Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1920-02-11
LOCAL AFFAIRS
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There will be a sale of homemade
candy in the evening.
Rev. A. II. Coar. former pastor
of the Ellsworth Unitarian church,
hos lust accepted a call to the pas
torate of All Souls Unitarian church
in Elizabeth, N. j.
There will be special "call-in"
meeting of the Woman's Alliance of
the Unitarian church tomorrow af-
ternoon. from 2 to 5, at the home of
Miss Lenora Higgins. The object of
tine meeting is to call in all finished
and unfinished aprons.
Ellsworth is to have another new
industry. Frank S. Sawyer, the we'll
known pulpwood operator has leased
the soap factory building on Main
street near the railroad, and is equip
ming ii with lath-sawing machinery
and electric motors for power. He
exppcts to have 1t in operation in a
few weeks.
The funeral of Mrs. Rhoda A.
Hamilton was held Saturday at the
home of her daughter, Mrs. Henry
BARTLETT, on Oak street, Rev. r. H.
Movie officiating. Mrs. Hamilton
died last Wednesday in Portland.
where she was visiting a daughter.
She was seventy-five years of age.
She leaves two sons and three
daughters.
Ernest c. Young and wife of Sa-
vannah, Ga, who have been here
three weeks on a visit to his mother.
Mrs. Betsey Torrey, and other rela-
tives and friends, left Friday for
Saturday for home. Mr.. Young is
an Ellsworth boy and this was his
first visit here for fifteen years. All
were glad to see him.
Bobby" Finn and Mick" Sails
bury fell from the roof of the Peters
block on State street this forenoon.
and went back and finished their Job
OF clearing the roof of snow. 1t is
some thirty-fve feet from the caves
OF the building to the sidewalk.
Finn was at the end of the rope, with
a strap about his waist, shoveling
on the steep-pitched slate roof.
Salisburywas at the peak. as rope
tender. Finn got caught in big
slide Of snow, and Salisbury could
not hold the added weight of snow
and man. At once started afalling
stunt that had the movies" beaten
to fragile. Finn, partially sup
ported by the rope that Salisbury
still chung to. fell to the sidewalk
not soft landing place. Salisbury
got better start from the peak down
the steep roof. and landed on his
back in five-foot snow bank out
side the curb. They went back to
An interesting meeting of the
board Of trade was held Monday eve
ming The board gave it's endorse
ment to a nationwide plan. of the
Wholesale Coal Trade association to
secure from the government the
establishment of lower freight rate
on coal during the spring and sum
mer months, thus to make lower
prices for coal in the summer. and
encourage stocking. Some of the
important benefits to be derived
from this would be to relieve traffic
during the harder months of winter,
and furnish more steady employment
for miners. lack of which under
present conditions was one of the
causes OF the coal strike A plan
OF the Federal Highway Council for
definite systems of highway develop
megt was also endorsed, and as re-
QueSted by the council, two men,
bers OF the board, III. c. Stratton and
howard w. Dunn, were named as
representatives of the board upon
the council. These two will name
eighteen members as members-at-
large of the council. The matter
OF freight-handling facilities at the
Ellsworth station, both as to loading
and nUlnadino ;ak 4
inadequate, was also brought up at
Tue meeting, and referred to the
committee on railroads and trans
portation.
The death on Sunday of Miss Flea
nor higgins, after less than a weeks
Illness of influenza, was a shock TO
'he community. Death is always
SAD when it comes to one in youth.
Dut when it comes to one known to
so many in the community, and
whose lovable qualities had endeared
AeF 10 all. it is especially so to that
community. Miss Higgins was born
~ Ellsworth twenty-five years ago,
tIe daughter of Arthur l.. and Maud
Woodward Higgins. Her mother
uied while she was still a child, and
sne made her home with an aunt,
Mss Alice Higgins, whose illness
ana death recently brought sadness
INTO her life. Since the beginning
Vi her aunt's Illness more than a
year ago, she had made her home
Win her grandfather, Clifton Wood
ward becoming as a second daugh-
yer 10 Mr.. Woodward and his wife.
Upon them her death now falls heav-
n.y. Miss Higgins was graduated
rom rom the Ellsworth high school in
tsIo' and entered the Ellsworth
hardwood factory as stesographer
ana bookkeeper, proving an efficient
saIu painstaking employee. She was
oaken i'll Monday of last week, but
tIohtihued her work through the day,
pehg confined to the house only
s.Hce tuesday. The funeral was held
at the Woodward home at 2 O'Clock
o oeis afternoon, Rev. r. H. Moyle
0imciatlng. Her father, now en-
99loyed in Boston, arrived here Mon