Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1917-10-12

NemDer.
Boston IS one Of ten cities to show
gain in postal savings of more than
$50 600 during the month of August,
with deposits of SO, COS, 1874.
John B. Bisbee of Quincy was elect
ed president of the Massachusetts
Young Peoples CHRISTIAN Union at the
annual meeting.
New Hampshire celebrated Good
Roads day, the newest addition to
the semi official holidays of the Gran
tie state.
Liquor has been struggled into the
cantonment at Aver, Mass, in water
melons and small TASKS have been
concealed in loaves of bread
Plans are under way for the con-
struction Of ship building plant al
Boston on the Mystic river on the site
of the famous old ways, where the
first Mystic launching took place in
1881.
Naval officials at Boston announced
that hundreds of men between the
ages of IS and As are wanted for gem
eral service in the navy.
Ninety people, most Of them women,
are seriously i'll with typhoid fever al
the state infirmary at TewksbIry,
Mass.
George F'arrah, a Salem, n. H.,
farmer, was killed in a runaway when
his horse SHE'D at an automobile
While walking with her husband at
Dedham, Mass, Mrs. Minnie Haas
was struck and killed by an automo-
bile.
Search for a band of robbers, be-
lieved by the authorities to be head
ed by a woman. whose daring thefts
have terroriZed the entire country
side during the past month. is being
made by New Hampshire police.
William E. Callhassey, %, died at
Hartford by bursting a blood vessel
during a coughing spell.
Discovering that she had lost a
bag containing jewels worth $40 .O00,
Mrs. William Littauer, wife of Cap
tain Littauer of Camp Devens, Aver,
Mass, offered $500 reward for the
return of the valuables.
Miss Melinda Dubois, %, Of Paw
tucket, R. L., was instantly killed
when an automobile in which she was
riding crashed into tree and tipped
over.
With history dating back to the
i days before Beverly was incorporat-
ed as a town and when it was stilR
a part of Salem, the First Parish
| Unitarian Church of Beverly. Mass,
observed the passing of its 250th
anniversary today.
Francis w. Hunnewell, 70. direc-
tor of several large banks, railroads
and mining concerns, and a member
/ of a prominent Boston family, died
in his summer home at Wellesley.
/ Euclide Labrie, proprietor of a mo-
/ torcycle repair shop at Manchester,
! n. H., was killed when the rear
wheels OF small automobile he was
testing crumpled, throwing him head
long to the ground.
/ to death in a fire which destroyed
the polo stables of P. B. Bradley at
bingham, Mass. The cost is S17OU.
Judge John Kivel of Dover was
nominated by Governor Keyes as
chief justice Of the New Hampshire
superior court.
The members of the Special Aid
society are to maintain house at
Aver, Mass, for the use of commits
stoned officers, their wives and rel
atives.
The government has accepted the
tender by Henry Ford of the use OF
the Ford automobile plant at Cam
bridge, Mass, for the purposes of the
army.
Herbert H. Russell, 50, for the
past forty-fve yeas postmaster for
the Waverley section of Belmont.
Mass, died after suffering from a
shock.
Judge Grant appointed two Boston
lawyers special administrators of the
large estate Of the late George G.
Hall, owner OF the ADAMS House.
Boston, who was killed when a street
car struck his carriage.
Morrill, ~ Drew, leader in Maine
politics, died at Portland, aged 55.
He had been speaker Of the Maine
house Of representatives, in which he
served several terms.
Col. Frank B. Mccoy, in charge of
the Boston recruiting station of the
United States army, died suddenly Of
heart disease.
Boston university is given $550,000
and the residue OF the estate OF Mrs.
Augusta E. Corbin, whose will was
filed in the Suffolk registry of probate
at Boston.
Both older ana younger men will
be employed in the future on the
New Haven railroad in the operating
department. The former age limits
were Il to 35 years.
The Bay State Dispensary at Bos.
ton closed after the Boston Chamber
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