The Portland daily press., 1900-04-13
Superintendent Of Poor Farm Elected
Yesterday.
Funeral Of Winfield s.
Crowley.
New Cash Registers To Be Used
On WestbroOk Road.

Mr.. Witham Of Norway, brother Of
Dr. A. N. witham Of Cumberland hiIis.
has entered the employ Of the Portland
Railroad company on the Wssthrcok al
vision m motorman. He served In
similar capacity On tbs electric road at
Norway.
The conductors OF ths wsstbrook d.
vision Of the Portland Railroad company
are to commences today TO use the cash
register with which the cars were
equipped Q few months ago.
Painters ara at work on the interior OF
q. B. woodman's drug store,
Several changes are going on In the
wsatbrook Municipal court room. Judge
holman has had the long table formerly
In use by him In the court room. re-
moved to his private office, and In Its
stead Mr. l.. A. Frank 10 constructing
small desk boarded In ON the front and
sides. This desk is 10 be used BY the
Judge. The building of witness stand
will probably be another Of the improve
ments.
LINEMAN BURNED
I Mr.. John Foster, q nnsman In the SIM
ploy of the Westhrook Electric Light
and Power company, was the victim OF
Q shook yesterday forenoon while ut work
on the wires OF the company ct Cumbsr-
land Mills, near the post office. The com
pany's men have been engaged during
the past few days In changing over their
wires en- to new GROSS arms and 1t was
on this work that Foster was engaged.
In handling the wires Foster handled one
Of them over against an iron spiks In
the pole. There was high voltage on
the wires and as a result Foster received
quite a severe shock. His hands were
quite badly burned, and fortunately for
him the wire became dislodged from the
contact wieh the iron spike 20 that the
current was broken. His fellow work
men went up and took him down 20 the
ground and carried him to Raymond's
drug store where stimulAnts were admins
tered and Foster soon regained conscious
ness. Beyond the burns received on his
hands his injuries were slight
At a meeting of the ovsrseers Of the
poor held yesterday, Mr.. Freedom New
comb Of Pine Point was elected rs su-
perintsndsnt Of the city poor farm to I'LL
the place recently resigned by Mr.. Nor
rlll.
Mr. and Mrs. ]. q. Haley Of Biddeford
were ths guests OF their son. George Al
bert Haley and wife, yesterday.
The funeral services over the remains
OF the late WINFIELD SCOTT Crowley were
held Thuradav afternoon at O'Clock
from the residence Of Lester Foss, Cot
tage Place, and were largely atten ded.
Among those In attendance was q dele
CATION Of the members Of the local lodge
of Sons Of Temperance of which the de-
ceased was member. Rev. L. III. Cous-
of the Warren Congregational church,
conducted the services. Music was fur
nished by a quartetts composed of Mira.
Stevens. Mrs. Vial. MIR. Joseph Hszelton.
Jr., and Mr.. Thomas Smith. The burial
was at Woodland cemetery.
The annual meeting Of the West End
w. @. I. u. which was to have been held
yesterday afternoon, was postponed on
account Of the weather until April Goth,
when the meeting win be held with Mrs.
S. ]. Gilkey, Stroudwater street.
The first meeting Of the Westbrook
High school alumni was held Wednesday
evening with President Quimby in the
chair. Ths records Of the last meeting
were read and approved.
4 The following officers were elected for