Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1917-10-26
NEWS CONDENSED
FOR BUSY READERS
Brief Items From Various Sec.
lions of New England

gill ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -llONoB WhCh al
lowance is made for weather condi-
tions, that crops are generally good I,
but not up to spring expectations.
Montpelier, VT, police arrested
four youths from Salem and Law
renee, Mass. who we're armed with
four revolvers, several boxes Of car
tridges and searchlights.
Edward Marshall, prominent
member of the West End House
Boston, died of injuries suffered when
an automobile in which he was rid :
ing overturned.
Boston will in all probability be
chosen by the war department as
one of the ports at which supplies
for the American army in France will
be shipped in large quantities across
the sea.
Chaplain Stone of the Boston navy
yard made an appeal to the Congre-
gational ministers of Greater Boston
to influence young men who are pre-
pairing for the ministry, or young
clergymen, to enlist in the service
The National India Rubber com
pany, Bristol, r. L., employing 340C
operatives, announced that the. IL
percent bonus granted a year age
would be made permanent.
Milk sold at retail in Boston was
increased in price from 10 to IA cents
a quart as the result of a decision
reached by Food Administrator Enid
colt.
Carl B. Torch, G6, of Cornwall
Bridge, Conn, died at Worcester
Mass, of injuries received in an au-
tomobile accident.
1t is feared the steamship Maple
more, which left Folly, Eng, fol
Boston, with cargo of china clay
Sept. H. has been lost.
The United States government took
over the following Boston steamers
The Hampden, Lewis, Thurlow, Dor.
othy, MatOa, Massachusetts, City Of
Bangor, Old Colony, Grecian, Ker-
shaw, North Land and Governor
Cobb.
Edward Aaron, %, driver for q
milk route, died at Melrose, Mass.
Of infantile paralysis.
Four transatlantic liners are tied
up at Boston by freight handlers
strike.
Frank ]. Lalor, Melville, Mass.
grocer and undertaken was accident
ally shot and instantly killed while
hunting raccoons in that town.
Miss Catharine Lovett, IT, o.
Brunswick, Me-. was killed when 6
side car of a motorcycle in which she
was riding smashed into a rail fence
Earl S. Mills, IS, of Nashua, N.
H., a freight conductor, was founC
dead on top of a freight car. He
apparently had been killed while his
train was passing under bridge.
| Dependents of drafted men In Mas
sachusetts are entitled to state aid
up to $40 a month, according to q
notice issued by Adjt. Gen. Stevens
While nearly every city and towr
In Massachusetts has striven to have
successful public market to help tc
reduce the prices of foodstuffs, Salem
has had one for ninety nine years
and it has been actively used to the
profit of the public during all thai
time.
Rollins Robinson, 20, was killed
at Worcester, Mass, by chlorine gas
while repairing batteries.
The Boston campaign committee a
the war camp community fund will
start a campaign Nov. 5 to raise
$2e0 900 with which to build ant
maintain two club houses for the sol.
diers at Camp Devens.
George A. James, a retired lawyer
died at the age of 70. at Boston. His
wife, who died in 1908, was a sister
of Senator Lodge.
The Brockton, Mass. No License
league offers reward of SIS to any
person not connected with the police
force of the city who furnishes evi.
dence leading to conviction Of any
violators of the liquor laws.
Thomas j. Boynton of Everett
formerly attorney general of Massa
chusetts, assumed his duties a.
United States district attorney for the
district of Massachusetts, the ap
pointment to which office he received
from President Wilson.
A SO, 900 dairy herd belonging t
the city of Bangor, Me-, was wiped
out in a fire which partially burned
the barn at the city farm, together
with 100 tons Of hay, farming tools
and a number of hogs.
Mrs. Margaret Gillespie, 81, dice
at Saco, Me-. from burns received
when her clothing caught fire from
her kitchen stove.
Capt. Bernard J. Dunn Of thu
Lowell, Mass, fire department dieC
Of injuries sustained at a fire sew
eral weeks ago.
Roderick d. Mcleod, SO, a rail
road yard conductor at Readville
Mass, was killed when he fell be
tween two freight cars.
Massachusetts concerns have beer
awarded the contracts for about one
half OF the order for 1 40, 900 pair
Of United States army shoes, which
are to be made up at once.
The Saco-Lowell shops, Biddeford
Me-, announce an advance in wages
affecting 1900 men.
Five women trained in horA eco
nomics have begun work in Maine al
emergency food agents for the dura
ton of the war. They are employed
by the federal government.
Phillip Harrari, So, of Waltham
Mass. was killed when an automo
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