Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1923-05-23
BELT

At the special meeting Of the Bel
fast City Government held Monday
night it was voted to appropriate. g
$4,000 to the building of the Will
liam G. Crosby school which it is
proposed to build this season. The
amount Of money now in the hands
of the trustees OF the building fund is
Sl06,000 which includes the $4,000
subscribed by Miss Anne c. Crosby
Added to this is $4,000 held by the
city, and about $4,000 from the
Charles +. Swift estate, which to-
Sctner with the $4,000 appropria ted
to be paid by taxpayers this year.
will amount to $l71,dOo. This will
not be adequate to erect the pro-
posed building, inasmuch as the low :
est combination bid is $4,000. A
meeting will be held as soon as Miss
Crosby arrives from Boston. when
matters will come to a focus.
There are q great many citizens
who do not believe that the build
ing should be constructed with the
present high prices and although the
building has been modified consider
ably from the plans of last year, the
cost IS even greater than there is
money with which to build. There
- ilo tutsticil siS W tllt tSltdi Ittu
of the new buildinG-the question is
until material is cheaper. The mat
ter is one in which the city is deep
~ interested and in which there are
distinctly two opinions. 1t was in
fact the issue in the city election
last spring. followers of ey-Mayor
Wcscott holding that the building
should not be built this summer. and
Mayor Orlando T.. Frost's followers
oontendng that it should be.
Some of the completed work Of the
arts and crafts class at the Belfast
Business & Professional club has
been much admired and reflects Il
good deal of credit on the instructor,
Mrs. Jean Young. for many of those
who have finished articles had never
made baskets before. Several very
handsome lunch baskets with covers
foot-Stools. sandwich trays, invalid
trays. waste baskets, Il floor lamp, all
Of reeds, have been made, while on
exhibition is a very handsome tea
wagon made by Mrs. Young.
Elisha W. Ellis
Belfast lost another splendid citi-
zen Monday in the death of Elisha
w. Ellis, a volunteer in the 18th
Maine Regiment. who died at the age
of So years. Mr.. Ellis was a retired
mill man, and after the death of his
wife, formerly Miss Mary Robbins.
several years ago. he passed much of
his time with his son Herbert in
Chelmsford, Mass, where he was
taken i'll some time ago. His son,
Fred f. of Belfast, brought him to
this city as soon as Sc was able to
travel and he had gained very much
and was in fairly good health until
about two weeks ago when he had
an i'll turn from which he did not
rally.
For many years Mr.. Ellis had
very attractive home at Mason's
Mills, East Belfast, and was promi-
nent in the Thomas II. Marshall Post
and its allied bodies. He had a great
many friends by whom he was held
in the highest esteem.
Funeral services will be held at
the home of his son, Thursday, Rev.
William Vaughan officiating. Mr..
and Mrs. Herbert Ellis, Mr.. and Mrs.
George Day and Mrs. Sara Peavey,
all of Chelmsford. the latter his sis
ter, came to Belfast for the service.
Two grand children of whom he was
particularly fond, Miss Louise and
Elmer Ellis. of Belfast, also survive.
Mr.. Ellis was a native of Monroe.