Ellsworth American., 1920-04-14
LOCAL AFFAIRS
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1887. The lot, originally part of the
Pond property, was bought by Mr..
Hopkins In 1881 or 1888.
John H. Nevells, who has spent the
past seven years in the West, ar
rived home this morning.
The junior class of the high school
will give play at Hancock hall
April 30. under the direction of F.
Z. Cooke.
M. R. Carlisle has reopened the
Osgood livery and boarding stable.
which has been run for some time
past by Simon Violette.
There will be work on two candi-
dates at the regular meeting of Irene
chapter, 0. E. s., Friday evening.
Supper at $50.
Nathan Ash. the Bar Harbor
liveryman, well known in Ellsworth.
died at his home in Bar Harbor Sun
day, after an illness of few days.
There will be a general teachers
meeting at the Office of the superin-
tendent of schools tomorrow eve
ming at 7.30.
The senior class of the Ellsworth
high school will serve a baked-bean
supper at Odd Fellows hall Wednes-
day, April 21. Homemade candy
will be on sale.
Adelbert Sargent and Bernard Nc
Dewitt will be arraigned in the Ellis
worth municipal court this after
noon, on complaint of Herbert NJ.
salisbury, who charges them with
larceny from his muskrat traps.
Reginald Thorne of Surry, aged
hfteen. was arraigned in the Ellis
worth municipal court this morning,
charged with an assault upon his
school teacher. A more serious
charge in the complaint was mol
pressed, and the boy pleaded guilty
to assault. Sentence was suspended
A negro giving the name of Dupre
Barlow, who was tramping through
thls section, was arrested at Lamoine
Polnt yesterday, on complaint of the
people from that section. He will be
arraigned in the Ellsworth municipal
court this afternoon.
Walter A. Scott will tomorrow
open a new shoe store in the store
formerly occupied by David Friend.
Mr.. Scott is an Ellsworth boy, who
the shoe trade and shoe manufacture
ing. For three years he served as
government shoe inspector in New
England.
A distressing report became cur
rent in Ellsworth last week that Mrs.
Ivory Frazier of Lakewood had died
The report reached The American
from an apparently reliable source,
and a brief item to that effect was
published. 1t was a relief to the
many friends of Mrs. Frazier to learn
later that the report was untrue.
She has been very critically ill in the
hospital in Belfast. of typhoid fever
Though her condition is still serious,
it is believed the crisis has been
passed.
There was hearing before Justice
Deasy yesterday in the action of the
city OF Ellsworth against the Stand
ard Oil Co. to compel the removal of
the oil tanks on High street. The
hearing was merely preliminary, to
determine the sufficiency of the SER
vice in the case, which was made
upon Clifton Woodward, the local
sales agent for the company. Justice
Deasy decided that the service was
not sufficient. New service will
therefore be necessary w. E. Whit
ing appeared for the city and Peters
& Crabtree for the Standard Oil Co.
A wedding of interest in ELS
worth took place in the home of Rev.
P. A. A. Killam, in Allston, Mass,
Monday afternoon. The bride was
Miss Gussie S. Graves of Ellsworth,
and the groom. Arthur L. Douglass
of Bradford, Mass. The ceremony,
performed by Mr.. Killam, was the
single ring service. Immediately
after the wedding the couple left for
short trip, after which they will be
at home in Bradford. Mr.. Douglass
is locomotive engineer. with posi-
tion on the Boston & Maine railroad.
Harris w. Pratt, son of the late
Hezekiah and Abbie Joy Pratt, died
at the residence of Mrs. Tenney on
| Church street Thursday evening,
aged seventy-one years. Mr.. Pratt
was born at fremont, coming to Ellis
worth when a small boy. Most of
| his life was spent at sea. He is sur
vived by three brothers, Capt. Willis
l.. Pratt and Capt. Frank S. Pratt, of
Ellsworth, and Judge Herbert Pratt
of Globe. hriz., and three sisters,
Mrs. Lind Leach of Rockland, Mrs.
| Gussie Jordan of Auburn, and Mrs.
Nellie Hood of Vershire, VT. The
| funer"' vas held Sunday, Rev. R. B.
Mai Jews officiating. Mrs. Greedy and
Miss Emery furnished music.
A series cf minor accidents, due to
the condition of the roadbed, has up
set train schedules on the Mt.
Desert branch the past week.
Spreading rails have been the princi-
pal cause of trouble. There were
two such accidents on the Mt.
Desert branch last week. and one at
Schoodic on the Washington County
road This morning there are seven
freight cars off the rails at Tunk
pond, and a big washout at Nicolin
held up the morning train, making it
necessary to tranfer passengers
around it, relief train going up
from Washington Junction. Even
the Bar Harbor ferry boat has caught
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