Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1917-10-24

hood, with no hope OF restored health, she
still was very dear to the parents, who
have the sympathy Of their friends.
The Halloween party of the Unitarian
club will take place next Wednesday
evening, at Hancock hall. The hall
decorations will be suitable to the
occasion, and special Halloween features
will be introduced. Refreshments will
| be served.
on q FOOLS errand at o'clock Friday
morning. Someone saw the reflection
Of fire in the southeast, and turned
in an alarm. 1t proved to be the burn
ing wreckage of the freight cars wrecked
Thursday. which the recking crew was
! destroying.
"Martin Luther's Life and Work" will
be the subject OF the sermon at the Uni
tartan church next Sunday morning.
All members OF the parish who have re-
ceived the weekly food conservation cards
from the minister are asked to either
bring them to church, mairrhem or tele-
phone details.
Miss Marion NeaIley, who is taking a
training course as nurse at the Worcester,
Mass, City hospital, was taken suddenly
ill Of appendicitis last Wednesday after
noon, and was operated upon the same
no complications, and she is making
rapid recovery.
Martha, wife Of A. T. Sawyer, died at
her home in Chelmsford, Mass, Monday,
Oct. 10, after lingering illness. Besides
her husband, she leaves her parents, MIR.
and Airs. James T. FarreIlof Ellsworth, one
brother, G. 8. Farrell OF Boston, and two
sisters-Mrs. c. F. Cook Of Worcester,
Mass, and Mrs. L. H. Higgins OF Els
worth.
\ union meeting OF the Protestant
churches to celebrate the Reformation Of
the sixteenth century and to hasten the
transformation of the twentieth, will he
held in the Congregational church next
Sunday evening at 7.30 O'Clock. Ad-
dresses will be delivered by Revs. r. b.
Mathews and j. W. Tickle. ALI the local
ministers will take part in the meeting.
The annual meeting OF the Thursday
club was held at the Congregational
chapel Thursday. with thirty two present.
Officers were elected as follows: Mrs.
Nellie s. Corneail, president; Mrs. Luther
Leach h,vice-president; Mrs. M. Y. McGown,
secretary and treasurer. A delicious
picnic supper was served. The next
meeting will be held to- morrow afternoon
at 2 O'Clock.
Four cars of an east bound freight left
the rails at Blacks meadow, mile below
the Ellsworth station, at o'clock last
Thursday morning. Two of the cars, one
loaded with -four and one with salt, were
demolished and large part of their con-
tents destroyed. The rails were ripped up
and twisted for ten or fifteen rods. The
accident is attributed to a broken truck.
The track was blocked the greater part Of
Thursday, passengers from east and west
being transferred around the wreck.
Pictures OF interest at the Bijou this
week are: tonight, "Money Madness"
Thursday, Anita Stewart, everybody's ia
vorite, in the five-act photoplay 'sThe
Glory OF Yolanda;" Friday, Lionel Bar
rymore in 1.-The End OF the Tuur;" Sstur-
dav. Lau rellesen in "Thc BARK Wotf,''
photoplay, "The Hand OF Perii'' In ad-
dition to these pictures, there will also
be four minute talks on the war, to- night
by Harry L. Crabtree, Thursday, Fulton
J. Redman and Friday, Congressman
j. A. Peters.
Madison Garland OF Lakewood was
badly burned at the Green Lake fish
hatchery, where he was temporarily en-
ployed, last Wednesday evening. MIR.
Garland had returned to his camp after
his days work and, stripped to the waist,
had rubbed his shoulders and body with a
liniment for rheumatism. Thinking
heat would be an added remedy, he stood
near the fire. The iiument evidently
contained some highly infsmmable sub :
stance, for it suddenly burst into flame,
en,eloping the upper part of his body.
His brother, happening in at just this
time, succeeded in putting out the fire, or
the result might have been more serious.
vent 10 ne DOS lbildl III Dau-
gor Thursday. His body is badly burned
and blistered.
Fred Spaulding. aged sixty tour years,
committed suicide last Friday near his
home on the Watham road, above Els
worth Falls, shooting himself in the head
with shotgun. Street Commissioner
Newman, who happened to be near,
heard the shot and saw the smoke of the
gun beside the road only three or four
RODS ahead OF him. Spaulding had
stepped just out of the road and behind
a small bush when he fired the shot.
AS Mr.. Newman drove by the spot he saw
Spaulding lying on the ground, and, stop
ping his car, found him dead. He
notified Medical Examiner Hodgkins,
who after rexsmining the body pronounced
it case of suicide. Ill health is the cause
assigned. Spauiding had recently been