Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1917-12-21
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MANY SECTIONS
Happenings In New England
Told In Brief Items

Mrs. Lena Beane, %, was found
dead in bed in her room at Newton,
Mass, death being caused by a light
ed gas stove in a tightly closed room.
Patrick Mcmahon, 80, who was
probably the Oldest railroad flagman
in active service, dropped dead at his
post at Barre, VT, extreme cold being
a contributing cause.
Miss Abbie A. Cressy, 90, was
burned to death at Beverly, Mass.
She had evidently been pOking "A fire
in stove and live Goals had fallen
on the floor, setting fire to her cloth
ing.
James Murray, Ga, crawled into the
fire pot of a road roller at Boston 10
clean the boiler tubes. In some I'M
known manner fire started beneI n
the boiler and Murray was roasted to
death.
Fifty students, clad in their ughc
clothes, were driven out of their
rooms when Pierce cottage, one Of the
dOrmitories of historical Dumrnr
academy, South Byfeld, Mass, was
destroyed by fire. The loss is $4,000
Nettie f. Hilton, 10, died at Bath
Me-, from burns sustained when her
clothing caught fire from a stove.
Half dozen buildings are in ruins
as Il result of a fire which swept
across section of the business area
of AttlebOro, Mass. The loss is about
$500,000
The historic American House, Bos-
ton, for many years one Of the best
known hostelries in New England, is
to be reopened as hotel.
Peter w Hutchinson of the Clark
Hutchinson company was elected pres
ident of the New Englanl Shoe
Wholesalers association at the an
nual meeting at Boston,
Fire destroyed the old City Hal, a
Barre, VT, landmark, with a loss CT
$4,000. The temperature, 80 be-
low zero, made difficult the work Of
the firemen.
Harvard University would feel more
comfortable il only two more students
would matriculate at the institution.
The final enrolment figures show that
Harvard lacks only two Of reaching
the 5000 mark.
The first voting under the new char
ter Of Auburn, Me-, resulted in the re-
election of Mayor Burnham by ma
jority of 1913 over Lewis w. Haskell,
Jr. 1t was a non-partisan election.
A service flag bearing seventy stars,
floated out into the breeze and the
familiar strains of Americas national
anthem beat upon the ears at the I'M
furling of the service flag Of the Bos.
ton fire department.
Divorced little more than two
years ago, Joseph P. Mcdonald of
Brockton, Mass, and Elizabeth Nc
Donald are to remarry.
Lack of oxygen, due to the use of a
gas heater in small unventilated
locker in clubhouse at Lynn, Mass.
is ascribed as the cause of the death
OF Louis Clark %.
Child labor has developed an
alarming increase in Massachusetts
in the past three years. according to
the annual report of the Massachu.
sets child labor committee.
Joseph Buck for fifteen years a
dtputy sheriff of Woburn, Mass, died
at his home in that city at the age
of II.
Automobile tires valued at 100000
in the, Hartford branch of the Good
year company were destroyed by fire
at Hartford. The damage totalled
100000 with the destruction of an
engraving plant.
1t is believed that the refusal of
Miss Margaret Benson to become his
wife led to the suicide of Raymond
Walters at Waterbury, Conn, by in.
haling gas.
Mrs. James Freeman, 81, who had
been in feeble health for a number of
months, was burned to death in her
home at Needham, Mass, when she
fell over a large lamp which ignited
her clothing.
Thomas G. Thompson, 46, a retired
paper manufacturer of Westfield
Mass, died at Berlin, Conn. He be
came blind while ON an automobile
trip to New Haven and was taken to
nearby house, where death oc
Cured.
Oscar o. X. Robinson, Dem, was
reelected mayor of WestbrOok, Me.
over William h. Bragdon, Rep. The
city council will be Republican to 4
Ninety of the 200 employees Of the
Forest Paper company of Yarmouth
Me-, were given notice that their ser.
vices would not be required after Jan
| because of inability to obtain wood
for paper pulp.
Rev. Abraham Music, pastor of Cen,
trail Congregational church Of New.
tOnville, Mass, whose paclfst ser.
mons have aroused the Ire of some
of his congregation, placed his resig,