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Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1913-04-18
SUE RAILROADS FOR S1OO. 900
Three Seek to Recover for Injuries on
New Haven and Boston G. Maine.

Boston. - Damages aggregating
100000 have been asked in three
suits against the New Haven and Bos.
ton & Maine roairoads.
The biggest suit was that of Mrs
Mary e. ellis against the New Haven
for $4,000 for the death of her hus.
band, Alexander ]. ellis, who was
killed last November in the railroad
yard at Readville.
Augustus Piper of Somerville wants
100000 from the Boston and Maine
for injuries he sustained when run
over by a baggage truck as he was
walking from the platform Of the
North Station to his train Feb. 10.
He is also suing the American Express
Company for $4,000.
For injuries received by alleged de-
fects in switch christened Rocky
No. T." near Mystic wharf. Charles
town, Warren W. Oxley, Boston and
Maine brakeman is suing the road for
$4,000. The accident occurred Jan.
10.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1913-04-18
WILL CARRY PASSENGERS
Warren Line to Inaueurate New Ser
vice Shortly.

Boston.-A new transatlantic pas
senger service will soon be inaugu-
rated between Boston and Liverpool
on the Warren line. Each of the lin
ers can carry several hundred steer
age passengers, and the company for,
merly brought in thousands of immi
grants every month.
The Warren line passenger service
was discontinued twenty-five years
ago for cattle exporting. The cattle
fittings will be torn out and the boats
refitted for passenger service. The
first to be ready for service will be
the Michigan. She is to go to the
builders yard in a few weeks and fit.
ted for second cabin and steerage
Limited accommodations will be made
for first class passengers.
The company has two new steam
ships in process Of construction at the
Clyde shipyards On their compile
ton early next year they will prob
ably be put into the Boston service.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1913-04-18
LOSS TO SHIP OWNERS
Ocean Storms of Last Three Months
Most Disastrous in SO Years.

Boston.-The year 1913 has proved
thus far the most disastrous three
months that shipowners on both sides
of the Atlantic have experienced in
nearly fifty years. Correct estimates
of the loss caused by the series of
storms that have swept the coasts of
Europe and America are difficult to
obtain, but one authority who based
his figures on the Lloyds reports, said
today that the damage to deep-sea
vessels alone would amount to ST.
100000. This does not include the
loss suffered by the coasting trade of
the United States, estimated at sew
eral millions.
One result of the years storms has
been the humiliation of many of the
few of the wooden schocners left in
the American coasting trade. The
price of all ocean vessels has risen.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1913-04-18
The GOVERNORS BALL
GATHERING OF FAIR WOMEN ANI
BRAVE MEN.
Took Place Thursday Evening of Las
Week.

Concord.-The great social event OF
the season at he, capital of the state
took place Thursday evening, it being
the biennial governors ball, and the
first to be given under democratic
auspices since the days OF Governor
Weston away back in the seventies.
Phoenix Hall was most beautifully and
deliberately decorated for the occasion.
The music was by the Necers- Blals-
delLStewartson orchestra and the cos
tunes of the ladies were IN Keeping
with the occasion. At the entrance
to the hall a carpet reached from the
door to the edge of the sidewalk with
canopy overhead, while the stairs
were covered with canvass.
Epaulettes, gold lace and dress
suits contrasted with the gay dresses
of the ladies and the bright colors OF
the decorations. The affair opened
with a blare of trumpets in honor OF
the chief executive and reception in
which he and thee first lady of the
state stood alone and received the
guests. On their part it was demo
cratic and transformations. 1t was ten
o'clock when this function was over
and Col. Edward K. Webster mar
shalled the guests for the grand march
which he and the first lady of the
his wife. He was followed by some
of the most distinguished gentlemen
in the state with their ladies, then
came others of lesser note, the brasses
and strings filled the air with pulsat
ing melody, and the governors ball
was in full swing. 1t was a great sue
cess in every way, starting with list
of committees which more than tiIlec
a newspaper column and winding ur
with a crowd which more than tilleC
the hall,
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1913-04-18
NEWS OF THE
GRANITE STATE
Items of Interest CuIled From
Here and There
FOR THE BUSY READER
Committee Makes Report on Election
of United States Senator-Pres.
Wilson's Summer Offices
Governors Ball.

