Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1917-12-28

ed several medals for life saving
The Penobscot river is frozen firm.
ly for q distance of several miles he
low Bangor, Me-, and navigation to
that port is ended for the season.
John H. Newell, Beverly dry goods
merchant, has been appointed state
merchant representative for Massa-
chusetts for the United States hoard
of food administration.
Mrs. Margaret Ryan, So, died at Bos-
ton from burns sustained while she
was starting a kitchen fire with kerO-
sene.
York county, Me. farmers are be-
coming interested in sheep raising and
next summer probably more of these
animals will be seen in that section
of Maine than before in half CEN
fury.
A presidential warrant ordered the
internment of Adolphe f. Henri, who
was taken into custody at Providence.
Owing to the scarcity of boy help,
Manager Durgin of Worcester,
Mass, telegraph Office has been
obliged to secure girls TO carry the
| telegraph messages.
The trial Of Mrs. Margaret Hewitt
| and Lincoln NJ. Grant, charge with
the murder of Miles Hewitt at Han
cock, Mass, will begin Jan. 2S.
Mrs. Mary b. Cutter, third wife of
Rev. DR.. George w. Cutter, aged rs,
pastor of the Church of the Unity,
Neponset, Mass, has filed suit for
divorce, charging cruel and abusive
! treatment.
His failure to pass physical ex-
! animation for entrance into the Ma
| tional Army is believed 10 have been
| the cause of the suicide Of Harold B.
! Shaw, who died at Boston from gas
poisoning.
There was parade Of 5000 Boy
Scouts at Boston in the interests Of
the Red Cross drive for 100000 new
members in New England.
Miss Isabel O. Janson. stenOgrapher
in the office of Il BiddcfO"d, Me. law
Yer. has been commissioned by Gov.
MiIliken to solemnize marriages,
Mr.. and Mrs. Joseph Menard, Jr.,
and Mr.. and Mrs. Oscar Menard Of
Spencer, Mass, are being congratulate
ed on the birth of babies the same
day. The fathers are brothers, and
the mothers are sisters
Mary Young Whiting, qae 1O1 years,
months and 81 days, died at Worces-
ter, Mass,
Edwin Clark, II, was instantly
killed at Auburn, Me- when he fell
from a pung directly in the path of
an electric car.
Solomon W. Lowe, rs, of Haver-
hill, Mass, placed shotgun to his
head and pulled the trigger The top
of his head was blown of
Ony 11.2 percent of Massachusetts
physicians have offered their services
to Uncle Sam in the present war, ac-
cording to Maj. Lund of Boston.
James o. Ellis, infant son of Mrs
Mabelle b. Ellis of West Newbury
Mass, was found dead in his crib
having been smothered by bedclothes
Ninety years old and still working
at his trade, that of a warp twiSter
is the extraordinary record of George
Ainsworth of Amesbury, Mass, who
has been textile worker for eighty
years.
The Methodist church at WinOOSki
Vt, which was one of the largest in
that section at the time of its erection
sixty years ago was totally destroyed
by fire, with loss of $4,000.
A wage increase of 81 a week fol-
the female employees of the paper bag
mill at Woodland, Me-, was announced
The increase brings the pay up to SIC
a week.
d. w. O'Brien of Wayland, Mass
has been appointed farm labor agent
by the United States department OF
agriculture and will have his head
quarters at the state board of agri
culture. Boston.
Hon was paid to the American
sailors who went down with the U. S
destroyer Jacob Jones, when a me
mortal service was held on Boston
Common, more than 1000 men anC
women taking a silent part.
The old two-mastcd schooner Omahs
was wrecked in Rockand, Me, har
Dor during a storm when her lines
parted and she drifted onto the rocks
The crew escaped.
Because she could not continue t.
live in the style to which she haI
been accustomed and because cirCum
stances were compelling her to carr
her own living. were reasons tna
caused Miss Nathalie King OF Allston
Mass, to take her own life en- The
eve Of her 2lst birthday, 1t Is be
lieved.
A section Of the new DorchesteI
tunnel and the tunnel station located
az Dorchester avenue and Broadway
South Boston, named the Broadway
station, is open to the public for th,