Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1924-05-14

to attend the meetings during Uni
tartan anniversary week.
The american Legion auxiliary
will meet this evening at 730, at
the Legion headquarters Important
business is to be transacted, and
full attendance is desired.
, w. A. Alexander has moved his
State street grocery store from the
Burnham building to the Phillips
building short distance below,
which he purchased recently.
p. E. Priest, real estate agent, has
rented the store in the Osgood studio
building recently vacated by Miss
Doris Colpitts, and will move his Of
flee there from the Manning block.
BlanQuefort cOmmandery, X T.,
will work the orders of the red cross,
temple and malta next Monday.
Work will begin at p M, and
banquet will be served at $50.
The high school baseball team will
play Brewer high at Wyman park at
o'clock this afternoon. a report of
the two games played by Ellsworth
during the past week appears on
page g.
d. e. Linnehan, Studebaker agent,
has delivered a light-six sedan to
George Mansfield of Jonesport,
five-passenger coupe to c. Carroll
Grindal and a light-six touring to
Miss Ernestine Shea.
The last of the series of stereopti-
con lectures. at the congregational
church will be given Sunday evening
next. The subject is Bunyan's "Pil-
grim's Progress" There are eighty
stereopticon slides.
i Mrs. Sarah Coughlin of Detroit,
Mich, is here to spend the summer
with her brOther-in-laW, Fred A.
Patten. Her son Fred, who accom-
panied her here last week, returned
to Detroit Friday.
e. p. Jordan and family have re-
turned from Florida, where they
spent the winter Mrs. Herrick who
has been managing the Jordan House
| in their absence, has returned to
her home in Brooklin'.
III. c. Austin & Co. received this
week a new limousine type funeral
car or hearse of handsome design
and most modern pattern. 1t is a
Mort six, with balloon tires and four
wheel hydraulic brakes.
The Ellsworth office of the Bar
Harbor & Union River Power Co. is
now at its new location in the Union
Trust Co. building. Miss Sibyl E
Fields succeeds Miss Mabel L. Lord
resigned, as bookkeeper.
DR.. James Moore of Portland, Ore,
is visiting friends and relatives in
Ellsworth. Dr. Moore will spend the
summer in Bar Harbor and Prospect
! Harbor, where he formerly practiced.
This is his first visit East in eleven
years.
Miss j. A. Thompson will leave
Friday for Bath joining friends
! there and motoring to Philadelphia
to attend the wedding of her cousin,
Miss Margaret Plummer, to William
Curtis Box, on May "a. She will be
away about two weeks.
| Y The new plate-glass front in the
store of the j. P. Eldridge Co., now
completed, is a notable addition to
the attractive store fronts on Main
street. Few towns the size of Ellis
worth can boast of as many. The
Improvement in the Eldridge store is
marked.
Alonzo Day of the Surry road re-
| ceized a telegram this morning an
nouncing the death by drowning of
his son Willard, in a river in Wash
ington state. The particulars are not
known. He was about thfrty-fve
years of age. He had been in the
West about six years.
EdwineD. Austin was graduated
last week from the New England
School of Embalming, Boston, and
yesterday took the examination be-
fore the State board at Augusta. He
is expected home to-day. He will be
associated with his father, H. G.
Austin, in H. c. Austin & Co.
Frank G. harrington of Augusta,
candidate for the republican nomi-
nation for governor in the June
primaries, was in Ellsworth Friday,
greeting old friends and making
many new ones. He had just re-
turned from trip into Washington
county. Sentiment in this section
seems pretty generally to favor Mr..
Farrington's candidacy.
The second floor of the store build
ing occupied by Shapiro's Sample
Shop is being fitted up by the owner,
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