Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1919-06-04

| " ASiesrhph TO-, al present IN AroostOok
county, were at home over Memorial day
and Sunday.
The torpedo boat destroyer Hale, named
IN honor OF the late Senator Eugene Hale,
was launched at Bath Thursday afternoon.
MISS Mary Cameron Hale, daughter of
Mr.. and Mrs. Chandler Hale, christened
the boat. Mrs. Mary C. Hale, widow of
4, senator Hale, was present at the launch
ing.
| Mrs. E. e. Springer, who was called to
Madison, Wis, early in April by the
serious illness OF her daughter. MRS.
George Porter Paine, arrived home Thurs
day, accompanied by her daughter and
| children. Prot. Paine will join hi family
here later, for the summer He has re-
Gently been elected to a professorship in
Harvard university, and will begin his
duties there in the fall.
| Miss Nellie Stratton Abbott, daughter
of Mr.. and Mrs. Ernest Abbott of
\ Hancock, and Fred Earle Grant.
were married Thursday forenoon at
the Baptist parsonage in Bar
Harbor, by Rev. e. Everett Fairchild
They left ON honeymoon trip to New
| York state. After their return, they will
reside in Hancock. Mr.. Grant is purser
on the Maine Central boats from Mt.
Desert Ferry, and the bride has been en-
ployed as telegraph operator at the Ferry.
They have the best wishes OF their MANY
!; friends.
/ The Ellsworth board of trade will have
| a banquet next Tuesday evening at s
| o'clock, at the Hancock house, in con-
nection with its regular meeting.
Tickets are Il plate, limited to sixty
| five, and will be sold in advance. A
committee is now out soliciting member
ships in the board of trade. Every BUSH
ness man in Ellsworth should be con-
member of the committee. should see the
secretary, II. c. Stratton. 1t is hoped to
arrange for some ut-of-town speaker at
the banquet.
Lieut.. Commander Richardson, the first
commander of the naval reserve station
at Bar Harbor, and his crippled son, were
killed last Thursday when the automobile
in which they were riding was struck by
train at a crossing in Massachusetts,.
Mrs. Richardson and a younger son
witnessed the accident from another
automobile. Commander Richardson made
several visits to Ellsworth while stationed
at Bar Harbot, taking part in the demon
strations in honor of the drafted men
leaving for camp. He was courteous
gentleman and a loyal son of Uncle Sam.
and friends here learned of his death with
regret.
Ellsworth has material for good town
ball team, as was evident on Mem oriaI
day, when hastily picked-up team gave
the high school boys a lively fight,
losing by only one run. A little
work, a little effort on the part of
some one and a little backing by the
town, and Ellsworth can put on the field
nine that will make a creditabIe show
ing. Bluehill, Hancock Point, Cherry
field, Bar Harbor, the radio station and
other towns in the county, have teams
with which a summer schedule OF games
could be arranged. There will be a meet
ing at the board Of trade rooms next
Friday evening to talk this thing over.
The general change in the train sched-
ule to summer service on the Maine
Central will 60 into effect June 30. but
the New York-Bar Harbor expr ess will
commence running from New York June
and from Mt. Desert Ferry June 10.
This train will leave New York at n. m.
| except Sundays, and leave Mt. Desert
Ferry at $40 p. m. except Saturdays. With
the resumption OF this train, boat service
will be extended between Bar aarbor and
Manset, leaving Mt. Desert Ferry at II. 80
p. m. and arriving at Bar Harbor los,
Seal Harbor 1.50, Northeast Harbor 2.10,
Southwest Harbor 225 and Manset at 2 30.
Returning, leave Manset at 655 d. m.,
Southwest Harbor at ITO, Northeast Har-
Dor 7.25, Seal Harbor, 7.5o and Bar Har-
Dor 9.
The airplane from which Ellswort b
| hoped to receive visit left Bangor last
Friday forenoon for Roekland without
making fight even over Bangor, except
as its course from the landing field to
Rockland took it over one section of the
city. The plane Landed in Rockland
Friday afternoon, and left there the
following day for Mineola, N. Y, reach l..
ing there safely Saturday afternoon.
Bangor, as well as Ellsworth, is disap-
pointed at the failure OF the airship to
make fight over the cities. Mayor
Woodman has voiced the protest OF the
people of Bangor in communication to
the authorities with whom he arranged
for the visit of the plane. 1t is not
true, as intimated by the Bangor paper,
that the committee from Ellswort h
which went to Bangor in the effort to get
tue plane here was met with rebuff by
Major Gilkeson, the pilot. He was very
affable to the committee, but with the
plane up to the hub OF it's wheels in the