Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1923-07-11

the church for class-rooms during
the first week here.
Robert King, manager Of the Bijou
theatre, has kindly offered his
theatre to the summer school for use
as place in which the boys may
hold meetings and social gatherings.
The secret meetings of the Devils
Den Sporting club will be held there.
Chief Stoker Joe French. ianitor of
the bottomless pit, Charles e. Bel
lattv. and all the Devils of the club
extend thanks to Mr.. King.
John J. Mckay, well-lnown former
SUMMER school student, has sent
word to Tom Heavy, his former
roommate, that he has been away
from his former summer haunts
about as long as he can stand it, and
is making every effort to get to Ellis
worth for a few days. He hopes to
be with the boys again before the
summer is out.
Leo w Sellers, another former
summer school student, was in town
Monday, pointing out to friend
some of the old familiar land marks,
and showing him how the town
looked before the flood.
The day is fast approaching when
all the boys Will have that gram
and glorious feeling Examinations
will be held Thursday and Friday,
July 10 and 90. Examinations will
be given il all subjects except money
and banking, which is a full term
subject. The new semester will start
at 500 a. IN. July 23, there being no
allowance for a holiday on which to
celebrate this momentous occasion.
This means goodbye to any hopes
that any of us have been entertaining
of getting back to Boston for few
days Drag on, We cruel and scorch-
ing summer.
J. J. Buckley was called home last
Tuesday by the sudden death of his
sister. who died of pneumonia. He
returned to Ellsworth Sunday night
Mr. Buckley desires to rent cot
tage, either at the Cove or Patterns
pond. for his mother and three sis
tiers, so as to bring them to new sur
roundings for awhile. Mr.. Buckley
is now living at the Parker house,
West Maple street.
John j. Mccarthy, worthy treas
urer of the B. U. mess fund, made a
SuOII NlSll " lIC hoiliC VI his Jou'h
last week, returning for classes Mon
day morning.
We hear with regret and sorrow
that Founder" Kennedy and his as
sociates have parted company with
that rafting good car of theirs, hav-
ing sold it to an Ellsworth resident.
Not only is it sympathy for the poor
fellow who bought it, that causes our
sorrow, but also we think Of the lifts
and rides 'Pounder's' many friends
will no longer receive from this
generous-hearted fellow student. In
the future, when you see that
familiar old car parked by the curb,
do not think that it is Founder
and take it for a ride around town,
for it now has a new owner who may
not appreciate such things.
William McGinnis, a former sum
mer school student. expects to spend
the latter part of August here.
stephen Toland and Leonard Jones,
two former summer school students,
are with Richard Faulkner, on the
Movie Home Journal magazine.
Joe French informs us that key,
the trained trout, has rival in the
form of a cat which is twenty-five
years old and stone blind. Joe
claims that this blind, furry COM
petitor of Ikey, catches as many
pickerel as any cat on the river
Miss Grace H. Nutter, the follow
up nurse of the U. S. Veterans Blu
reau, will be in Ellsworth Friday of
this week, and will meet the Neter-
ans Bureau students at the high
school between 9 and II O'Clock.
Donald r. Fellows, who is instruct
ing in advertising at the summer
school, and who, before coming here,
was production manager of large
advertising agency in Salt Lake City,
Utah has been offered the position
of instructor in advertising in the
University of Wisconsin, which is
his alma mater Mr.. Fellows father,
Prof. Fellows, of the University of
Utah. and former president of the
University of Maine, made the trip
from Salt Lake City by auto, in COM
pany with some friends His wife
and family made the trip by train.
When Prof. Fellows arrived in Ellis
worth his speedometer registered
exactly $500 miles. This is one of
his several trips by auto across the
continent.
Mr.. Bornhoft is fast becoming the
greatest fisherman among the
faculty He spends two or three
afternoons a week on some trout
brook, forgetting his problems with
his classes in accounting, absorbed
in the bigger problems of trying to
get the largest catch of the season.
Norman |. Williamson, of Newport
News, Va, more commonly known as
Buster" Williamson, OF b. u, has
been making an earnest effort to
figure out how it is possible for him
to be absent from a class and at the
same time get three zeros for three
recitations.
The arrival in town on Thursday
of Mr. and Mrs. Richard A, Faulkner
caused some little stir among those
who thought they knew the gentle
man in question very we'll. Dick, who
was n student at Ellsworth the past