Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1923-06-20

knowlton, all of Portland; Assistant
District Attorney w. W. Gallagher
of Lewiston, U. S. Commissioner
Charles H. Reed and Postmaster Will
liam F. Curran of Bangor
Z Many complainst have been re-
ceived of the dusty condition of the
Bangor-Bar Harbor road. The State
highway commission has informed
the Bangor chamber of commerce
that calcium chloride has been or
dered for this section, and will soon
be applied
At Hancock hall tomorrow eve
ming there will be another boxing
match, when the Utah Kid" will
meet Jack Hector of Bddeford.
Utah" got the decision in a go with
Biddeford boys admirers bitterly
| contested it.
Rev George G. Cooke, lecturer at
the University of Maine summer
| school, will speak at the Unitarian
church Sunday morning on his work
in Palestine and Egypt for the
British and Foreign Unitarian as
sociation. The church will be
closed during July and August.
Y The Ellsworth telephone operators
will not strike. At a meeting of the
personal service committee of the
| Ellsworth office, held Saturday, it
was decided that the operators were
| not concerned with the vote
taken on June 10. and that there
would be no interruption of service.
Friends in Ellsworth learned with
regret of the death on Saturday of
| Capt. Ernest E. Ray of Baysde, aged
/! forty-two years. Capt. Ray had been
III i'll health long time He was a
son of the late Capt. John Ray, and
followed the sea from boyhood until
i'll health compelled his retirement
He leaves widow and two children
Caro- Whittier Pray of Somer-
vile, Mass, formerly of Ellsworth,
was married on June 8 to Cecil
Wallace Chalmers, also of Somer
vile. Rev. William H. Dvas of
Grace church, Somerville, officiated.
Mr.. and Mrs. Chalmers are now on
trip to New York and Atlantic
City. Ellsworth friends of the bride
extend congratulations.
Mrs. Mary Goodwin, widow of
Ellis B. Usher, died at her home in
Bangor, June IA, at the age of
seventy-one years. Mrs. Usher was
born in Ellsworth, the daughter of
the late Samuel Goodwin, but all her
married life had been spent in Ban
gor. She is survived by two sons
and a daughter also five sisters
Mrs. Anne Pomroy of Ellsworth. Mrs
c. r. Foster, now of Hull. Mass,
Mrs. Belle Clark and Misses Frances
and Sarah Goodwin, of Lynn.
Y Friends in this city of Miss Tressa
Emerson, recently graduated from
Syracuse university, College Of Fine
Arts, will be interested to learn that
she is winner of the Hiram Gee
fellowship, receiving the degree of
Bachelor of Painting. She has been
urged by her professors to continue
her studies in Paris, which she plans
to do the coming winter. Miss
Emerson is the daughter of Edward
H. Emerson, former Ellsworth
boy, now electrical engineer of the
Oriental Consolidated Mining Co., of
Chosen, Korea.
A pleasing event took place after
graduation last Friday, when the
members of the graduating class
went out to see Arthur Bonsey, one
of their number, who was i'll and un-
able to be with the class. They pre-
sented him with basket of fruit
and exhibited the gifts to the class,
telling him the happenings Of The
day. The family appreciate very
much the thoughtfulness of the class.
Y Contract for the building of the
new Ellsworth high school has been
awarded to the Otto Nelson Co., Of
Bangor, at $5S,132. This does not
include the plumbing and heating
equipment, contract for which has
not yet been awarded. This will add
possibly $4,000 more to the cost.
The Nelson company expects to have
material on the ground ready to be-
gin work Monday. 1t is hoped to
have the building ready for the open
ing of the winter term in January.
Harold Dorgan, who has been seri-
.ously i'll of assesses in his throat,
is improving.
The annual picnic of the Unitarian
society will be held tomorrow, if
pleasant, at C. L. Morangs cot
tage at Contention Cove. Mr.
Morang throws his cottage open to
the society for it's picnic each year.
1t is an ideal spot for the purpose,
and his kindness is greatly appreci-
ated. Picnic lunches will be taken,
but Mr. and Mrs. Lyndon McGown
have generously offered to see that
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