Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1918-10-16

DIR. Z. c. Knowlton is i'll OF influenza.
The Methodist fair which was to be
held next week has been postponed.
Fernald II. Webster is at home from
Boston for vacation of two weeks.
Roy {. Haines was at home last week
from camp at Gettysburg, Pa, for short
furlough.
The Friend house at the corner Of Oak
and Church streets has been purchased
by Miss Doris Colpitts.
Mrs. &. X. Foster left Saturday for Hull,
Mass, where she will spend the winter
| with her daughter Paulepe.
MIR. and Mrs. Leon E. Rowe of Ellis
worth are receiving congratulations on
the birth, this morning, OF a daughter.
| Among those ill of influenza are Mrs
A. Fl. Sawyer, Mrs. F. E. Tilden, Night
| Officer Joseph Mcintosh and Edward NJ.
| Do~ney.
Mrs. Willis Dunn accompanied her aunt
| Mrs. Annie Powers, to Bangor Saturday,
| where Mrs. Powers entered Paine's hos
| pital for treatment.
/ The supreme court is in session, with
out juries, Justice Philbrook hearing
| divorces and other matters that can be
| decided by the court.
Miss Ellen Mccarthy, who has been
living with her sister, Mrs. Mary Camp
bell, in Mattapan, Mass, for two years,
returned to Ellsworth Saturday.
Perry j. Langley and family have re-
turne from Portsmouth, N. H., where
they moved a few weeks ago. They are
now at the home of Mr.. Langley's parents,
recuperating after a severe illness.
Charles Brooks Pitman, well known in
Ellsworth where he lhad been a frequent
visitor as private secretary OF George n.
Black, died last Thursday at Smith
eight years.
i Ellsworth friends are interested to
know that David Tatley, son OF Mr.. and
MRS. j. w. Tatley of Montreal, has won
the commissioners scholarship and the
gold medal OF the Westmount high school,
" hile matriculating for the McGill science
course.
| Marie Cousins, who was employed in
| the home Of Henry NJ. Hall, IN Ellsworth.
died Thursday at her home in Franklin,
where she was called last Monday by the
| illness OF her sister Ruby, who died
| Tuesday. Friends here deeply sympa-
thize with the family thus douply be-
reaved within two days. The report cur
rent here Sunday that third sister, who
had also been employed in Ellsworth,
was dead, proves, happily, untrue.
| Mrs. A. A. Braymer has just received
\ word of the promotion of her son, Dana
II. Smith, to the rank of lieutenant
commander in the United States naval
reserve. Commander Smith, who was in
France when the United States entered
| the war, enlisted Immediately, so that
| his rise has been comparatively rapid
1 for his term of service. He is now in
| command of one of the transatlantic trade
ship conveys, having recently been on
| the coastwise trade service. be was born
| in Ellsworth, Maine, but spent his early
life on Beacon hill and is we'll known
among the younger set OF Seattle Seattle
Post Intelligencer,
The body OF Sidney P. Stock bridge, who
had been missing since September IL, was
| found last Thursday afternoon by Ralph
| Jordan and Lewis Bunker, hunting near
| the lower end of Branch pond. The point
where the body was found is on the west
side OF the Branch pond mill pond, and
about half mile from the mill. Il was
about twenty-five rods from the pond.
The place is about two miles, in an air
line, from the point in Doliardtown where
Mr.. Stock bridge was last seen. 1t is be-
lieved now that ne entered the woods just
beyond the Asa Barron place, and followed
a wood road that leads from the back OF
the lots on the Dollardtown settlement to
the vicinity where he was found.
Thomas W. platt, jr., aged twenty five
years, OF Andoser, Mass, and Frank Z.
Crowley, aged thirty, of West Jonesport.
members OF the naval reserve, aied here
this week, the former on Monday and
the latter Tuesday morning. The young
men we're stationed on the coast patrol
boat Virginia, that came in here for work
at the Ellsworth Foundry & Machine
Works about ten days ago. They we're
i'll when the boat arrived, and when their
condition became serious, were removed
to house on the Josiah Higgins place,