Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1917-10-12
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Brief Items From Various Sec
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road station to his meme at WIN
chester, Mass, William d. Rich
ards, 6S, we'll known in the steel
business in Boston, was stricken
with apolexy and died.
Thomas j. Abernethy of West
Pembroke, Me-, whom the late Prof.
Muensterberg found to be mentally
perfect, is one of the New England
candidates selected for instruction as
aviators.
More than 300 employees OF the
white room in the dye department OF
the Pacific print works, Lawrence,
mand for an increase in wages had
been refused.
William E. Bryant OF Pembroke,
Mass was given a decree nisi from
his wife, Elzada Bryant, for deser-
ton. Bryant is a Civil war veteran,
nearly 80 years old.
Mrs. Alma S. Wilmarth, so, OF
Boston was killed at Andover, Mass.
by a iitney loaded with soldiers 60
ing from the Bedford camp ground
to Lawrence.
Orlando e. Frost was re elected
president of the United Baptist CON
vention of Maine at its annual SEES
sion.
Lieutenant George P. Howe, at
tached to the medical corps of the
Tenth battalion, Royal Fusiliers,
prominent Boston physician, eX-
plorer, clubman and student of mill
tary affairs, was killed in action in
the French trenches.
Junius Beebe, who recently gave
the town of Wakefield, Mass, $50,
600 for a new public library, depos
tied the money in a bank and the
| library will have the additional bene
| fit of the interest until the town Is
ready to build.
Miss Emma LeClair obtained from
Gen. Ames, commander of the Mas
sachusetts state guard, an informal
commission to recruit and train a
company Of girls in Lowell, as the
A company of the first regiment OF
women.
Shipping Is warned that the wreck
of the sixmasted schooner Alice NJ.
Lawrence on Tuckernuck shoal, OFT
Nantucket, Mass, is dangerous
Narcotic drugs, the retail value of
which is said to be between $50 0UU
and $40, 900, were stolen from Gill
man Bros. Inc, Boston, wholesale
dealers in drugs.
Superintendent Hobbs of the Bos-
ton division of the New Haven road
has been transferred to New Haven
to solve traffic problems.
A marriage license was issued at
Cambridge. Mass. on behalf Of Rev
Edward M. Gushee, 81, who is Sc
riously i'll, and Miss Ida o. Davis
81, his housekeeper since the death
OF his wife two years ago.
Thomas Cosgrove, stabeman
was tossed by an angry bull at the
Brockton, Mass. fair grounds and
died of his injuries.
The first fatal football accident OF
the season in Greater Boston oc-
CURED at Cambridge, when Francis
Burns died as the result of broken
neck, which was caused by running
into another player.
DR.. Moses G. Parker, rs, one OF
the largest owners of stock in the
New England Telephone and Tele-
graph company, of which he was a
director and member of its executive
committee, died at Lowell, Mass,
The sum of $40 900 is sought by
Mrs. Margaret A. Merriam Of Quin
cy, Mass, from the New England
Telephone and Telegraph company
for alleged injuries by shock while
using her telephone.
Mrs. Frank r. Lewis and Mrs
Herman A. Smith, sisters, were
killed when passenger train strucE
their carriage on a railroad crossing
at Nashua, N. II.
The Bowdoin unit OF the reserve
officers training corps began It's
course of instruction at Bowdoin col
leee with more than 100 students en-
rolled.
Francis J. Frazer, Is, OF Airing
ton, Mass. died from injuries re-
ceived when his bicycle skidded
throwing him under an automobile
truck.
George w. Raymond, 70, station
agent at Dedham, Mass was strucl
and killed by train.
Holyoke House, and part of Dant
Hall. have been turned over to thu
government by Harvard University.
Six more prisoners from the Mas
Thomas C. letters, postmaster a
Gay Head Mass, was indicted b!
federal grand Jury on the charge o