Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1916-06-14

| wife are in Boston as chaperons for the
Old Town high school graduating class.
| In the Methodist church next Sun
day at 1870, sermon. Sunday school
at 11.45. At 7.30, stereopticon lecture.
Subject, '"Typicsl Children Around the
WQid." Good music at all the services.
| Nokomis Rebekah lodge is invited to
visit Excelsior lodge, Bangor, on the
afternoon and evening OF June %. All
members intending to go please notify
the vice. grand on or before next Tuesday
night.
| Patrick s. Dorsey, hotel and restaurant
keeper OF Augusta, fled voluntary
petition in bankruptcy in the United
States court Monday. The liabilities are
given as s27,Ol4, of which $3.50 is secured.
The assets are placed at q, ,432.
Austin H. Joy and wife left to- day for
Charleston to attend the commencement
exercises Of Higgins classical institute.
Their son Walter is in the graduating
class. Frank Anderson, of Ellsworth. is
also member Of this years class.
| The business OF the late Fred B. Aiken
will be sold at public auction by the ad-
ministrator Saturday, June "a. The
business is to be sold As q whole, not
piecemeal, the store, stock and fixtures
being sold in one block, with the idea OF
| the purchaser continuing the business.
Irene chapter, o. E. S., will hold . sale
| Of aprons and fancy articles at Masonic
hall, Friday afternoon, June Is, followed
by a strawberry festival at $50, given
BY the men OF the order. The meeting OF
the chapter Friday evening will be the
last until September.
Mrs. d. Shirley Norris spent q few days
last week with her psrents on her way to
Bar Harbor from New Orleans, where she
spent the winter. Mr.. Norris, who has
been on q southern run as Pullman con-
ductor through the winter, is again on the
| mer.
The remarkable Edison Klein picture,
"The Voice Of the Violin," with music by
Edison Diamond Disc phonograph, shown
at the Strand last week, will be repeated
| by request to- night and tomorrow night,
as many were prevented from seeing and
hearing it on account OF the stormy
weather.
The municipal officers of ellsworth will
| be in session at the aldermen's room in
Hancock hall Friday and Saturday Of this
week, from a. m. to p. m, 3 to and
Ito p. m, for the purpose OF registering
voters for the primary election next Mon
day. No new names will be received after
5 p. m. Saturday.
The Mt. Desert branch was blocked
nearly all day Friday, by the wreck of a
freight train at midnight Thursday
between Holden and Brewer. Seven cars
left the rails, and the track was torn up
for 200 yards. No one was injured. The
morning mail did not reach Ellsworth h
until after O'Clock, when it came in with
the regular afternoon mail.
Herman s. Austin, wife and child, Of
Presque Isle, arrived in Ellsworth Monday
fora visit with Mr.. Austin's mother, Mrs.
Clifford Royal. Mr.. Austin, whose print
ing shop at Presque Isle was burned out
\ recently, left yesterday for Bar Harbor,
| where he viii work IN the Times office
| this summer, expecting totreturp to
Pr. sque Isle III The ball toresume business.
Miss Mary Z. Chase, Of BUzsInan,
Mont, spent Friday in Ellsworth with
her brother, Register of Probate +. E.
Chase, on her way to Bluehill to spend
the summer with her mother, Mrs. Edith
M. Chase. Miss Chase is engaged this
summer in writing q sequel to her latest
book, "The Girl from the Big Horn
Country" which has been 30 well re-
ceived.
| A five-reel Triangle feature, '.Sa BILE
Lorcha," Is on the bill for this evening.
Tomorrow the thrilling detective story
in five acts. "Protea ILL.," will be pre-
sented. Another Graft picture, and an
other in the series OF "Uncle Sam at
Work" will be presented Friday. Satur-
day another Triangle feature, "Matri-
| mony," will be given. Next Monday Cleo
Madison will appear in "A Soul En-
slaved", and on Tuesday Helen Ware in
''The Price,.
Harry r. McKennon, OF Ellsw orth, died
last Wednesday at the ssnatorium in Fair
field, where he had been since early in
April for treatment for tubercular trou BILE.
Mr.. McKennon was a native OF Bangor,
but lived in Ellsworth about ten years,
being employed in the Ellsworth steam
laundry. Six years ago he married Miss
Viola Pierson, OF Ellsworth, who survives
him. He was a member of Donaqua lodge,
*. OF =. The funeral was held at the
Methodist church Saturday morning, Rev.
T. 8. Ross officiating. The bearers were
II. b. Estey, George p. Smith, John A.
Stuart and Harvard c. Jordan.
The Ellsworth Dramatic club, under the
direction OF Fred E. Cooke, will begin re-
hearsals this week for the play, "Hazel
Kirke," to be presented at Hancock hall
about July II, for the benefit OF the
Village improvement society. J. j. Far
rell, OF the professional stage, will, as in