Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1916-06-13

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During the month of May IA YES.
sells from foreign ports entered the
port Of Boston. They brought to.
tai Of 2O63 passengers.
Harry Metchalf OF Westminster
vt. found on opening q bale Of hay,
two blacksnakes, one over four feet
the-ofher three feet In length.
Charged with numbering 1S-year.
old Beatrice Walters, James O'Brien
81, was held without bail at ProN.
dence until June Is for q hearing.
Charles w. Sewall, So, promi.
nent insurance man, committed SUI
eide at Waltham, Mass. by shoot
ing. He had been in poor health.
A new record for the number d
marriage intentions fled In single
day was established at Boston when q
total of ninety -eight were registered.
Sale of the feet Of beam trawlers
OF the Bay State Fishing company was
consummated at Boston. II is under
stood that the feet sold for 81 500, :
900.
Ordinary laborers along the Massa-
chusetts north shore are now getting
81. so and $2.75 a day and there Is q
scarcity Of men even at these tig-
ures.
Edward G. Flint, arrested at Bur
hngton, VT, for obtaining opium
through forged prescriptions, was
sentenced to two years at the Atlanta
prison.
Robert Palmer & Sons Shipbuilding
company, Noank, Conn. one Of the
largest concerns of its kind in tho
country, was purchased by Charles
w. Morse and associates.
James Mcbride, 65, a landscape
gardener who lived as recluse, was
found dead in his tenement at Haver-
hill, Mass. His effects indicate that
he was worth about $50, 900.
One hundred employees Of the Madi-
son (Me.) woolen mill struck as q
result, according to their statement,
OF efforts of the management to pre-
vent them from forming union.
Leaking as result Of grounding on
a submerged breakwater while enter
ing Rockport harbor the new torpedo
boat destroyer Warrington arrived at
the Boston navy yard for repairs.
Miss Phyllis Sears Of Beverly,
Mass. 21, one of the wealthiest
women in New England, was present.
ed by her father with four STORY
building at 359 Bowery, New York.
Work has begun on fine new high
way from Concord, N. H., to Boston
by way of Manchester. The state will
pay half and the several cities and
towns half of the cost of construc-
tion.
Carlos D. Baron, 16. son Of a
Buenos Ayres millionaire, was de-
ported from Boston aS an undesirable
alien. He has had spendthrift ca
reer since he was sent to Boston to be
educated.
Henry Silverman and Grace Shea,
Is, were killed and Daniel Leavin
probably fatally hurt as a result Of a
head-on collision between q trolley
car and their automobile at New Lon
don, Conn.
Harvard university is to have an
aviation training school provided
twenty men sign up for two months
work and study during the summer
and agree to deposit $50 as q guar
antee Of good faith.
A tablet to the memory OF the SOL
'diers Of the Revolution was dedicated
at Wheelock, VT. It is the gift OF
Fred w. Chase, who last year gave
the village a monument to the SOL
diers OF the Civil war.
Mrs. Mary M. Gillanti, II, Henri
eta Fuller, 16, and Nathan Herman
were killed when an automobile
crashed through a small bridge over
the Nonesuch river, on the state
highway to Saco, Me.
George LaBlanche, once champion
middle-weight prizefighter, was SEN
fenced at Boston to the state farm
for an indefinite term. He told the
fudge It was impossible for him to
keep away from liquor.
In line with It's movement for the
development of Maine, the Portland
Chamber of Commerce took another
important step when 1t opened its
second annual exposition for the dis
play of Maine e-made products.
Roland Libby. charged with man
slaughter in wrenching gas meter
from its connection In Q Boston house
and thus causing the death Of Harry
e. Day by escaping gas, was commit
ted to school for feeble minded.
Il Miss Mary e. Dooley. "a, was In
stantly killed and two other aged
women, one of whom sustained Q
fractured leg, narrowly escaped the
same fate, when the dude" train
bore down upon them as they were