News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1916-02-09
NEWS CONDENSED
FOR BUSY READERS
Happenings In Various Parts Of
New England States

In .3oston, some OF which employ as
many as 900 employees, has takeI
proper precautions in the event o
fire, was declared by fire prevention
commissioner.
John H. Gerrish. 81, president o.
the Gerrish Dredging company, dice
at Melrose, Mass, as the result Of
a fall.
Thieves broke into the Brightwood
| Mass. station of the Boston ano
Maine railroad and ransacked the
place, but got only IL cents and q
key.
Harvard university law school stu
dents are to compete for a 500 prize
essays on some subject of maritime
or international law being offered for
! the prize.
Cornelius A. Reardon, private sec
! rotary to Mayor Curley of Boston, will
leave city hall to accept more lucra-
| tive position as deputy sheriff on the
staff of Sheriff Quinn.
Trichinosis, it is believed, caused
by eating bad pork in sausages, is
responsible for the death at Worces-
ter, Mass, of Noah Fortier.
Four wooden buildings in the busi-
ness section of North Adams, Mass. :,
occupied as stores and offices, with
lodging rooms on the upper floors,
were destroyed By fire, causing a loss
OF SIS 900.
Goddard seminary, Barre, VT. 4,
closed because of outbreak OF scarlet
fever, will be reopened this week.
Eighty-tive criminal cases, an al
most unprecedented number for a
winter quarterly period, were entered
in Barre, Vt, city court in the three
months ending Jan. 81.
The Dummerston, VT, grange cele-
brated the clearing of the grange
building from debt by burning the
mortgage of $500 which was placed
on the $4,000 building when it was
built in 1909.
Peter Blair of Vergennes, VT, who
is nearly 100 years old, while suf
fering from an attack of acute de-
mentia attempted suicide by cutting
his throat. He is expected to re-
cover.
DR.. Quigley, medical inspector OF
Rutland, VT, schools, stated that
about 200 youngsters are laid up with
grip and colds.
Dartmouth men of Vermont are to
have their annual banquet in Barre
March 3.
Montpelier, VT, owners of camps
on Groton pond are interested in the
project of power companies to raise
the pond ten feet for storage pur-
poses. Upwards of fifty cottages
would have to be moved back to a
side hill, it is claimed.
Two hundred and fifty teachers at
tended convention at st. Johnsbury,
VT, Caledonia county's first an
nual. A county teachers organiza-
ton was perfected.
William l.. Griffin, %, was instant
ly killed at Weymouth, Mass, while
skating backward. He fell so heavily
that his neck was broken. Just
few minutes before the fatality he
laughingly had predicted his death by
such an accident.
Bishop Lawrence launched at Bos-
ton his pension plan for Episcopal
clergymen when he made his first
public plea for the SIS, 900, 200 fund
which is to be the object of a great
1916 campaign throughout the do
ceses of the American churches.
Thieves bored a big hole through a
wall in the store of the Boston Lace
Store company at Boston and secured
goods valued at $4,000.
While on his way to church Thomas
j. Collins, So, of Winchester, Mass.
was struck by train and killed.
Joseph Hennessy, city solicitor for
the city of Lowell, Mass. for the last
four years, was removed by the city
council for the good of the service"
Marion Sullivan, IS, of North An
dover, Mass. died as the result OF |
injuries received three months ago by !
being struck by an automobile.
Additional subscriptions amounting !
to S739. Is have brought the total OF |
the New England Belgian relief fund |
up to s94 ,049.11.
Bigger, Better Boston Babies
has been adopted as the slogan of the
Boston baby week campaign commit
tee.
Governor Mccall OF Massachusetts
attached his signature to appropria- |
ion bills aagrerating $3.50, S54 "a.
He has signed fifty-one acts and re-
solves.
Arrangements for a strike of 1000
workers in the dressmaking and shirt
waist industry we're made at Boston.
Miss Mary L.. Macomber, so, one
If the best known of Boston's woman
painters, died of grip and pneumonia.
William P. Thompson, ", reporter |
" decisions for the Maine supreme
court. once mayor of Belfast and ono
Democratic candidate for governor Cl
daine, died at Bangor.
otto H. Kahn, banker of New York
- oDdop has purchased abOut |