ConcordT-he special joint commit
tee appointed to investigate charges
of improper conduct with the election
OF United States senator has made its
report. and it was presented to the
legislature on Thursday of last week.
The report is to the effect that no
evidence was presented showing that
there was an improper use of money
or other considerations to influence
the election of a senator. Two men,
bers of the house committee, however,
Ezra NJ. Smith of Peterboro and
Harold A. Webster of Holderness, re-
port that the conduct of Harold l..
Snow, which has been under investi-
cation in connection with the other
matter, was highly discreditable and
disgraceful, and constitutes a stigma
upon himself and upon the house,
and they recommend his expulsion.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1913-04-18
did GOOD WORK
DURING THE WINTER
CUTTERS AIDED THlRTY-THREE
COASTERS.
Distressed Craft Valued at Million
and Half Cared for

Boston.-First aid to 80 distressed
coasters, carrying several hundred
human beings, and valued at a mil
lion and half dollars, was rendered
last winter by the revenue cutters
Woodbury., Androscoggin, Itasca and
Acushnet in their almost ceaseless
patrol along the exposed portion of
the New England coast.
During the four months ending
April l, these cutters covered over
1900 miles of active cruising be-
tween Point Judith, r. l., and Calais,
Me-, while the Androscoggin made a
l500-mile fruitless excursion into
southern waters in a search for the
schooner Future, abandoned OF
Charleston.
Each cutter had a number of thrill
ing experiences in assisting helpless
coasters into ports, but accounts of
hardships endured in running towing
lines through freezing seas, of board
ing ice-clad schooners and giving aid
to many a luckless vessel do not ap-
pear in the official reports of the
commanding officers. The shippers,
however, officially recognized the as
sstance rendered by shore observers,
life-saving crews and newspaper
watchmen, and the value of such in
formation is gratefully acknowledged.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1913-04-18
HOUSING FOR OFFICIALS
SUMNER CAPITOL OFFICES ARE
SOUGHT.
White House Official Inspects Resi-
dences in Windsor, VT.

Windsor, VT, E. w. Smithers of the
White House executive Office force
came here last week looking for a
house to be used for the executive
Offices when President Wilson takes
up his summer residence at Harla-
kenden House in the adjoining New
Hampshire town of Cornish.
Among the places visited was the
residence of Abbott Weston, a large
mansion in the center of the town,
which was once the home of E. w.
Stoughton, former United States min
lister to Russia.
Other homes visited were those of
Gilbert F. Davis on State street. con-
Veniently near the business section;
the Jones home at Buena Vista, on
the outskirts of the town, and the
property of the Windsor Farms Com
pany, about a mile up the Connect
icut River. The Taylor farm house,
near the Windsor Farms Company
property, was examined with regard
to its advantages as a possible resi-
dence for Secretary Tumulty.
The Cornish home of A. E. Lang of
Toledo, o., was also looked over.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1913-04-18
Do MUCH GOOD, BUT
COUNTRY PREACHER is POORLY
PAID.
Methodist Conference Hears Plea for
Larger Ministers Salaries.

Boston.-"Country preachers are the
poorest paid mortals on the face of
the earth although they do the great
est good possible" said Rev. Ward
Pratt, DID, of Philadelphia, who lee
tured in Peoples Temple last week at
the 117th annual session of the Meth
odist Church Conference.
Churches might easily be multi
piled foolishly in the East, but what is
most desired in this country is the
church in the rural districts. Church.
es cannot afford to waste peoples
money without having something to
show for it.
This worlds progress depends
wholly on the rural church. Foreign
missions are needed, it is true, but
we first must take into consideration
the needs of our own country.
what is imperative is an ANAL
gamation of the various church mis-.
sions which will be able to decide
where and for what the church's mon
ey can be spent to best advantage.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1913-04-18
ACT UNCONSTITUTIONAL.
Maine Supreme Court Hands Down
Decision.

Portland, Me.-In the case Of John
Dirken VS.. the Great Northern Paper
Co. the Supreme Judicial court of the
state of Maine has handed down de-
cision upholding the constitutionality
of the act entitled An Act Relating
to the Employment of Labor, which
is Chapter 25S of the Public Laws of
1909. In this action the motion Of
the defendant corporation to set aside
the verdict of $4,000 and exceptions
to the ruling of the presiding justice
involving, among other things, the
constitutionality of the act in rela.
ton to the employment of labor were
both overruled by the law court.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1913-04-18
PLANT FOREST AREAS
VERMONT STATE NURSERY RE-
cElVEs ORDERS FOR TREES, !
New Law Great Factor In Reforesta.
ton.

