Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1923-06-27
LOCAL AFFAIRS
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will be one of the boys in the pre-
liminaries.
Miss Vyra V. Brann Of Ellsworth
and Kenneth G. Crabtree of Hancock
were married in Bangor Monday by
Rev. Roy M. Trafton. The groom is
son of Alfred B. Crabtree Of Han
cock He was a student at Bowdoin
college for some time, going from
there to the Massachusetts Institute
of Technology for a course in electri
cal engineering, being graduated
this year The couple will make
their home in New York, where Mr..
Crabtree has position with large
construction company.
The first prize dance of the series
to be given at the Pine Tree pavilion
will take place Saturday evening,
with the Chicago Pirates playing.
Ten couples will be selected from
the dancers on five successive dance
night. These fifty will compete for
the Pine Tree cup, and the couple Sc
lected will also be entitled to COM
pete in the State contest for the
1000 cup. The winner of the State
contest will be entitled to compete
in the national contest at Chicago,
with all expenses for one-weeks
trip paid.
V o. w. Tapley, president of the
Maine League of Loan and Building
Associations, attended a meeting Of
the executive committee in Portland
last week. Plans for the annual
meeting in September or October
were discussed, and three delegates
to the national league in Tacoma,
Wash, were chosen. President Tap
ley may also attend the national
meeting, but is as yet undecided.
Mr.. Tapley and William F. Campbell
of the Union Trust Co., also attended
the meeting of the State Bankers
association in Portland. Mr. Tapley
is member of the executive commit
tee. Fred G. Lyman of Bar Harbor
was elected president.
The Baptist church and Sunday
school are planning to conduct a
Daily Vacation Bible school, at the
church, beginning Monday, July s,
and continuing at least three weeks.
This new phase of religious edu-
cation is becoming popular, and will
no doubt have place in every church
plan is to have the boys and girls of
the parish meet at the church each
weekday, except Saturday, from
to 2 a. M, when a carefully pre-
pared program will be carried out.
This program will consist of march
ing, singing, bible lessons. bible
stories, memory verses, games, MAX
ing Of picture-books, baskets, raffia
work, wood work, etc. Miss Minerva
Jordan will be the leader of the
school, assisted by Miss Helene Bel
latfy, Miss Louise Donnell, the pas
tor and others.
At meeting of members of the
city government the county COM
missioners and the State highway
commissioners in Ellsworth yester-
day, plans and estimate submitted
for a new Main street bridge in Ellis
worth were submitted and adopted.
The plans call for a four-arch con-
crete bridge, which can be built
without raising the grade of the
street. The bridge will be about
forty feet wide, or the full width of
the present roadway, and 40 feet
long, or something like thirty feet
longer than the old bridge This adj
ditional length will be obtained by
setting back the abutments on either
side, giving the river freer flow in
stead of pinching it up as the old
abutments did. The roadway on the
bridge will be twenty-eight feet wide,
or considerably wider than the road
way of the old bridge, and the side
walks will be five feet wide, or foot
narrower than those of the old
bridge. The piers for the arches will
be about five feet thick at the base,
tapering on the up-river side to pre-
vent jamming of ice and logs. The
engineers estimate of the cost is
$54 900. OF this, the State will pay
$4,000, the city $4,000, and the
county $4,000, or in that proper
ton if the bridge is built by con-
tract and the bid should be over or
under the engineers estimate.