Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1917-11-27
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Tifty-two Of approximately 100 req
ink numbers assigned to draft selec.
ton registrants, at 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. Concannon, "a, Of Chel-
sea, Mass, was accidentally asphyxi-
ated while taking 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, 8. G., to handle the big
volume Of soldiers mail at Camp
Wadsworth, near Spartansburg.
The Women'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 q vacation" de-
clared Bishop Mitchell, LII. D.. before
the Boston Methodist Social Union.
Housewives who provide the regu-
lation Thanksgiving Day dinner will
not violate the letter or spirit Of the
federal food administration rules, DIR.
Merrill, federal food administrator for
Maine. said.
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 8 cents a pound.
Two pounds Of sugar were auctioned
off at the Lawrence, Mass, Y. M. @.
A. One pound brought $3.50 and the
other brought STATS. The money will
be devoted to the Red Cross camp
fund.
The First Congregational church,
one Of the oldest edif1ces 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, 35, died at MARI
boro, Mass, from injuries received
when his clothing caught in a larg'
pulley wheel and he was carriet
around 1t many times.
Pasquale Transaglta, IA, Of Win
chester, Mass, was instantly killer
when he was run over by q motto
truck.
The question Of the city Of Boston,
right to pass an ordinance making l
illegal for women under the age o
q to engage In the business Of boot
black or for others to employ then
in that business has been referred b,
the city council to the city law de
partment.
Fifteen blooded COWS, three .horses
some pigs, mule and 200 tons o
hay were burned when the stable be
longing to John M. Deering Of Saco
Me-, was destroyed by fire.
Hunlet N. Spaulding, federal foo
administrator for New Hampshire, an
nounced that the retail price Of suga
should not be more than 10 cents
pound.
The death Of Private Stanley Jano
wicz, the first Boston boy to be killet
In action on the United States from
In France, has been reported.
A tank steamship landed 1,500,OO
gallons Of Porto Rican molasses a
Boston. It will be distilled into alec
hol for manufacture OF smokeless pow
der.
Registration Of women for indus
trial service during the war, both vol
untary and paid, is in progress a
New Haven.
Two-year-old Marie Verrecha O
Providence was shot and killed by he
e-year-old brother, Amanda. The,
were playing In a bedroom when the,
came across a shotgun and the DO!
pulled the trigger.
Fire destroyed the single story bus
mess block owned by Ralph Whiting
at West Hanover, Mass. A store, bar
Der shop and poolroom were wiped out
Herbert L. Smith, 81, Waltham
Mass, fireman, who was injured whel
he fell through the pole-hole Of tn
station to the ground floor, died Of hi
injuries.
Eight nurses OF BERKSHIRE county
Mass. have gone to southern CAM
to join an emergency detachment o
the Red Gross. They are the FRS
nurses to be called into active Ser
vice from the Berkshire section.
Fred Ordung. IT. and Everett Burg
Wrinkle, II, Of Clinton, Mass, wer'
drowned when their canoe overturned
Frances Daniels, g. was drowned a
Cornish, N. a.. when the AUTOMOBILE
In which she was riding, dropped int
q pond from the edge Of road.
Mrs. Elizabeth Lister, SO, widow o
the late Gen. Lister Of Civil war ant
English army fame, died at her hom'
at Cambridge, Mass.
John Nelson, 4b, was Instant,
killed at Quincy, Mass, when he fel
40 feet to the bottom Of quarry.
Boston Is still setting the pace II
the eastern division In the number o
recruits enlisted for the navy.