Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1908-04-08
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Gordon n. Hicks, who had held the
once Of municipal judge Of Rockland
Tor eighteen years, died Friday at the Knox
hospital, % the result Of shock. He was
seventy three years Of sge, and native OF
North Yarmouth. He was graduated from
Bowdoin college in 1881, and had been en-
gagged in the practice Of law in Rockland
since 1873.
Henry L. White, who has been principal
OF the Bangor high school for the past six
teen years, has rendered his resignation to
take effect at the close OF the schoo! year.
MIR. White is graduate of Bowdoin col
lege in the class OF 1874, and one OF the
best-known high school principals in
New England. He is to retire from active
teaching.
Patents have been granted to Maine
inventors as follows: NJ. d. Goliath,
Hampden, carbureter; E. f. Littlefield,
and II. A. Drinkwater, Belfast, rewinder
for neutrality-suspicious.; A. K. Rogers,
Jonesport, ship-cleaning apparatus; G.. B.
Thatcher, Bangor, invisible air-chamber
and sponsor for canoes; g. Therrien,
Oldtown, money-drawer.
Prof. A. j. Roberts, dean of Colby COT
lege, has been elected president to succeed
Rev. Charles l.. White, whose resignation
goes into effect at the end of the college
year. Prof. Roberts is native of Water
boro and a graduate of Colby in the class
institution since that time as instructor
and professor of rhetoric and English.
He is member OF the Phi Delta Theta
fraternity and extremely popular with the
students, faculty and townspeopIe.
President William Dewitt Hyde, of
Bowdoin college, announced last week
that total of S274 1881 .66 had been added
to the general endowment fund of the in
stitution. On March rs, 1907, the national
education board, the chief supporter of
which is John ID. Rockefeller, offered $5O,-
900 to Bowdoin on condition that the coli
lege raised 100000 on or before March 81,
1905. Some time later Andrew Carnegie
promised that he would contribute the
last $4,000 needed to secure the amount
from the general education board.
The six-masted schooner Edward J.
Lawrence was launched at Bath last
Thursday. The Lawrence is the second
largest wooden schooner in the world and
was built for the J. S. Winslow Co., of
Portland. She will be ready for sea in a
week and will be commanded by Capt.
William F. Kreger, of Fairfield. The
schooner has gross tonnage of $3.50 and
is 320.2 feet long, fifty feet beam and 239
feet deep. She was built for the coal
carrying trade, has complete interior
telephone equipment and is lighted by
electricity.
According to the annual report of DIR.
A. G.. Young, registrar Of vital statistics
on the births, marriages and deaths, the
past year the birth rate was highest in
Aroostook and lowest in Lincoln county;
the marriage rate was highest in Oxford
and lowest in Sagadahoc; and the death
rate was highest in Androscoggin and
lowest in Lincoln. The report shows that
the number of births in the State the past
year was 15,S7S, against 1924 for the pre-
ceding year. an increase of 5S4; the num-
Der OF marriages was 6,49S, an increase of
23i over the preceding year; and the
number of deaths was II ,42Z against II ,3S1
for the preceding year, an increase of
forty-six. The birth rate per 900 OF popu-
lation was 22.O9 per cent; the marriage
rate 9.04 per cent; and the death rate $50
per cent,