Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1925-02-18

radio concert, pool and cards, fur
nished amusement for all. Refresh
ments were served.
Y Charles Holz, the baker, is again
doing his own baking, at the Rich
ardson store in the Odd Fellows
block. He is still busy with plans
for construction of a new building on
the Main and Franklin street corner,
where he was burned out.
Ralph w. Brooks, who several
times has been before the Ellsworth
municipal court charged with nom
support of his family, was again be-
fore the court last Friday, charged
with desertion of his wife and four
children. He was given an indeter-
inmate sentence in the mems re-
formatory at South Windham.
u The Franklin Street garage will
soon have a radio broadcasting sta
ton installed. Osman Merrill and
Edwin M. Moore, jr., who are inter
ested in the project have been
broadcasting experimentally for a
few weeks, and have been heard in
neighboring and some more distant
towns. They are expecting an in
spector here soon, when they will be
given regular station letters, and will
announce broadcasting program.
Sheriff Macomber last Thursday,
acting under advices from officials at
Lewiston, held young man who an
swered to the description of a man
wanted under suspicion of having
murdered David Cheney, whose body
was found on the ice under the bridge
at Durham, on January 20. An Of
ficer from Lewiston came to ELS
worth, and by comparison of finger
prints of the man held with those Of
the man wanted, declared that he
was not the man, and he was re-
leased.
V Stephen A. Douglas, Isaac
Emery's candidate for President in
1860, is in a hopeless minority in
Ellsworth. The tim in The Amer
lean last week, based on Mr. Emery's
belief that he was the oldes. voter
in Ellsworth, stirred UP some Of the
old voters, who did not intend that
the one vote for Douglas should
stand uncontested. The American
has already learned of five Ellsworth
men who voted for Lincoln in 1860
Albert II. Norris and Ambrose W.
Ellis, both of whom are in their
eightyninth year, Melvin 5. Smith,
A. w. Curtis and Roscoe Taylor
Are there any others?
Irene chapter, o. E. S., will hold
its regular meeting Friday evening.
A resolve has been introduced in
the House by Representative Foster
of Ellsworth, for partial reimburse
ment of ex-Sheriff Ward w. Wescott
for expense incurred by him in the
Impeachment proceedings of 1928.
The resolve carries an appropriation
of $1,17S. The accompanying state
ment of facts sets forth that Mr.
Wescott, then sheriff of Hancock
county, was summoned to appear be-
fore the governor and council at Au-
gusta, Nov. 16, 1928. Very little evil
dence was developed The governors
council was unanimous against i'm
parchment, with the exception of the
governors brother. The sheriff was
compelled to defend himself and that
the amount in the resolve provides
only partial reimbursement, since
there is a considerable sum of money
involved for which vouchers cannot
be shown.
v The people of Ellsworth are in
terested in the announcement that
the Ault-Williamson Shoe Co., OF
Auburn has just observed it's tenth
anniversary by taking over new and
larger plant This concern began
business in Ellsworth in the building
near the railroad station now occu-
pied by Milliken, Tomlinson Co.,
wholesale grocers. The Lewiston
Journal says in long article on the
remarkable growth of this concern:
"The history of these ten years of
shoe-making by this firm is an in
teresting story of straightforward