Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1909-05-19

Mrs. Eva NJ. Sellers is visiting her son
| in Boston.
| Miss Eva Aiken is visiting in Portland
for few days.
| There will be dance at Society hall
Saturday evening.
| Charles W. Pierce is critically ill at the
home of j. A. French.
| The Thursday club will meet with Mrs.
| F. Fl. Mcfarland this week.
| Winton Stevens, Bowdoin, 10, was a
| guest at DR.. II. l.. ID. Woodruff's few days
recently.
| Miss Florence Jordan is at home from
Cape Cottage, where she has been for
several weeks.
Mrs. George r. Caldwell. of Somerville,
| Mass, is visiting her parents, Lorenzo d.
Foster and wife.
! The senior class of the high school will
| give a reception to the juniors at Society
hall next Friday evening.
| George B. Floyd and wife, of West Ellis
| worth, will reach their golden wedding
anniversary on Saturday, May 20.
| Mrs. Amanda Young, of South Surry, is
visiting her daughters, Mrs. A. L. Bellatty
and Mrs. John Meader, on the Surry road.
John o. Whitney, who has been confined
| to the house for several weeks, is gaining
rapidly, and expects to be out by next
Monday.
The trustees of the Ellsworth city Ii
brary announce that the library and read
ing room will be open Sundays from 2 to
$50 p. m.
Mrs. Susan Nichols, who has been visit
ing friends at Nicolin, has returned to this
city to stay with her cousin, Mrs. Sarah
Dow, for few weeks.
The senior class of the high school has
begun rehearsals of the play, Ferguson,
of Troy" which will be presented on the
evening of graduation day
Monaghan's orchestra will go to Frank
lin tonight to play for the high school
graduation, remaining until tomorrow
night to play for the reception.
The high school base ball team went
down to overw helming defeat before the
Cherryfeld academy team at Wyman park
last Saturday. The score was 1870.
Merrill Head and A E. Witham re-
Branch pond, with three handsome trout,
weighing four, three and two pounds.
Mrs. Harvard c. Jordan, chief operator
of the Ellsworth telephone exchange,
attended meeting of the chief operators
of eastern and central Maine at WatervilIe
last week.
Master Daniel Harrington observed his
eighth birthday last Thursday by enter
tanning about thirty-five of his young
friends at the home of his parents on
Bridge hill.
There will be meeting of the city gov
ernment tomorrow evening, for hearing
on petition of the New England Telephone
& Telegraph Co. for the rebuilding of its
line on the Surry road.
Ellsworth friends of Mrs. Morey Tripp,
of Boston, who has been critically ill, are
pleased to hear favorable reports. She is
now improving, and expects to be able to
leave the hospital this week.
The S. G. G. class of the Baptist Sunday
school is planning for an entertainment to
be given in the Baptist vestry Thursday
evening, May q. The program will in
clude memorial tableaux and music by
Lynch's band.
The U. of NJ. dramatic club appeared in
"Much Ado About Nothing" at Hancock
hall last Friday evening. The play was
given under the auspices of the girls
basket ball team of the high school. A
dance followed.
DIR. F. F. Simonton and Charles l..
Morang arrived in Ellsworth with their
new automobiles last Wednesday evening.
This increases the nun ber of automobiles
owned in Ellsworth to five, and one more
ordered by Henry L. Russell.
No new cases of scarlet fever have been
reported to the board of health since last
week. The quarantine has been raised in
a two houses, leaving four now under quar-
antine. The board Of health apparently
has the epidemic well in hand.
Mrs. w. L. Remick, of Bayside, was
injured by being thrown from her carriage
on Franklin street Monday afternoon.
The horse took fright at an automobile,
and to avoid it, Mr.. Remick, who was
driving, turned into the passage way near
the engine house, where the sprinkling