Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1917-12-14


cratic opponent, by plurality of 18Th.
Liberty bread" made of oatmeal,
rye, flour, cOrnmeal, bran, graham and
other substitutes for wheat, will soon
be on sale in all parts of Greater
Boston in shops conducted under aus
pieces of six women's organizations.
Miss Valerie f. Veasey, 2S-year-old
daughter of a millionaire mill Oper-
ator at Haverhill, became the bride
of Clifford G. Miller, %, a Boston
chauffeur.
Ninety men a day is the average
record of enlistments in the naval re-
serve at Boston. There have been
about 200 applications day, but some
have been rejected.
The Boston federal reserve district
subscribed for the fourth largest
amount of liberty loan bonds of the
second issue, being led by New York,
Chicago and Cleveland districts, ac-
cording to figures just compiled.
w. T. LaMoure win succeed the
late A. S. Crane as freight traffic man
ager of the Boston and Maine railroad.
LaMoure entered railroad service in,
1882 as a telegraph operator.
Jitney buses have forced two lines,
of the MiddleseX and Boston street
railway out of business. The ears
operating between Newton and Need
ham and from Wellesley to Needham
will be discontinued indefinitely after
Dec. Is.
Rev. ]. A. Savoie. pastor of St..
Hyacinth's parish of New Bedford,
Mass was fatally stricken with
cerebral hemorrhage just after preach
ing his morning sermon and he died
before physicians arrived.
Charles 3. FiIlebrown, known for
many years as one of the foremost
authorities in the country on the
single tax, and formerly a prominent
manufacturer and merchant, died at
his home at Brookline, Mass He was
born at Winthrop, Me, in 1872.
Yale is no longer runner-up in fur
law school as result of the whole
sale losses of students on account OF
The war. Princeton now has the honor
of having the next largest group to
that of Harvard, although it leads
the Ellis by only one point.
County directors for war savings
met It Portland with State Director
Brown and made plans for their work
in the campaign in Maine for the sale
Of thrift and war savings stamps.
The annual meeting of the Maine
Automobile association will be held
at Lewiston or Auburn, Dec. II.
Joseph Noddn and George Mosely
were turied alive under hundreds of
cords of pulpwood in slide" of the
block pile of the st. Croix Paper COM
pany, Woodland. Me. Their bodies
have been recovered.
Mrs. Ella DriscolI, her daughter,
Mrs. Benjamin Concord, and the lat
ter's husband. We're rescued at fire
in the business section of Belfast, Me.
WO STRUCTURES were GWIltt WIFI
loss estimated at $4,000.
Probation officers in Massachusetts
collected during the past fiscal year
tho sum of S535,9O4 an increase Of
Silt 600 over the previous year.
Fred w. Stubs, rs, of Boston. was
killed when a heavy two-horse truck
knocked him down and ran over him.
Mr.. and Mrs. Ray Burbank of Par
sonfied, Me. were seriously wounded
by shots supposed to have been fred
by hunters.
A freight steamer. built for The
Greek government was sent over at
South Portland, Me-, the four-masted
schooner John Keilburg left the ways
al Milbridge Me-, and the thrce-nHst-
ed schooner Lucy Evelyn and the Two
master May y. Peabody We're launched
al Harrington, Me.
Richard Britton. for forty years
treasurer of the Wakefield, Mass,
Savings bank and a resident of the
town for SIXTY years, died suddenly
from heart trouble.
Rev. Louis c. Wright, pastor of
Wesley Methodist church, Springfield,
Mass. has asked leave Of absence to-
take up Y. NJ. c. A. war camp work
abroad.
Fred yoisin, 2S an electrician, vas
electrOcuted at Lee, Mass. while
turning on the power for The Valley
rlills.
One hundred call fremen at Dam
vers, Mass, refused to serve longer on
the fire department as the result Of
the selection of what is known rs the
millionaire board of fire engineers"
Burglars entered the railroad sta
ton at Holliston, Mass, and stole
postage stamps and express packages.
Francis Murdoch, a prominent citi-
zen of Newton. Mass. and for many
years an official of banking nStitu-
tons of the city, died after a short
illness.
Solon F. Whitney, Sc, librarian in
the Watertown. Mass, public library