Ellsworth American., 1920-02-04

nc thursday cluD Will meet this
week with Mrs. o. w. Tapley.
Pearl S. Thorsen of New York
spent few days last week at his
West Hancock farm.
Embert c. Osgood and party, who
braved the far-below-zero weather
for the first days of the ice fishing
season at his camp at Patten pond,
were well rewarded They brought
in handsome string of thirty-five
trout and salmon. Elmer E. Rowe
and Martin L. Adams were also lucky
fishermen at the same pond, catching
twelve fish.
The quarterly conference of the
Ellsworth Methodist church was held
at the parsonage last Saturday even
ing. 1t was voted to have the pas
tor, Rev. r. H. Moyle, return for an
other year if the conference saw fit.
A substantial increase in his salary
was also voted. District Superinten-
dent Gray presided at the meeting
He preached Sunday morning and
evening at the church
Albert Davis and James Carney.
the high school boys who had the
honor of making the first contribu-
tion to the Ellsworth high school
building fund, the proceeds from
dance arranged by them last Satur-
day, will give another dance for the
same object at Knights of Columbus
hall next Saturday afternoon. Pu-
pills of the high school contemplate a
number of entertainments in the
| future for the same object
team known as the Rovers from
the University of Maine came to
tIryt npath l. loo TNx,..
game with the Ellsworth A. A. The
! visitors gave a very creditable ex-
i hibition of indoor football, while the
| Ellsworth boys played basketball.
| The score tells the story-Ellswort
| 40, Rovers 6. The game scheduled
| for last night with the Brewer Row
ers was cancelled. The Brewer
| Rovers decided at the last minute
| not to rove far from home. Perhaps
they had heard of the fate of their
| Orono namesakes.
The Sumphunny Orchestra,
which appeared last Thursday eve
ming at Hancock hall, under the aus
pices of the Congregational society,
certainly lived up to it's name and
reputation. This orchestra is mas
ter of wide range of music-rang-
ing, in fact, from the sublime to the
ridiculous. The big hit of the eve
ming was the hand organ and
| monkey act, especially the monkey.
I Lieut.. Harold Gould, U. S. A, is
in Ellsworth on a short furlough.
Lieut.. Gould, who went overseas
soonafter the armistice was signed,
returned home short time ago.
| After his furlough, he will go to
Camp Gordon. Ga.
l.. E. Treadwell local agent for
| the International Harvester Co., has
received a communication from the
company denying the report that has
| been circulated that the company
| has employed German poison gas
inventor named Robert Beyer
Thecompany's officials have investi-
gated, and ascertained that a man
of that name recently came to this
country from Switzerland, and is
said to have brought with him some
metallurgical and other inventions
in which he is seeking to interest
American manufacturers. These
inventions are not applicable to the
agricultural implement industry,
and are of no interest whatever to
the Harvester Co. Mr.. Boyer has
absolutely no connection with the
company's business.
Saturday, with the thermometer 25
below zero in the morning, and the
wind blowing gale, was one of the
most uncomfortably cold days Ellis
worth people ever experienced. At
noon the thermometer stood at 12
below, with no abatement in the
wind. Sunday morning the ther-
| mometer touched the lowest point
reached this winter, registering AZ
to As below in some parts of the city.
but there was no wind, and the
weather moderated fast during the
day. All records of the cold winter
of two years ago were broken, and
the famous "cold Friday"of the ear
ly SOS was equalled or beaten. The
thermometer at the power station,
from which the record printed week
ly in The American is taken, re-
corded 80 below Sunday morning,
which is four degrees lower than
ever before recorded there. This
thermometer ranges many degrees
higher than most thermometers
about town, owing to its close prox-
unity to a large body of water.