Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1920-10-06
LOCAL AFFAIRS
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pound over Tor the OCTOBER grand
jury under $500 bonds each.
They were committed to the county
jail in default of bail.
DR.. N. c. King is recovering from
an illness of a few days.
DR.. F. p Latin, who was operated
upon for appendicitis last week at
the Paine hospital in Bangor. is re-
ported as making rapid recovery.
Grand Matron Emma B. Howe of
Rumford will inspect the officers of
Irene chapter, o. e. S., Wednesday
evening, Oct. 13. There will be a
special meeting for practice next
Friday evening.
Perley Priest, formerly with the
Merrill, Mayo Co. of Waterville, has
succeeded Harry S. Jones as manager
for the c. w. Grindal Estate, coal
and grain dealers, and has entered
upon his duties here.
No clue has yet been found to the
identity of the elderly woman who
was brought to Ellsworth last week
by an automobile party, and is un-
able to give her name or home. She
is now being cared for at the city
farm.
Miss Della Hodkins has rented her
house on High street for the winter
to Oliver H. Chenery, a travelling
man, who expects to be here with
his family next week Miss Hop
kins will spend the winter in Port
land.
Miss Bernice l.. Garland and
Ralph E. Cunningham, both of Ellis
worth, were married in Ban
gor Sunday, springing somewhat
of surprise on their Ellsworth
friends, who would not have allowed
such a quiet getaway had they been
| forewarned
Milton Rogers and Clyde Colt, of
the crew of the Bar Harbor ferry
steamer Norumbega, were arraigned
in the Ellsworth municipal court
! Monday, on complaint of George F.
| Merchant of Hancock, who charged
| them with interfering with his
lobster traps. They were found
not guilty.
Edward P. Thomas of Trenton
was arraigned in the Ellsworth
municipal court last week on COM
plant of Game Warden ]. II. Ma
! comber, charged with shooting wild
birds from a power boat. Respond
ent claimed that he did not shoot
birds, but shot a seal. He was
! found not guilty.
The Emoise Summers Herbert
Light Players will appear at Hancock
hall Monday Tuesday and Wednes-
| day evenings of next week, in roper
| toire. This company is said to be
one of the best that has ever visited
Maine. 1t is making but three stops
in Maine, to break jump from New
Hampshire to Halifax, N. s., where it
is booked for an all-winter engage
ment. The plays to be presented
here are THE Savage" House of
Lies" and THE Man from Albany"
There will be a regular meeting
of the board of trade next Monday
evening. The board has been quies-
cent during the summer, with the
usual summer diversions of bust
ness and pleasure, but it is proposed
now to get together for a winter
campaign for a bigger and buster
Ellsworth. Among the matters to
be brought up at the meeting next
Monday will be the steps to be
taken to secure the summer school
for another year. In this connec-
ton, an article from the Boston
University News, printed elsewhere
in this issue, is of interest.
The October term of the supreme
court will convene in Ellsworth
next Tuesday, with Associate Justice
Scott Wilson presiding The grand
and traverse jurors have been sum-
| moned to appear at 10 a. M. Tues
day. There will be no naturaliza-
lions at this term, as it comes with
in thirty days of an election. The
| Hancock County Bar association will
hold memorial exercises for the late
Chief-Justice l.. A. Emery on the
afternoon of Tuesday. Henry NJ
Hall of Ellsworth, Forrest B. Snow
of Bluehiu and Harry NJ. Corners of
Bar Harbor have been appointed as
committee for these exercises.
On October 2 the Maine woman s
club of New York city had rare treat
when Miss Clio NJ. Chilcott of New
York and Ellsworth gave a lecture,
illustrated by stereopticon views, on
| Lafayette National Park and It's
| French Traditions" Miss Chilcott
showed intimate knowledge of her
subject, and presented it in most
attractive and comprehensive man
ACi. ne pictures were unusually
fine, having been made from mega
tives taken by the official photogra-
piers of the park. The large and
representative audience was most ap-
preciatiye, and the lecture is being
asked for in many parts of the city.
Miss Chilcott is a member of the
board of education lecture staff,
which is engaged in extension work
among the people of New York city.
The first of the series of enter
tainments to be given under the aus
pieces of Frank E. Whitmore post,
American Legion, will take place at
Hancock hall next Friday evening.
The Vissochi trio will appear in a
novel program. Andrew Vissochi,
the leader of the trio, plays piano
accordion, an instrument little
known outside of continental
Europe. 1t is one of the most COM
plicated musical instruments known,