Ellsworth American., 1922-12-27
LOCAL AFFAIRS
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pCOplc ScucIdlly.
The womans club will meet
Tuesday, Jan. 2, with Mrs. H. w.
Haynes. The afternoon will be de-
voted to domestic science, in charge
of the social committee. Members
are requested to bring plate, cup,
spoon and fork.
Among the Christmas guests were
Mr.. and Mrs. Hollis L. Ramsdell and
son Gordon, Of Gardiner, and Mr..
and Mrs. F. B. Richardson and son
Roy of Canaan, Conn, who spent
the day at the home of their parents,
Mr.. and Mrs. S. Scott Estey.
The annual meeting of the several
masonic bodies of Ellsworth will be
held next week, being preceded in
each case by banquet at $50.
Blanquefort commandery will meet
Monday night, Acadia chapter, Tues
day night. and Lygonia lodge Thurs
day night
Two shower parties were given
Vera Jordan last week, one at the
home of Grace Stewart, and the
other at the home of Annie Corneail.
One was a kitchen shower and the
other miscellaneous shower Re-
freshments were served and a good
time enjoyed.
c. s. Johnston had his left wrist
broken Monday night, by having->it
caught between the horse and door
as the horse entered the stable. Mr..
Johnston seems particularly unfor-
tunate in the matter of broken
bones. Last year-~he had one leg
broken, and the year before that he
q ri O III I,0
says he haS only to break the other
leg and his neck.
One~of the smartest old ladies in
Ha4cock county is Mrs. Maria Dur
gin of Ellsworth, who last Friday
celebrated her ninetieth birthday.
Many friends called with gifts and to
offer congratulations. Mrs. Durgin
keeps house alone, and is about the
city every day, as spry as most
women of seventy. She has the
best wishes of her friends for many
more years of health and activity.
The Baptist society will hold its
annual business meeting Tuesday
evening, Jan. 2, at the church ves-
try This meeting will be preceded
by get-together service of the
members and friends of the parish,
with supper at 6 O'Clock. The bus
mess meeting will follow the supper,
and at 8 o'clock there will be an
address by Rev. j.. W. Brown, D. D.,
of Cherryfield, to which the public
is invited. ''f
The Ellsworth basketball team,
which this year has taken the name
White Bears, will play it's first game
of the season next Friday evening
at Hancock hall The opposing
team will be Bar Harbor A. A. The
game will be called at S15. Ellis
worth should have fast team this
year, but no team can go through
successful season without public
support The White Bears hope for
a good crowd for their first game
Fred B. Robbins, travelling sales
man for the Brown-Durrell Co. of
Boston, we'll known in Ellsworth,
was killed in an automobile acci-
dent near Rockville last Saturday.
Mr.. Robbins was driving on a narrow
road, and in turning to the extreme
right to avoid horse that was
frightened, the wheels of his car fol-
lowed a rut in the snow and the car
went over an enbankment. Mr.. Rob-
bins was pinned between the wheel
and ice in such a way as to be choked
to death before he could be released.
Mr.. Robbins was about forty-dve
years of age. He married daugh-
ter of Capt Crockett, long con-
nected with the Bluehill-Rockland
steamboat line. Mrs. Robbins sur
wives him, with one daughter.
Natalie.
Santa Claus is stuck. He gets
letters in all Christian languages,
hut he admits that some Ellsworth
writing is too much for him, and
asks The American to help him out.
AS every child in Ellsworth knows,
Santa Claus was at the Holz bakery
this year. He had doll for some
lucky girl and toy train for lucky
boy. But when the numbers were
drawn, he could not make out the
name written on the back of the
boys stub. The number is As, and
the name on the back of the ticket
was written by some boys mother,
but Santa Claus cannot read it. If
the holder of the ticket bearing the
corresponding number will present
it at the bakery. the boy will receive
the gift. The lucky girl, who re-
ceived the doll, is Ruth Shorey.
One boy, whose belief in Santa
Claus wae. anshaken by his mothers
telling MIN that it was not the real
Santa Claus at the bakery, was re-
warded for his faith by receiving a
pair of skis. His name is Richard
Leonard Dow.