Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1917-11-30
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Recent Happenings of Interest
to New Englanders

makes ~bequestss a%ggregating about
$4,000 to various Masonic bodies of
Massachusetts. The M~sonic Home
Of Massachusetts is made his residu-
airy legatee.
Two painters, Frank Dumas and
Knat Schutzenberger, were killed In a
fall from a Manchester, N. H., power
house.
Joseph Holden, who is called by
secret service agents a couterfeiter
"of the old school," pleaded guilty at
Boston to having in his possession
and passing 'phony" half dollars and
was sentenc ! to ten years at the
Atlanta ~penitentiary.
Rev. Frederick D. Buckley, rector
Of Trinity Episcopal church, Water
bury, Cor l., for the past twenty-five
years, died In that city. In church cir
cles and the Masonic fraternity Buck
I've had wide acquaintance.
Robert Luce of Waltham was NOM
mated by the nominating committee of
the Republican Club Of Massachusetts
for president of the club for 1918.
Many New England physicians and
dentists accepted appointments carry
ing commissions in the officers re-
serve corps of the eastern department.
Men prominent in the professions are
included in the list of acceptances.
Judge Grant, in the probate court
at Boston, allowed the will of Mrs.
Augusta f. Corbin, which left the res
idue of the estate to Boston univer-
sity and outright public gifts totaling
$1,375,000. Three first cousins at
tempted a contest of the will.
A freight train of ten cars piled up
at South Lincoln, Mass, temporarily
blocking the main line of the Fitch
burg division.
Fifty-two of approximately 100 red
Ink numbers assigned to draft selec-
ton r~egistrants, at a supplementary
drawing held at the state house, BOs-
ton, were for men released from state
prison since registration.
Acting on reports that all the dyna-
mite stored at the Lime Rock quarry
between. Camden and Rockport, Me,
had been stolen, guards were sta
toned at all the dams on the Megun-
ticOok stream to prevent any attempts
to blow them up.
Thomas j.. C%OncannOn, 81, Of Chel-
sea, Mass, was accidentally asphyxi-
ated while taking a bath at his home.
Louisa Frank, 3, was struck at Cam
bridge, Mass, by an automobile and
killed.
Ten Boston postal clerks left. for
Spartansburg, s. c., to handle the big
volume of soldiers mail at Camp
Wadsworth, near Spartansburg.
The WQmen's Educational and In
dustrial union of Boston is going to
sell dried bread crumbs, neatly put up
and reasonably priced, as part Of its
food conservation program.
$50 long as the kaiser is loose and
his imps are allowed to speak in the
United States senate all other devils
may as well take a vacation" de-
clared Bishop Mitchell, IL. D., before
the Boston Methodist Social Union.
Mayor lockwood of Cambridge,
Mass, obtained 1000 pound Of sugar
and at each police station the police
sold two pounds of sugar to each per-
son at 9 cents a pound.
Two pounds of sugar were auctioned
off at the Lawrence, Mass, Y. NJ. G.
A. One pound brought $3.50 and the
other brought $14.75. The money will
be devoted to the Red Cross camp
fund.
The First Congregational church,
one Of the Oldest ediices in Norwalk,
Conn. was destroyed by fire.
An appeal to the women of Boston
to register and vote for the school
committee was issued by the Boston
Equal Suffrage Association for Good
Government.
John Landreas, 80, died at Marl-
boro, Mass, from injuries received
When MS clothing caught IN a large
pulley wheel and he was carried
around it many times.
Pasquale Transaglia, IA, Of Win
chester, Mass, was instantly killed
when he was run over by a motor
truck.
The question of the city of Boston's
right to pass an ordinance making 1t
illegal for women under the age of
81 to engage in the business of boot
black or for others to employ them
in that business has been referred by
the city council to the city law de-
partment.
Fifteen blooded cows, three horses,
some pigs, a mule and 200 tons of
hay were burned when the stable be-
longing to John NJ. Deering Of Saco,
Me-, was destroyed by fire.
Hunlet N. Spaulding, federal food
administrator for New Hampshire, an
nounced that the retail price of sugar
should not be more than 10 cents n
pound.
The death of Private Stanley Jano-