Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1915-07-22
Wednesday, Including.
The Appointment of
Chairman Industrial
Accident Commission
Eben F. Littlefieid Named to
Head Administrators of Work.
mems Compensation Act
Appoint Trustees for New
State Institutions

Eben F. 1.ittlefold of Belfast was
appointed Wednesday legal member
and chairman of the Industrial Acct
dent Commission which is to admins
trate Names now Workmen's Com
pensation Act Chapter a95 of the Pub
lie Laws of 1915 (Workmen's Compen-
sation AcD provides that upon this
commission the insurance commission
err and the commissioner of labor shall
serve eX-oficio and shall receive a sal
airy of $500 per annum in addition to
the salary received for the original Of
flee each holds; and that a third mem
Der shall be appointed, man learned
i'll the Law, to act as chairman, to serve
for three years, and to receive a sal
airy eff $500 per annurl.
sir. Littlefeld is a prominent Demo-
cratic politician of Waldo county. He
is graduate of the University of
Maine Law school. Since the date of
his admission to the bar he has prac-
ticed law in Belfast and was county
attorney for Waldo county, 1910-14 For
period Of eight years he was city
clerk of Belfast and has served as a
member of the Democratic county COM
mittee.. He was judge advocate on the
staff of Governor Plaisted with the
rank of lieutenant colonel. judge E.
w. Pike of Belfast has been mention
ed often as the probable appointee and
was the favored candidate of many
delegates present at the last annual
convention of the Maine Federation Of
Labor.
Trustees for Sanatoriums
Other important appointments were
made public Wednesday, notably the
trustees for the State Tuberculosis
Sanatoriums and the trustees for the
"omans Reformatory. Governor Cur
tbs appointed the following men on the
board of trustees for the Sanatori-
ums: Dr. c. H. Bayard of Orono. to
serve one year; F. II. johnson of Port
Iano, TO serve two years; Kingsbury B.
PIPER OF Fairfield. to serve three years;
DR.. Frank L. Shaw of Machias to
serve four years; DR.. Theodore E. Har-
dy Of Waterville, to serve five years.
Won'an's Reformatory Trustees
Governor Curtis made the follow
ing appointments to the Board of
Trustees of the Woman's Reforma-
tory: Rev. Clifford Snowden of Port
land, to serve until the first Tuesday
OF February, 1916: Clara H. S. Cleaves
of Bar Harbor, to serve until 1917:
Mrs. John F. Thompson of Portland,
to serve until 1918; Rev. James A.
Carey Of Hallowell, to serve until
1919; Byron H. Mayo of Southwest
Harbor, to serve until 1920.
Medical Examiners
Another important list of appoint.
ments is that of the medical exam
liners. provided for by Chapter 332 of
the Public Laws Of 1915. Governor
Curtis appointed George B. O'Con-
nell Of Lewiston for Androscoggin
county; Fred L. Gregory of Caribou
for Aroostook county; George 1. Geer
of Portland for Cumberland county;
George L. Pratt of Pennington for
Franklin county; Lewis Hodgkins of
Ellsworth for Hancock county; E. F.
T. Fish of WaterviIle and George w.
of Gardiner for Kennebec
county; William T. Roe of Rumford
for Oxford county: Harry D. Mcneil
of Bangor and John W. Sawyer of
Dexter for Penobscot county: H. A.
Snow of Milo for Piscataquis county;
William L. Gousse of Fairfield for
Somerset county: John A. Mcdonald
Of East Machias for WASHINGTON
county: John L. NJ. Willis of Eliot and
Robert L. Maybury of Saco for York
county. 1-s
Lobster Industry Commission
The 18th Legislature provided for
to investigate the lobster
industry and as members Of this COM
mission the Governor has appointed
John L. Donahue Of Rockland, Joseph
c. Harmon of Stonington, and Eben
T. Lewis of Boothbay Harbor.
The 77th Legislature also provided
for a commission to investigate the
dog fish problem and as members Of
his commission Governor Curtis has
appointed c. E. Davis Of Portland.
charles l. Donovan Of Jonesport. and
Luthet Maddox Of Boothbay Harbor.