Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1926-05-12

dent; Mrs. F. L. Kent, secretary:
Herbert Lord, treasurer; Leon e.
Rowe, Louis F. Higgins, G. E. Alex
ander, Neal A. Raymond, E. C. Os-
good, H. B. Estey, trustees.
tMrs. James l.. Macleod arrived in
Ellsworth Monday, en- route for Bass
Harbor, where she will visit her
mother, Mrs. e. A. Gosselin. Mrs.
Macleod, since her marriage last
September, has been living in St.
Louis, Mo-, where Mr. Macleod is
employed as civil engineer for the
pennsylvania Railroad Co.
The first of series of food sales
for the benefit of the public park
and playground, will be held next
Saturday, May Is, at Fred C.
SCOTS store. This sale will be un-
der the auspices of the Eastern Stars
and Rebekahs, and Mrs. George P.
Smith and Miss Harriet Baker will
be, the committee in charge.
sMary Ellen Chase of Bluehill,
well known in Ellsworth, is the
author of book entitled MARY
Christmas" which has just been
presented to the public. Years ago,
Mary Christmas, an Armenian
woman, Travelled about in Hancock
county selling lace. She is the lead
ing character in Miss Chase's new
book.
DR.. H. L. D. Woodruff, health Of
ficer, having received information
that preparations were being made
by resident to keep pigs within
the restricted area, calls attention to
the city ordinance which forbids the
keeping of hogs or pigs anywhere in
Ellsworth within one-half mile of
the northeast corner of the postof-
flee building.
A meeting of the newly-elected
board Of directors of the chamber of
commerce will be held this after
noon, to complete organization.
Next Wednesday there will be a
general meeting of the chamber of
commerce, with banquet, when A. L.
T. Cummings, secretary of the State
chamber, will be the speaker. The
place for this meeting has not yet
been arranged.
Federal agents seized a Peerless
touring car with twenty-three cases
of imported liquor on the Bangor
road at Nicolin Monday forenoon.
George P. Rivers was arrested, but
his companion took to the woods
and escaped Rivers was arraigned
before the U. S. commissioner in
Bangor, and held under $4,000 bail
for the federal grand jury. The car
will be libelled.
The fire department was kept
In. - roooiuinU thrnn
calls within two hours. The depart
ment was called twice to a lively
brush fire on the eastern shore road
of Leonard lake. The other blaze
was near the Gaynor home on Lib
erty street, when a brush fire spread
to a fence back of the house. Both
fires were stopped before any great
damage resulted.
M. l.. Herr, under the auspices OF
the International Bible Students AS
ISOLATION, will give a free lecture at
the board of trade rooms, Hancock
hall, next Tuesday evening, at 7.45.
The topic of Mr. Heirs lecture is
Things the Clergy Will Never Tell y
This meeting has been arranged by
the local representatives of the In
t6rndClOldl blDlS oCUuSheo 49,
sociation, who extend a cordial in
vitation to all to attend.
Edward A., eldest son of the late
Alfred A. and Julia H. Carter, dled
suddenly May 4 at the home OF his
sister, Mrs. Herbert S, Gray, IN
Sedgwick. For the past two years
he had been living in Ellsworth
where he had made many friends
He leaves four sisters-Mrs, Laura
Allen of Bluehill, Mrs. Jennie Gull
ford of Bucksport. Mrs. E. c. Peas
lee of Ellsworth and Mrs. Gray; also
one brother, Joseph B. Carter OF La
moine, and a large circle OF frlends
in Sedgwick. where the greater part
of his life was spent. His age was
fifty-eight years. ,,.
Miss Doris F. Halman, an ELS
worth girl and a graduate OF the
high school here, now living IN
Brooklyn, N. Y, has just completed
a hook entitled "Honk.' During the
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