Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1914-03-25

u. E. Hurley, ii. =. JORDAN. Alternates-
Charles Fl. Leland, Frank $. Lord, Fred p.
Haynes, Oscar Staples, Herbert A. Ash,
Joseph M. Higgins.
| Capt. Nehemiah H. Means and his
been in Boston and vicinity several weeks,
arrived home last week. Capt. Means, in
his ninetieth year, was the oldest person
present at the recent Ellsworth reunion in
| Boston.
| Russell Williams, OF Amherst, was ar
raigned in the Ellsworth municipal court
yesterday, charged with breaking into the
camp of Harry F. Silsby, of Amherst. He
pleaded not guilty and waived hearing.
He was adjudged guilty. The case was
continued for sentence.
! AT the progressive caucus last Friday
evening, delegates and alternates to the
State convention were elected as follows:
Harry e. Rowe, f. l.. Drummey, e. S.
| Means, Roy c. Haines, delegates; L. F.
Giles, F. s. Call, Arthur Hart, Il. f.
Robinson, jr., aternates.
| Ellsworth captains are getting ready to
start for the coasting season. Capt. John
| w. Jordan, of the schooner Henrietta A.
Whitney, will leave tomorrow, and Capt.
| Alexander Hutchings, OF the Melissa
| Trask, will leave next Monday. These
vessels are hauled up in New York.
l The Staples Piano & Music Co. will
| complete the closing-out sale at its store
here to-day, and the store will be closed
| fn- inhf MI
been the local manager for the company,
expects to open a music store of his own
| here soon. For the present he will have
| an office at his home.
| Mrs. Minnie Leighton, who has spent
the winter in Portland and Boston, with
her daughters, arrived home last week.
! Her daughter, Mrs. Neil ID. Walker,
arrived Saturday, to spend the summer
| here. Mr.. Walker, who is in the railway
mail service, is here for a week. He will
spend his weeks off duty here through the
summer.
The Sullivan A. A. and Newport A. A.
teams will battle for the title of eastern
Maine champions at Hancock hall next
Friday evening. The claim of the New
port team to the championship for the
season is disputed by the Sullivan team,
which, by defeating Bar Harbor A. A. in
/ the rubber game at Hancock hall last
Friday evening, won the right to claim the
championship of Hancock county. Fri
day nights game will be the real thing in
basketball.
The Bar Harbor correspondent of the
Bangor NeWs says: 'sThe Y. M. G. A.
basketball team was defeated by the
Sullivan A. A. team at Ellsworth, Friday
evening, by the score of SO to %. The Sui
livan team earned all it got. The Bar
Harbor team lost to Old Town the Friday
previous, and Ellsworth trimmed the Old
Town team earlier in the season. This
leaves Bar Har Dor almost at the foot of
the row, whereas at the beginning of the
season it was at the head"
Oscar A. Doyle, who came here from Bar
Harbor last year and started fox farm
| on the old Bangor road in the Flood dis
trict, reports satisfactory results. He has
wintered nine foxes in yard fifty feet
square, sub divided into four OF twenty
| five square feet. During some of the
coldest and hardest snow storms of the
winter, the foxes played out door all day
and seemed to enjoy the storm and cold.
Mr.. Doyle also has three raccoons in a
| wired over yard fifteen feet square. The
raccoons hibernate all winter, and have
not been visible until the present signs of
spring. He also has seven skunks.
The house of George w. bennett, on
Hancock street, was badly damaged by
fire early last Friday morning. The fire
evidently caught around a receiver in the
chimney. 1t was unusual in that the
chimney was OF good construction, tile
lined, and the stove where the fire evil
IDENTIFY caught was coal stove. Mr.. and
Mrs. bennett had been out the evening
before, and upon returning home, opened
| the drafts of the stove short time, shut
ting them off as usual before retiring
Shortly after 2 o'clock they were awak-
ened by the cracking of the fire. The
house was full of suffocating smoke, and
the fire had evidently spread far through
the walls. The firemen confined the fire
principally to the ell, but that was practi-
cally Quilted, and the smoke damage in
the main house was considerable. The
loss is covered by insurance.
The Horseman and Spirit of the Times
of Chicago, in it's issue of March II, prints
picture of e. II. Greedy and his stallion
Maine Todd, with write-up Of Mr.
Greedy telling of his first horse trade al
the age of twelve years. Incidental,
there are some side-Iights on that trip t.
Pennington, where the borse-trade was
made, that have never been told in print
but which Mr.. Greedy promises some da,
] to give to AMERICAN readers. 1t includes
little story of MIR. Greely being dumped
in mud-puddle by e jackass which h.
was breaking to saddle. Mr.. Greedy wa