Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1913-12-10

Miss Emile Young's dancing assem-
biies have been suspended until after the
holidays.
The factory Of the Mutual Shoemakers
OF Ellsworth resumed operations this
week, under the management OF p. b.
Russell. The factory has good number
of orders on hand.
Assignment of supreme court justices
for the year 1914 have been announced.
Justice Spear will preside at the April
term in Hancock county and Justice
Cornish at the October term.
Miss Annie r. Emery left Saturday for
| Haverhiil, Mass, for a short visit, after
which she will go to Jonesville, Mich, to
spend the remainder OF the winter with
her uncle, Rev. w. +. Emery, and her
| sister.
Mrs. William S. Cousins left last Thurs
day for Philadelphia, to spend a few
| weeks with her husband before he sails
for the South for the winter ON the house
yacht on which he is employed ss chief
| engineer.
Ex-Chief Justice Emery, ef Ellsworth l.,
was recent guest OF the Rhode Island
State Bar association at its annual meet
| ing and banquet in Providence Dee. /, and
made brief address on the function OF
| the judiciary.
| Fred, the fourteen-year-o old son of Fred
| Coleman, who was so severely injured by
fall from stone wall last September
and has never fully recovered, has been
taken to Bangor for an X-ray examina-
tion and possibly an operation.
| The sophomore class OF Radcliffe college
| recently gave novel entertainment to
the freshmen, feature of which was
'rhe Blue Book, parody on 1'The Blue
bird, clever sketch written and coached
by Miss Doris Halman, an Ellsworth girl
| Irene chapter elected officers last Friday
evening as follows: Margaret Jordan,
w. M; f. S. Means, w. r; Nellie A.
Lermond, a. NJ; Mabel Lord, secretary;
Ada Lord, treasurer; Cora Welch, con-
ductress; Nina CottIe, associate conduc-
tress.
! At special meeting of the city govern
ment last evening, at which Mayor Cum
, ningham, Aldermen Clark, Moore and
| Moor we're present, the petition of the New
England Telephone q Telegraph Co. for
permission to erect poles and wires on
Washington street, from High to Water
street. was granted.
The many friends of Charles II. Grindal,
one of Ellsworth's retired merchants,
who was taken suddenly Ill last week, are
pleased to see him out again. Mr.. Grin
dal was seized with sudden dizziness
while on the street, and pitched from the
sidewalk to the street. Fortunately his
dsughter-in-law, Mrs. c. W. Grindal, saw
him fall, and he received prompt assist
ance. He was picked up unconscious, and
carried to his home, where he soon rallied,
and is now apparently as we'll as ever, ex-
| cept for bruises received by his fall.
At parish meeting after the supper at
I the Unitarian vestry last Wednesday
evening, several vacancies in the board OF
GERS is as follows: Irving Osgood, presi-
dent; Mary A. Greely, vice. president +;
Frank 5. Call, clerk; Embert e. Osgood.
collector and treasurer; Frank s. Lord,
Charles IL. Morang, Irving Osgood.
| trustees Mrs E. f. Rowe, Mrs. f. L.
Kent, w. II. Titus, pulpit committee
Charles l.. Morang, Mrs. J. P. Eldridge,
Mrs. W. H. Titus, finance committee;
Mary A. Greedy, historian.
| The steam sardine boat Stella Pickert,
owned by the Frenchnan's Bay Packing
Co., of South Gouldsboro, met with a
peculiar mishap last Friday evening while
coming up Union river to go into winter
| quarters at the yard OF the Ellsworth
| Foundry & Machine " orks. The captain.
| who was not familiar with the upper part of
the river, was skirting up by the wharves,
when he ran upon the submerged outer
end of the old Hall upper wharf, which
| projects beyond the line of the other
wharves. The keel of the steamer slid
easily up on one of the submerged logs of
the wharf for half its length. There the
boat hung, and when the tide left her
stern, her bow pointed skyward at an
angle of forty five degrees. She was
hauled off on Saturday afternoons tide.
The damages are slight.
| NJ. ID. Head and j. S. Donovan have Just
returned from weeks hunting trip up
river. They brought back no game, but
did bring tale of the terrors OF the wilds
of upper Hancock county which casts the
''primitive man" stories far in the shade.
| They had hunted several days unsuccess-
fully in the far reaches OF the county, and
returned Friday to Aurora. Saturday,
under the able leadership of Frank Rowe,
OF Aurora, they started out for final
hunt. They had not travelled far before
Mr.. Rowe's experienced eye discovered
fresh deer tracks, and his hunters judg-
ment told him where the deer were and
| where they would run. Placing Mr.
Donovan on a commanding knoll, and
MIR. Head at another point on the runway,
MIR. Rowe circled TO start the deer. He
started them all right, a whole herd of
them-fiye or more. They bore down in
great leaps upon Mr.. Donovan. who had