Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1914-11-04

party business lines at $38. No new in
stallations will be made on six party BUSH
ness lines.
Miss Susie Jordan, who has been book
keeper in the telephone office several
years, is clerking at M. L. Adams store.
The main part of the bookkeeping OF the
Ellsworth telephone Office hereafter will
be done at the Bar Harbor office.
Freddie Garland was arrested yesterday,
charged with entering G. w. Johnson's
store at Otis Saturday evening, and steal
ing about $20 in money and a box OF
cigars. He was arraigned in the Els
worth municipal court this afternoon.
The Ellsworth local union Of the w. c.
T. U. will resume its meetings after the
summer vacation on Nov. 5. The meeting
will be held with Mrs. P. A. A. Killam, on
Pine street. Important business will
come before the meeting, and all members
are requested to be present.
Miss Margaret Seeds entertained sixteen
Of her young friends at Halloween
party Saturday evening at her home ON
Davis street. The house was decorated
with jack-o-lanterns and cedar. A
witch's den was great attraction. Games
were played and ghost stories told and a
real ghost added to the merriment.
A handsome new soda-fountain, thor
oughly up-to-dste, has been installed in
George A. Parcher's drug store, and other
changes made in the store, greatly i'm
proving its appearance and convenience.
The fountain is twelve feet long, with
front and counter of white and Italian
| marble. Back OF it is bevel plate mirror
6x10 feet.
The Halloween party at Hancock hall
! last Friday evening, under the auspices OF
the Unitarian club, furnished ''something
different" in the entertainment line, and
| was social and financial success The
hall decorations were appropriate to Hal
| lowe'en, and Halloween games and dane
| ing were enjoyed. Sinclair's orchestra
| furnished music.
Samuel G. Butler, of Bluehill was COM
| mitted to the county Jail Monday, from
the Western Hancock municipal court, in
default Of $500 bail, to appear before the
April grand jury on charge Of breaking,
entering and larceny. Butler is accused
of breaking into the store of Max Abram,
at Bluehill, on October 81, and stealing
goods to the value Of S45.75.
The annual get. together meeting of the
Ellsworth festival chorus will be held
Friday evening Of this week at the Bap-
[ tist vestry, at the usual hour. At this
meeting officers will be elected for the
year, and work planned. The new music
has been received, and will be tried for
the first time. All the old members are
requested to be present, and special in
l t,y,ta fo axtnn 1nd tn le-,
| join the chorus at this time.
| The First Congregational church of
| Meriden, Conn.,, of which Rev. Albert J.
Lord, an Ellsworth boy, is pastor, on Sun
day Oct. 25, celebrated the opening Of
the new Sunday school and social rooms,
which at the same time marked it's 1S5th
anniversary. Gov. Simeon e. Baldwin,
| OF Connecticut, was the principal speaker.
1t is gratifying to the many friends of Mr..
Lord in Ellsworth to note the continued
prosperity of this church under his
pastorate. The improvements and ad-
| ditions just completed cost about $50 600.
| Harold Jordan, son of Edgar Jordan
and wife, Of Ellsworth, first engineer of
the steamer Lewis K. Thurlow, OF Boston,
ia probably the first Ellsworth boy to sail
through the "big ditch". He writes from
Esquimault, Vancouver, B. c.: ave
were eight hours going through the canal.
| We were locked up into the Gatum lake,
| eighty-five feet above the sea level, in q
| little over an hour, and ran across this
artificial lake, full speed, a distance of
| twenty-eight miles. Then tow assisted
US through the Guile bra cut. From Bal bra
| (the Pacific entrance to the canal) we ran
thirteen days and sixteen hours without
| stopping the engine, making the entire
trip from Balbra to Port Townsend,
WASH, in seventeen days."
Ellsworth friends learned with regret of
the death last Wednesday OF Mrs. Annie
L. Haslam, OF Lisbon Falls. Mrs. Haslam
was daughter of the late Owen Byrn, OF
Ellsworth, and had spent the greater part
Of her life in this city. Her age was fifty
three years. News of her death WAS a
shock to her friends here. Though she
had been in poor health for some time,
when her sister, Mrs. Charles L. Smith
left here only two weeks ago to spend the
| winter with her, she had no idea her con-
dition was so serious. Besides her hus-
band, she leaves one son by former mar
| riage - Albert Mckenzie, of Brockton,
| Mass; a brother, Charles Byrn, of Brock
ton, and twoesisters-Mrs. Herbert Bond,
of Brockton, and Mrs. Smith, of Ellsworth.
The remains were brought to Ellsworth
| Saturday for interment. There were
| prayers at the grave at Woodbine, Rev. j.
| w. Tickle, of the Unitarian church, otfici-
ating.
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