Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1917-11-16

The lumber town of Mountain Mills
VT, was practically wiped out by fire.
The damage is estimated at $4,000.
Leonard Fuller, II, was run down
and killed at New Bedford, Mass, By
an automobile.
Nine cows were burned to DEATH
while thirty-seven were barely saved
from a similar fate when fire swept
the cow shed of the Auburn Farm
Milk Company at Chelsea Mass.
The body of Paul A. Banks, 2, was
found in four feet Of water in a hole
that had been started fer a We in
the rear of the Banks home at
No,thborA. Mass.
Charles B. Guild, 46, committed
suicide by gas at Revere, Mass.
Dependency through i'll health and
lack of employment is believed to be-
tie cause.
While fastening for train at Aver,
Mass, Private Herbert H. Wilmot
Of Salisbury, Mass, was run over and
killed by a mtor truck.
The charred body of Salvatore Falz~
erano was found in the ruins of a.
barn in the rear of his fathers house
at Saugus, Mass, which was de-
stroyed by fire when children played
with matches.
While swinging on the halyards
hanging from a flagstaff at Portland,
Me-, Harmon Leclair, 49, was in
stantly killed as the big pole snapped,
the broken section pinning the boy
down in it's fall
The sum of $41O0 was made in one
week by the new Gloucester, Mass
schooner, Angie L. Marshall, which
landed two trips.
Mrs. Susan A. Wheeler, go, widow
of Rev. Crosby H. Wheeler, pioneer
missionary of the American Board,
who founded and built up Euphrates.
college, in HarpoOt, Turkey, died at
Worcester, Mass.
II IS Hannah Mahoney, 45. Of
Brooklino. Mass, was struck and
killed by an automobile truck.
Harvard University has cOn1tbut..
cd 1929 men to the war, and they are
engaged in every branch of the SER
vice.
A beautiful Jewel case made by a.
convict doing a twenty-year sentence
in the Maine penitentiary has been.
donated to the Lewiston chapter, Red
Cross.
The body If Mrs. Josephine Mar.
image, 60. of Methuen, Mass. was.
found hanging in barn behind her
home.
Food Administrator Endicott avert
ed strike of the Lynn, Mass, coal
teamsters that threatened to tie up.
the delivery of the city. The team
sters were granted concessions.
Miss Marion Nicoll, %, was found
dead on the floor of gas-tilled bath
room at Quincy, Mass.
David H. flaming will give 500, 900
to the city of Worcester, Mass for
the proposed new girls trade school.
A 10 percent increase in wages of
all employees was announced by the
National Shawmut bank, Boston,
Mrs. Kate NJ. Mcdonald received a
verdict of $1025 in her suit for $4,000
against the city of Boston, for per-
sonal injuries sustained when side
walk caved in.
Cyrus w. Davis, 62, surveyor OF
the Portland customs district, for
mer secretary of state and member
sf the Maine legislature, died at
Portland.
Irwin w. Cohen, g. while playing
hall in Boston street, ran in front
OF an automobile and was killed.
The New Hampshire Association OF
Insurance Agents adopted a resolution
that no members should do business
with insurance companies of any
country at war with the United
States.
Rev. George Whitaker, D. D.,
prominent in educational work In
Methodist circles, died at his home
at Somerville, Mass. He was born
in Boston 81 years ago.
An investigation Of rates charged
for the transportation of property by
ali steam and electric roads in Maine,
by Attorney General Sturgis, was or.
dered by the governor and his coun-
Gil.
While in a crib in the home of her.
parents at Boston, Grace M. Trainor,
an infant, was scalded to death when
cock on a radiator burst.
The will of William b. Plunkett,
cotton manufacturer Of Adams,
Mass, leaves his entire estate, be-
lieved to be more than 81, 900, 000,.
to two sons.
/ More than $275, 900 will be. col.
lected in interest and costs on over
due taxes this year, according to a
statement by Collector Curley of Bos-.
ton.
At a meeting of directors of the,
National Shawmut bank Boston, vii.
liam A. CASTOR resigned as president
and Alfred l.. Aiken was elected his.
successor.
Eight hundred striking leather
workers at Peabody, Mass. returned
to work after an agreement had been
signed giving the workmen fiat wage,