Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1920-12-29


rabbits escaped from his pen in the
morning.
Miss Carrie Harrington was at
home from MiIlinocket for Christ
mas.
The literature club will meet next
Monday evening with Mrs, Allon P.
Royal.
Miss Efie Morgan of Boston is
visiting her. parents, Mr.. and Mrs. A.
L. Morgan.
Mrs. Harry Torrens and daughter
Anna of Bangor are spending a week
at the Merry Mack.
Miss Ella F. Jordan of Jamaica
Plain, Mass, is spending the holiday
recess in Ellsworth.
The literature meeting of the
woman's alliance will be held with
Mrs. E. e. Rowe January 5.
Miss Helen Greenan of Worcester,
| Mass, is spending the holidays with
her aunt, Mrs. Herbert Young, in
Ellsworth
Mrs. A. P Wiswell has closed her
Ellsworth home, and left yesterday
| for Boston. Later she will go to
| New York for the winter.
Mrs. Ella G. Nash, Western Union
telegraph operator, spent Christmas
week with her daughter, Mrs. Arthur
| Howard, in Foxcroft.
Michael Gaynor, with his daugh-
ters, Sylvia and Margaret, of Attle-
boro, Mass, spent Christmas with his
daughter Mrs. Frank ]. Dunleavy.
The new year will open with an
attractive program at the Baptist
church. Morning service at 1890,
with special music and a timely mes
| sage. Sunday school at 11.45.
Evening meeting at 7.30.
George B. Stuart, D. E. Hurley and
| j. A. Cunningham were in Augusta
| yesterday for the continuation of the
hearing before the public utilities
| commission in regard to Ellsworth
| water rates. The hearing was COM
| pleted. The attorneys now have
thirty days in which to file briefs,
! after which the commission will
render its decision.
At the Unitarian vestry this eve
/ ming, Rev. G. T. Jones will give a
lecture under the auspices of the
Unity club. The subject will be the
Plymouth Pilgrims, and the lecture
| will be illustrated by lantern slides
showing places and people of inter-
est in Scrooby Leyden and Plymouth.
| This is the 300th centenary of the
landing of the Pilgrims, and the lee
ture is of timely interest.
| This evening at Hancock hall the
Ellsworth A. c. and Ellsworth high
school basketball teams will meet in
an exhibition game, when Alanson
e. Skillings, an official of the joint
basketball rules committee, will give
demonstration of this years rules.
| The game should be valuable and in
| teresting to both players and specta-
tors. Tomorrow evening, at the
same place, Ellsworth A. c. will meet
| the Easterns of Brewer.
| Charlotte, widow of John Farrell,
! died Monday at the home of her son
| Ruloff at Beechland. Mrs. Farrell,
| who was in the ninetieth year of
! her age, had been failing in health
| a long time. She was a native of
| fremont her maiden name being
| Charlotte Robbins. The greater part
! of her life had been spent in Ellis
worth. She leaves four children
| Mrs Abbie Weaver and Charles Far
rell of California, Crowell of Boston
| and Ruloff of Ellsworth.
The H. F. Wescott Hardware Co.
I to-day shipped a Remington auto
matte rifle to the far-off East Indies.
| Thomas G. Christie, who was in ELS
worth last summer, saw the rife and
| fell in love with it. He went away
without buying it but he did not for
| get it. The other day he sent for it,
and this is the address to which the
rifle was shipped to-day: 'Tandjong
Kassan Estate, Deli Sumatra, con-
signed to care of Harrisons & Cros-
| field, Ltd, Port of Belawan, Dutch
East Indies"
| Leon G. Flood of Bangor and Miss
Helen Kirkpatrick of Caribou were
married in st. Johns Episcopal
church in Bangor Friday, by Rev. j
| E. Hand. The couple was attended
by the parents of the bride, Mr.. and
Mrs. Hugh R. Kirkpatrick of Carl
| bou. The groom is son of Mr.. and
| Mrs. Asa G. Flood OF Ellsworth Falls
and is a travelling salesman for T
| r. Savage Co. Mrs. Flood has been
employed in the auditors department
of the B. & A r. r. Co. in Bangor
| After a wedding trip to Boston and
New York, they will be at home at
141 Ohio street, Bangor.
| rev. CldTl6S w. tOlllLS, LOl-
mer chancellor of the Roman Cath
| olic diocese of Portland, who died
| Sunday in Boston, was native OF
! Ellsworth. He was secretary to Car
dinal O'Connell when the latter was
Bishop of Portland, and accompanied
him as secretary of legation on the
| Papal mission to Japan in 1906. AT
| that time Father Collins was decorat-
| ed with the Order of the Rising Sun,
and was subsequently appointed hon
orary chamberlain to Pope Plus x.
| He was a writer of note in Catholic
| periodicals. He was fifty years OF
age. His parents, still living in
| Massachusetts, moved to Bangor
| from Ellsworth when he was ten
years old.
! John Scott, one of Ellsworth's old
est citizens and a veteran of the
Civil war, died Monday night at his
home on Birch avenue. Mr.. Scott
was born in Bangor January IA,
1S41. In the Civil war he enlisted
as a private in Co. A, New Hamp-