Oxford Democrat., 1917-04-24
News CONDENSED
FOR BUSY READERS
Happenings In Various Parts
Of New England

Archie D. Skllings, 81, . Jefier.
son, N. H., farmer, was kicked BY
a horse and instantly killed.
Patrick F. Jackson was fined $5t
in court at Springfield, Mass, FOL
giving liquor to q soldier on duty.
Edward G. Marden. 48, of Somer-
Vile, Mass, brakeman, was
caught between two cars while coup
ling train and killed.
Frank E. Donnell of Kittery was
elected grand chief templar Of the
grand lodge Of Maine, Internationa
Order of Good Templars.
Governor Milliken of Maine and
council authorized the issuance Of
| $500, 900 Of the 81 900, 900 war bond
issue voted by the legislature.
Rev. Charles R. JOY. pastor Of the
Unitarian church Of Portland, Me.
whose pacifist sermon caused him tc
be burned in effigy. has resigned.
Lorenzo s. Robinson, widely
known In fraternity circles in Maine
died at Rockland at the age Of IS.
He was a thirty second degree Ma
son.
Five hundred dollars in bills,
horse and two COWS we're consumed
when the home, barn and bakery Of
Benjamin F. French at Milton, N.
H., burned.
Charles s. Dana was elected speak.
er of the Vermont house of repre-.
sentatives to succeed Stanley G. Will
son, who was elected justice Of the
county court.
The tannery at Island Falls, Me.
of Frank w. Hunt & Co. of Boston
one of the largest sole leather plants
in New England, was damaged near
ly $1e0, 900 by fire.
Rev. ]. F. Babb, pastor Of the
Union Congregational church, Haver-
hill, Mass, has been appointed spe-
cial police officer by the city council
to do duty during the war.
So far as possible women will re-
place men as operators at shore
| wireless stations in the New England
naval district. Radio men are urgent
ly needed for the warships.
Katherine Cushing, 5, slipped past
the OBTAINING hand Of her 7-year- ole
sister at Medford, Mass, stepped
from the sidewalk into the path Of ar
automobile and was killed.
Mrs. Ethel D. Sayles, a Boston
singer, for some years an instructor
n Maine, was granted divorce
from James P. Sayles at Providence
upon the grounds of cruelty.
The New Hampshire assembly
passed the Lewis prohibition bill
which puts New Hampshire in the
column with the prohibition states
The new law goes into effect May l,
1918.
Persons attending either session ot
the Maiden, Mass, district court
will be compelled to salute both the
Stars and Stripes and the state tiae
until the end Of the war with Ger
many.
Joseph ]. Guilfoy and James F,
Sullivan, former stock brokers, in.
dicted for embezzlement of $110 ,00O,
were sentenced at Manchester, N.
H., to from two to four years each ir
state prison.
Governor Holcomb sent to the Con.
necticut house veto on the local op.
tion Sunday bill, which permitted
baseball, polo, boxing and Other
sports, besides theatricals, in certain
towns on Sundays.
Governor Beeckman, in a message
to the Rhode Island assembly
sought, as a war measure, to have
the sum of $50, 900 set aside for loans
to farmers to increase the agricul-
tural production of the state.
Business of all kinds was suspend.
ed at Oldtown, Me-, when nearly
1000 persons marched in a patriotic
parade. A novel feature was the Pc.
nobscot Indian band from the reser-
vation, in feathers and war paint.
Dismantling Of all private wireless
telegraph stations, with but twelve
exceptions, was begun in the Firs,
naval district, extending from East.
port, Me-, to Chatham, Cape Cod
on orders received from Washington.
Ernest Scribner, who disappeared
from his home at Houlton, Me.
Feb. 16, and for whom the police II
all parts of the state have beer
been searching, was located at Fort
Slocum, where he has enlisted in the
army
Rev. David H. Tdbou, q retireo
!Anior chaplain of the navy and fol
nine years secretary of the Eas,
Maine conference Of the Methods,
Episcopal church, was ordered by the
war department to report immediate
ly for duty.
A verdict Of $3.50 was awarded In
supreme court at Rockland, Me. tc
Mrs. A. F. Avery Of Waverly
Mass, who was in an automobile
owned and driven by N. w. Thomp-
son of Friendship, whom it was run
into by train.
On charge of throwing an Ameri-
can flag button on the floor of a train
and exclaiming ITO b with that
flag; that's Morgan's flag," Patrick
j. Shannahan was sentenced al
Lynn, Mass. to the state farm. He
appealed and was held in $500.
Holman D. Waldron, go, general
passenger agent of the Maine Cen
trail railroad, died at Portland.
Governor Graham of Vermont
signed q bill appropriating $1,000 fol
the determination Of grasshoppers.
Mrs. Emma Whiting, 81, died a,
Brockton, Mass. Of injuries received
when she was run over by an electric
car.
BENJAMIN F. Root. 10. first presi-