Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1905-06-21
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Mrs. Jane Smith, OF Augusta, aged
sixty-three years, was burned to death by
the explosion OF lamp last week.
The State of Maine club, Of Boston.
VIII open its clubhouse at the corner of
Ashburton place and Somerset street to-
day.
Z. w. jenner, manager OF the Dennys-
vile Lumber Co., Eastport, died suddenly
last Wednesday, of paralytic shock. His
age was fifty-eight years.
Fred Cyr, a young man employed by
the Great Northern Paper company,
Miilinocket, was drowned late Tuesday
afternoon by the overturning Of a canoe.
The Thomas Brackett Reed memorial
association mas been organized at Portland
for the purpose of raising funds for
statue of Mr. Reed to be erected in Port
land.
The Blaisdell house. a summer hotel at
New Portland, and two dwellings. were
burned last Thursday. The loss on the
hotel is $1,000 and on the dwellings
1900. The fire is attributed to an incen-
diary, and suspect has been arrested.
Frank c. Wilcox, of Auburn, aged nine
teen years, was killed by a baseball last
week. He was playing as catcher on Fri
day, when he was struck on the head by a
pitched ball. Though he finished the
game, he became unconscious soon after
ward and died Sunday morning.
w. j. Thompson, lecturer of the Maine
State grange, has just returned from
trip in Aroostook county. He reports
that in spite of the fact that potatoes are
now selling fer the low figure of Is cents
a barrel for the best grades, the farmers
are planting a larger acreage than ever
before.
Prof. Howard s. Webb, head OF the
electrical engineering department of the
University of Maine, died last week at the
State sanatorium at Hebron, where for
some weeks he had been suffering from
acute tuberculosis following an attack OF
grip last winter. Prof. Webb was born in
Skowhegan, about forty years ago,
and graduated from the University OF
Maine in 1887 from the course in me-
ehanical engineering.
A. II. Sawyer, of Calais, iumberman and
mill owner, has sold out his remaining mill
at Hartlsnd, n. b., to F. l.. Sawyer, of st.
John, and has retired from business. With
the mill in this last sale are 1900 acres of
timberiands which Mr.. Sawyer owned and
government. The Hartland mill has been
cutting annually from eight to ten million
feet OF lumber, large part OF which passed
through Calais. The retirement OF Mr..
Sawyer means direct loss to Calais, as the
output Of the mill win hereafter be
handled at a New Brunswick port.
The summer travel into Maine next year
will have new avenue by which to reach
Moosehead lake and the central part of
the State. The directors OF the Somerset
railroad have decided to push operations
on the construction of the new extension
of the road, so that by July OF next year
trains win run from Oakland to Birch
point on the west shore of Moosehead
lake nearly opposite Kineo. When the
directors OF the Somerset first determined
upon the extension, they decided to ex-
pend three years of time in the construc-
ton, but this week the directors have
placed an issue of 8, 600, 900 which includes
the original issue of 5000 Contracts
will be awarded by sections and work on
construction will begin very soon.
The Maine experiment station is now
mailing its first bulletin no. 116) ON food
inspection. 1t contains the text of the
pure food law enacted by the legislature OF
1905, and also gives the standards of purity
adopted for Maine. The director of the
station invites dealers and consumers to
send by prepaid express original and I'M
broken packages of food materials on sale
in Maine OF whose purity they are for any
reason suspicious. The Sample should be
accompanied by full description of the
goods, including the name and address
OF the dealer and sender, as prompt free
analysis will be made of such samples as
circumstances will allow. Bulletin 116
will be sent free to all residents of Maine
who apply to the Agricultural Expert
ment station, Orono.