Ellsworth American., 1919-12-31

her parents, John w. Coughlin and
wife.
The Ellsworth A. A. basketball
team will play Bar Harbor Y. M. c.
"A. at the Athletic club hall to-mor-
row evening. A dance will follow the
game.
David Jarvis of Brockton, Mass,
was in Ellsworth to-day on business.
Assistant Postmaster Lewis F.
Higgins, who has been seriously ill,
is now improving.
The annual meeting and election
OF officers of the various masonic
bodies of Ellsworth will be held
within the coming week-to-mor
row, Lygonia lodge; Monday,
Blanquefort commandery and Tues
day. Acadia chapter. Each meeting
will be preceded by supper at $50.
There were two games of basket
ball in Ellsworth the last week.
Last Friday evening. the Ellsworth
Athletics defeated Seal Harbor Con-
victs by score of 42-16, and last
evening the Ellsworth high school
team defeated Winter Harbor high
by the score of 4S-31.
Howard B. Moor and George s.
Foster have formed a partnership,
under the firm name of Moor & Fos-
ter, to deal in pulpwood, railroad
ties, hardwood and ship knees and
timber land. They have an office
in the Manning block. The firm is
at present in the market for cedar
ties, for which they have a large
order.
Harold A. Robinson of the Morang
garage has accepted an invitation
from the National Automobile Deal
ers' association to act as vice-presi-
dent for Maine at the annual con-
vention to be held in Chicago Janu-
ary 27 and 2S. Mr. Robinson will
attend the convention. The ap-
pointment is an honor that was en-
tirely unsought and unexpected by
Mr. Robinson.
At a tea given Monday afternoon
by Miss Hazel Giles in honor of her
cousin, Miss Erva Giles, on her
birthday, announcement was made
of the engagement of Miss Erva
Giles and Fred D. Fields, both we'll
known young people of Ellsworth.
Miss Giles will leave the last of this
! week for New York as piano accom-
panist for Prof. Hosea, her former
instructor in vocal music.
Lieut.. Edmund E. Brady, U. S. NJ,
and Miss Katherine Brady, who is
attending Trinity college at Wash
ington, D. c., have been spending the
holidays with their parents, Mr. and
Mrs. e. E. Brady. The marriage of
Lieut.. Brady and Miss Marguerite T.
Allen of Bangor will take place to-
morrow afternoon at o'clock, at St.
| Mary's Catholic church in Bangor.
Miss Allen was guest in Ellsworth
over Christmas.
Announcement of the engagement
of Miss Mildred G. Morrison and
Lieut.. Ray Austin Jones of Moberly,
Mo-, was made at a party given last
week at the home of the bride-elect
in Bar Harbor. Miss Morrison is
daughter of DR.. c. c. Morrison, a
graduate of Bangor high and the
| University of Maine, and a former
teacher at the Ellsworth high school.
She is at present teaching at Presque
Isle. Lieut.. Jones is connected with
the radio station at Bar Harbor.
The Christmas business at the
Ellsworth postoffice, the largest in
| it's history, was handled expedite
| ously, all the packages received or
mailed being distributed or sent out
the same day. The outgoing west
ern mail Monday before Christmas
| carried 200 sacks of mail from this
office, the largest number ever sent
out in one mail. The business of
the office is constantly increasing.
The Waltham postoffice has now
been discontinued, and Ellsworth be-
comes the distributing office, the
mail going out on the up-river
stage. The Egypt postofiice also is
soon to be discontinued and this will
doubtless be added to R. F. D. 4.
DR.. George A. Phillips of Bar Har-
Dor, chairman for Hancock county of
the State centennial committee, was
in Ellsworth yesterday. He arranged
with Charles E. Alexander to receive
and receipt for relics left for the big
Exhibition in Portland or information
may be left with him as to where
they may be obtained when needed.
These articles will merely be loaned
to the State, and the State will be
responsible for their safe keeping and
TeIuFu. ne IududS6Io VI tuc SAulul-
tion are especially desirous of obtain
ing costumes, fiint-lock guns, swords,
and other arms of revolutionary
times. Old deeds and other papers
of historical interest are also de-
sired. DR.. Phillips hopes that the
people of Hancock county will re-
spond readily to this request. Peo-
pie of Ellsworth and neighboring
towns are urged to bring their arti-
cles to Mr.. Alexander, or give him
the information concerning them.
I The woman's club met yesterday
with Mrs. E. J. Collins. Miss Flor
ence Hale of the State department of
education, who was to have ad-
dressed the club, was unable to come
on account of Illness. DR.. George
A. Phillips of Bar Harbor, by re-
quest, repeated the paper he read be-
fore the club few weeks ago. Miss
Erva Giles sang two solos. report
on the Christmas work of the club
sbowed that S55 had been received