Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1924-04-30


the season here June /.
Health officer Woodruff reports a
clean bill on scarlet fever for the first
time since last fall. While at no time
has the scarlet fever situation been
alarming, there has not been time
since the first case in the early fall
that at least one family has been un-
der quarantine. Quarantine on the
last family was raised this week.
Mr.. and Mrs. Harold A. Robinson
have gone to Brookline, Mass, called
there by the death on Sunday of Mr..
Robinson's mother, Mrs e. X
Thayer, Mrs. Thayer had been much
of an invalid for some years The
family had spent many summers in
this vicinity, occupying the Stratton
bungalow last year. The many Han
cock county friends of the family
extend sympathy
The minstrel show and May ball,
under the auspices of Nokomis
/ Rebekah lodge, will take place at
Hancock hall Friday evening
| Through an error, the tickets were
printed Thursday, May g." instead
of Friday, May 2. Holders should
not be misled. The program, which
was printed III full in The American
last week, assures good show
/ Moore's orchestra of Bar Harbor
will play for dancing.
National music week will be OBJ
| served at the Baptist church by
/ special song service Sunday evening"
A new song-book will be introduced,
and old and new gospel songs will
be sung. A young peoples chorus
will lead and sing several new selec-
tions. Miss Louise Donnell will
serve as organist. There Will be a
duet by Miss Isabel Emery and Miss
Hazel Beal, with other special num-
bers. The pastor Will speak on
Serving the Lord with Gladness"
The Ellsworth high school baseball
team played its first game of the
season at Bar Harbor Saturday. The
first five innings really looked like a
ball game, with the score a tie at that
time Then the Ellsworth team took
to the airplanes, and Bar Harbor
showed across eleven runs in the
sixth inning, following this up with
seven more soon afterward. The final
score was 2S-S. Next Saturday the
Ellsworth team will play Northeast
Harbor high at Northeast Harbor
Mrs. Harvard c. Jordan met with
a peculiar accident last Thursday
She was burning some rubbish in a
cook stove, and had just opened the
door at the end of the firebox when
a shotgun shell which she had over
looked, exploded in the fire A large
number of shot struck her about the
lower part of her legs, and a few
scattering shot struck her face and
hands. OF course the shot did not
have the force it would if discharged
from a gun, but it was sufficient to
penetrate the flesh. 1t is fortu-
nate her face was not in direct range
OF the flying shot.
Health officer Woodruff has re-
ceived a report on analysis of water
from the we'll at S. Scott Estey's
place. The report says: THE water
shows practically no evidence of pol
lutional bacteria, although il did
show some evidence of distant pol
luton which was apparently being
well filtered and purified in its pas
sage through the soil 1t is very
| doubtful that the water from this
well would have caused disease, un-
less the condition was much worse
| than the sample submitted" Dr..
Woodruff has sent samples of water
from the springs at the l.. A. Emery
place and Tinker's hill, but reports
on these have not yet been received.
A report has been received from Au-
Susta on the sample of city water
sent by the water company on April
II, confirming the o. X report previ-
! ously received from Bangor, as re-
| ported last week A supplementary
| report from the Bangor chemist calls
attention to the fact that if the case
of typhoid fever in Ellsworth came
from the city water, there would be
many more cases. 1t is now believed
that the single case of typhoid re-
suited from the child eating ice from
| the 1iyer.