Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1920-09-29

M; closes for West at 4.50 p. m. No
mail East Sunday.
Registered mail should be at post
office half an hour before mail closes.
F. H. Osgood of Boston is spending
few weeks in Ellsworth.
The Thursday club will meet this
week with Mrs. r. B. Mathews.
At the next regular meeting of
Nokomis Rebekah lodge, October 5,
supper will be served at $50.
John w. Coughlin brought to The
American Office Monday morning a
cluster of ripe and green wild straw
berries, picked by him that morning
on the Stabawl road
The union young peoples meeting
will be held this week Friday eve
ming at the Baptist church at 7.30.
Miss Wilda Jordan of Gordon bible
school will lead the meeting. All
young people and others interested
| are invited
A dance will be given at Hancock
hall this evening. by some of the
young people of the city, for the
benefit of the high school building
fund. Sinclair's orchestra of four
pieces will play.
Services next Sunday morning at
the Baptist church at 1890. The
Lords Supper will be observed. Sun
day school at 11.45. Evening meet
ing at 7,30. The afternoon service
will be at Trenton at $50.
Charles P DeLaittre and wife,
who spent the last month at and
about Bar Harbor, leave for Mime
| sofa to-day, going by auto as far
as Waterville with w. H. DeLaittre
and wife Of Salisbury Cove.
Henry L. Moor of Ellsworth ex-
| poets in November to cast his seven
teenth vote for president. Mr.. Moor
cast his first vote in presidential
election in 1864 for John c. Fremont,
| the first presidential candidate of the
republican party.
! DR.. F. P. Latin has entered the
| hospital at Bangor for an operation
/ for appendicitis. The case is not in
acute form, Dr. Latin having been
| troubled for some time, and submit
| ting to the operation now as a pre-
| caution against more serious trouble.
Dana, son of Mr.. and Mrs. II. C.
/ Austin, is i'll, and infantile paralysis
| is feared, though the physicians do
not all agree on this diagnosis. As
| a ,precaution, however. Health
| officer Woodruff has established a
quarantine of the patient. Mr. Aus
tin is living down town while his
| family is under quarantine.
The eleventh annual bazaar and
| dance of Nicolin grange will be held
at the grange hall in North Ellsworth
next Wednesday evening, Oct 6.
There will be booths for the sale of
| aprons and fancy work, ice-cream
and candy. Music for the dance
will be furnished by Higgins orches-
ira. A chicken supper will be served
at 11.30
The annual fair of the North Ellis
worth Farmers Club will open to-
| day, and continue through to-
morrow. closing with a dance and
! supper in the evening, There will be
| racing tomorrow afternoon, a $50
race free-for-all and a farmers
race being on the card. The famous
North Ellsworth meals will be served
each day
Joseph Sukey of Bangor, brake
man. was caught between the coup
lings of two freight cars at the Els
worth station Friday noon, receiving
severe internal injuries. He was
given first aid in Ellsworth, and then
taken to the hospital in Bangor. His
condition was reported yesterday as
critical.
Albert Maddocks received a broken
ankle and severe bruises in collision
between an automobile and motor
cycle at the corner of School and
Church streets Saturday afternoon.
Mrs. NJ. r. Head was driving her car
east on Church st. and Mr.. Maddocks
on his motorcycle, was riding south
on School street Neither could see
the other until too late to avoid a
collision. Both machines were
slightly damaged.
City Marshal John A. Stuart does
not have to stray far from the post
Office corner to get game. Yesterday
morning a partridge scaled down
from above the First National Bank
building and crashed against the
plate glass window in the Redman
building on State street. City
Marshal Stuart picked up the bird,
which was fatally injured by its con-
tact with the glass.
The first meeting for the season of
the woman's club will be held at the
home of Mrs. G. r. Burrill Tuesday,
Oct 8, at o'clock Miss Cordelia
Stanwood will give a paper on "The
Architecture of Our Common Birds"
A musical program will follow. Wis
itors from the Castine woman's club
are expected Light refreshments
will be served. The committee on
program is arranging a very interest
ing and instructive program for the
winter, and it is hoped that the club
will have a large membership.
Speakers from out of town will adj
dress the club from time to time.