Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1915-10-27

ladies and gentlemen were present anc
passed q pleasant evening. Refreshments
were served.
Mrs. Bert l.. Austin and little daughter
left Friday for Boston to spend the winter
| with her husband. She was accompanied
by Edward w. Austin, who will spend a
few days in Portsmouth, N. H., and Bos-
ton, and then go to New York, where he
expects to be employed this winter.
Percy Sinclair and little son Wendell
| spent the weekend at the home OF his
parents, Capt. X. A. Sinclair and wife, in
East Surry. He stopped in Ellsworth a
few hours for greeting to friends as he
was returning to his home in East Boston,
where he has 3 fine position as foreman in
the Victoria shoe factory.
The Unitarian club promises to repeat
its success Of last year in the halloween
party to be held Friday evening at Han
cock hall. Many unique features will be
introduced. Miss Priscilla Clark, OF Ban
gor, will give all exhibition OF fancy
dancing, including the graceful Spanish
folk dances. She will be in gypsy cos
tune.
This evening there viii be rally at the
Donaqua lodge, Knights OF Pythias.
Knights and their ladies will assemble in
the Castle hall at 8 o'clock to listen to
speeches concerning the order from NJ. c.
Morrison, Of Bar Harbor, and Mr.. Mills,
| Of Bangor. Miss Bertha Giles will render
special solos, to accompaniment by Miss
Erva Giles. Refreshments will be served.
Word has been received from Miss Susan
F. Drake, OF Portsmouth, N. H., who
/ taught in the Ellsworth grammar school
in 1851, that the information furnished
from Ellsworth has supplied the necessary
| link in her long service as teacher, and
! enabled her to secure pension under the
New Hampshire Law. Miss Drake is now
blind, and the pension is Of great benefit
! to her.
Frank s. Lord, Charles 81. Leland and
Roy Z. Haines, the special Ellsworth COM
mittee on State highway, left yesterday
| for Augusta, to appear before the COVER
nor and council to-day in behalf OF a
further appropriation for work this fall
| on the Bangor Ellsworth road. Word was
received this afternoon that the governor
and counsel had made the special appro-
priation for the work.
J The program at the Strand for the COM
| ing week includes several special features.
| Tomorrow Dorothea Farley will appear
in ''The Unwritten JUSTICE. Saturday, a
powerful drama, "False Colors," will be
| presented. One of the big features of
next week will be William Farnum on
Tuesday, in "The Sign OF the Cross''.
Next Wednesday the great serial, "Neal Of
the Navy" will begin. There will be a
free matinee for school children at
| o'clock.
| Ellsworth has one industry that has
asked for no subsidies in the way of sub
scriptions from the citizens or tax
emptions from the city. This is the
rug making industry, established some
monthsago by W. A. Alexander at his
home on Oak street. Starting in small
way, Mr.eAlexander is building up quite q
business in weaving rag rugs and pill
low-covers, doing the work to order
from rags sewn by the customer, and
weaving rugs for sale.
Abraham P. Sawyer, of Bangor, aged
twenty-three years, died suddenly Satur-
| day evening at the home Of an aunt, Mrs.
Marion Ray, in Bangor. Mr.. Sawyer was
q Syrian, coming to this country about
five years ago. He had attended the Ban
gor schools, and showed marked ability.
He was nephew of the Sawyer brothers,
the travelling merchants, SO we'll known
Throughout Hancock county, and he him
self had many acquaintances in this vicin-
| ity. He leaves mother, brother and seven
sisters in Syria.
Ellen D., wife of Capt. Perry w. Alley,
died Friday at her home on Franklin
street. Mrs. Alley, whose maiden
name was Ellen d. Mahan, was born in
Ellsworth, and all her life had been spent
here. She was fifty-four years of age
For several years she had been a great
sufferer, requiring constant care on the
part of her husband. Besides her hts-
| band, she leaves no near relatives. The
funeral was held at st. Joseph's Catholic
church Sunday afternoon, Rev. P. F
Flanagan officiating.
Mrs. Imogene Pettengill has closed
negotiations for the sale of the Strand
moving picture theatre to w. T. Smith, ol
Attleboro, Mass, who plans to take pos.
session Nov. 16. Mr.. Smith has had ex-
perience in the picture business, and will
maintain the standard for good pictures
esta ablished by Mrs. Pettengill. The pur-
chase includes the contracts for severa
splendid features during the coming
months. MIR. Smith is not an entire
stranger in Ellsw orth, in fact, he wal
married here last summer, and spent two
weeks in Ellsworth. Both he and Mrs
Smith fell in love with Ellsworth, anc
even then had their eyes on the Strand
Mr.. and Mrs. Smith will occupy apart.
ments in Mrs. r. NJ. Campbell's house or
State street. Mrs. Pettengill, who hal
built up an excellent business here, hal
become known in the picture world, anC
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