Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1918-07-03

BAxeoR. Jane Is, 1915
r,,oy Aant Mades aHd N. B, Sisters:
guess you will think I am not very help
f,l. but am surely hopeful Of your speedy
rscovery. Il Is nice Sarcissas can be WIKI
Won At this time. As soon IS heard yoa
were so ~, | said to myself, Nov VIII
write something for the column" and twice
took my pen IN my hand, but the thoughts
would no, come, SO then put IL down and
said. alet some one else write" Bntafter
this long time will try to All short space
even IL IL is not very interesting.
AsIiive in the city, can't tell you anything
about farm, but Aunt Maria can do that 1
do have some house plants, and have saa
blossoms ali winter Now they are OUT on
the piazza, but ! still have few IN my room
and they are stsil in bloom.
Nellie, my daughter. has some nice ferns'
and we do have a big yard for the ei'y'
We have three large apple trees-one sweet
two very nice cooking apples, and some rhn-
barb, but the trees make the yard so shady
flowers won't grow there very well. We have
some peoAies. = double buttereup' and some
blue forget me noss, the kind that live In the
ground.
We have large piazza with woodhine on
one side, and we did have lots of crimson and
mink rambler roses, bat the severe colo OF
last winter nearly killed them, We had 10
eut them back SO we shall not have many
roses this year We enjoy the shade ana
stay on the piazza all the time We can get
when il is hot and we surely have had some
hot days. but 1t is nice and cool now
This week have been into the kindergarten
to see my little grandson graduate into
higher grade. wish you could have seen the
little tots. They surely did louk sweet some
of them wore sailor suits and carried Rags
some were dressed soldiers and carried
guns, and some farmer boys and earned
hoes, rakes and shoyels. Some OF the glrls
were dressed as Red Cross nurses the rest as
cooks. They had table, aud on that they
! hal bowls and dishes with barley -four, rice'
rolled oats, potatoes. apples, etc. and theS
went through the forms of cooking They
sang ard danced aud marched. There we're
lots Of visitors TO see them.
/ Friday afternoon went TO see Louie, my
1 granddau ghter, graduate to higher grsae-
She will enter the nth grade. she Is ten
/ years old Al The close OF the exercises they
gave an exhibi ion on the lawn at her teach
er's home little above the Longieilow school
where the children both go. They sans
i "America" aud had the shoemaker's dance
( which is real cute. the butterfly dance and
a girl dressed as Scotch lassie danced the
Highland ding, Three girls danced bare
foot dance aud they all marched. and sang
the star spangled Banner" as a wind-up
They had viet-ola music to dance by. After
they we're through. the teacher invited then
in and treated them TO puneh and cookies
( sill 20 TO sew for the Red Cross every
week. and once month we have an all-day
session and do have a nice social time. II
meets on a Wednesday. and that Is oui
prayer meeting night and Few Of as TAX
our supper. 100, and stay TO meeting.
We have just lost a fine young man from
our church. DR.. william Emery, formerly
Of surry he had sung in our choir FOL
about two years. He had gone 70 the servic'
OF his country and had been in camp only