Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1917-07-04

Southwest Harbor, Roland Flye Of
Brooklin and DR.. Lewis Hodgkins OF
Ellsworth.
Mrs. d. II. Linnehan and daughter
Elizabeth, who have spent the past two
weeks with her mother, Mrs. Hollis Mum
son, at Portsmouth, N. H., arrived home
Saturday.
Miss Mary A. Hurley, who has been
critically i'll OF appendicitis, hss made
steady improvement during the past
week, and her condition is now most en-
couraging.
Mrs. Francis G. Atkinson OF Providence,
r. l., arrived last week to spend the sum-
mer with her father, former Chief-Justice
Emery. Prof. Atkinson will join her here
on the Fourth to remain through July.
Charles Getchell OF Ellsw orth and Miss
Mildred Gordon OF Sullivan were married
Monday evening by Rev. Henry w.
Conley at his home at Ellsworth Falls.
They have the best wishes OF their friends.
Mrs. Kenneth NJ. Cameron Of Ottawa,
Can, with little daughters Moran and
Mary, 10 visiting her parents, Mr.. and
Mrs. J. r. Knowlton. Mr.. Cameron, who
accompanied them here, returned to
Ottwa Monday.
Mrs. Mary Austin, daughter Helen and
son Eugene, arrived yesterday morning
from Sparks, New, for an extended visit
with relatives and friends here. She is
at the home Of her sister, Mrs. Charlotte
Clement, on laurel street.
John J. Duffy expects to move his tailor
ing shop next week to the store on Main
street recently occupied by Mrs. Fred e.
Silvy, millinery. The store has been
destroyed Mrs. Silvy's stock.
Mr.. and Mrs. Pearl 8. Thorsen and Mr..
and Mrs. Roy 8. Warner arrived satur-
day from New York, making the trip by
automobile. Mr.. Thorsen and Mr..
Warner will remain but few days, while
their wives will remain for several weeks.
Mr.. and Mrs. John Haskell OF Bath,
who have spent the weekend with Mr..
and Mrs. James W. Smith, have returned
to their home, making the round trip by
uutOuioodSs AAuShSAAs p" ~ was ioA
merly OF Ellsworth, is a foreman in the
Bath Iron Works.
Carroll ] Swan and wife OF Boston arrived
at Hancock Point Saturday. Mrs. Swan
will spend the summer at Hancock Point
and Ellsworth. Mr.. Swan remained but q
few days, military duty calling him back to
Boston. He is first lieutenant in the first
Massachusetts, engineer corps, and
expects soon to be mustered into
the federal service for duty in France.
The annual conference OF the Hancock
county Unitarian churches will be held at
the Unitarian church in Ellswo orth We'd
nesday, July IS. The full program has
not been arranged. Among the out-of-
the State speakers will be DR.. Wendte Of
Newton, Mass, and Rev. Samuel A. Elliot.
DR.. Elliot's address ON 1.-THE Moral Chal-
lenge Of the Army Hut" promises to be q
noteworthy feature Of the conference.
A feature OF unusual interest at the
Bijou this week will be 1.-THE Diplomatic
Service" Friday, featuring the famous
screen star, Francis Bushman. Other
Kiss" Thursday, "Mortmain;" Saturday,
'sThe Rainbow Princess" There will be a
special matinee Wednesday, when the
third OF the ssSeven Deadly Sins" will be
| lshown-"Greed." Other matinees for the
present will be held only Saturdays.
A man giving the name OF William f.
| Donovan, and whose registration card in
dicated that he was from East Boston,
| was committed from Ellsworth to the
| insane asylum at Bangor last Thursday.
Donovan, who had been sent by Boston
employment agency to work for the
| Penobscot Lumber Co. at East Machias,
was taken "queer" there, ana left work,
starting to work his way back to Boston.
| BY the time he reached Franklin Road be
was more than queer. He wanted to fight
everyone in sight, and stripped off his
coat, and his vest, and his trousers, and
then some. Sheriff Wescott was tele-
phoned for, and, with Deputy Sheriff
Patten, went to Franklin Road and ar
rested the man. After two days in the
county Jail, he was committed to the
asylum and taken there Thursday.
The Union River yacht club has been re-
organized, with Fulton J. Redman as
commodore, II. E. Hamlin as vice-commo-
dore, John o. Whitney as steward and
Rev. Il. B. Mathews as secretary and
treasurer. There have been two additions
to the Union river yacht feet this spring.
Rev. X. b. Mathews purchased the sloop
yacht Signet few weeks ago, and Fulton
j. Redman has just received his new yacht
LENA, bought to replace the Polly sold re-
Gently to New York parties. Tho Lena is
schooner rugged yacht, sixty-two feet
overall, forty feet on the water line and
eleven feet beam. Though not as roomy a
craft for cruising as the Polly, she still
has comfortable cruising quarters. She
arrived in Ellsworth from Boston Thurs
day. The Polly was reported as passing
fhrourh the Cane Cod canal Friday. and