Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1917-11-02
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Brief Items From Various Sec.
tons of New England

Inc new maven TOau, at Lne annual
meeting, reelected the old board of
directors.
Mrs. James H. Coon, wife of
former Harvard varsity baseball play
er, died at Waterfowl, Mass, as a
result of gas poisoning.
Fish will soon be shipped in troll
ley cars from the states big fish pier
in South Boston to the various cities
and towns.
Alfred l.. Ripley assumed the pres
idency of the Merchantc National
bank of Boston.
The Portland, Me-, Equal Fran
chise league voted to exclude from
membership all women connected
with the National Womans Party or
Congressional Union.
Miss Helen Mcdonald, %, lunch
room cashier, filed a $50, 900 breach
of promise suit against James l..
Foster, son of a Providence million
aire, on the eve of the young mans
marriage to Miss Grace Stone.
The w. & A. Bacon company de-
posted $215 200 in Boston bank to
meet the terms of it's offer to pay
33 1-3 percent to its unsecured cred
itors.
There are exactly $50 candidates
for 315 Offices to be filled at the Mas
sachusetts state election Nov. 6.
Arthur Pratt, United States navy
man, who was home at Pennington,
Me. on furlough, accidentally shot
and killed himself.
A. P. Fitch, head of a Concord,
N. H., Wholesale and retail drug
firm, and prominent in financial and
business circles, died at the age of
rs.
Stations for the distribution of milk
at IL cents a quart or ten quarts for
dollar opened at Boston, and the
volume of business proved how eager
the public is to take advantage of
such an opportunity.
Levi j. Richardson, who, as a
member II the secret service at the
time of President Lincoln's assassina-
ton, took leading part in the search
for the assassin, died at Waterbury,
Conn.
Philip l.. Spalding, president of the
New England Telephone and Tele-
graph company, received a commits
sion as lieutenant colonel and assumed
his new duties in the signal corps.
Musicians, cooks and engineers are
much needed in Uncle Sans service.
Commander Mitchell of the first ma
val district issued call at Boston for
1000.
All the combined forces Of right
eousness and morality will be required
to combat the menace Of the social
evil in the present war, in the opin-
ion Of speakers at the annual con-
ference of the Maine Association OF
Charities and Corrections.
Samuel Goldberg, Isaac Ankelese
and Louis Ankelese were each SEN
fenced at Salem, Mass. to two years
in prison on charges of conspiracy
and being accessories to burn build
ing to defraud an insurance COM
pany.
One hundred carpenters were sent
to Noank, Conn. by the United
States free employment bureau at
Boston in response to a call from a
yard building wooden ships.
To cooperate in the conservation
of coal, the Boston Automobile Deal
ers' association will eliminate in
every possible way all electric lights.
Winter and spring sports at Har
ward university will be conducted in
much the same manner as football is
now being played, unless there is a
change in the war situation.
Julian P. Nutter, %, committed
suicide at Scarboro, Me-, by shoot
ing.
Five hundred canoes stored in two
icehouses at Watervllle, Me-, were
destroyed by fire at loss estimated
at SIS, 900.
The trustees of the late George l..
Thorndike, by decree of the Massa
chusetts supreme court, turned over
t. the Boston city treasurer fund
Of 1920, 900 for the construction Of
hospital building as memorial tC
DR.. William H. Thorndike, brother
of the testator.
Mrs. F. S. Coolidge of Pittsfeld
Mass, presented two ambulances tc
the Berkshire county Red Cross am
bulance corps now at Camp Devens.
The Massachusetts constitutions,
convention voted to adjourn on Nov
%, if the final vote on the initiative
and referendum has been taken al
that time.
Boston Elevated railway broke t
40, tn lowest price at which Il
has ever sold, in the Boston stocl
market.
About 300 employees of the Ply
mouth mills at Lawrence, Mass.
struck for 10 percent increase II
wages.
Representatives of the federal gov
eminent inspected various city insti
tutions in Boston harbor with view
Of selecting desirable sites for wal
hospitals.
William 8. Cockroft was killed a
Taunton, Mass. when his motorcy