Montpelier Vt-The indications for
AN early spring are already stimulat-
ing an interest in forest planting and
nearly 100 orders have been received
by the state nursery for trees. The
new law, which provides fairer way
of taxing young growing forests, VIII
undoubtedly be a great factor in re-
foresting the waste lands of the state.
Vermont is the third state to pass
such legislation, by means of which
the growing timber is not taxed until
it is cut. The annual tax is levied on
the land alone to be assessed at not
over SO an acre, and there is a ten
per cent tax upon the gross stumpage
value of the lumber when cut.
The most encouraging feature about
the reforestation movement in Yer
mont is the fact that so many people
who have planted in previous years
are continuing to do so.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1913-04-18
MEMBERSHIP GROWING
Congregational Churches in Vermont
Show Increase.

st. Johnsbury, Vt.-The figures OF
the annual report of the Congrega
tional churches of Vermont show an
increase of 81 in membership, the
number of church members being 90,
527.
Sunday school membership, 1914
is 4S4 less than last year; 125 church
es report young peoples societies
with membership of 1855, loss OF
$50; II churches have organizations
of men with 1925 members, 141 fewer
than last year, and "a have boys
clubs, with S35 members. In the lat
ter there is a gain of ia members.
Benevolent gifts which can be
counted on the apportionment add tC
$31,644, $1,751 less than last year.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1913-04-18
Funeral of Charles n. Roberts.

Concord-The body of Col. Charles
H. Roberts, who died in Boston Tues
day of last week, was received in
Concord Thursday and the funeral
was held at the residence of Mrs.
Charles H. Day. Interment was al
Bristol. Col. Roberts has been in
public life for many years, and was
for a long time engaged in adjusting
claims Of the state of New Hampshire
against the government on account OF
expenses incurred in sending troops
to the field during the Civil War He
was able to turn over hundreds of
thousands of dollars to the estate. He
was a well known figure both in Con
cord and Washington.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1913-04-18
SOME UNPLEASANT THINGS IN
LIFE.

James M. P. Bachelor, an aged
manchester man, fell the entire
length of a flight of stairs and re-
ceived bad scalp wound
Mrs. Mary L. Cairns, mother of
Rev, j. l.. Cairns of Littleton. fell
while at work in her kitchen and sus-
tanned a fracture of the right arm.
Joseph Clemis of Nashua was hit
on the head with stick of cord-wood
and was very badly hurt and Alec
and Michael Zodalis We're arrested.
Alexander Perkins, 10, of Manches-
ter, fell from the roof of four story
building to the ground and sustained
no worse injury than a scalp wound.
Harlan P. Flanders of Manchester
faced a charge of drunkenness and
was also accused of several times
Shaping the face of his wife. who
was ill in bed with pneumonia.
Herbert Holbrook, 10, of Nashua,
was run down by an automobile driv-
en- by Police Judge Walter E. Kit
tredge of Merrimack and died of his
injuries soon after. The lad stepped
in front of the motor car.
Joseph c. Stebbins escaped from
the Cheshire county farm at West
moreland but was recaptured and
committed to Jail for another offen.e
than the one for which he was serv-
ing time at Westmoreland.
John Doukous of Lewiston, Me-,
told Is year old Mary Bagantakos of
the same city that he would find a
husband for her and the girl went
away with him. The two were ap-
pretended in Somersworth and the
man was arrested on the charge of
stealing $3.50 from the girls father.
Mrs. Lizzie Charli Dabaul, a Syrian,
said to have left her young child to
die In the woods of Swanzey and
committed to the state hospital for
observation, was recently taken to
Keene and discharged in the custody
of her cousin, Annie Simon of Oak
Bluff, Mass. The woman is believed
to have been insane at the time o.
the desertion of the infant.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1913-04-18
For U. S. Circuit Court.

Manchester-The Democrats of this
state are making strong effort to
secure the appointment of Judge
H. Bingham of Manchester to the va
cancy in the United States Circuit
Court bench. The other candidate is
Judge Arthur Brown of Rhode Island.
The delegation from this state make
the claim that New Hampshire has
never had a circuit judge while the
other states in the circuit have.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1913-04-18
Tech to Get $75o,ooo.

