Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1920-07-14

rivals VIII be has not vet hear
definitely decided.
ALREADY the success of the summer
sehool Tor ex-service men has provad
.hat the confidence of the hackers Of
me project was not misplaced. Ont
u tue $4,000 men being trained
throughout the country by the Fed
sTai board Tor Vocational Education
those mere in Ellsworth are the only
ones allowed TO attend a summer
session. The establishment of tho
school shows the unusual confidence
OF the Federal Board in prof q =
Bellatty, the director. and Dean Ever.
Set ". Aord OF the b. u. College OF
business Administration
80 iar neither the directors of the
summer school nor President James
J. Walsh of the Boston University
Carry-On club, the organization Of
federal board men, has been able To
locate piano to hire for the mess
nail II Is planned to arrange the
eating hall so that il can be used Inv
the boys as club room. and the frs,
requisite is an upright piano. II Is
hoped some good-hearted Ellsworth
resident Will come forward with the
oner OF piano for rent.
steward l.. A. Gadbois of the eat
ing hall was In Bangor Monday. pur-
chasing supplies for the eommissary
department.
lalk Is current among the students
OF a dance which II is proposed to run
under the auspices OF the Carry-On
club within short time. II IL
planned TO hold the affair In Hancock
hall, and to import a iirst-class iazz
{ chestra for the occasion. Tentative
plans are also being talked of among
the boys fayoring the putting on of a
minstrel show or some other theatre
cal performance before many weeks
are over. Definite plans have not
been drawn up, however.
Many of the students are planning
trips to Contention Cove, where some
are already living. II is possible
that camp will be secured there and
assigned to different groups OF stu
dents for different days OF week
ends.
Expressions of gratitude to the
people of Ellsworth have been made
by nearly every student at the sum-
mer school for the way In which the
people OF the city have welcomed
the boys into the city and into their
homes. Such spirit OF friendship
and welcome Is unusual, according
to many OF the ex-seryice men.
Prof. William G. HOFFMAN. in
structor In English and public speak
ing, has been spending several days
at Contention Cove.
i ii. u
Tracy. students at the school, visited
Blnehill Saturday. They started out
to walk. but were oyertaken on the
way by a friendly truck driver who
took them aboard and carried them
over to Bluehill and back to Ellis
worth when he had dumped his load.
Alan Miller and Frederick Child
two more students. enjoyed a fishing
trip and clam-bake at Contention
Cove over the weekend.
Several parties OF students left
Sunday by automobile for Bar Har-
Dor. while still others visited Bangor.
Many fishing trips are planned for
to-day. as Wednesday is a practically
free day for majority OF the stu
dents
A story Is being told about pair
OF students who. the night after
reaching Ellsworth. started out to
walk. They kept on, going so far
that they decided, rather than turn
back, they would walk on TO the next
town and then hire an automobile.
A boy whom they met on the road
told them the nearest town was two
miles farther. but after walking near
ly five. they inquired at house and
found they were FIVE miles from Oak
Point. They decided TO walk back
to Ellsworth. 1t was early the next
morning when they reached their
rooms,
or the niuety-two students at the
summer school, perhaps the farthest
from home is Adolfo Constain, whose
home Is on plantation outside OF
Popayan. Colombia. South America.
Constain is a sophomore at Boston
He has been in this
country three years. having come
here expressly to gain an American
education. He speaks Spanish and
other Latin languages fiuently.
Churches of Ellsworth welcomed
the summer school students into
LHtiT CONSCIENTIOUS III duAtF A@A ~
numbers last Sunday, and the boys
expressed themselves as being
pleased with the kindness shown
them by the church people. Practi-
cally every church in the city had its
quota OF students al both services.
Declaring that the great need OF
the country to-day is for fearlessly
upright men of staunch principles,
the Rev. FIR. j. A. German addressed
the ex-seryice men of the Boston uni
versity summer school at the weekly
period directly after supper
last evening. at the eating hall. FIR.
German was the principal speaker on
the program. ITO drive out the
Reds and the bolsheyiki from this
country is all very WE'LL he said,
but what is a great deal more neees-
sary than this for the future good OF
the country is the building up OF a
virtuous manhood
from the youth OF America" The
program was presided over by Prof.
palIattv director of the summer