Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1910-05-04

The Sunday trains on the Mt. Desert
branch will begin running next Sunday.
Crushed rock is being laid on the State
street hill, where the roadbed is badly
worn out.
Frank E. Mace, OF Great Pond, and
Albert E. Mace, OF Aurora, were in Ellis
worth Monday.
w. E. Whiting has rented the Phillips
house on School street, and will move
there this week.
Miss Helen Macomber and Miss Edith
Joy are visiting relatives in WaItham,
Mass, for few weeks.
Harry E. Rowe, Harry G. Austin and
B. F. Joy are attending the meetings Of
the grand masonic bodies in Portland.
Mrs. Horace Marks, Of Bayside, returned
home Sunday, after spending few days
with her daughter, Mrs. Oscar Remick.
Wivurna encampment, 1. O. o. F., will
work the royal purple degree next Mon
day evening. Supper will be served after
| work.
The reception given annually by the
senior class of the high school to the
juniors, will take place next Friday even
| ing, ct Society hall.
District Superintendent Haskell will
preach in the Methodist church Sunday
morning, May 8, and win assist the pastor,
Rev. o. g. Barnard, in the evening service.
The Thursday club will meet tomorrow
evening with Mrs. B. F. Joy at 7 o'clock.
Members are requested to observe the
change of time-from afternoon to even
ing.
Mrs. Webster Higgins, of North Els
worth, who has been visiting her dsugh-
| ter, Mrs. William Maloney, at sLoney
Farm, on the Bayside road, returned
home Sunday.
Several Ellsworth people report hearing
and feeling what they think was slight
earthquake shock at about 5.45 O'Clock
this morning. Others report a similar
shock last Friday evening.
The school census OF Ellsworth for the
year, as returned by Superintendent Clara
o. Hopkins, shows S72 children between
the ages Of five and twenty-one years.
Last years census showed $50.
The first quarterly conference of the
Methodist church of this city will be held
Saturday afternoon, May Z, at 2.3O O'Clock,
at the home of Superintendent Haskell,
corner Of High and Spruce streets.
Albert F. stockbridge expects to leave
Ellsworth about the middle Of this month
for Bar Harbor, where he will open q con-
fectionery store and ice-cream parlor on
Cottage street. He is closing out his store
here.
VIM. H. H. Rice relief corps will observe
its twenty-fifth anniversary tomorrow
evening at G. A. R. hall by concert and
entertainment, to which all veterans, with
invited.
Goldie E. Raymond, of Ellsworth, and
Thomas B. Spillane, of Portsmouth, N. H..
were married last Wednesday evening al
the Baptist parsonage, by Rev. P. A. A
Killam. They left on the late train fol
Portsmouth.
The ladies of the Methodist church are
to give their new pastor reception thii
evening in the lower rooms at the church
A cordial invitation is extended to al
the people OF the city to meet Mr.. ane
Mrs. Barnard.
Rev. A. P. Macdonald, the seacoas
missionary, left Ellsworth Tuesday To-
West Pownal, having in charge Llewelly1
Colson, of Birch Harbor, and Pearl Young
Of Corea, who will enter the home TO
feeble minded.
Henry w. Sargent, who learned hi
trade in, and then became foreman of tn,
THE AMERICAN printing office, has re-
signed to accept position with the Cam
bridge, Mass, Chronicle. He left for Bos
ton last Friday.
The boys and girls of the Ellsworth
high school have organized an sthleti,
association. The officers are Harold
Gould, president; Harold Hawkes., vice.
president; Ruth Maddocks, treasurer
Erva Giles, secretary.
The Hancock County Grange Fair asso.
citation has voted the use of Wyman park
to the Ellsworth gun club for it's registered
shoot on the Fourth, which will be one
of the biggest events for trap shooters in
this section Of the State this year.
The commencement exercises OF the
Ellsworth high school will take place
Friday, June II. The graduation exer-
cises will be held in the afternoon at Han
cock hall, and the graduating class will
give play in the evening, follogedby q
ball.
William B. Tracy has purchased the
interest of Harry M. Bellatty in the firm
of Tracy & Bellatty, and will conduct the