Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1919-10-01

lung his aunt, Mrs. ID. w. Dunn, for
three weeks, returned home yesterday.
Mrs. E. G. Nash, manager of the
Western Union telegraph office, left
Saturday for a vacation of two weeks,
After visit with her daughter, Mrs.
Arthur Howard, in Dover, she will visit
in Harrington.
Inc october term of the supreme court
for Hancock county will convene Tues
day, Oct. ID, with Justice Spear presiding.
The grand jurors will report at 10 a. m.
Tuesday and the traverse jurors at 10 a. m.
Thursday. Naturalization cases will be
heard Wednesday.
Sarah A, widow of Greenly Smith,
died Saturday at her home at Bayside.
In the seventy-ninth year of her age.
she leaves one son, Capt. Charles L.
smith. The funeral was held at the
home Monday afternoon, Rev. R. B.
Mathews officiating.
Miss Naomi F. Clough, daughter of Mr..
and Mrs. Robert II. Clough of Surry, and
Sewall T. Royal, son of William f. RoyaI
OF Ellsworth, were married at the Baptist
parsonage in Bluehill Saturday evening,
by Rev. Roy M. Trafton. They are re-
ceiving congratulations from many
friends. They will make their home in
| Ellsworth.
| Octavius Whitcomb, native of Ellis
worth, died recently at his home in
Monterey, Calf, at the age of eighty-
| seven years. Mr.. Whitcomb was the last
| survivor OF the nine children OF the late
Eleazer and Abigail Whitcomb of Els
worth Falls. He went to the Pacific coast
when young man, and had made his
| home there ever since. He visited in Els
worth for the last time twelve years ago.
| Extensive re }airs on the foundation and
Vestry of the Baptist church are nearly
| con pleted. The foundation walls have
| been thoroughly repaired, new sills and
| floors put in the vestry, the kitchen re-
modelled, and the whole interior of the
Vestry repainted. A new wood furnace,
| much larger than the old, has been in
stalled, and later in the fall it is proposed
| to put in new coal furnace in place of
| tue present coal furnace.
| The Ellsworth baseball team closed its
season at Cherryfield last week, losing
two games to Harrington, one by the
score OF 5-2 and the other by the score OF
lO-2. Ellsworth has played twenty nine
| games this season, winning eighteen and
losing eleven. Six of the games were
lost to two teams - the Great Northern
and Harrington. One game was lost to
the Easterns of Bangor, the only one
played with that team. Ellsworth and
Bluehill split even in two games All
other teams met were defeated one or
more games, or the rubber game.
j. A. Peters, Tuesday, Oct. 7. at O'Clock.
Business OF Importance will come before
the club at this meeting, and all mem bel
are urgently requested to be present
A pleasing program consisting OF piano
selections by Miss Margaret Dunleayy
and Miss Louise Donnell reading by
Miss Elizabeth Silsby, has been arranged
by the committee. An invitation is ex-
tended to all ladies in the community to
| become members of the club and CO.
operate in the good work, which it is
hoped will be done the coming year.
widow Of Rev. Charles z. Lombard, who
was the third pastor of the Unitarian
church in Ellsworth, is the guest of Miss
M. A. Greedy. Mr.. and Mrs. Lombard
came here forty-one years ago, and for the
several years OF her husbands pastorate
here, Mrs. Lombard was especially active
IN the church and among the young
people of the society, leaving an impress
upon the community that has endured all
the years since. This is Mrs. Lom bard's
second visit here in thirty-eight years.
Friday afternoon at O'Clock there will
be a special meeting of the Woman's
| Alliance at the memorial parlors of the
church, to meet Mrs. Lombard. A cordial
invitation is extended all women of the
parish, whether members of the alliance
or not, to attend.
Several important transfers OF business
property have been made in Ellsworth
during the past week. DR.. A. c. Hagerthy
has sold to Mrs. Asunta Luchini the
| Giles block on Main street, in which her
store is located, together with the large
building in the rear formerly occupied by
the Bijou theatre. DR.. Hagerthy has also
sold to Mrs. F. E. Tilden, one of the Eddy
store buildings on Main street, occupied
| by r. H. Smith. Mr.. Tilden will move
his billiard room from Water street to
the second floor of the building. Mr..
Smith will remain in the building. Nego-
tiations have been closed, though the
papers have not yet passed, for the sale of
the Aiken building on State street to
Henry FL. Dodge. His father, George A.
Dodge, the only tobacco and candy jobber
in Hancock county, will move to the
Aiken building from the Redman build
ing adjoining, as soon as possible after the
transfer is made.