Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1919-09-03

Morrisey comes here under the auspiee.
OF the Edison dealer in Ellsworth, e. F
Robinson, and free tickets for the concert
will be distributed by him.
Winslow Stanley, who has spent the
summer with his grandmother, Mrs. Rose
Young, has returned to his home in
Haverhill, Mass. His uncle, Julius Young
accompanied him, and will visit relatives
i'll Haverhill, Stoneham, Boston and Law.
renee.
Mrs. Phoebe Bridges of West Hancock
celebrated her eighty-third birthday last
Sunday at the home OF her daughter
Mrs. nj. M. Davis. Her great grand
daughter Miss Dorothy, who was five
years old on the same day, celebrated her
birthday at the same time.
| Mrs. Carrie E. Bridges, Mr.. and Mrs.
Coleman Bridges and daughter Dorothy,
Miss Phoebe Bridges, Arthur and Irving
Bridges of New Jersey and Mrs. A..
| Bridges and daughter Elsie of Chicopee
| rails, Mass, have been guests at the
| Davis farm for the past two weeks.
Mrs. George F. Higgins and daughter
| Ruth, who have been spending week
in Ellsworth at the home of Mrs. Hig-
gins parents, Clifford e. Cousins and
wife, returned Tuesday to their home in
Maiden, Mass. They were accompanied
by Mr.. Higgins, who came Sunday.
Sergt. Harold Woodward of Bogota,
N. D., who has just received his honorab BILE
discharge from service in the q. s.
marines, is visiting his grandmother,
Mrs. W. P. Woodward. This is his first
visit here in five years, though as bow
he spent most of his summers here.
The North Ellsworth Farmers club is
busy with preparations for it's fair on
wednesday and Thursday, Sept. II and
Is. There will be dinners and suppers
each day, and midnight supper the
second evening in connection with the
dance. A chicken dinner will be served
the second day of the fair.
Mrs. {. l. Welch and daughter Helen.
who have been spending the summer at
their Shady Nook cottage, have returned
to Ellsworth. Miss Welch, who has been
teacher OF domestic science at Presque
Isle normal school the past few years, has
accepted q position for the coming year in
Cohasset, Mass. She will leave for Co.
hasset tomorrow.
Andrew P. Jordan and wife of Berlin.
N. H., were in Ellsworth a few DAYS the
past week. 1t was Mr.. Jordan's first
visit TO Ellsworth since his marriage in
June last, and the warm congratulations
| of his many friends awaited him. Mr..
and Mrs. Jordan left yesterday for visit
to Mrs. Jordan's former home in Mars
| Hill and to attend the Presque Isle fair.
| Those who took the State teachers ex-
ami nation in Ellsworth last Friday were ::
Elementary, Thelma johnson of Salisbury
Cove and Martha Osgood OF Bluehil;
secondary, Arthur Jellison of West Sulli-
van, Evelyn Gray of Brooklin and Irene
Conners of Sullivan; special, manual
training, Edna M. Havey, West Sullivan.
Supt. Stevens of Ellsworth conducted the
examination.
| There was good attendance at the
mass meeting at Hancock hall Monday
evening, when Hon. Paul D. Sargent.
engineer of the Maine highway COM
mission, explained clearly the need of
| the proposed bond issue for the con-
tinuation of permanent road improve
| ment in Maine. Hon. Fulton j. Redman,
who was expected to speak, sent a
telegram of regret.
! A marriage of interest took place in
Ellsworth last week, when Miss Hilda H.
| Willrich of Washington, d. O., became
| the wife of George Barton Wetmore OF
Sussex, n. B. The ceremony was per-
| formed by Rev. j. w. Tickle of the Uni
tartan church. The bride is a daughter
of Consul Gebhard Willrich of Washing
ton, and the groom was a major in the
Canadian army during the recent war.
They are spending the summer in Brook
lin.
| Melville Fl. Haskell, summer resident
of Bluehill, was brought before the ELS
worth municipal court Monday on COM
plant of Game Warden Macomber, to
answer to two charges, one for illegal
| possession of firearms, as a nonresident,
and lthe other for hunting on Sunday.
| The minimum fine was imposed in both
cases, S25 on the first charge and SO on the
| second, but the first fine was remitted.
He paid the fine of $40 and the costs in
| both cases, amounting to S155S more.