Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1915-07-28

l daroiu "A. Robinson, OF Bangor, extenu
congratulations on the birth OF daugh
ter, on Saturday last. Mrs. Robinson
wac Miss Carrie Morang, daughter Of Mr..
and Mrs. q. l.. Morang, OF this city.
The annual reunion and reception OF
the Ellsworth High School Alumni asso-
citation will be held ut the bone OF Miss
Alice II. Scott, on School street, Thursday
evening, Aug. II. There will be an in
formal reception at s o'clock, followed by
the business meeting and a social time.
| Charles p. DeLAittre, OF Aitkin, MINI,
writes that he will not visit .sthe dear old
town OF Ellsworth" this summer. Mr..
and Mrs. DeLaittre left Minnesota re-
Gently for q trip to the Pacific coast,
which will include visit to Alaska.
| Henry L. Russell and wife and Miss Lii
liam Russell, OF Warren, came to Ellsworth
| by automobile last week, Mr.. and Mrs.
Russell remaining for but a short visit,
! while Miss Russell remains for longer
visit with relatives and friends here.
The board Of registration, in its annual
session last week for the purpose Of re-
vising the voting list, struck forty-two
names from the list, and twenty were
changed from one ward to another. In
cidentaily 1t was discovered that twenty
five voters on the voting list were not as
sessed poll tax.
! Capt. George P. Woodward, OF New
York, with wife and son RAYMOND, Mar
ceilus Woodward, OF New York, and Mrs.
Harry G. Woodward and two children,
| OF Hallowell, are visiting Mrs. W. p.
Woodward. Harry Z. Woodward will
join the family party here the last Of this
week.
! Rev. Albert ]. Lord, wife and son
| Phillips, OF Meridep, Conn, are visiting
Mrs. Lords father, II. B. Phillips. They
made the trip by automobile, touring the
| White Mountains and Maine en- route,
stopping for q short visit at Poland
| Springs, where Mr.. Lord preached at
the chapel Sunday.
John w. and Alvin Webster, father and
son, were arrested by City Marshal Silvy
Monday, charged with drunkenness and
disorderly conduct. They were sentenced
to sixty days in the work jail at Bangor,
but sentence in the case OF the father was
suspended on condition that he leave
Ellsworth and keep out OF Ellsworth in
the future.
The oil for street sprinkling, about
$500 gallons, has been spread on the
streets OF Ellsworth this week, the work
being completed to-day. Main street has
been oiled from the foot of Bridge hill to
the top OF Cork hill, Water street for
about 800 yards from Main street, State
street to the top Of Peters hill, Oak
street from Main to Birch avenue, and the
square at Ellsworth Falls.
DIR. ]. W. pease, veterinarian, who has
been visiting Ellsworth occasionally for
several years and is well known through
out this section Of Name, has esta blished
permanent headquarters in Ellsworth,
occupying the Fullerton house at 40 Han
cock street. DR.. Pease has been practic-
ing over thirty years, for many years in
Boston, and is registered in three states
Maine, New Hampshire and Massachu-
setts.
Elesca Ellen, widow of Stephen Gross,
died Monday at the home OF her daugh-
ter-in-law, Mrs. Ida Moore, at Ellsworth
Falls. She was born at Dedham seventy
three years ago last October, the daugh-
ter OF Leonard Hartman. Mrs. Gross
was OF kindly nature, and had many
friends. She leaves one son, Elmer, OF
Middleboro, Mass. The funeral was held
at the Ellsworth Baptist church to-day,
Rev. P. A. A. Killam officiating.
Rev. Horace B. Haskell is at his home in
Ellsworth after trip through the north
west and down the Pacific coast, includ-
ing q visit to both expositions. He also
went into Mexico, seeing q little OF the
devastations OF war, returning home by
the sout heastern and middle western states.
DIR. Haskell says that Maine, especially at
this time of the year, looks as good and
attractive and feels as refreshing as any Of
the twenty-seven states he visited in his
trip.
DR.. Lewis Hodgkins, OF Ellsworth, has
been appointed medical examiner for
Hancock county. This appointment
comes under the law passed by the last
legislature, doing away with the Office of
coroner, and placing the duties heretofore
devolving upon coroners in the hands OF
medical examiners, who must be physi-
clans. The law provides for two such ex-
aminers in Hancock county, the other be-
ing DR.. Elmer J. Morrison, OF Bar Harbor,
who has held the ONCE for some time un-
der the old law.
The advance sale Of tickets for ''rhe
Hoodoo", to be presented at Hancock
hall to- morrow evening by the Ellsworth
dramatic club, assures good house. The
tickets have not all been sold, as
stated in Bangor paper, many
good seats remaining. The box
office at Hancock hall is now open for
the sale OF tickets day and evening. This
play, like others given by the local COM
pany under the direction OF Fred E.
Cooke, Is for the benefit OF Hancock hall.
dance will follow The full cast Ot