Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1912-08-14

though it was Miss Greely's first season,
her charm Of manner at once made her
very popular with the campers, and they
all hope for her return next year.
The Ellsworth school board, at a special
meeting, voted to recommend to the city
government the reopening of the school in
district No. Z, closed by the State law, the
attendance having fallen below eight.
This vote is in accordance with the
opinion expressed by vote OF the aldermen
| at their last meeting. The formal vote of
| the aldermen to reopen the school, on the
| recommendation Of the school board, will
| now be necessary.
The many friends of James e., son
OF Maynard II. Murch, of this city, who
has been member of the telephone crew
stationed in Dexter for several months,
will be interested to learn that he has
gone to Millinocket, where he will have
charge OF the line and switchboard work
| at the exchange in that town, this work
being in line of promotion for the young
man. Mr.. Murch has been in the employ
Of the New England Telephone & Tele-
graph Co. for several years.
The Congregational society of Ellsworth
has engaged Mr.. and Mrs. Roden baugh,
| OF Boston, to produce under its auspices
their big musical comedy, "a Day at the
| Ranch," for which over 100 local people
are rehearsing. 1t will be given in Han
cock hall Tuesday and Wednesday, Aug.
q and 2s. This play is given during the
uyiufar in ha lor1ar o;t;ac ~ Na,,. E,c
land and New York state, and is real
big city show. The very best singing and
, comedy talent in tow n is taking part, and
the affair promises to be the best of the
| kind ever given here.
The advance sale of tickets for "The
Burglar, to be presented at Hancock hall
Wednesday evening of next week, as
sures good house. With John J. Far
| rell, SO well and favorably known on the
professional stage, playing the title role,
supported by Fred e. Cooke III the old
| man part, the play will have a decidedly
professional favor. Mr.. Cooke, who is
| staging the play, promises some rare sur
prises for the people OF Ellsworth in the
development of artistic talent in the Els
worth amateurs who will appear in the
cast. The play is given for the benefit of
the Hancock hall repair fund.
I State Highway Inspector Remission, of
Amherst, was in Ellsworth last week, and
| with the municipal officers inspected and
! measured all bridges in the city over six
| feet clear between the abutments. This
was in accordance with resolve passed by
| the last legislature instructing the State
| highway department to secure this data
all over the State, with the view of ascer-
tanning the approximate cost OF taking over
the control and maintenance of bridges
| by he State. Several bills with this object
have been introduced at recent sessions of
| the Legislature. There are twenty-eig
| bridges over six feet wide in Ellsworth
| A particularly bold piece of thievery
| was perpetrated at the Benjamin Shute
farm at West Hancock one day last week,
when young steer was killed and
butchered in the pasture and hide and
meat carried off. The thief drove into the
pasture by a woodroad through a swamp,
apparently with one horse and an express
wagon. The steer was killed and dressed
in an alder thicket, hardly stones throw
from the house. There were evidences
that the thief was skilled hand at
butchering. 1t is believed the work was
done by daylight, probably in the early
morning. Mr.. Shute did not miss the
steer until two days after the butchery.
City Marshal Higgins was notified last
Wednesday by e. NJ. King, of Lamoine, to
| keep an eye out for a man who had been
| tramping through that town and acting
suspiciously. He was seen in Ellsworth
later in the day, and on being questioned,
said he was working in Trenton haying,
and struck off down the Bayside road.
| Marshal Higgins and Deputy Sheriff
Stuart went in pursuit, and overhauled
him at S. s. Estey's place, bringing him
back to the county Jail. He was identified
Thursday as Harry Collins, of Eastport, a
patient at the East Maine insane hospital,
Bangor, who had escaped from that instI-
| tuition about five weeks before. An
official from the asylum came to Ellsworth
Thursday and took the man back to
Bangor.
In referring last week to the clock in
the Congregational church which is to be
regilded and put in running order, it
was stated that it was the gift of the
father OF Zachariah Jellison; it was the
| gift not of his father, but of his uncle,
! whose name was Zachariah. He was born
| in Ellsworth. He went to Boston to at
tend medical lectures when quite young
man. He taught school in Castine. In
Boston while studying he worked while
reporting for Nathan Hale, then editor of
the Advertiser. About 1915 he gave up his
studies and began his business career,
| carrying on an extensive importing and
shipping business between Boston and
ports in South America, Cuba, Russia and
on the Baltic, until 1861 when he was ap-
pointed appraiser by President Lincoln.
He died in 1854. The expense OF putting
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