Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1917-10-19
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rian Matthew R. Copithorne.
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.
Although Connecticut's potato crop
this year is 2, 800, 900 bushels, it still
falls short of the states requirements
by l 900, 900 bushels.
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-year-old
daughter were burned to death
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 year and
half. Mrs. Davis was fined $500.
The directors of the Perkins Insti-
tuition for the Blind at Watertown,
Mass, voted to offer the facilities
of their institution to the government
for the aid of any American soldiers
or sailors rendered blind during sery-
ice in the war.
The Massachusetts Institute OF
Technology has lost fifty Eight mem
bers of its staff because of the war.
An appeal to the club women of
Maine to assist in the stopping of
preventable deaths by tuberculosis
40, I,y IAFf ~
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, O97 tons less at Atlantic ports
than there were year ago.
John Clason, go, a farmer, VINO
gave $43 900, the bulk of his pos
sessions, for the founding of the
Stamford hospital, died at Stamford,
Conn.
Trapped by flames, Mrs. Josiah
Coombs, SO, was burned to death in
fire that destroyed her home at
Hampstead, N. H.
Patrick Crowley, IS, was struck by
an automobile at Springfield, Mass. ;,
and killed.
United States government check
for 1864 GIL SO in payment for cloth
to the American Wooden company, lost
on Boston street, was returned to
the company and a reward of $25
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 a military
course of it's own to take the place
ing for the war department to ap
prove.
Mrs. Laura Smiley was found dead
in her room in Worcester, Mass. ),
hotel and under the bedclothes was
a bottle that had contained poison.
Mrs. Angelina Bouley of New Bed
ford, Mass, committed suicide by
inhalng Illuminating gas.
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.
Miss Margaret Mozee of Gerrish,
N. H., observed her 103d birthday.
She was once a slave in Virginia.
The Episcopal Theological school Of
Cambridge, Mass. finds its registra-
ton cut so percent on account of the
war.
An increase in wages to affect all
departments was announced by the
Amoskeag Manufacturing company of
Manchester, N. H.. which employs
10, 900 textile operatives.
The Windham Manufacturing com
pany of South Windham, Me-, wool
en- manufacturers announced a 10
percent increase in wages.
William B. Gordon, %, shot and
killed himself at Boston while dem
onstrating to a companion that the
revolver was not loaded.
John R. Falsey, employed aboard
the steamship Harvey H. Brown
which is moored at Boston, was
killed by falling from the second deck
Of the vessel into the hold.
Dr.. Lemuel F. Noble of Boston
who was found guilty of illegally pre-
scribing drugs to habitual users. was
sentenced to eighteen months in pris-
on. stay of sentence was grant
ed until the full supreme court pass
es upon his exceptions.
Following two heavy explosions OF
| naphtha, which blew out the walls
and shattered the entire building
fire destroyed the plant of the Pan
Their Rubber company at Stoughton
Mass. The loss is 1925, 900.
The report of Treasurer Clark re-
veals that the Harvard Union showed
deficit during the last academic
year of SO. S61 40.
His foot caught in a frog, no aiC
at hand, his shrieks unheard vii.
liam Beruse. 16, was killed by &
! train nj Ra1I Rivar Mass