Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1913-01-15

| an hour before mail closes,
Mrs. Thomas P. Packard is visiting her
parents in Dresden Mills.
The county commissioners organized
yesterday, electing M. l.. Allen chairman.
Miss Mae Studer has returned home
from New York, where she has been since
| last fall.
Mrs. Emily l.. Smith has gone to Orono
| for an extened visit with her granddaugh-
| ter, Mrs. A. c. Lyon.
Mrs. G. F. Newman left Monday for a
| weeks visit with her sister, Mrs. Frank
+. Smith, in Gardiner.
B. T. Sowle and wife are receiving con-
gratulations on the birth of son, Cecil
E., born Tuesday of last week.
The annual meeting of the Union Trust
Co., of Ellsworth, called for yesterday,
| was adjourned to p. m. next Saturday.
The young ladies of the Methodist
church will serve supper at the church
vestry tomorrow evening, beginning at
$50.
| Arthur l. Saunders and wife left to-day
| for Portland, to spend the remainder Of
the winter with Mr.. Saunders brother,
! Hutson B. Saunders.
| Charles e. Alexander, who has been
confined to the house for the past two
weeks ill of the grip, is able to be out, but
has not yet returned to work.
Last Monday Mrs. Michael Mullen suf-
fered slight stroke of paralysis. As
Mrs. Mullen is over ninety years of age,
her condition is regarded as serious.
| The Ellsworth high school basket ball
| team was defeated at Hancock hall Friday
evening by Bar Harbor high. The score
was AZ to 15. dance followed the game.
| The many friends of David Friend will
| be pleased to learn that he is recovering,
| though slowly, from his illness. He is
able to be up, but is still confined to the
| house.
FL. w. Dunn left last night for Boston
on business. Mrs. Dunn accompanied
him, and will visit relatives and friends in
Boston and Providence, r. l., for two
weeks.
Roy c. Haines is in Augusta to-day as a
member of the State grange committee ap-
pointed to arrange for conference of
grange lecturers in Augusta some time
next month.
Mrs L. d. Foster left Saturday to spend
the remainder Of the winter with her son,
DIR. Walter l.. Foster, in Portland, and her
daughter, Mrs. George r. Caldwell, in
Somerville, Mass.
The finance committee of the board of
aldermen-Messrs. Eldridge, Moor and
Heath together with the mayor met last
evening and made settlement with A. M.
Foster, collector of taxes in 1907.
The literature club met last evening
with Mrs. o. W. Tapley. Two interesting
papers were read-one by Mrs. Tapley on
"Newspaper Men and Their Work., and
one by Miss NJ. A. Clark on "American
Pottery:.
The Thomaston schooner, Thomas s.
Dennison, bound from Baltimore for Gal
weston with steel rails, foundered 100
miles south of Pensacola, Fla, Jan. 8.
The crew reached Cedar Key, Fla, after
six days in the boats.
j. Harry Macomber, of Hall Quarry,
has rented the Grows house at Franklin
and Pine streets, and will move here with
his family, probably this week. Mr.. Ma
comber and his family already have many
| friends in Ellsworth who will gladly well
| come them as residents.
| Arthur Huntley, arrested last Tuesday
in Bangor, charged with forgery, as re-
ported in THE AMERICAN last week, was
arraigned in the Ellsworth municipal
court last Thursday. He pleaded guilty,
and was committed to the county Jail in
default Of q 900 bail, to await the April
grand jury.
| Ellsworth friends Of Mrs. Josiah A.
Phillips, Of North Ellsworth, were panied
| to learn OF her serious injury Saturday by
fall through a trap-door and into the
| cellar at her home. One shoulder blade
was fractured, her left foot fractured at
the instep, and she received other severe
| bruises and internal injuries. The full
extent of the latter cannot yet be de-
| termined.
| Negotiations are practically closed for
the sale of the confectionery businesss of
| Capt. John A. Lord to r. B. Holmes, OF
Ellsworth. II the sale is effected, it is
/ understood that Mr.. Holmes son. in-l law,
Roscoe II. Smith, now employed in a con-
fectionery store in Bangor, will take
| charge Of the store. The sale will not in
clude the oil business, but Capt. Lord in
| tends to dispose OF this also as soon as