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AFFAIRS
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XIII viii take them later to Boston or
w York, Mr.. Young bought one
Ne We silver gray earlier this season,
or. or II was not first-class pelt.
mixers singing orchestra will ap-
~ at Hancock hall tomorrow
pgen;ng. This aggregation of must
cians always draws large crowd in
ellsworth
Mys Harriet c. Davis, who has
mi several weeks in Ellsworth,
se stor a visit with her sisterin Gardi-
dr. aar has gone to Massachusetts for
the winter
T. E. Joy has moved his jewelry
utore from the Whiting block annex
o. the small store in the laundry
Suilding on State street, formerly
Occupied by Albert N. Cushman.
announcement has been made of
.ho cancellation of many trains on
.ho Maine Central railroad, owing to
.he coal shortage, but as yet no cur
.nilment of service has been made
on the Mt. Desert branch.
vi Mr. and Mrs. G. N. Worden were
,,aasantlv surprised Thursday even
20 when thirty of their friends ap-
n rns in Ku-Klux-Klan costume and
toot nossession of their home. Dur
;og much fun and laughter, the
ghosts unrobed and very enjoyable
e,-oning was spent in dancing and
singing, after which rarebit was
served, When the city lights were
turned OFF at midnight, the ghosts
disappeared in the moonlight and
we're last seen sliding down Bridge
hill.
The rescript from the law court
has been received in the Ellsworth
case of CoraD. Tyler vs. the estate
of Herbert Z. Patten, overruling the
motion of defendant for a new trial.
The case was tried at the last April
term of the supreme court. 1t was
an action brought by Mrs. Tyler
against the estate of her brother to
hoard during his illness. The Jury
gave plaintiff verdict for SITS,
which is now sustained. Mrs. Tyler
died October 20 last.
Friends in Ellsworth were sad
dened to learn of the death of Mrs.
Fred Secondhand, which occurred last
Thursday at her home in Lawrence,
Mass Mrs. Schonland was known
here through her visits to her aunt,
the late Mrs. Louise J. Backus, and
her cousin, Miss M. A Clark She
was a daughter of Mrs. Julia (Jor-
dam Hildreth, an Ellsworth woman.
She was twice married, her first hus-
band being Norman Foster, by whom
Oh i0h Il
daughter, Beryle. She also leaves
daughter, Anna, by her second hus-
band
Leon S. Cooper of the Morang ga
rage, is in Detroit, Mich, for a
special course of six weeks instruc-
ton in the repair of Ford cars. The
Morang garage, in itSmonthly bulle-
tin, makes the following announce
ment; In accordance with the poll
ces Of our organization to render the
best OF Ford service, we have sent a
man to the Detroit factory of the
Ford Motor Co. for a sixweeks'
course on the most modern ways of
repairing Ford cars. Leon S. Cooper
arrived at Detroit December 3. He
will devote all of his time there to
some particular repair. Upon his
return he wilpinstruct every man in
our employ the quickest and best
methods of rendering Ford service"
At a meeting of the Ellsworth
athletic club last evening. it was
voted to put a basketball team in
the field. The club has available ma
terial for fast team, in experienced
players. There are something like
hfteen men in the squad from which
the team will be made up, assuring a
good team, with a strong second
team for practice. Llewellyn c.
Fortier was elected manager and Ro-
land E. Stevens captain. Uniforms
Will be ordered at once. The asso-
citation also elected d. E. Linnehan
as manager of next seasons baseball
team, and at a meeting of the play
ers who made last years team, Har-
OLD A. Robinson was elected captain.
me athletic club proposes to have a
basketball game about every two
weeks during the season, followed by
dancing. There will be a game with
the high school team Friday evening.
ihese teams played last Friday
evening, the Athletics winning by a
score Of 27-10.
The past week has been a bad one
ior plate-glass windows in Ellsworth.
Last week a crack started from no
apparent cause in the large front
window of the Union Trust Co. The
crack ran across one corner, extend
ing up the pane three feet or more.
"A delicate piece of work was done
monday. a section being cut off the
lower part of the window and the
pane lowered to allow smaller panes
70 De set above 1t, as was done a few
years ago in the Office of the Western
Union Telegraph Co. in the same
punoing- The second window to go
was mat in one of the Morang build
n ass' occupied by the A. P. Tea Co.
bbnsy Linnehan's large motor truck
aau backed up to the curb, and the
InNer left the engine running while
se went to the rear of the truck to
,enoVe trunk. The clutch slipped
tau.ae truck started in reverse, back
dnst through the large plate glass win
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