Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1923-12-05
LOCAL AFFAIRS



ing day. So, just remember to mai
your Christmas parcels early.
u Leon S. Inorsen, who accompanied
his father, Martin j. Thorsen, to Los
Angeles, Cal. last September, re-
turned last week. After spending
Thanksgiving with his mother, who
is at present. in Ellsworth, he left
Sunday for Charleston, where he will
complete his senior year at Higgins
Classical institute.
The membership campaign of the
| American Red Cross is now closed,
and it is exceedingly gratifying to
the local executive board to know
that a new record in membership has
been made. Last years membership
was 337; this year 402 have joined.
Rev. George S. Brookes, local chair
man, expresses thanks to the 402
people enrolled.
, Senator Hale hose company scored
another big success at it's annual en-
tertainment and ball on Thanksgiv-
ing night. There was a large at
tendance. The Spinsters' Club"
presented by a local cast under the
direction of Rev. George S. Brookes,
was amusing. Many enjoyed the
dancing, to music by Moore's or
chestra of Bar Harbor.
,fFrancis e. Tilden was the victim
Of surprise party last Friday even
ing when a big party of his friends
dropped in upon him to extend con
gratulations on his twenty-frst birth
day. A merry evening, with dane
ing, music and refreshments, fol-
lowed. The guests brought with
them material evidence of esteem in
some handsome presents.
Fred l.. Mason is very proud of a
pair of knives just received from S.
p. Snowman of Penobscot-a large
kitchen knife and a pairing knife.
Mr. Snowman, though eighty-eight
years old last August, has not for
gotten his craft as skilled maker of
edged-tools, and the knives are his
own handiwork, blade and handle.
They are remarkable piece of work
for a man of his age.
Hancock County Public Health as
ISOLATION, with George S. Brookes as
chairman, has commenced its annual
campaign for funds through the sale
of bonds and seals. Last year the
county raised $1,000, but it is hoped
that the sum of 5000 will be real
lied this year to provide funds for
county nurse, who will serve in com
munities where no nursing service
has yet been established.
Two new cases of scarlet fever de-
veloped last week, one in the Bridge
Hill school and one i'll the Pine
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schools is badly affected, many pa
rents keeping their children at home,
but Health officer Woodruff thinks
the situation is not such as to war
rant closing the schools. In fact, he
said this morning that he thought the
children safer under the discipline
and watchfulness in the schools, than
out of them.
William F. Mccoy, liking of the
rum runners" who was captured on
the schooner Tomoka outside the
three-mile limit of the New York
coast, is known in Ellsworth, where
a few years ago he superintended the
building of a large gasoline yacht
at the yards of the Ellsworth Foun-
dry and Machine Works Mccoy,
when found hiding in the hold of his
vessel, had 100000 in bills in his
pockets, and furnished $4,000 cash
bail when arraigned. The capture
of the Tomoka outside the three
mile limit may be the subject of in
ternational controversy.
The week December to 16 has
been designated as Harding memoir
ial week, when the campaign for a
memorial to the late President Hard~
ing will be conducted throughout the
, country. The Harding Memorial as
ISOLATION, regularly incorporated, is
organized for the purpose OF erecting
a memorial to the late President 1t
is authorized to erect and maintain in
perpetuity, at Marion, o., mauso-
leum wherein to place the body Of
President Harding, and to buy the
Harding home in Marion for CONVEX
sion into a national shrine. Ellis
worth will join in this campaign, and
some organization for the purpose
will be formed before next week. A
contribution of 500 has already
been sent for the Ellsworth fund by
Mrs. Mary c. Hale.
Miss Porter of Lubec, a w. c. T..
L. worker, spoke at the Methodlst
church last Sunday morning. The
congregation was disappointingly
small Miss Porter is a very pleas
ing speaker, and her address was in
teresting. Referring to the argu-
,ment so often advanced by opponents
of the prohibitory law that it was
passed through the efforts of few
fanatics when most of the people
were concerned. with the war and did
not realize what was being done,
Miss Porter called attention to the
fact that the law received the vote
of two-thirds of both Senate and
House, and has been ratified by for
ty-siX states, when ratification by
only thirty-six was required. Speak
ing of the benefits under the law
she told of improved conditions in
the homes of workingmen, and the
falling off in business of the pawn