Boston.-The will of the late
Charles II. Pratt has been declared
properly and legally executed by Q
supreme court jury so the Massachu
setts Institute of Technology will gel
the S75000O left it for the founding
of the Pratt School of Naval Archi
lecture and Marine Engineering"
The will was contested by 10 first
cousins of the testator, who was 6
prominent Boston lawyer, living ii
the Back Bay and unmarried.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1913-04-18
CLAIMS DISCOVERY OF
cure FOR CANCER
DR.. HOWARD II. NOVEL; OF Ros.
TON.
Extracts Poison from Human MaIia.
nant Tumor.

Boston.-A discovery that is ex-
pected to lead to an effective cure
for cancer eventually was announced
by DR.. Howard Fl. Novel; at the an
nual meeting of the Massachusetts
Homeopathic Society.
DR.. NOVEL; says he is on the track
Of a serum which may be as valuable
IN the cure of cancer as anti-toxin is
in curing diphtheria.
DR.. NOVEL; found a chemical process
for extracting the poison from a hu.
man malignant tumor, and with this
poison obtaining from rabbits a serum
which when mixed with the original
poisonous substance in proper proper
tions, wholly utilities the poisonous
properties of the tumor extract.
So far as DR.. Novel; knows, he has
followed original research methods
and is the first scientist to grow hui
man cancer with involvement of the
neighboring glands in healthy rab-
bits and guinea pigs.
He will, however, say nothing about
this discovery in its relation to pro-
tecting humanity from one of it's
greatest scourges than that he feels
the facts are of sufficient significance
to render advisable their presentation
to my many fellow workers in this
important field"
1t is expected that much skepticism
will be aroused on both sides of the
Atlantic, because this Boston investi-
gator has succeeded in doing what
some of the greatest pathologists of
the world have been attempting for
many years.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1913-04-18
SUGGESTS CITIES
HANDLE MILK
FoSS Calls Legislatures Atten.
ton to New York Distribution.
POINTS PRESENT DANGERS
In Message Encourages Massachu-
sets Farmers-says Appropriation
Should Be Made to Help
Dairymen.

Boston.-Gov. Foss has dipped into
the milk situation by sending to the
Legislature a message calling atten-
ton to the New York plan" of NUM-
cipal milk distribution depots. He
expresses limited approval of propos-
ais for municipal distribution of ar
ticles of necessity, but says, in re-
gard to the milk distribution, that
he believes the state may safely pro-
coed along the lines adopted in New
York.
In his message he points out the
need of encouraging the Massachu-
sets farmer, as well as to provide
pure milk for the consumer in the
poorer districts. AS a means of en-
couraging Massachusetts dairymen.
he recommends that liberal appro-
priation be made to the state board
of agriculture for distribution among
practical dairy farmers as prizes for
superior product, and the spreading
of information leading to more econ
omical production and handling OF
milk and milk products.
Speaking of the need of encourage
ment of dairying, he says:
Here is obviously condition
which calls for immediate legislative
attention, because the abandonment
of dairy operations in this common
wealth renders the public dependent
upon milk imported into the state
from a considerable distance and
from sources of supply which are
| beyond any effective and continued
control by Massachusetts authorities.
can adequate supply of pure, fresh
milk is one of the prime requisites
of community, and any policy under
which this supply must be taken
| from other states and from Canada,
as at present, reveals menace to
the public health.
"a further handicap under which
the dairy business is now conducted
| in Massachusetts is the policy OF
the contractor, who mixes the milk
from Massachusetts diaries with milk
received from outside the state. The
contractor is therefore in position
to demand from the Massachusetts,
farmer a supply of the highest grade,
but the public does not benefit by
this, for the reason that the contrac-
tor mixes this milk with inferior sup
plies which he imports from New
York, Canada and other shipping
points. At the same time the Mas
sachusetts farmer is compelled to &C
cept low price for his milk under
the continued apprehension that IL
he does not accept these prices he
will lose his trade altogether, mas
much as the contractor is now free
to seek his supply wherever he
pleases, provided he maintains an
average quality which will suit the
legal requirements of the common
wealth.
Until these conditions are changed
little can be expected in the way or
health by increasing the severity OF
the regulations under which the Mas
sachusetts farmer now operates, as
the tendency of these added restric-
tions will be to still further diminish
the supply of Massachusetts milk and
increase the proportion of our total
supply which is now drawn from
distant points-the latter milk reach
ing the consumer after from AZ to 10
hours delay"
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1913-04-18
INCREASE MASS. STATE DEBT.
Since December, 1912, 1t Has Grown
Nearly s5,ooo,ooo.

