Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1924-02-06

has been with the Metropolitan over
twenty-five years, and wrote over
$113,000 of new insurance last year
Mrs. Martin j. Thorsen and son
Severen left last week for New York
to join Mr.. Thorsen, who has just
returned from Seattle, Wash. Mr.
Thorsen plans to return to the Pacific
coast in the spring.
A piece of machinery for the ad
ditional equipment at the power dam
was moved down Main street and
across the temporary bridge this
week. With casing and skids, it
weighed nineteen tons
The next meeting of the Ellsworth
branch of the W. c. r. e. will be on
Tuesday evening, Feb II, instead of
Feb. Il, as first announced, with
Mrs. George S. Hagerthy. Roll call
will be quotations from Frances e.
Willard or facts from her life.
v The firemen were called ont twice
last Thursday, in the forenoon for
fire that destroyed the milk house at
S. S. Estey's farm, and in the after
noon for a chimney fire in the house
on Plank hill, State street, owned by
Wellington Haslam.
Y On Thursday Of last week, Fred
G. Smith and Clifford White shot a
twenty-five pound bobcat one mile
above Ellsworth Falls, and on Satur
day they shot a twentyfour pound
cat on the Trenton road. Both cats
were freed by Smiths hounds.
The Ellsworth Woman's club met
yesterday afternoon with Mrs. o. w.
Tapley AT the business meeting,
it was voted to put milk in the
schools so far as possible, At the
close of the business meeting, re-
freshments were served by the social
committee
H. Blaine Davis has completed an
addition to his shop on School street,
20X42, two stories, to be used as
storage shed He has also ordered
considerable new Woodworking ma
chinery, which will be installed on
! the second floor of his shop, which
has heretofore been used for storage.
! Mrs Mary M Aver, formerly of
! Ellsworth, died last Wednesday in
Boston, at the age of seventy-two
years. The body was brought here
! for interment. Mrs. Aver leaves a
I husband and one son, two sisters,
/ Mrs. Henry Wood and Mrs. Henry
/ Hatch of Ellsworth; and a brother
living in Massachusetts.
| Clarence H. Tapley, son of O. w.
/ Tapley of Ellsworth, who has been
with the Insurance Underwriters
Bureau as engineer for the past few
years, has been appointed by the
London & Lancashire and the Orient
companies as special agent for the
Maine and New Hampshire terri
tories. He will have his headquar-
ters in Portland.
Flora, wife of Edward Arnold of
Orland, died yesterday at the home
of her sister, Mrs Henry Colpitts, in
! Ellsworth. Mrs. Arnold came to
Ellsworth about two weeks ago, to be
j near a physician. She was sixty-nine
years of age. The funeral will be
held at the Colpitts home tomorrow
afternoon at o'clock. Interment
I will be at Orland.
I Y The many friends of Miss Erva l..
| Giles will be interested TO learn that
she will broadcast from station WIZ,
New York, March 1, at 7.35 D. M
Miss Giles is an accomplished
musician, and has accepted posi-
! tion as accompanist in the studio of
! Prof. Hosea in New York Friends
getting the number are requested to
report it to the station.
There will be a challenge game of
basketball between the Original
Black Cats of Bar Harbor and South
west Harbor A. A, at Hancock hall
this evening. Intense rivalry exists
! between these teams, each having
won a game, and the challenge to a
game on neutral floor is the result.
The game will be played under pro-
fessional rules, and will be the first
game of this kind in Ellsworth this
season.
The board of registration of Ellis
worth will be in session at the
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