Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1922-07-05
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guest of her brother, Lewis Smith, i.
pleasantly remembered by Ellis
worth friends, who extend goot
wishes. -
The purchase of the Jordan Oh
Wooster lot on State and Oak street!
as a site for the new Ellsworth higf
school building, was closed las
Wednesday, when title passed to thu
city. 1t is probable that the frs
work on the lot will be the construc
ton of baseball diamond or ath
letic field, which may be undertaken
this year. Very little work would
be necessary to construct a first
class diamond.
An old-fashioned barn dance in Q
hew-fashioned barn will attract
dancers from all sections of Hancock
county next Saturday evening. II
will be given at the barn just com.
pleted at the Thorsen Farms. The
floor is 40x120 feet, allowing room
! for an immense crowd of dancers
Music will be furnished by the Pine
Tree Seven of Ellsworth. Refresh
ments will be served. The dance is
given through the courtesy of Mr.
I Thorsen, for the benefit of the new
Ellsworth high school building fund.
= Tickets will be on sale at F. C.
Scott's, Smith & Heads, and Thor
sen Farms Products Co.'S.
A serious automobile accident oc-
Cured between and 6 o'clock yes
terday on the upper end of Oak
street when a car driven by Bernard
McDevitt of Ellsworth Falls crashed
head-on into car from Brewer driv-
en- by Forrest Salisbury. An occu-
pant of McDevitt's car, Henry
Clough, was badly cut by glass, and
was taken to the Hurley hospital,
where he was treated before being
taken to his home. Both cars were
damaged considerably. McDevitt
was taken in custody by City Mar
shall Meader for intoxication, and his
case was heard by Judge Crabtree Of
the municipal court this morning.
McDevitt was sentenced to a fine of
$3.50 and thirty days in jail, from
which he appealed, and furnished
$500 bonds for his appearance at the
October term of the supreme court.
Fred l.. Mason appeared for the re-
spondent and William e. Whiting
for the complainant.
A sad drowning accident occurred
yesterday afternoon between and
7 O'Clock, when William Emerson,
fourteen-year-old son of Frank En-
erson of Stonington, was drowned
near the Main street bridge. The
boy was an expert swimmer, and was
4 ~; e,f {c,s IN, OF watched
by a number of people on the bridge
He was supposed to be swimming
under water, but when the minutes
passed and he did not come to tho
surface, the watchers realized that
was wrong. The alarm
was then given and the body was
soon recovered. Efforts to resusci-
tate him were fruitless, after two
hours of ceasless work with the pull
moter. Cramps, or heart attack
are supposed to have been the cause
of drowning, the latter theory being
by the fact that there was
very little water in the lungs. The
boy had made his home with Mr.. and
Mrs Fred Lowell on Water street
for the past five years, and was
graduated from the grammar school
in June He was to have entered
high school in the fall The body Is
now at Jordan's undertaking rooms,
and will be taken to Stonington for
burial tomorrow.
At a meeting of the city govern
ment Monday evening, a communi-
cation was received from the Bar
Harbor & Union River Power Co.
relative to the proposed road across
the new dam at Brimmer's bridge, to
replace the present road and bridge.
The substance of the proposition Is
that the company will construct
roadway eighteen feet wide across
the top of the dam, the road to be OF
gravel across the dirt-filled portion
of the dam and of concrete across
the spillway portion. The company
will also give the land necessary for
the approaches to the dam, and con-
struct the roadway over them, but
the city is to maintain the APP
proaches after first constructed.
while the company will maintain
the roadway across the dam. BY
this ARRANGEMENT the city will avoid
the maintenance of the present
wooden bridge, constant source OF
expense, and the steep grades at
either side of the bridge will also be
The company, in view
of the benefits to be derived by the
city, asks the city to appropriate
$4,000 as a partial reimbursement
for the expense involved. The alder
men voted, as the sense of the board,
that the proposition be accepted. 1t
will be put in the form of a contract
or agreement, and duly executed.
Wants Eastern Railroad.