Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1918-12-25

DR.. X. W. Wakefield, Bar Harbor.
Miss Alma Frances Wilson of Ellsworth
and Basil Howard Stinson OF swans Island
were married Monday at Bar Harbor by
Rev. A. M. Macdonald. The bride has
for the past few years been employed as
night operator at the central telephone
office in Bar Harbor. The groom is in
the naval reserve. Mr.. and Mrs. Stinson
went to the groom's home in SWANS
Island for Christmas. The many Ellis
worth friends of the bride extend con-
gratulations.
Miss Betty Winkler, daughter OF Mrs.
Cornelius l.. Winkler OF New York, will
become the bride of Sherman Wood ward,
son OF Mrs. Edward D. Knapp, OF Hoston,
on the afternoon of December %, at the
winter home OF her mother in Cam
den, 8. G. Miss Winkler is grand
daughter OF the late Gen. John ID. Ken
nedy, one-time American consul at
Shanghai, China.-N. Y. Mail. Mrs.
Knapp, mother of the groom-elect, is a
former Bluehill woman, and a sister of
Mrs. Ward W. Wescott OF Ellsworth. Mr..
Woodward is graduate OF Harvard law
school.
John j. Duhy's flock OF Barred
Plymouth Rock hens has won the winter
g-laying contest in that class for
Maine, with an average egg production
per hen Of 1877. There we're twelve pens
in this contest. The record OF the
second in the class was 15.1. Mr.. Duffy's
| flock was second highest in the State for
| all classes, a total of thirty-six pens.
The highest scofe was made by flock
of white Wyandottes, 20.7 The rate for
all these pens is considerably higher
than shown in the state contest in
Connecticut.
| The Victory Boys" of Ellsworth must
make good-they will make good. The
second payment on their pledges is due
January l5, and all who have then paid
their full pledge will receive a diploma.
Miss Higgins will call at the School street
grammar school on the afternoon of Fri
day, January 10, and at the West Side
| grammar school on the afternoon OF Mon
| day, January 10, to receive the money.
| The New Year should find the Victory
Boys of Ellsworth up to their word in this
work, and show the people that they mean
what they say.
| Roderick K. Stanley, who was recently
| elected principal of the Ellsworth high
school, has resigned, and will go to East
port to take charge of the commercial de-
partment of the high school there. Mr.
| Stanley, who was well equipped for the
| position here and had gained instant pop
ularity with the pupils, has in recent
years been teaching out of the State, and
hence did not have the State of Maine GER
tificate required for a high school princi-
palship in Maine. This fact WAS over
| looked when he was elected to the position.
| Those who have met Mr.. Stanley, and
those who have observed the way he took
| hold of the work at the high school, re-
regret that he cannot be retained. Mr..
| Stanley completes his work here to-day.
| The school board expects to fill the va
cancy in time for the school to reopen
as scheduled next Monday.
| There will be a mortgage burning at the
| Methodist church next Tuesday evening,
Dec. 81. The service will commence at
| 7.30. Addresses will be given by Rev.
James Ii. Gray, superintendent of the
eastern division of the East Maine Con-
| ference; and Rev. Albert e. Luce, super
| intendent of the western division. For
| twelve years, or since the old church
| burned, on the western side of the river,
\ the society has labored under a heavy
| debt. Several attempts were made to re-
move it, with only partial success. Dur
ing the pastorate OF Rev. 7. s. Ross the
present parsonage was purchased, which
was good work, but it left an increased
debt of $500, making the entire indebted
ness about 81, 300. Under the leadership
of the pretent pastor, Rev. R. III. Moyle,
backed by the district superintendent,
Rev. James H. Gray, both the mortgages
have been paid and discharged. The So
ciety thanks all who have so kindly re-
sponded to the appeal for help. While
everyone is cordially invited to the SER
vice, special invitation is extended to
them. Light refreshments will be served
in the vestry, free of charge.
Walter NJ. Young, an Ellsworth man, is
| to be steward of the worlds largest hotel,
| WHICH Will Dc OpchSu
! in New York about the first OF the year.
The hotel is twenty-six stories high and
occupies the entire square bounded by
And and 43rd streets, Lexington avenue
| and Depew place, next door TO the Grand
| Central Terminal. 1t has 1000 rooms,
each with a bath, and the largest ball
room and banquet hall of any hotel in the
world, with a balcony of titty-six boxes.
This room will seat 5000 at an entertain
ment, or 1900 at banquet tables. MIR.
! Young has been identified with promi-
nent hotels many years. He has been
with the Florida East Coast hotel, Royal
Palm, the Continental at Atlantic Beach,
the Ansonia, Manhattan and Biltmore in
| New York. He was steward at the Larch-
mont yacht club some years, and has a
wide acquaintance with yachtsmen in
this country and abroad. He has retained
| his home in Lsrchmont. Mr.. Young has
many friends in Ellsworth who have been
| interested in his rise in the hotel world,