Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1918-03-06

The Thursday club will meet this week
with Mrs. Ii. M. Hall.
J. Ii. Donovan, who has been seriously
i'll of pneumonia, is improving.
The womsn's club will meet next Tues
day afternoon with Mrs. Z. J. Collins.
William Maloney has purchased the
shoe-repairing business OF Arno J. Patten,
and taken possessi
Friends of Charles j. Brown, who has
been i'll OF pneumonia the past few weeks,
are pleased to see him out.
Mrs. Jesse Clarry fell on the sidewalk
on Water street yesterday, and broke
both bones in her right arm.
Municipal Inauguration exercises will
be held Monday evening at 7.30 at Han
cock hall. Everybody is invited.
Clarington j. Carter and Aust in II.
Joy have been drawn to serve as traverse
Jurors at the April term Of the supreme
court.
County Attorney Fred L. Mason, who
has spent the latter part of the winter
with his son Fred in Baltimore, arrived
home last week.
DIR. II. l.. d. Woodruff, who has been
laid up several weeks with a dislocated
shoulder, is now able to be out anc at
tend to professional calls in the city.
Donations OF yarn in large or small
quantities will be appreciated by the
Junior Red Cross. Yarn may be left with
Mrs. +. c. Burrill or Mrs. George s. Fos-
| ter.
Shirley Gray has taken over the local
agency for the Texas Oil Co, succeeding
James Lymburner, and will continue
the distributing service here, with head
quarters at Ellsworth Falls.
Justice A. w. King, who has been
suffering from a severe attack of sciatica,
is still confined to his home, though bic
to be up and about the house. He feels
now that he is improving, and hopes to
be out again soon.
The literature club will meet next Mon
day evening with Miss Catherine Hurley.
Roll-call "What is Heard in Washing
tom" papers, "Hoover and his Silent
Partner" Miss Stockbridge; "War
| Wings" Mrs. Royal.
An advance copy OF "Our Hawaii" by
CHAIRMAN Kittredge London MRS. Jack
LondopJ has been received by friends mere
Mrs. London is in New York en- route to
Mt. Desert and Ellsworth to visit relatives.
| Her book gives q charming description
OF our beautiful island possessions, and
will be widely read.
| Friends in Ellsworth learned with
regret OF the death of Charles Otis, known
here through his frequent visits as
advance agent of the Klark- Urban
theatrical company. Mr.. Otis died at
Laconia, n. H., February 26, aged sixty
two years. He was a native of Orland,
and his body was brought there for
interment.
| Wednesday evening, March Is, at 30
O'Clock, there will be a meeting at Society
hall of all who are interested in the max
| ing of surgical dressings. Miss Parsons OF
Boston, surgical dressing instructor,
will address the meeting, showing the
latest methods OF making the gauze dress
ings. 1t is hoped that there will be large
| attendance.
Friends OF Harold L. Hooper, signal
corps, who has been attending the army
school of aerial photography at Cornell
university, Ithaca, N. Y. will be pleased
to hear OF his successful completion OF
| that course and of his transfer to the
Eastman Kodak Co.'S. school at Rochester,
| N. Y, for an advanced course in camera
construction and repairing.
| The county road meeting held with the
mem bers OF the State highway COM
mission in Ellsworth last Thursday was
well attended by seiectmen, road COM
missioners and others interested in road
building from the county towns. Many
interesting mat ers were threshed our
and explained, especially In regard to the
changes in he law in regard to State-aid
to towns for road building.
| The Farm Bureau Neps announces
| prizes for the next county contest OF the