Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1921-05-04

= Mrs: E. E. Rowe and Mr.. and
Mrs. Leon E. Rowe spent Satur-
day and Sunday with Mr.. and Mrs.
Frank d. Rowe at Warren. Leon
and his brother went to Rockland
Saturday, where Frank rode the
desert sands" in the Mystic Shrine
The Woman's club of Ellsworth
has been invited to meet with the
Island Federation of women's clubs
at Seal Harbor May IA. A basket
lunch will be served at noon. All
members of the Ellsworth club de-
string to attend should notify Miss
Alice Haslam on or before May 10.
Miss Gertrude B. Foss, daughter
of Capt. o. w. Foss of Hancock,
was married in New York Tuesday,
April 26, to D. w. Lentilhon of
that city. The bride is a graduate
of the Ellsworth high school, and
has great many friends here who
extend congratulations.
James Dorgan, ST., was severely
burned Friday, when his clothing
caught fire as he attempted to
stamp out small brush fire he had
started at his home with his son
Henry on Turner's hill. One leg
was badly burned. He is reported
to-day as more comfortable.
Miss Louise Deasy, who is teach
ing in Deering high school, is
spending a week s vacation with her
parents, Justice and Mrs. L. B.
Deasy, in Ellsworth Justice and
Mrs. Deasy, who have spent the win
ter here, will return to their Bar
Harbor home soon after adjourn
ment of the present term of court
| ITO Ellsworth, perhaps, falls the
honor of having the first woman
to preside over term of court in
this State. Yesterday morning
Miss Agnes Lord, assistant recorder
of the Ellsworth municipal court,
presided at the regular monthly
term of that court, both Judge
Crabtree and Recorder Mahoney be-
ing busy in the supreme court
The University of Maine dramatic
club will present "The School for
Scandal" with cast of sixteen
characters at Hancock hall next
Monday evening, under the auspices
! of Frank e. Whitmore post A. L..
and the woman's auxiliary. The
| university boys have always given
good performance on their ap-
| pearancesin Ellsworth, and this
play is said to be one of the best
they have ever given.
City Marshal Pierson, upon whom
devolves the enforcement of local
| automobile traffic laws and the max
ing OF rules as to parking cars re-
quests all drivers to observe care
| fully the laws of the road in driving
to the right and making a wide
| swing to the right in turning cor
ners not marked by silent police
men, also, in parking cars on Main
street, to back car to the curb at
an angle of approximately forty-five
degrees, headed with traffic, and
with right rear wheel within foot
or less of the curb This allows
parking for more cars, and avoids
the "pocketing' of cars.
The Ellsworth school board is
taking the initiative in inviting the
mayor, board of aldermen. trustees
OF the high school building fund
and boosters club, to a conference
on matters peraining to the new
high school building, to be held in
the near future. A get-together
meeting of this kind. with the
school board representing the edu-
cational interests of the town; the
mayor and board of aldermen repre-
senting the city government; the
Boosters club, the members OF
which were active in raising money
for the new high school building
and to whom everyone must extend
credit, and the high school buildins
fund trustees, who have the holding
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