Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1917-05-09

Of Odd Fellows hall. After justice he d
been done the excellent.supper served BY
John q. Leland, cigars were lighted, and
the smoke brought visions Of fires at
which ,Dirigo had done yeoman service,
and races in which its famous racing team
had participated.
AT the Bijou this week the great serial
picture, Liberty" will be opened. The
first episode will ke shown Saturday,
and the second Monday, and after that
it will be a regular feature Of each Mon
day evening. Other features for this
week are, for to- night, Max Figman in
"My Eest Girl" Thursday, Rosetta Brice
in "a Mans Making;" Friday, ''The
Pretenders;" Saturday, Lou Tellegen in
'svictory OF Conscience" Tuesday, Fan
ME Ward in .sEach Pearl Tear"
VIM. H. H. Rice post q. A. R. will hold
a regular meeting next Saturday after
noon at 2.3O o'clock, to make final ar
rangements for Memorial day, and to
transact any other business that may
come before the meeting. A large at
tendance is requested by the commander.
FREQ 4. Stoddard, principal of the high
school, will deliver the Memorial day
address. Rev. B. q. johnson OF the
Baptist church will preach the sermon at
the union memorial service at Hancock
hall Sunday evening, May 7.
Rev. H. b. Haskell, who for 1 he past few
years has made his home in Ellsworth,
while working in special capacity for
the general board Of foreign missions OF
the Methodist church, has been appointed
pastor OF the TriniI y Methodist church OF
Montpelier, Vt. The appointment is an
important one, but while DR.. Haskell is
being congratulated upoa receiving it,
his many friends, OF Ellsworth and the
East Maine conference believe the larger
share OF congratulations should 20 to the
Montpelier church iE securing him.
The house of Street Commissioner G. F.
Newman on Park street was badly dam
aged by fire sbo-tly before noon Sunday.
The fire evidently started in small closet
in the kitchen, and had spread far between
walls and ceiling before it was discovered
by Mrs. Newman, who was alone at the
were gutted, and the whole house
thoroughly wet down. The fire reached
the connecting stable, but was stopped be-
fore doing much damage there. Very little
furniture was removed from the house.
There is an insurance Of LOO on the
house and small inearsnce on the furni-
ture, which will not cover the loss. The
house was practically new, having been
rebuilt and enlarged, with modern i'm
provements, after . fire few years ago.
Mr.. and Mrs. Newman are boarding for
the present with Mrs. Webster
]. A. Leonard, civil engineer, is in Ellis
worth for the purpose OF laying out plans
| for extensive improvements to be made at
the power station Of the Bar Harbor &
Union River Power Co. this summer. The
work will include the removal Of the tenn
porary wooden bulk head at the head Of
the canal and the putting in Of permanent
| concrete work. The doubling of the
power Of the station is also contemplated.
The company now has under consideration
| the installation OF an additional 5000
kilowatt generator OF new type, vertical
shaft. This can be done without any
enlargement Of the power-h house. The
two generators now installed are of 1000
and / 200 kilowatts respectively, 30 that
the new generator, II installed, will more
than double the capacity OF the station.
MIR. Leonard will have an office in the
Fret National bank building during the
progress of the work-the same Office
which he occupied when ne first came to
Ellsworth In .902.
| Sheriff Wescott was notified Sunday Of
break Saturday night at the store and
postofice of Albert A. Bartlett in Center.
1t was the fourth break at the same store
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