Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1913-11-19

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| The opening OF Miss Emile Young's
course OF dancing assemblies, first an
nounced for last week and postponed un-
til Tuesday OF this week, has been post
poned for still another week because oi
the continued illness OF Miss Young.
+. B. Aiken, Ellsworth's oldest mer-
chant, is back at his store again this week,
after an illness which has confined him to
his home for ten days. In his fifty-three
years in business, this is the longest alb
sence from his store, either because Of ILL.,
ness or for pleasure, that he can remember.
Miss Elizabeth 5ilsby, who has been
| at the Richards homestead on Bridge hill
during the summer. returned to her home
in Cambridge, Mass, to-day. She was
accompanied as FAR as Bangor by her aunt,
Mrs. Alma X. Whittemore, who viii
spend the winter in that city with her
| son Herbert.
The first meeting OF the literature club
was held Monday with Miss Annie K.
Stock bridge. Mrs. E. J. Collins gave an
interesting paper on the geography of
Holland, and Miss Stock kbridge read from
Stoddard's lectures on Holland. The next
meeting will be held Monday evening,
Dec. /, with Miss NJ. II. Black.
The local union of the w. C. T. U. met
at the Baptist church parlors last Friday
with good attendance, in spite of the
rain. The union has entered upon the
| winters work with enthusiasm. One new
member was added at the last meeting,
and another is expected at the next meet
| ing, which will be held Nov. 2s, with Mrs.
P. A. A. Killam.
| Pastors of the Ellsworth churches, at a
meeting Friday, arranged for the union
Thanksgiving day services, to be held this
year in the Methodist church. The pro-
| gram announced is as follows: Invoca
tion, Rev. r. b. Mathews; prayer, Rev.
o. j. Guptill; scripture reading, Rev.
P. A. A. Killam; sermon, Rev. sydney 3.
Booth; benediction, Rev. T. S. Ross.
Clair Clement is the proudest young
| hunter in Ellsworth to-day, and with
good reason. Though he has hunted con-
| siderabIy, it was not until this week that
he was bic to cut a big-game notch in
the stock of his rifle. And the notch is a
big one, for the game it represents is a
800 pound bull moose shot in the vicinity
OF II. c. FIetcher's in No. s. The head is a
handsome one.
It's rash bull moose that prowls
around Congressman John A. Peters pre-
serves Now this is not political item,
| bnt Mnnaot- l
S. Guptll, who, with his father, is living
at Howard B. Moor's lumber camp al the
Back meadow, opened the door OF the
camp, aud there stood a bull moose in
the Peters field. He shot the moose
from the door OF the camp.
The shoe factory proposition in saco is
coming on in good shape. {. .. Nor
mandy, formerly OF NorrIdgewock, has
been elected president. The capital is
fixed at $4,000, but the amount to be
| raised for the present will be limited to
$4,000. Subscriptions have come in well,
and the people who have taken shares at
80 each are satisfied that the business
| will be profitable. The stock subscri bed
for is preferred ! per cent, stock. The
building is rapidly approaching COM
pletion, and MIR. Normandy is TO make ar
| rangements for machinery IN short time.
| i--TOFttAHu fFtSS
Mayor Cunningham has received letter
| from the State highway commission, call
ing attention to the law passed by the
| last legislature, prohibiting advertising
| signs within the limits of any highway,
within 500 feet of crossings of highways or
where one highway enters another. Signs
so erected must be removed at the ex
pense OF the person or persons erecting or
maintaining them, who are subject to
| fine OF $50 for violation. The State high
way commission is calling upon the
municipal authorities to enforce the law.
II they fail to do so, they are liable to have
their State money withheld.
A postoffice inspector who visited Els
worth recently put his foot down on the
lax method OF collecting postoffice box
| rents, long in vogue here. Hereafter,
boxes for which rent is not paid within
ten days from fist notice, will be closed,
and a notice will inform the holder of the
box that this box is closed; rent not
paid". OF course, it doesn't please a man
| to find this notice staring him in the face,
| especially when the corridor is full of
people waiting for their mail, and Post
master Nealley has had to stand the brunt
OF the hard knocks. But those are ord ers,
ana il you don't like it, knock "Uncle
SAM, not Postmaster Nealley.
Llewellyn c. Haynes, formerly of Ellis
| worth, died Monday at the Bar Harbor
hospital, where he was receiving treat
ment. Death resulted from Bright's dis
ease. Mr.. Haynes was in the fifty eighth
year OF his age. He was the SOD OF the
late Alfred and Abigail Townsend Haynes,
OF Ellsworth. For the past fifteen years he
had been employed in Bar Harbor. He is
survived by widow, one son-Aldis, W he
is in the insurance business at Worcester,
Mass, and a daughter-Abbie, Of Bangor
also one brother-W Winfield, of Saco. The
funeral was held at the chapel in Lake.
wood this afternoon, Rev. P. A. A. Killam