Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1917-10-26

struck by a train.
DR.. Lowell J. Reid, professor or
mathematics at University of Maine,
| has resigned to become statistician OF
| exports under Herbert G. Hoover.
With impressive ceremonies, both
religious and civic, Columbus park.
| Boston, was dedicated in the pres
| ence of an enormous crowd of people,,
Bayonet straighteners at the Rem
ington Arms plant, Bridgeport.
Conn, struck. The men say their
wages were reduced about 50 cents
a day.
| A $3.50 900 fire which started in a.
trunk and bag factory at Westboro,
| Mass, destroyed that building ana
three others, while the firemen OF
| seven towns battled stubbornly to-
save the adjoining property.
contract for the purchases, with
out advertising, of motor fire appar-
atus to the amount of $78, 4S5 from
the Seagrave company of Columbus,
o., was approved by Mayor Curley
of Boston.
Henry j. Wiskenen, 16, of Quin-
cy, Mass, died from injuries re-
ceived when he was struck by a mo-
torcycle. -
Judge John H. Hardy, 70, OF tho
Massachusetts, superior court, died at
his home in Arlington. He was a.
former representative in the Massa-
chusetts legislature and a civil war
veteran.
While Mrs. Daniel Cronin was
breathing her last at her home at
Medford, Mass, a thief ransacked
the rooms on the lower floor, but
was frightened away before he got
anything of value.
Capt. Traham and crew of five men
Of the schooner G. T. W., which
j struck on ledge off Maine and was
burned to the waters edge, were,
brought to Rockland, Me-, by a tug.
A night school in which religious
and social workers will be trained for
more efficient service as teachers
was formally opened at Boston by the
Morgan Memorial.
John +. Dugan, As, died at Leo
minister, Mass, of Injuries received
when struck by an automobile.
John F. Simonds, 81, the Oldest
man in Arlington, Mass. died as the,
result of a fall.
The board of trustees of the Cam
bridge, Mass, public library voted to-,
dispense with the services of Libra
rian Matthew R. Copithorne.
William Davis and his wife, both
of Boston, pleaded guilty at Rutland,
Vt, to smuggling heroin into the
country. Davis was fined 5000 and
sentenced to prison for a year and a.
half. Mrs. Davis was fined $500.
The Massachusetts Institute OF
Technology has lost fifty eight mem
bers of its staff because of the war.
Maj. w. F. Flynn, u. S. A, re-
tired, was assigned as professor OF
military science and tactics at Har-.
ward university.
Using gasoline to quicken a fire,
Dennis Michaud, farmer living near
Fort Kent, Me-, and his 6-yearold
daughter were burned to death.
The directors of the Perkins Insti-
tuition for the Blind at Waterfowl,
Mass, voted to offer the facilities.
Of their institution to the government.
for the aid of any American soldiers
or sailors rendered blind during serv-
ice in the war.
Although Connecticut's potato crop.
this year is 2, 500, 900 bushels, it still
falls short of the states requirements.
by 1 200, 900 bushels.
An appeal to the club women OF
| Maine to assist in the stopping OF
preventable deaths by tuberculosis
was made by Rev. A. j. Torsleff Of
Bangor, secretary of the Maine Anti
tuberculosis association.
Buy only sugar enough for your
present needs" is the warning being
sent out to consumers all over New
England by dealers, for there are,
264, 097 tons less at Atlantic ports
than there were a year ago. .-----
John Clason, 92, a farmer, who
gave s43 900, the bulk of his pos
sessions, for the founding of the
Stamford hospital, died at Stamford,
Conn.
Trapped by flames, Mrs. Josiah
Coombs, GO, was burned to death in
fire that destroyed her home at
Hampstead, N. H.
A United States government check
for 1854 ,911. SO in payment for cloth
to the American Wooden company, lost
on Boston street, was returned to
the company and reward or $40
each was given to two boys who found
it.
James H. Frizzell, 70, a machin-
list, was crushed to death by an ele-
vator in Boston building where he
was employed.
The Massachusetts Institute OF
Technology is establishing military
course of its own to take the place
Of the one that they have been watt
ing for the war department to ap-
prove.
Mrs. Laura Smiley was found dead
in her room in a Worcester, Mass.
hotel and under tho bedclothes was
a bottle that had contained poison
Three boilers, all of them in good
condition and said to be worth at
least $40, 900, have been removed
from the sunken United States cruis-
err Yankee in Buzzards Bay, Mass.
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