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


afternoon session, and after the degree
work in the evening, . banquet will be
1asrved. Northeast Harbor lodge will work
the initiatory degree, Winter Hsrbor the
ASst degree, Southwest Harbor the second
degree, and the Ellsworth lodge will ex-
emplify the third degree.
| Word has been received Of the death in
Phoenix, Arizona, on Jan. %, of Frederick
=. Remission, son OF the late A. J. Remission
q this city, and grandson of the late
William Somerby, who will be remembered
| BY the older residents. MIR. Keniston's
mother, who was Eliza T. Somerby, died
. few years ago. One sister, Mrs. Alice
Remission Noodle, resides in Woodfords.
Richard, the eighteen months old son
Of Mr.. and Mrs. William I. Olmstead,
died Friday, Jan. %, after an illness OF
several weeks of scarlet fever. The sim
cere sympathy Of friends here goes out to
| the parents in their double bereavement,
they having lost their two children with
In month, their six-year-old daughter
Louise dying OF the same disease on
Jan. Z.
Mr.. and Mrs. Fred II. Kendrick cele.
bfated the fifteenth anniversary Of their
wedding at their home, 20 Wellington
street, Boston, on Friday evening, Jan. q.
| Nineteen guests, all members OF the two
families, were present. Refreshments
were served by two nieces OF Mr.. and Mrs.
Kendrick-LAura F. Cove and Frances w.
Lord. Mr.. and Mrs. Kendrick received
many gifts, including some beautiful
pieces Of cut glass.
| Winfred E. Clark, on petition Of q
majority OF the people OF West Ellsworth
| who have children in school, has been
| appointed to teach the school there, the
| opening Of which has been deferred be-
cause OF inability Of the school board to
make satisfactory arrangements for a
teacher. Miss Minerva Jordan, whose
school at North Ellsworth has just closed
for the term, will finish the term in place
Of Mr.. Clark at Ellsworth Falls.
Sheriff 6ilsby was in Bar Harbor last
week on q search and seizure case, secur-
kinsoD. The sentence was 500 fine and
sixty days in Jail. Wilkinson appealed,
but later withdrew his appeal and was
brought to the county Jail here yesterday
to serve his sentence. County Attorney
Wiley G. Conary appeared for the State.
Mr.. Conary stopped over in Ellsworth for
day before returning to BLcksport.
The committee Of arrangements for the
| concert and ball to be given on the night
OF Warrington Is birthday, under the aus
pices of the Village Improvement society,
is busy With plsns, which promise to
make this one OF the most delightful
social events OF the season. The concert
and music for dancing will be furnished
by Pullen's orchestra, OF Bangor. Mem
bers of the o. K. c. club will sell tickets,
and will also act as ushers at the hall.
The many friends OF James A. Davis, Of
Boston, formerly of this city, will be
pleased to learn that he is recovering from
most serious illness. He was taken
| suddenly ill with the grip and a serious
heart complication on Nov. 10, while IN
New York attending the horse show, and
was confined to his rooms at the Holland
house for q week. He was then able to get
to his country place at Lexington, Mass.
He has since, slowly but surely, been on
the road to recovery, which his friends
hope will before long be complete.
T. S. Arthur, Of Hackensack, N. j., who
will leave Portland next May to beat
Weston's record across the continent, ar
rived in Ellsworth Monday afternoon,
after a little warming-up jaunt through
the snowdrifts from Bangor. He left
clerks office here at O'Clock in the after
noon, making the trip on foot over twenty
six miles Of drifted road in seven hours,
having taken an hour out at Green Lake
for lunch. He left here yesterday mcrn-
ing for little walk to Cherryfeld.
Arthur LaChspelle, a boy thirteen years
of age, who was taken from q school home
in Boston by james Hartman and wife,
was srrsigned in the Ellsworth municipal
court Monday, charged with larceny. The
boy was charged with taking money from
the pocket Of a coat of one Of the Bar Har-
Dor girls during the basket ball game here
last Friday evening. He pleaded guilty,
but the court suspended sentence on ac-
count Of the youth of the respondent, and
on condition that the boy be returned to
the home from which he was taken,
B. B. Walker and George Haynes, OF the
Ellsworth Foundry & Machine Works,
have returned from the motor boat and
engine show in Boston, where the com
pany had two of its marine engines and
other equipment on exhibition. They
took several orders for engines. The re-
verse gear and the double-cylinder pump,
made specially by the Ellsworth company.
attracted much attention from experts at
tending the show, and were pronounced
the best on exhibition. Altogether, the
exhibit was a most successful one for the
Ellsworth company.
Two interesting games of basket ball
were played at Hancock hall Friday even
ing between the high school girls of Bar