Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1920-10-06

MI anu MIS-. w Ills MOORE nave
gone to Northport for the winter.
Mrs Eugene Hale of Washington
is the guest of Mrs. A. P. Wiswell.
Clifton Woodward has purchased
the Leonard Hodgkins farm, Bay
side.
Mrs. NJ. ]. Drummey of Woodfords
is spending few days in Ellis
worth.
Miss Mary Sheedy OF New York
and Miss Margery Delano of Bangor
are guests of Mrs. James T. Harri-
man.
George U. Hamilton and wife,
who have spent several weeks at the
homestead here, have returned to
Dorchester, Mass.
Mrs. Curtis r. Foster has gone to
Massachusetts for the winter. Her
house will be occupied by Mr.. and
Mrs. Morris Hodgkins of Lamoine.
The New York-Bar Harbor express
has been discontinued for the season,
The Sunday train on the Mt. Desert
| branch will continue running until
October "a, after which the regular
winter schedule will be in effect.
There will be parish meeting of
| the Unitarian society at the vestry of
| the church this evening at o'clock
| This being the annual meeting, a
large attendance is requested. A
parish supper will be served at the
usual hour prior to the meeting.
The Ellsworth baseball team went
to Eastbrook to-day to play another
game with Franklin. The Ellsworth
| boys supposed they had played the
| last game of the season Saturday
but could not refuse the invitation
| of the Franklin team to give it sat
| isfaction at the Eastbrook grange
| fair.
Mrs. P. s. Thorsen and Miss
Calista Bauer, who have spent the
summer in Ellsworth, left last week
for their home in Weehawken, N. J..
| Mrs. Thorsen went by car as far as
Boston, her mother, Mrs. H. r.
Holmes. accompanying her for visit
to her sister, Mrs. T. E. Genthner,
at Wellington, Mass.
The eleventh annual bazaar and
dance of Nicolin grange will be held
at the grange hall in North Ellis
worth this evening. 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 orchestra. A chicken
supper will be served at 11.3O.
Philip H. Sheridan council, X. of
c., last Thursday evening elected
officers as follows: John w. Cough
lin, grand knight; Harold F.
Hawkes., deputy grand knight;
Frank j. Dunleavy, chancellor; John
+. Doyle, recorder; William H. Scott,
financial secretary; Edward j. Col
| Inns, treasurer; DR.. F. P. Latin, ad-
vocate; David w. Carney, warden;
Robert Mullan, inside guard; James
j. Dunleavy, outside guard: M. E.
| Downey, trustee for three years.
Rev. r. B. Mathews of the Con-
gregational church began his course
| of Bangor lectures on government
and current events at the Bangor
house to-day. The lectures will be
given Wednesday forenoons at 1890.
The first few lectures will take up
! the systems of government-con
| tutional government in America:
rise and growth of parties; examine
| the platforms of the two great
! parties; examine the sources of So
/ cialism and anarchic development.
1t will all be done in an entirely nom
partisan way.
State street weather-vanes are
thoroughly demoralized. The vane
| on the courthouse has pointed per-
sistently. and inconsistency north
west for the past five years or more.
| The courthouse vane always indi-
! Gates fair weather. Just across the
! street, the vane on the Congrega-
tional church, on the contrary has
| often pointed east, and brought foul
weather. Perhaps in emulation of
| its fairweather brother across the
way, perhaps in sheer disgust at the
prolonged easterly, it decided to rid
itself Of the east wind if possible.
The pointer no longer indicates east.
The big letter E was blown away in
the gale last Friday morning.
Alden V. Carter and his son,
Ernest c. Carter, were arraigned In
the Ellsworth municipal court last
Thursday on complaint of Harry N.
Higgins of West Ellsworth. who
charges them with setting fire and
burning a pile of some twenty-five
cords of dry hardwood. They
pleaded not guilty. but probable
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