Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1914-05-20

nome OF ner uaugnters MONDAY, rev. r.
A. A. KilIam officiating. The remains
were taken to her former home, Maria
vile, for interment. More extended no.
tice of her death appears in Mariaville
items.
There will be an open session OF the Uni
tartan club at the vestry next Monday
evening. There will be an address on
Mexico by Roy C. Haines, followed by
| questions and general discussion. There
will be special music; Miss Sophie Walker.
soloist. The program will begin at and
will be followed by social. Refresh
ments will be served. The public is in
vited, small admission being charged to
nom members of the club.
Arthur l.. Frazier, employed on Senator
Hale's place, was seriously injured yester-
day. He was riding on harrow, when it
struck rock and he was thrown in the
air, falling on his back on the harrow.
He was unconscious for short time. At
| first it was feared he had fractured his
spine, but further examination by DIR.
Knowlton, who was called, disclosed no
| fracture. He sustained severe bruises and
strain. DR.. Knowlton says it was mar
row escape from permanent or fatal in
| jury.
At meeting of the Ellsworth Mer-
chants association last Monday evening,
George N. Worden, of the University of
Maine, who is in charge OF farm demon
stration work in Hancock county, told OF
the work being done and in contemplation.
| The talk was an interesting one. and it is
| regretted that because OF other attractions
! and meetings, the attendance was not
| larger. MIR. Worden has taken hold of the
work here with characteristic vigor, and
has already aroused much interest
throughout the county.
| B. L. Sowle was one of the lucky Els
worth fishermen last week, bringing in
three salmon as the result of few hours
| fishing on Molasses pond. Some fine
| salmon have been taken at Branch pond
| during the past week, but at Green lake
| the fish have not been biting, thus perpet-
uating the peculiar rule that when the
| salmon bite in one of these two lakes they
| do not bite in the other. At Patterns
pond some trout and salmon were taken,
Elmer E. Rowe and party bringing in the
best string from that pond.
! AT caucus of Ellsworth progressives
last evening delegates and alternates to
the county convention June we're elected
as follows: Delegates, c. l.. Morang, E.
L. Drummey, A. J. Guptill, f. F. Robin
son, jr., E. s. Means, j. o. Kief,
L. F. Giles, j. T. Giles, w. W.
Brooks, H. E. Rowe, A. w. Curtis,
| w. J. Connick, &. w. Wooster.
Alternates, Capt. N. 81. Means, Arthur
Hart, Fl. A. Walker, Herman Parrott, E.
l.. Parrott, F. S. Call, Walter Pho, A. F.
Burnham, Alonzo Jordan, {. C. Knowlton.
| THE AMERICAN last week printed a
brief State item telling OF the death by
suffocation of John c. King, his wife and
son Orrin, in fire which destroyed their
home at Bath early Sunday morning, May
10. 1t has been learned here since that
Mrs. King was former resident Of Ellis
worth, May, daughter of A. b. Straight.
| The family lived in apartments above
their store. Smoke from a fire below
filled the upper part of the house, and
after the fire had been extinguished, the
three we're found dead in their rooms
Mr.. King was forty-eight years of age;
Mrs. King, twenty-eight, and the son
nine. The bodies were brought to Ellis
worth last Thursday for interment.
1t looks as if Ellsworth would not get
the free mail delivery on June % as prom
| ised by the postoffice department, and this
| through no fault or delay on the part of
| the department, but through the fault of
the citizens themselves. The department
gave notice, through Postmaster Nealley.
| that houses must be numbered and recep-
| tacles provided for mail, either box near
the front door of houses or slot in the
| door. Postmaster Nealley must report
| soon whether this provision has been met.
| So far very few house e-owners have attend
| ed to the matter. The government is not
| so terribly impressed with the Importance
of establishing the free delivery system in
Ellsworth that it is losing any sleep over
this neglect of the citizens, which may re-
suit in delaying the thing another year
or so.
| No one in Ellsworth takes livelier in
terest in the present disturbance in Mexi-
co than Capt. John A. Lord, who for over
ten years ran almost constantly in sailing
vessels between New York and Vera Cruz.
| He has also spent week in Mexico City,
and with ready memory talks interesting
| ly of his trip there. Capt. Lord had the
schooner Pride of the East built especially
| for the Vera Cruz trade, and on her maiden
| trip made record for sailing vessel be-
| tween New York and Vera Cruz, which he
| believes still stands. On the night of the
eleventh day after hosting anchor in New
York harbor, he sighted the lights of Vera
| Cruz, and could have gone in that night
but for port rules. He went in early the
| next morning, so that he was just twelve
| days from anchorage to anchorage. He
has never heard of this record being beat
en-. In one cargo Capt. Lord carried four