Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1913-11-05
KIrrERY TO CARIBOU.

The Maine delegates to the conserva-
ton congress to be held in Washington,
ID. G., Nov. IS, 10 and 20 are; Il. 4. Babb,
Augusta; Ex-Governor William r. Cobb,
RockIand; Weston Lewis, Gardiner;
Harold Gardner, Portland; Charles Pres
colt, Biddeford; Albert Ames, Machiss:
George ID. Bisbee, Rumford Falls; f. l..
Dingley, Lewiston; f. M. Simpson, Ban
gor; William j. Lanigen, WaterviIle; Roy
l.. Marston, Skowhegan; Carl E. MILF
ken, Island Falls; Frederick A. Powers,
Houlton; Elmer E. Richards, Pennington;
ex-senator Obadiah Gardner, Rockland;
and Ex-Governor Bert NJ. Fernald, South
Poland.
The report OF c. F. Weber, chemist OF
the department of agriculture, who has
been studying conditions in the sardine
factories on the eastern Maine coast, may
be summed up in one word = cleanliness.
Mr.. Weber does, however, recommend
that during the prevalence OF "red feed",
no fish containing this material should be
packed until they have been impounded q
sufficient length of time to free themselves
from the "feed".
At the annual meeting OF the Maine
Woman Suffrage association in Portland
last week, officers were elected as follows:
President, Mrs. Helen N. Bates, Wood
fords; vice. president at large, Mrs. Han
nah J. Bailey, Winthrop Centre; Vice
president, Mrs. Emma e. Knight, Port
land; recording secretary, Miss Anna
Burgess, Portland; corresponding secre-
tary, Mrs. Lucy Fl. Day, Portland; treas
urer, Mrs. Sarah P. Anthoine, Portland.
The State Teachers association at Ban
gor last week elected officers as follows:
President, ID. Lyman Norwood, Bangor;
vice-president, X. J. Libby, Caribou
secretary, Harold A. Allen, Augusta; as
sistant secretary, Grace M. Cobarn, Au-
burn; treasurer, John A. Cone, Bruins
member of executive committee for three
years, Miss Clara l.. Soule, WatervilIe.
King +. Graham, OF Westbrook, has been
appointed sheriff OF Cumberland county
to fill the vacancy caused by the sudden
death Of Sheriff Scully. Mr.. Graham was
theprohibition candidate for sheriff year
ago. He will Undoubtedly continue the
enforcement campaign so strenuously
waged by his predecessor.
Brabo Hiro, of Lewiston, the Albanian
who confessed that he was an accomplice
OF Resoul Lachioli in the murder of Kasem
Souleyman at Topsham on September 3,
was on Friday sentenced to life imprison-
ment. Lachioli was tried and sentenced
to life.
George Z. Ball, well-known citizen of
Exeter, died suddenly last week. Mr..
Ball, who was but fifty.seven years old at
the time of his death, is believed to have
been the youngest veteran OF the Civil war
in Maine.
The body of Harry Hilton, game war
den, was found in Moosehead lake near
Kineo Sunday. He had been missing
small boat in which he started up the lake
was upset.
Alice Clark, of Rockland, was fatally
burned at a halloween party Friday night,
when her dress caught fire from a paper
lantern that ignited.
Dr. William j. pennell, a prominent
physician of Auburn, died last Wednes-
day, aged fifty-one years.
= Charles w. Zeigler, of Zelienople, Pa,
aged thirty-three years, hunting near
Glenwood, was Killed by the accidental
discharge OF MS rifle Thursday.
Acute indigestion from eating too many
peanuts caused the death of William Phil
brook, prominent Greene farmer, Satur-
day.
H. B. c. Wright, former proprietor of
hotels in Belfast and Camden, died at
Rockland Sunday, aged seventy years.
William Reynolds, of Bangor, was
killed by the accidental explosion of
charge OF dynamite at Old Town Saturday.