained pauper resi-
dence before his death. She will be de-
livered into the custody of the overseers
Of the poor there.
The special committee appointed by the
board of trade to ascertain the possibilities
OF securing from Congress an additional
appropriation for dredging Union river,
petition for which was made by the board
last year, has received letter from Senator
Hale to the effect that the item was in
cluded in the river and harbor bill which
would probably be passed at this session.
The district convention OF Odd Fellows
will take place at Bar Harbor next Tues
day. Indications are that . large number
OF Odd Fellows will go from Ellis
worth. The Maine Central allows q
round-trip fare Of a1.1b. A special
train will bring the excursonists back
in the early morning hours Wednes-
day. Bar Hsrbor Odd Fellows are royal
entertainers, ~ previous conventions have