Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1917-08-07
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Happenings In Various Paris
Of New England
Warren L. Shute, 8. was killed 1t
Salem, Mass. by an automobile.
James Connors. u, was drowned at
Concord, Mass, while swimming.
Fifteen cent milk by Aug. / 10 pre-
dicted BY New Bedford. Mass. pro-
ducers.
Marjorie Brown was drowned at
Belfast, Me-, while teaching another
girl to swim.
Chales Foster, II. fell into Kendus-
keag stream at Bangor, Me-. and
was drowned.
Alice Carron, Is, was drowned in
the Squog river. Manchester, N. H..
while wading.
Henry Sasseville, %, Of Leomin-
ster, Mass. was drowned when q
canoe capsized.
Charles Russell of Keene, q pri-
vate Of the New Hampshire National
Guard, was drowned while bathing at
Concord.
Grafton D. Cushing will not be q
candidate for the Republican nomina-
ton for governor Of Massachusetts,
this year.
Richard Powers, q longshoreman,
81, was crushed to death while load
ing steel billets on board q steamer
at Boston.
Raymond Lemire, a private Of
Company c of Claremont, was
drowned at Concord, N. H. while
swimming.
Naval Militiamen Neale and Ter
rill we're drowned at the United
States submarine Dass at New Lon
don, Conn.
The dilapitated wooden municipal
bathhouse on the Maiden river. Ever
EFT, Mass, was destroyed by an in
cendiary fire.
Six jackies from the navy yard
served as deckhands on the Boston
floating hospital ship when the regu-
lar hands refused to go to work.
Danger of a strike on the Boston
Revere Beach and Lynn railroad was
averted, a compromise offer by the
officials of the road being accepted.
Struck by an automobile as he was
crossing a street at Yarmouth, Me.
Albert Pray, 10, of Atlantic, Mass.
received injuries which caused hi:
death.
An appeal to the physicians Of
Maine to form a company Of $50 fol
service in the war was issued BY
Major Cousins OF the medical reserve
corps.
The blue laws were enforced
against three more Nashua, N. H.
grocers who were found keeping oper
on Sunday. Fines Of $40 each were
imposed.
Michael Griffin, National Guards
man, was arrested at Springfield
Mass. ;. charged with manslaughter IL
causing the death Of Frank Williams
Q. civilian.
Sylvester Ryan and James Gerrety
two Boston youths, were held in $780,
at York Beach, Me-. for the Main'
supreme court for impersonating traf'
fic officers.
Rev. Abraham Nowak of Louis
vile has accepted the unanimous cal
of the members Of Temple Ohabe
Shalom, Boston, to become rabbi o
that congregation.
Guilty of murder in the second de-
gree was the finding of the jury in thu
case Of Michael Glssheen. charged
with the murder of Lafayette Battellt
at Monterey, Mass.
Speeding on motor cycle at
terrific speed at Pittsfield. Mass.
Frank Remondo, IS, crashed into tn
rear end of a heavy auto truck loaded
with coal and was killed.
Members OF the Ancient and Hon
orable Artillery company, Boston
have been urged by Captain Stove
of their command to do their bit" II
| furthering the allies cause.
Brooding over the death Of mem
Der of his family in Germany, Gus
tave Kraatz, 4S, German interne'
prisoner, went insane and died at tn
Worcester, Mass, hospital:
The excursion steamer Cape Ann TO
years on the Boston Gloucester line
has for 5000, 900 been acquired b!
james w. Elwell & Co. It is pro
posed to convert her into freighter
, DR.. ROBBIE Blake, 70, a pioneer cleo
trical inventor, died at Cornish, Me
He built a telegraph line 100 mile
long, from Cornish to Jackson, N
H., making all the instruments TO
the service.
Mary Groggins, Z, who had beef
missing from her home on Peaks Is
land, Me. tor twenty four hours, wa
found locked in a refrigerator. Tn
water outlet furnished air and he
condition is not serious.
Harvey D. Gibson, general man
sger of the American Red Cross, ap
pointed James Jackson Of Boston
division manager of Red Cross worl
carried on in all the New Englan'
states, except Connecticut.
Lever Brothers company, soal
manufacturers, whose large plant 1
located at Cambridge, Mass, dis
tributed 10 percent dividend on CO.
partnership shares held by the com
pany's emplo. es. Some of these EN-
ployes received amounts In excess o
| 5000.
Thomas Sullivan. 20, committed
suicide at Boston by hanging.
Raul Leclair, IL, was drowned a
Southbridge, Mass, While bathing.
An automobile struck and killet
Rock Orlynski. 81. ct Holyoke