Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1911-07-12

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Brown will return as assistants. Several
vacancies in the common schools have moi
been filed.
Miss Erva Giles 10 the guest Of Miss
Alice Dresser in Yarmouthville. Mrs.
Giles will join her in Portland Saturday,
for trip through the White mountain M
to Littleton, N. H., where they will visit
| friends.
At the Methodist church Sunday morn
ing, DR.. Kizer's subject will BE-: 1.-THE I'm
finished Career" In the evening there
will Be Photographic sacred concert.
which was postponed from last Sunday
evening.
recent accession to the Hancock
county bar is Oscar H. Emery, OF Eden.
who has opened law office ct Southwest
Harbor. He will practice alone, and not,
- has been erroneously announced, in
partnership with Mr.. Norwood.
A meeting Of the Hancock County Board
OF Fire Underwriters was held at the Of
fce of o. w. Tapley last Friday afternoon.
Agencies represented at the meeting were
o. w. Tapley, M. E. Holmes, G. w. & F..
L. Mason, &. Z. Burrill & Son, Ellsworth; !;
Fred c. Lyman 4 Co., c. E. Marcyes Il
Co., Frank E. Walls, Bar Harbor; L. Belle
Knowles, Northeast Harbor, and b. E.
Tracy, Winter Harbor.
Word was received here yesterday OF the
sudden death Of Oren Burleigh, formerly
OF Ellsworth, at Fairfield, where he had
been employed for years as foreman in a
pulp mill. Mr.. Burleigh was born in Ellis
worth sixty years ago, leaving here about
thirty years ago. He leaves a widow and
one daughter-Mrs. Harry Brown, OF Fair
field. He was brother OF Mrs. Byron
Jameson and Mrs. Carrie Sargent, OF Ellis
worth.
The Sixth Maine Veteran association
will hold its annual reunion here next
Friday. Col. Charles A. Clark, Of Cedar
Rapids, Iowa, will be present, and there
will be q big representation OF his old
comrades to welcome him. Gen. H. E.
Hamlin. Of Ellsworth, whose father, the
late Vice President Hannibal Hamlin, was
an honorary member OF the association,
will preside as toastmaster at the campfire
in the evening.
A severe squall, accompanied by light
ming, struck Ellsworth last Thursday af-
ternoon. Lightning took the telephone
and telegraph lines, burning out trans
formers and fuses in several places, but
doing no serious damage. Several trees
were blown down about town. The heavy
plate-glass in the front door of the Relia-
BILE Clothing Co.'s store was smashed
when the door was slammed shut by the
first puff Of the squall. The barn OF Mrs.
Susan Murch, on Washington street, was
struck by lightning and slightly damaged.
At special meeting of the city govern
ment Monday evening, the committee to
which was referred remonstrance against
the gasolene tank oD High street, reported
that in its opinion the erection of the
tank was violation of city ordinance
forbidding the storage of explosives
within eighty rods OF any occupied dwell
ing. The city clerk was instructed to
notify the Standard Oil Co. that such was
the case, and asking it to appear by
representative at the regular meeting OF
the city government Monday evening,
Aug. and show case why the tank
should not be removed.
While Old Zimmerman and Dirigo en-
gines were fighting over old battles in
Ellsworth on the Fourth, an old-time
local rival who had often ''carried the
brooms" in Ellsworth, was winning lau-
rels in Massachusetts,. Watch City en-
gine, of Wsltksm, Mass, formerly Union
2, of Ellsworth, took the first prize in q
contest Of dozen crack tubs at Revere
Beach, playing 22O feet and 1 inch, her
nearest competitor playing 212 feet, and
all the other contestants playing under
200 feet. BY the way, typographical err
ror in THE AMERICAN last week made the
contest between Zimmerman and Dirigo
appear closer than the official returns in
dicated. Hunneman's distance was III
feet, 9 inches (not ia feet inches as re-
ported), and Dirigo 175 feet. An effort
will be made to have the Watch City here
for firemen's day during Old Home week.
She would be a drawing card,