Boston.-State Auditor John E.
White, in his March statement shows
that the State debt at the end of the
fiscal year, Dec. l, 1912, was &c.,
230,25197, against a debt of $685.
O37.29 on March 1, 1913. Three mil
lion dollars of the increase comes in
the issue of serial bonds for the de-
velopment of the port of Boston, and
$1,110,O00 increase is accounted for
by the issue of serial bonds for State
highways.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1913-04-18
One Factory Already Running.

Bangor, Me.-The starch factories of
Aroostook county may be obliged to
open for a time to take care of the
large amount of potatoes unshipped
at present. Proprietors of starch
factories are understood to be fitting
up their equipment for a spring run,
and factory in Limestone is running
and doing fair business.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1913-04-18
HOSPITAL for Poor People.

Burlington, VIA dispensary for
the free treatment Of poor people is
being established at the Mary Fetch
err hospital, Burlington, and will be
equipped and ready to care for pat
tents in a short time. The appro-
priation made by the recent state
legislature to the University of Yer
mont college of medicine for the pur'
pose of establishing free dispen'
sary and increasing the facilities for
clinical teaching in other ways, has
made it possible to equip the dispen'
sary and meet the incidental ex,
penses of maintaining it.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1913-04-18
CHARGES BABIES SOLD
FROM 81 TO $40.

Boston-An active traffic in
babies is carried on in Boston,
according to Mrs. Charlotte
Smith, a prominent social work
er who appeared before a leg
islative committee in support OF
a bill requiring the registration
Of midwives. The idol or the
home in the Back Bay, she said,
is the poodle dog. They run
from 500 to $1,000. Babies are
being sold at from 81 to $40 de-
pending on whether they are
blondes or brunettes.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1913-04-18
Aged Water Commissioner.

Spencer Mass.-Spencer has a 81
year-old resident as water commits
sioner for three-year term. Dexter
Billiard who has had the Office since
it was established in 1884, was recent
ly reelected.
This was the nth year Billiard has
voted in town meeting. He walked
to and from the polls.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1913-04-18
BANGOR WILL BENEFIT.
rs Years Renewal of Trackage Rights
Secured by Bangor Railway G.
Electric Co.

Bangor.-After years of controver-
sy, political and personal, voiced in
the City Council, the newspapers and
many public meetings, the city OF
Bangor has finally granted to the
Bangor Railway & Electric Company
a twenty-five years renewal of its
trackage rights in the streets, and al
so permission to carry its lines across
the new Bangor and Brewer bridge
the new Council having passed by de-
cisive majorities orders to that eff
feet.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1913-04-18
Muskrat Market on the Decline.

Portland, Me.-By the way, Maine
muskrat hunters will be interested
to learn that there is a market for
the animal after the pelt has been
removed, according to the Maine
Woods. Heretofore the bodies have
been thrown away as useless but now
the humble muskrat, served with
sweet potatoes and garnished with
candied sweet flags is the latest deli
cacy served to New York epicures.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1913-04-18
Form Farm Bureau.

Rutland, Vt.-The Rutland County
Farm bureau was formed at Rutland,
April 1. The county meeting of farm
ers and business men called by the
Newport Board of Trade will be held
Tuesday, April %. The meeting will
be addressed by l.. G. Dodge, who is
in charge of the agricultural advisers
in New England. @
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1913-04-18
LARGE PLANT FOR WORCESTER.
Economic Machinery Co. Buys Lom-
bard Property, and Will Expand.

Worcestershire Economic Machin-
cry Company, which manufactures Ia,
belling and other special machinery,
has bought all of the property owned
by Edward K. Lombard, and will use
some of the buildings for an expan-
sion of its business, with prospects of
eventually erecting large plant on
the land. The property has been used
sixty-two years by the Lombard fans,
lily for manufacturing purposes,