Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1922-01-25
LOCAL AFFAIRS
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coming by car, got stalled in a drift
above Green Lake. The condition
of the roads makes travel by car un-
certain. The game scheduled fo1
Friday night is assured, as the Wis
iting team win come by train. A
game scheduled to be played by the
Ellsworth A. G. at Veazie tonight
was cancelled because of the condi-
tion of the roads.
The directors of the Union Trust
Co. held their annual meeting Mon
day, re-electing the following of.
ficers: o. w. Tapley, president;
Frank C. Nash, vice-president;
Henry H. Higgins, treasurer; Mon
roe Y. McGown, assistant treasurer
1t was pleasing to his associates on
the board to have Mr.. Nash with
them for the first time in two
| months, he having been seriously ill
in Boston.
Walter Scott and wife of New
York and Edward Scott of Portland
were here last week to attend the
funeral of their mother, Mrs. Ellen
Scott. They left for their homes
Saturday evening, Fred C. Scott &C
companying them as far as Portland,
where he remained until yester-
, day. John A. Scott and wife of Ma
chias were also here, they meeting
with a double loss in the death of
| Mrs. Scott's father, George e. Davis,
as well as Mr. SCOTS mother.
Celia Black, widow of George A.
! Dickey and former resident of
Ellsworth, died at her home in
! Greene on Wednesday, Jan. IS, aged
eighty-one years. She was ill but
few hours. Mrs. Dickey was born
in Ellsworth, daughter of the late
William H. Black. OF family of
eight, two sisters survive her--Mrs.
Harvard Greedy and Miss Mary H.
Black, both of Ellsworth. Mrs.
Dickey also leaves one daughter,
Eva A., of Greene, and one son,
Charles B. of Searsmont. The
burial was in Bangor, beside her
husband.
Robert P. King of the Dirigo
theatre has made special arrange
ments with Earle B. Tinker, mana
ger of the Goldwyn picture interests
in Maine, and Charles M. Stern,
manager of the Bijou theatre, Ban
gor, to present Theodore" at the
Dirigo Immediately following it's run
at the Bijou in Bangor. This is
establishing a new precedent, mas
much as the Bijou theatres con-
tracts prohibit showing any pro-
duction elsewhere in Maine for
thirty days after the expiration of
the run. The entire production will
be moved intact, this being the same
HIn fi in, oh of
Boston, and the Astor, New York.
The Mae Edwards players ap-
peared at Hancock hall Thursday,
Friday and Saturday evenings of last
week, putting on exceptionally good
plays each night, but to disappoint-
ingly small houses. Undoubtedly
the weather and the dull after-the-
holidays season had much to do
with this, but the fact that the COM
pany is not as we'll known here as
some that have been coming longer
was also factor. The attendance
improved each night however,
which tells the story of pleased
patrons, and Manager Smith of the
company sized up the situation cor
rectly when he said that if they were
to be here another week he thought
they could fill the hall.
The father and son" banquet to
be held at Odd Fellows hall banquet
room on the evening of Monday,
Feb. 6, promises to be the biggest
getting-together of the fathers and
sons of Ellsworth ever held, and
opens possibilities of splendid re-
suits. Justice l.. B. Deasy will be
"a IF Inn
Supt. of Schools Henry will speak on
Boy" and Judge Harry L. Crabtree
on What the Boy Owes the Com
munity." Other speakers will be
Principal Abernethy of the high
school and the pastors of the
churches. Among the subjects will
be "The Boy in Church" 1.-THE Boy
in the Home" 1.-THE Boy in the
School," 1.-The Boy in the Group"
and "The Boy as Scout" The ban
quet is to be given under the aus
pieces of the Boy Scouts, and during
the evening the boys will give an ex-
hibition of modifying, first aid to the
injured, and other tests, and there
will be singing. There will be a
charge of SO cents to fathers and rs
cents TO sons.
Monday, January %, was> the
sixty-fifth anniversary of the famous
cold Friday" of which the older
residents of Ellsworth still talk when
they think of cold winters. After a
little discussion as to dates last
week, Henry l.. Moor dug out the
following from some old records:
Jan. 23, 1857, cold Friday.
Thermometer 40. below zero in the
morning. One man frozen on stage;
several in this section and nearby
towns had hands and feet frozen.
Thermometer 20 to 25 below at 10
a. M; IL below at 1 and p. M"
Feb 8, 1861, was another cold day
to which people often refer. The
thermometer was not so low-only
80 below in the morning-but gale
of wind from the north made the day
a bitter one. But it is not necessary
to go back farther than two wears to