The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1915-05-06
EAST BELFAST.

Inc 1o-cent supper given by the ladies' of
Trinity Reformed church and neighborhood
friends last Thursday in their church yestrv
was most delicious one and well patronized,
number from the city side attending,
A GOLDEN WEDDING. Mr.. and Mrs, Elisha
Woodbridge Ellis celebrated their golden we'd
ding Monday evening, May 3rd, at their teau-
tiful little home in East Belfast Elisha " ood-
bridge Ellis, son of Elisha and Fannie Pes rson
Ellis of Monroe, and Miss Mary Ann, daughter
Of John and Sally Dumphe Robbins Of Swan
vile, were married May 8, 1866, at the home
of the brides parents, Rev. Humphrey Small
of Brooks officiating. At the anniversary
Monday evening the home was decorated with
ferns and yellow flowers. The bride of ha # of
century ago wore white and carried flowers,
her attire including garments in which she
was married. The groom wore the G. A. r.
blue. Mary Ford, niece of Mrs. Ellis, who
attended the original service, and was then
Il years of age, was prese mt and SO was ].
H arvey Stinson, who made things lively at the
serenade which followed their marriage. The
reception was very informal and delightful
social evening was passed. Mrs. Jennie Stew
ems read a communication from Mrs. Dencie
Mudgett Boynton of Cleveland, Ohio; Edward
Brassey- Briefly rendered several vocal solos
and also recited; Mrs. George A. Leavitt read
selection; Miss Ethel NJ Savery sang 30
prano solo, and Edwin Frost recited a poem he
learned fifty years ago. Mrs. Fred E. Ellis,
Mrs. George W. Davis, Miss Mary Ford. Miss
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Mrs. Ellis in serving ice cream, cake, coffee
and cocoa to the forty or more guests. Mr.
and Mrs. Ellis received postals, letters and
kilograms of congratulations from absent
friends and relatives and the many beautiful
and appropriate gifts included gold-lined silver
pieces, gold coin, gold decorated china, linen,
plants, flower, coffee pot holder embroidered
with yellow initials, the work of lady of "a
years. They have two sons, Fred E. Ellis of
Belfast and Herbert E. Ellis of Chelmsford
Mass. and spend the winter months with the
latter-and two grandchildren, Louise and
Elmer, children of Fred. Mrs. Ellis has in
all these years done well her part as wife and
moth er, living a quiet home life while Mr..
Ellis has been engaged in life's activities. He
enlisted in the Fourth Maine Infantry, Co. A.,
as private and was taken prisoner at the
first battle of Bull Run and was 10 months in
Libby Prison. Richmond, under Capt Wirtz,
who was put to death for his cruelty. At the
end of that time he was exchanged and re- en-
listed in the Nineteenth Maine, Company B,
as 1st sergeant and was soon after made 1st
lieutenant, and commanded the company up
to and including the battle of Gettysburg,
where he was wounded. He later returned to
his command, but remained only two months
when he was compelled to resign on account
of his wounds and came home. Mr.. Ellis is of
Revolutionary ancestry and among his treas
ures is a horn engraved with emblems of
horn-Roxbury, Mass, 1776, and in another
hand the word Swanville. Mr.. Ellis also has
as souvenirs articles in wood he carved while
in prison, some of which he exchanged for
food. While living in Swanville he held all
the Offices in the gift of his townsmen In
1888 the family moved to Belfast, where Mr.
Ellis was employed for six years as foreman in
the Sherman mill, when he was obliged to re-
tire on account of Ill health. He has served
two years in the city council, five years on the
school committee, was deputy sheriff under
Sherffs Wadsworth. Norton and Carleton-ten
years in ALL He has also served twenty-slx
consecutive terms as messenger in the Waldo
County Supreme Judicial Court