Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1920-10-13

Everett Allen and two sons,
of the Panama Canal Zone, is visit
ing relatives in Ellsworth and Bar
Harbor.
Maria, widow of Samuel p. Jor-
dan, died Sunday at the home of her
son, Capt. John W. Jordan. on Water
street, aged seventy-eight years.
Congressman John A. Peters will
leave next Monday for a campaign
speaking tour of New Hampshire
with Senator Moses of that state.
The following week he will go to
New York state for like service.
Mrs. Peters will accompany him to
Boston.
Next Tuesday evening at o'clock,
at the home of Mrs. Luther A.
Leach, the Ellsworth woman's club
Will give reception to the teachers
OF the public schools. Entertain
ment will be provided. There will
be no business meeting of the club in
the afternoon.
A prize waltz at Smiths pavilion
tuesday evening was won by Lew
eliyn Fortier of Ellsworth and Miss
Laura Carter of Bar Harbor, in a
close contest. Next Tuesday eve
ming prize will be awarded the
couple making the best appearance
in the fox trot.
At the annual meeting of the
Unitarian parish last Wednesday
evening, officers were elected as fol-
lows: c. E. Alexander, president;
Neal RAYMOND, vice-president; Miss
Annie r. Stockbridge, secretary;
Miss Mabel Lord, treasurer: Martin
L. Adams, chairman, H. E. Rowe, e.
{. Osgood, Mrs. w. H. Titus. Miss
Leonora G. Higgins, trustees. The
business meeting followed a parish
supper.
The first of the series of enter
tainments under the auspices of
Frank E. Whitmore post, American
Legion, was given at Hancock hall
last Friday evening. The Vissochi
musical trio gave a novel and pleas
ing program. The performance of
Andrew Vissochi on the piano ac-
Gordon was revelation. If the
standard set by this first entertain
ment is maintained for the remain
der of the course of five entertain
ments to be given under the auspices
OF the post, the people of Ellsworth
are assured some musical treats.
The next entertainment will be on
November II, when the Scott-Bates
Co. will appear.
Inc Emoise Herbert
Light players opened three
nights engagement at Hancock hall
Monday, playing to a fair-sized
mouse. This is the first visit here of
this company, and it is one of the
strongest that has played here for
years. The company in on it's way
to Halifax for an all-winter season
in that city. All who were at Han
cock hall Monday evening or last
evening were we'll pleased, and the
report which they are spreading
abroad assures big house tonight.
The play tonight, THE Savage" is
one OF Gilmoe's best, and is the
big bill' of this company. Mr..
Light, of this company, was a pas
senger on the Inflated Lusitania on
that morning in May, 1915, when
she was torpedoed by the Germans
and went down with over 1900
lives. Mr.. Light remained on the
deck of the steamship until she sank
beneath him, carrying him down
with her he does not know how far.
He experienced all the sensations of
drowning, and when he recovered
consciousness, he was floating on the
surface. many yards from the steam
ship. He was finally pulled on
board an overturned boat by another
man. and these two helped two
others float another boat that was
riding on top of another. Succeed
ing in this they turned their atten-
tion to saving others, and when
finally they were picked up by a
steamship, there were thirty-two in
the boat. 1t is an experience Mr..
Light does not care to go through
again, and a scene such as he hopes
never to see again and does not
care much to talk about He carries
with him some interesting momentos
of the tragedy-a watch which went
through the trial with him, and a
copy of the newspaper or bulletin
printed on the ship the morning of
the disaster. Mr.. Light sustained
injuries which kept him in the hospi-
tai in Queenstown some days.
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