Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1917-11-20

w0rls, during the war NJ
By Boston hospltalA
4 steamer arriving at Boston
brought 600 tons Of salt, snippeo =
relieve a threatened famine.
A grand Jury is investigating ms
death Of 1O-year-old Harry Wens,
who was shot and killed ana DIP
hodv buried by Clyde Woodward, -.
at Enosburg, vt Woodward y ne'u
without bail.
Boston will receive $S.61S. 7So. 30
from the state as its share Of the in'
come tax for 1917, this sum represent
ing sS4o ,937 .15 more than the CITY
would have netted under the old W
tenn.
Mrs. Ray Bloom, n, died at Boston
of burns received while she was light
ing a kitchen fire.
Mrs. Archie Patterson OF Bangor
Me-. received a letter from Los
Angeles. CAL, informing her that she
was one of the heirs Of an estate OF an
uncle, estimated at nearly <2,OOO'Ou
The body Of Miss Minnie Drake, A.
Of Little Bears Head, N. r., was FOUND
on the railroad tracks in that town.
She had been hit by train.
Eighty-seven postoffice employees In
the Boston district are benefited Dy
the 10 percent Increase in salary an
nounced by the department recently.
A strike which threatened govern
ment work was averted at the tannery
of Creese & Cook. Danvers. Mass,
| when a So week increase In wages
was granted, just as the men were
about to walk out.
Two hundred male employees OF the
Continental Paper Bag company,
Rumford, Me-, are idle as result OF
strike of $50 girl operatives for .
wage increase of 81 week.
The smallpox epidemic at Gardiner,
Me-, where there are more than sew
enty-five cases In form so milo
thai until recently 1t was supp0sde 70
be chicken pox, is well in hand.
Four hundred employees Of the
Smith Paper Company, Lee, Mass, the
largest makers Of cigarette paper In
the United States, were granted wage
increases ranging from 8 to 10 per.
cent.
Notices were posted at the Water
vile repair shops Of the Maine Gen.
trail railroad announcing a fat rate
increase of 4 cents an hour. About
$50 men are affected.
A verdict for 5000 In the suit Of
Albert Lapointe, against the Monad-
mock Paper company, Nashua, N. h,
on account of injuries from being run
over by a roll Of paper, was returned
by Jury.
| The Maine Public utilities commits
sion ordered the physical connection
of the steam and electric railway
tracks in Portland, the work to be
completed by Jan. l. 1913.
| Miss Hilda Siipola was awarded
$5675 by jury at Fitchburg, Mass,
for injuries sustained while passen.
ger on a Fitchburg and Le0minsteE
street railway car which iran away
from a motOrman.
| Harvard university officials an
nounced the receipt Of a gift .Of
$4,000 from Mrs. S. P. Blake of B0s
ton. The income from this sum win
be used for the care Of the college
grounds.
i Frederick Collins was scalded to
death when a valve in the engine
room Of the Lever Brothers soar
works at Cambridge, Mass, burst.
| Armand Pelletier, 8 years old, fell
out Of a third-story window Of his
home at Manchester, N. a.. and, after
turning three complete somersaulti
in his descent. landed on his feet, ap
parently unhurt.
The permanent members of the
Somerville, Mass, fire department
have petitioned the board Of aldermen
Tor an increase In salary Of SIS pei
year.
II Tony Mansueto, IS. was instantly
killed at Chicopee, Mass. when Z
block Of steel fell on him by the snap
ping Of derrick chain.
Mrs. William Mann of West Haven
Conn.,, died of injuries suffered In ar
automobile accident.
II The body Of Wheeler Markham, 81
was found on q farm at Pittsfeld
Mass, where he has died Of exposure
John ]. Corcoran of Boston, a sol
der at Camp Devens, Aver, Mass.
was struck and killed by trolley car
Miss Leonora v. Buckley of Boston
was sworn In as deputy United
States marshal. making the fourth
} woman deputy now attached to Mar
shall Mitchell's Office.
The Converse Memorial library al
Amherst college erected at cost Of
$250,000. was dedicated.
Charlotte Talbot of Boston brought
a $4,000 suit against Otto Sharp Of
that city Tor alleged interference with
an alleged contract to marry between
her and the late Adolph F. Sharp.
Fifty employees of the V. b. Black
ington company of Attleboro Falls
Mass. manufacturers Of government
metal insignia. buttons and badges
went on strike.
Godfrey B. Lehy, 81, prominent ID
movements for the betterment Of
Boston and first president of the Bos
ton City club, died suddenly In that
city.
William Eastman, Jr., an instructor
In the army aviation school at the
Massachusetts, Institute Of Technol
ogy, died from injuries received In an
accident In connection with his work
Ralph D. Cutler, for twenty years
president of the Hartford Trust com
pany and one Of New England's lead.
Ing fnanciers, died at Hartford.
The number Of prisoners at the
Massachusetts, state prison Is gradu.
ally decreasing. Only 812 are con.
fined there. It is the lowest record
for many years.