Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1912-07-03

many ELLSWORTH friends were pleased TO
greet them, regretting only that their stay
was so short.
Mrs. Harry G. Woodward and infant
son, and Marcellus Woodward, OF SPRING
vale. arrived yesterday for short visit.
Harry Woodward will join them here
tomorrow for visit of few days.
William ". Puffer, jr., of Bar Harbor, has
resigned as deputy sheriff. Sheriff Jelli-
son says he will make no appointment at
present to fill the vacancy. There is an
other deputy at Bar Harbor-Bion e.
Whitney.
l. l.. Halman and family, who have
spent the winter in Brookline,s Mass,
opened their summer home here last
Wednesday. Mr.. Halman spent but a
day in Ellsworth, returning to Boston
Thursday.
Miss Ella F. Jordan, OF Ellsworth, a
teacher in the Jamaica Plain, Mass,
schools, has gone abroad to spend her
summer vacation. She will spend the
greater part Of the time travelling in Eng
| land and Scotland.
| Z. M. Holloway and wife, OF Brockton,
Mass, who have lived in that city for
many years, have come to Ellsworth
to live. They are at the Thomas home
1 stead on Bridge hill. Mrs. Holloway
| was Miss Ann Thomas.
| George Estey, wife and son Guy, of Lit
tleton, N. H., are guests of l.. F. Giles and
| wife. Mr.. Estey is renewing old friend
| ships here, where he was formerly en-
ployed in the shoe factory. He is now
| foreman OF the bottoming-r room at the
Sears q Roebuck factory at Littleton.
Miss Louise E. Morgan, of Byrn Mawr,
Pa, has returned to Ellsworth, and will
spend the summer with the family of
Judge Emery. Miss Morgan has been
| studying at Bryn Mawr since graduation,
and at commencement last month had
conferred upon her the degree of Phi. d. in
English literature. In the fall she is to
begin teaching at the University of Wis
| consin, Madison.
Clarence A. Moore, formerly of South
west Harbor, now of Port Townsend,
Wash, is East. Since coming here he
| hoo hoi hh oiu Iodu wagon WHICH MS
father bought of E. E. Rowe over twenty
years ago, put into shape, to be shipped to
his far-off home. He said he was unable
to find anywhere on the Pacific coast a
vehicle which meets his requirements
| just as this one does. He also purchased
Of Mr.. Rowe, for his partner, a new car
riage of the same style as the old one.
Chief-Engineer Roy j. Goodwin, of the
| Ellsworth fire department, known for his
GOODNESS as fire-fghter and ready for
any emergency, got ''rattled" last Mon.
| day night, il he never did before. All un-
conscious of pending trouble, he was at
tending meeting of the fire company
Monday evening, when all at once some
one flashed a handsome solid gold fire.
chiefs badge, and Treasurer Harry C.
Austin, on behalf Of the members of Sena-
tor Hale hose company, presented it to
the chief as mark OF their esteem.
| Thirty-three hands are now employed
at the knitting mill, and fifty more women
and girls are wanted. The mill has orders
ahead which will keep it busy for year,
even when the additional help now needed
| is secured. The business is, of course.
new; every new employee has to be
taught. Earnings steadily increase as
skill is acquired. Some of the hands are
already earning as high as $50 per day,
and most are averaging over 800. The
establishment of this mill offers a fine
| opportunity to those who are willing to
learn and to work after they learn.
| A pair of horses owned by Fred G
Smith, attached to jigger, ran away Sat-
| urday morning. Starting on State street,
near the Congregational church, they
| gathered speed down State street hill,
and were going at terrific pace when
they dashed through postoffice square and
down Water street. Capt. E. w. Aliens
| dog ran out to bark at the runaways, mis-
| judged their speed, went under the wheels
and was killed. The runaways were not
stopped until near the Morrison farm,
nearly two miles from where they started.
The damage was slight, one horse being
somewhat cut; the other escaping injury.
| This years executive committee of the
Ellsworth high school alumni association
l
OF banquet, speeches, ETC., which it is be-
lieved has prevented many from attending.
Instead there will be an entirely informal
party at Hancock hall Thursday evening,
July IL, with short concert, dancing and
cards following an informal reception and
business meeting at o'clock. Refresh
ments will be served during the evening.
| Music by Kelley's orchestra. The men,
bers of the committee are Mrs. w. r. Par
ker, Leon E. Rowe, Frances b. Doyle,
Alice M. Mullan and William E. Whiting.
Many Ellsworth people have been inter-
ested in the strange-looking insects which
seem to have taken possession OF the dead
| stump of tree near the old Abenaauis
clubhouse. DIR. A. c. Hagerthy sent one
OF the insects to the agricultural expert
| ment station at Orono for Identification.
| Director Charles ID. Woods writes in re-
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