Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1924-11-26
LOCAL AFFAIRS
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penobscot offers are comparatively
rare in this section now. but few
are picked up by trappers each year.
Mr.. Harden says this is the hand
soonest otter skin he has seen FOR
some years. 1t is of good color, and
larger than the average of recent
years.
Miss Nell A. Walker, who started
out from California twenty months
ago for a round-the-world tramplng
trim. was in Ellsworth Monday. She
has visited most of the states of this
country, and is now on her way pach
from the British Provinces, having
been as far as Prince Edward Island.
She carried a big sheaf of letters
from governors of states and mayors
of cities she has visited. She expects
to spend five years on the road.
A meeting of the executive
committee of the Ellsworth branch
of the Red Cross will be held at Red
Cross headquarters next Monday
afternoon at 4 o'clock. Miss McLaugh-
lin the community nurse, makes the
following report for October: nurs-
ing care visits, .53; instruction and
demonstration, IT. investigation
visits, 6; miscellaneous visits, "a;
visits to schools, AS; assisted at four
operations. Total visits, l49. Fees
collected, $26.70.
Deputy Sheriff Patten made raid
on a suspected gambling room last
Friday evening. No arrest was
made. but the proprietor was given
talking to at the jail office by Sherli1
Wescott and warned not to reopen
the game" That was Saturday
morning Saturday evening Deputy
Sheriff Patten again visited the
place, smashed in the door to the
gambling room when admission was
denied him and found the game
again in progress, with fifteen men
and boys present In the absence
of Judge Crabtree, no warrant was
issued but the proprietor of the place
was warned to get out of town, and
unless he does so, he will feel the
arm of the law.
Friends in Ellsworth learned with
regret of the death on Saturday, at
Concord, Mass, of Rev. Loren b.
Macdonald, a former beloved pastor
of the Ellsworth Unitarian church.
Death followed an attack of pto-
maine poisoning, with which he was
stricken the Tuesday before. Mr..
Macdonald was born in Newport, N.
s., Jan. 81, 1858. He received his
degree at Harvard in 1876, was
graduated from Harvard divinity
school in 1881, and began his pas
toral work in Ellsworth the follow
ing year. He went from here to
Wolfeboro, n H., from there to Bos-
ton, and for the past twenty-nine
years had been pastor of the First
Unitarian church of Concord. He
leaves a widow, two sons and a
daughter.
The Ellsworth Town Team will
play its first basketball game of the
season at Hancock hall next Tuesday
evening, against Franklin A. A. The
men who have been out to make the
Ellsworth team have been showing
we'll in practice, and indications are
that Ellsworth will have team that
will give any of the teams of this
section a real game. Such team is
sure of local support. The basketball
fans of Ellsworth are already behind
the team, and there has been good
sale of the So season tickets. Th2
club guarantees ten home games, but
expects to play many more than that
on the home floor The buyers of the
season tickets will be helping the
team when the money is most need
ed, at the beginning of the season,
and will be saving money themselves
on all games over ten played on the
home floor. These tickets may be
obtained of the players, or of E. j.
Lepogiannis at the Hancock County
Shoe Hospital. Next Tuesday eve
ning's game will be called at $50.
A Hancock county sensation is re-
called by the arrest last Friday at
Bangor of Mrs. Hilda Gray, aged
nineteen, of Orland, who last March
eloped with her own brother, Har-