Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1914-07-08
next Monday evening by Deputy
Grand Chancellor Roy c. Haines. A BAN
quet will be served.

next Monday evening by Deputy
Grand Chancellor Roy c. Haines. A BAN
quet will be served.
The new steel filing racks for the file
room Of the registry of probate have been
installed, together with a steel double
front standing desk specially constructed
for convenience in searching records, and
steel roll-top desk for the register of
probate. With the exception OF the
| wooden cabinet for the storing of blank
forms, all the furniture of the room is now
fire proof, affording long needed protec-
| tion for valuable papers.
Blanquefort commandery, K. T., at
meeting Monday evening, voted to accept
the invitation of the Eastport commandery
for field day at Eastport Tuesday, July
| 2s. Five other Maine communicates have
been invited to be the guests Of the East
port Knights on that day, and big
gathering is expected. Eminent Com
mander Trussell, and Sir Knights l.. B.
Deasy, e. F. Robinson, jr., and Charles
w. Joy have been appointed a committee
| to arrange for transportation and to secure
a special train back if possible.
Howard A. Mcclellan, principal Of the
Ellsworth high school for the past three
years, has been elected principal of Hig-
gins classical institute, at Charleston.
Mr.. Mcclellan has done most efficient
| work in the Ellsworth school, bringing it
up to high plane. He is a capable in
| structor, a good disciplinarian, one who
bnl he int nd Wi "A nf
his pupils. His interest in athletics
makes him leader as well as teacher of
| the boys. His Ellsworth friends con-
gratulate him on his election to a larger
school.
The free mail delivery has been in
operation here w=ek, and is working
satisfactorily. There are, of course, the
usual difficulties attendant upon the
adjustment Of things to the new system,
| but these are being rapidly overcome, and
| in few weeks the service will be work.
| ing smoothly. The mail boxes have not
yet arrived. Many householders who
have asked for the free delivery service
| have failed to provide the required re-
| ceptacIes at their doors. No mail will be
|
carriers may have nail for such homes,
| it will be returned to the postoffice and
put in the general delivery. 1t is not
| necessary to provide an elaborate recepta-
| cle-anything that will hold mail will do.
Another of the old-time Ellsworth
schooners has gone the way of so many
| others of the old fleet. Last Thursday the
schooner Mary Augusta, built at Ellis
4 4, 0rt, ha1
| up ON the rocks at Walkers point, near
Kennebunkport. One Of the masts was
| awash. Nothing was known of the vessels
| troub bIes until she drifted in from the sea
about 2.30 p. m. The schooner was owned
at Bangor, and registered 175 net tonnage.
Capt. Winfield 1ainter, of Winterport, his
son Raymond and the third member of his
crew landed in their power boat, having
abandoned the schooner before she reached
the rocks. The schooner was laboring in
| big SEA, while bound from st. George for
Swans Island with $50 tons of soft coal
when the shrouds gave way and the mast
went overheard. She will be total loss.
Assistant Dairy Inspector Leland, of
the State agricultural department, is in
Ellsworth to-day on business of the de-
partment. Mr.. Leland has personal charge
OF the seed Improvement work in the
State, and is greatly interested in the ex-
pertinent being made in Hancock county
with the whitecap dent corn from Minne-
sofa, seed of which has been distributed
to the farmers of Hancock county by the
Union Trust Co., of Ellsworth. With the
exception of few ears sent into Wash
inpton countv and one ear sent into York
county, Hancock is alone in this expert
ment. The farmers have taken lively
interest in the experiment, and the State
agricultural department is watching it