Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1916-02-01

The French army orphsns' fund has
reached the total Of SIC, 1897. 10, ac-
cording to statement by Treasurer
Forbes OF Boston.
President Pendleton Of Wellesley
college announced Q gift OF $l60, 000
from graduate toward the fund for
new administration building. The
name of the donor was kept secret.
Eight cottages and . four-story
frame building with eight apartments
were destroyed by fire at Winthrop,
Mass. The loss ID about $S6, 900.
Announcement OF q gift OF $780,
600 for a library for Amherst college
was made. The name OF the donor
was withheld.
The shipyard of Arthur Sewal Il
Co.. Bath Me-, which has been idle
tan wears, has been leased to the
Texas company for q term OF years.
Miss Mary j. Smith, one OF the
Cambridge, Mass, teachers dis
missed two weeks ago for 'pernicious
political activity during the last
school committee contest in that city,
was reinstAted by the school board.
A COW upset lamp in BENJAMIN
Pray's barn at Greenland. N. H.. re-
sulting in q fire which destroyed the
barn the COW, eighty hens, three
tons Of hay and . quantity OF farming
implements.
Mrs. Harriet A. Fowler, 81, q
great granddaughter Of one Of the
participants in the battle OF Con-
cord. died at Concord. Mass.
Joseph Leclerc. q, who sued for
damages for injuries he received, was
awarded a verdict OF SS125 against
Joseph Roy, Salem, Mass, con-
tractor, by . jury in the United States
district court.
Samuel l.. Jewell, former mayor OF
Haverhill, Mass. died at the age OF
Us. He was elected in 1895.
Oakley Baker, Z, OF Penacook, N.
H., lost his life by drowning while
crossing the Contoocook river on the
ice, which gave way beneath him.
Water tower No. 3, $500 piece
of Boston fire apparatus. skdded on
It's way to a $40 blaze, crashed into
the side OF a building and suffered
about $1,000 damage.
Allan Mcdonald, IL. OF Lttleton,
Mass. was accidentally killed by IL
Illuminating gas while visiting his son
1T Boston.
Six hundred artmouth college stu
dents formed an organization to take
I'D military drills and studies.
Joseph Smith Of Needham, Mass. I,
So, Civil war veteran, whose father
and grandfather, both Joseph Smiths,
also fought in the Civil war, died
from a fall down stairs.
Four German prisoners OF war VINO
escaped from the detention camp at
Amherst, N. s., and were detained
at Calais, Me. after crossing the in
ternational line. were released.
Unless organized labor comes to the
rescue, 40 Danbury, Conn. hatters.
who made a twelve years fight
against d. E. Loewe & Co.. will be
turned with their families into the
streets.
Because over sixty pupils In st.
Peters parochial school. Waltham.
Mass. are stricken with the grip,
two grades were closed.
Nearly 800 Wakefield. Mass. resi-
dents were dependent on candle light
for illumination, and others having
only gas stoves cooked their meals on
their furnace fires, as the result OF
frozen gas pipes.
e. C. Converse, multi millionaire,
is turning his 1900 acres at Green
wich. Conn, into a bird sanctuary
to aid the national movement for the
conservation OF bird life.
The Special Aid Society for Ameri-
can Preparedness, with prominent
Massachusetts, women as leaders. has
issued a call to patriotic women OF
the state to join in its campaign.
Town Clerk Ezekiel R. Studley OF
Rockland, Mass. "a, in point Of SER
vice one OF the oldest public officials
In the state, died after a long illness.
Wages Of the 1900 employees in the
American Thread company's five mills
at Holyoke, Mass. will be advanced
percent.
Frank Macy, IS, was drowned at
Leominster, Mass. just as he had
finished days work cutting ice. He
stepped into a space where Ice had
been cut out.
Mrs. Frances e. Peters, widow OF
Chief Justice Peters Of Maine. died
at Bangor.
Frank Mitchell, IS, was found
frozen. to death by the roadside at
Pittstifleld. N. H. He apparently had
lain down to sleep.
Vacations for 500 laborers In the
oOotou p0tAu6 DOL VlS0 o40 " oOoAA
this week. This is the first year In
the history of the city they have been
allowed any vacations at all, with
pay. The new privilege is in accord
ance with an act of last years legis-
lature.
William J. Bingham, captain Of the
Harvard university track team, spon-
sors plan for having student wait
ers in the Harvard dining halls.
Chairman McSweeney Of the Boston
port directors sent notices to all en-
ployes Of the board. warning them
against lobbying on legislative mat
tiers.
For the second time within week
the liquor store of Winer & Co., Bos-
ton, was burglarized.
Settlement out OF court has been
erected at Worcester, Mass, in. the
liver Johnson will contest by which
the "a, 900 200 estate of Mrs. Mary
Johnson, widow Of the wealthy sport
ing goods manufacturer, will no
longer be In litigation.
Burglars entered the home OF Chief
Of Police McAuliffe at Weston.