Ellsworth American., 1920-06-09


expected home from Washington to-
morrow.
Col. H. f. Hamlin left Saturday for
chicago to attend the republican
National convention.
There will be regular meeting of
Frank e. Whitmore post, American
Legion, tomorrow evening.
Mrs. Margaret e. Lord, who has
spent the winter in Utica, N. Y, has
returned to Ellsworth for the sum
mer.
Mrs, Carl H. Stevens and little son
John of Belfast, are visiting Mrs.
Stevens brother, Sheriff Ward w.
Wescott.
Miss Lila Clark. who has spent the
winter at her home at Jekyl Island,
Ca, is with her cousin, Miss j. A.
Thompson.
Mrs. Mansel B. Young, who has
been employed In Beaver, Pa, during
the past winter, will return to her
Ellsworth home this week.
Congressman John A. Peters and
wife arrived home from Washington
Sunday. Mr.. Peters is now at his
office in Ellsworth for the summer.
The Ellsworth Aces squared ac-
counts with the grammar school BOYS
from Sullivan yesterday, defeating
them at Wyman park by the score of
1916.
Mrs. ]. Q. Adams and Miss Helen
Adams, who have spent the winter
In Newtonville, Mass, have opened
their Ellsworth home for the sum-
mer.
Mrs. A. P. Wiswell, who has
spent the winter in New York, has
| opened her Ellsworth home for the
summer. Mrs. G.. P. Dutton is her
guest.
special meeting of Leiok lodge.
|. 0. o. F., will be held Thursday eve
ming, for work in the second and
third degrees. Refreshments will be
served after the meeting.
1t looks as if there will be a circus
in Ellsworth this year. The advance
agent OF Howe's big show was in
| Ellsworth last Friday, and will
| probably book Ellsworth for July Z.
Mrs. II. r. Holmes, who has spent
| the winter with her daughter, Mrs.
Pearl s. Thorsen, in Weehawken, N.
j., and the month of May with her
son Ralph in Utica, N. Y, is at home.
Rev. r. B. Mathews of the Congre-
| gational church will deliver the bac-
calaureate sermon to the graduating
class of the high school at a union
service at Hancock hall Sunday eve
ming.
! F. NJ. Gaynor has opened his hotel
at Northeast Harbor for the summer.
Mrs. Gaynor and Mrs. Mullan are
there, and Mr.. Gaynor makes daily
trips to Ellsworth to attend to his
| duties as tax collector.
Ignatius L. Cummings of Ellis
worth, and Miss Ella NJ. Hatch of
| Lewiston, were married Saturday
A. Smith at the Universalist parson-
age. Mr.. and Mrs. Cummings will
reside in Ellsworth.
d. G. Donnell of Franklin has en-
tered the barber shop of his brother,
Carlton S. Donnell, in Ellsworth, CIV
ing this shop now two chairs. He
has moved his family here from
Franklin, occupying the Sinclair
house on Beal avenue.
w. G. Smelling of New York, mana
| ger for May Robson, has taken the
| Hamilton cottage at Contention Cove
for June and July. MIR. Smelling is
an old-time friend of Fred E. Cooke
of Ellsworth, and Mr.. Cooke will be
his guest at the cottage part of the
summer.
There will be no services at the
Unitarian church next Sunday morn
ing, but Sunday school will be held
at the usual hour, 11.45. The pastor,
Rev. G. T. Jones, left Monday to at
tend his college anniversary at Am
herst, Mass. Gov. Coolidge of Massa-
chusetts, and John P. Deering of
Saco, who is a candidate for the re-
publican nomination for governor of
Maine, were classmates of Mr.
Jones at Amherst.
A mysterious explosion caused
some excitement in Ellsworth bust
ness district at midnight Saturday.
Late night prowlers gathered and
secured about TO locate the place of
explosion. Then someone discovered
smoke back of the Liberty national
bank, and jumped to the conclusion
| that safe-breakers were at work
Finally someone discovered a bat
/ tered and still smoking mtlk-can near
| the Clark horse sheds. Someone had
filed it with powder and touched it
| of.
The Ellsworth A. A. baseball team
will meet it's old opponents of last
| year, the Rice & Miller team of Ban
! gor, at Wyman park next Saturday
afternoon at o'clock. The game is
called for half an hour earlier than
usual. The game scheduled for last
Saturday with the Radios of Bar Har-
Dor had to be called off. The teams
were on the ground, but rain began
| falling about the time for the game
to start. This afternoon the Ellis
worth team will go to Bar Harbor to
| play the Radios there.
The Ellsworth high school base
ball team has placed two more games
| to its credit during the past week.
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