Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1917-12-07
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years, dropped dead from heart
disease on a Boston street. He was
in usual health when he left home.
II. X. Libby announced his resigna-
ton, effective Dec. 10, as purchasing
agent for New Hampshire state incti-
tutiOns.
The New England sawmill units are
credited by the British war depart
ment with doing more work at a lower
cost than any similar organization in
the British lines.
Frank Buccini, 26, of Boston, was
found dead in bed as the result of
accidental gas poisoning.
Milford, Mass, police have received
complaints of Jack, the Hugger."
DR.. A. o. Thomas, state superinten-
dent of schools; G. S. Stetson of
Greene, and w. S. Newell of Bath,
were appointed members of the Maine
state board of vocational education.
Miss Esther O. Warren, an S2-year-
old charity worker of Salem, Mass,
toHlHIlIlNu oulCluS ny hdllSlh5 at hCA
home.
Charles Coos, a Danbury, Conn.,,
butcher, was found dead in lis store
where he had hanged himself
Worry over the war is supposed to
have caused his act.
Capt Frank Welch, So, of Waldo
Me-, was drowned when he fell over
board from the slippery deck of his
small auxiliary boat.
The Majestic theatre, Pittsfeld,
Mass, was damaged to the extent of
$4,000 by fire.
Dexter Spinner, ~, and H. B. Mil
Ian, 16, We're killed at West Acton,
Me, when an automobile skidded,
overturned and crashed into a stone
wall.
George K. Wickes, professor of
economics at Dartmouth college, died
at Hanover, N. H, following a short
illness due to meningitis.
Boston shoe shining places seem to
be doing their usual thriving business
despite the advance of 100 percent in
the price of a polish for black shoes
from 5 cents to 10 cents.
b. e. Tullock, member of a New
Haven wholesale grocery firm, and
Earl II. Brown, an employe, were
killed in a collision between their au-
tOmObile and d trolley car.
lit, Rev. Samuel Babcock, bishop
of Massachusetts, laid the cornerstone
of st. Peters Episcopal church, Wes-
ton, Mass.
Manuel Constantine of North Eas-
ton, Mass, a section hand, died from
injuries caused by being struck twice
by the same train.
Scituate, Mass, has been awarded
the prize cup by the New England
cleanup committee as the best kept
up town of 5000 or under population
in the New England states.
Wage increases ranging from Is tC
35 cents a day for the $50 mainten
ance of way employees of the Maine
Central railroad and Portland, Me.
Terminal company, were announced.
Alexander Svirbckas, 81, tailor
was found dead in his home at Bos
ton. His neck had been broken, prob
ably by a fall.
Louis Ferrioro, 35, was found hang
ing by rope to a rafter in the
stables of the Boston establishment
where he was employed.
The Massachusetts public service
commission has suspended until Jan
/ the Bay State Street railways new
schedule of rates for wOrktngmen
Communication and excursion tickets.
Close the public schools or hire wo
men janitors. That's the problem con
fronting the Fitchburg, Mass, mum
cipal building department because o
the shortage of labor.
For three-quarters of centur!
Charles Beaumont, who has just cele
brated his 91st birthday, toiled in {
cotton mill, a record perhaps no
equalled by another man in America
A leather bag containing $1,000, thu
weekly payroll of the William Carte
company, Needham, Mass, manufac
turers of underwear, vanished iron
an automobile while being taken iron
the concerns Offices to the factory.
Thomas II. Durham, 81, gate tende
at East Boston, was instantly killet
when he was struck by an engine.
Nelson Sly of Shrewsbury, Mass,
was instantly killed when his automo
bile was struck by trolley car.
To meet war time conditions and t,
fight any big fire that might develOl
along the North Shore, Mayo
Mcpherson Of Beverly, Mass, has pro
posed a community service in fir,
fighting.
Acting on reports that all the dyna
mite stored at the Lime Rock QUAR-,
between Camden and Rockport, Me
had been stolen, guards were sta
toned at al the dams on the Megun
ticook stream to prevent any attempt
to blow them up.
Thomas ], Concannon, SO, Of Chel
sea, Mass, was accidental asphyxl