Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1924-12-24

to spend Christmas with Mrs
Hamblen's parents, Mr.. and Mrs. c.
L. Morang.
Blanquefort commandery, X T.,
will have the usual Christmas OBJ
servance at noon on Christmas day
Sir knights are requested to assem-
BILE at the asylum at 11.30. All Wis
iting Sir Knights within this juris-
dicton are invited to participate
News was received Friday of the
death at his New York home of Dr..
Horace Stokes. Death resulted from
typhoid fever. DR.. Stokes had spent
many summers in Bar Harbor, where
he practiced. Several Ellsworth
people who have been among his
patients regret to hear of his death.
Mr.. and Mrs, w. J. Clark, ST., OBJ
served the fifty-sixth anniversary of
their marriage last Thursday. A few
neighbors and friends called on them
during the day. 1t was a surprise to
them, no plans having been made to
observe the day, as Mr.. Clark is in
poor health Refreshments were
served.
The State highway commission,
after conference with members of
the Maine automobile association,
has decided to recommend to the
legislature a $9,000,000 short-term
bond issue, per cent. gasolene
tax, and the repeal of the law re-
quiring license from out-of-the-
State autoists.
Y Main street had a narrow escape
from another fire yesterday after
noon. A lamp left in one of the OPP
tical examining rooms in E. f. Robin
sons store, set fire to the beaver
board ceiling and burned through.
An alarm was turned in, but Mr.. Rob-
inson had the fire out when the fire
men arrived. The damage was
slight.
IThe junior prize speaking contest
at the high school auditorium last
Friday evening was we'll attended.
All the selections were exceptionally
we'll rendered, giving the judges a
task to award the prizes of So in
gold. Isabel Frances Emery was
awarded the prize for girls, and
Chester Arthur Jones the prize for
/ boys. Honorable mention was award
ed to Merle Cronkhite and Helen
Thompson.
| Y DR.. Charles w Campbell of
! Spokane, Wash, formerly of ELS
worth, has just been elected presi-
| dent of the Washington State
Chiropractors' association. This is
| the first time in the history of the
] association, it is said, that the presi-
| dency has come east of the noun
+ tains DR.. Campbell has been prac-
/ ticing in Spokane about ten years.
/ His wife was Miss Marion JOY,
| daughter of Austin H. JOY of Ellis
| worth.
Mrs j. o. Smith of North ELS
worth has received pension papers
from the government to be filled out
| by her son, Norman Tuck. Tuck,
who formerly worked for P. ]. Phil
lips in this city and the late Fre-
mont Maddocks in North Ellsworth,
| left here about three months ago,
without telling anyone where he was
/ going. 1t would be to his advantage
| to write to his mother. He is an ex-
service man, twenty-eight years old,
! and has one wooden leg from the
knee down.
Among Ellsworth boys and girls
at home for Christmas are John
| Whitcomb, from Bowdoin college;
Leon Thorsen, from Colby; Kenneth
Coughlin, Misses Sarah and Louise
Foster, from Boston; Misses Char
lotte Sawyer Ruth Whiting and Syl-
via Hurley, teachers, from Water
Vile; Miss Margaret E. Walker, from
the New England Conservatory of
/ Music, Boston; Miss Alice and Whit
comb Haynes, from University of
Maine; Miss Frances Malone, from
Greenwich, Conn.
v Aston Wheelden, one of ELS
worth's most successful radio eX-
perimenters, who has the only send
| ing equipment in Ellsworth, had
rather a remarkable experience for
an amateur last week, when he
picked up an amateur operator in
London, Eng, and remained in COM
munication for forty-fve minutes, eX-
changing messages. Neither had to
repeat a thing. This is not a worlds
record, Mr.. Wheelden says, but is
very near it. Mr.. Wheelden has been
! heard in Belgium and Switzerland.
The fire of Monday raises the
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