Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1920-12-01

The Thursday club will meet this
week with Mrs. G. r. Burrill
The Ellsworth festival chorus will
| meet tomorrow evening with Mrs.
Allon P. Royal
Mrs. Kate Burnham Doyle leaves
tomorrow for Portland, where she
will spend the winter.
Mrs. Alma R. Whittemore and her
niece, Miss Elizabeth Silsby, returned
to-day to Cambridge, Mass, for the
winter.
James w. Porter of Reading
Mass, who has been the guest of
| Harry S. Parker, has returned to Bos-
ton university.
The young people of the Unitarian
society will meet at the home of Mr..
and Mrs. Martin l.. Adams this eve
| ming, to organize a club.
Roscoe Clement left last evening
for Kansas City, Mo-, where he will
| take three months course at the
| Sweeney automobile school.
Early Methodism in England
| will be the subject of Rev. r. B.
Moyle's sermon at the Methodist
church next Sunday morning.
Irene chapter, o. E. S., will elect
officers at the annual meeting next
Friday evening, followed by work on
four candidates. Supper at $50.
The house of William Wentworth,
on the cross road at the head of
Branch pond, was burned last Friday
evening, with all it's contents. Mr..
Wentworth was calling at a neigh
boris at the time of the fire. There
was no insurance.
Harry, the thirteen-year-old son of
j. M. Kenyon, while hunting with his
father Saturday at Green Lake, shot
| 140-pound doe. 1t was his first ex-
perience deer hunting. The recoil of
the heavy gun knocked him over,
but his aim had been good, and the
deer was down as well as he.
Mrs. Harriet X. Giles, county chair
man for the Public Health associ-
alton, reports that the women of the
county are doing excellent work in
the Christmas seals campaign. Mrs.
George P. Smith is chairman for Ellis
worth, and has the city well organ
lied for house-to-house canvass.
DR.. J. Sidney Peters of Virginia
| delivered his lecture, "The Greatest
| Methodist church last evening. The
lecture was given under the auspices
| of the Anti-Saloon League, and was a
strong appeal for better living. A
large American flag was presented to
the Pine street school, the winner in
| the flag contest.
| Henry Wiley, who was indicted
| for rape at the October term of court,
was lodged in the county Jail in Ellis
worth this morning. Sheriff Wes-
colt has had his eye out for Wiley
for some time, and finally learned
that he was in the vicinity of Bangor.
He was arrested there yesterday, and
Sheriff Wescott brought him to Ellis
worth this morning.
On December 9 the Thursday club
will have supper and sale of fancy
articles for Christmas; also grab-bag
souvenir gift table, candy table and
Red Cross seals. The sale will open
at 4. Supper will be served from
$50 to Z. The sale will be held at
Mrs. Mabel Webster's residence,
corner Main and Hancock streets.
The public is invited.
The marriage of Mrs. Edith Archer
| Moor of Ellsworth and Herman L.
| Leighton of Unionville took place on
| Thanksgiving day in Bangor, Rev.
A. E. Morris officiating. Mr.. Leigh
ton is employed painting for the
| Maine Central railroad company, be-
| ing at present working in Lancaster,
| N. H. After short wedding trip,
| Mr.. and Mrs. Leighton will be at
nome on Pond street, Ellsworth.
| Abbie A., widow of Charles A.
Smith, died last Thursday at the
| home of her daughter, Mrs. Thomas
A. Pinkham, at Bayside. Mrs. Smith
was in the seventieth year of her age.
She was daughter of the late
Robert B. Carter of Ellsworth. She
was a member of the Methodist
| church in Lynn, Mass, where she re-
sided for some years. She leaves a
| daughter, Mrs. Pinkham, and a son,
| Frank, of Belfast; also two sisters,
| Mrs. Laura Alexander of Surry and
Mrs. George Smith of Lynn. The
| funeral was held at the Ellsworth
| Methodist church Sunday afternoon,
the pastor, Rev. R. Fl. Moyle, offici-
ating.
What promises to be one of the
best amateur productions seen here
this year will take place at Hancock
hall Thursday evening, Dec. 8, when
the Knights of Pythias will present
the three-act farce-comedy, "a Poor
Married Man." with the following in
the cast; Hubert G.. Farnsworth,
Perley Tracy, Albert Davis, Charles
Pettengill, Doris Colpitts, Pauline
Austin, Helen Kenyon, Gertrude
Farnsworth. This is one of the best