Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1917-10-19


when he collapsed. He died in a
few minutes.
Sixty percent of Cape Gods cram
berry crop was ruined by frost, it
is estimated. The money loss may
e~eed 81 900, 900.
A pile of old newspapers three
quarters of a mile $3.50 feeO high is
the task that the high school stu
dents of Melrose, Mass, have set
themselves to gather. The papers
will be sold for the benefit OF the
school athletic association.
Dominic Larvolli, 4, was run over
and killed by a grocery automobile
truck in front of his home at Bos-
ton.
Fred Gibbons and J. L. Chisholm,
in the disabled motorboat Gretchen,
which was blown to sea, were picked
up forty miles southeast of Boston
Light by a United States destroyer
and towed in to Nahant nearly ex-
! hausted for lack of food.
The largest cargo of molasses ever
brought to Boston arrived in a spe-
cially constructed tanker. She had
l 800, 900 gallons of the cane prod
uct in her holds.
The number of inmates in the Mas
sachusetts state prison is 625, the
smallest it has ever been.
Isaac B. Choate, a. writer OF sew
eral books of verse, died at Vest
brook, Me. He was known widely
| as a language student.
| Viola Cerone, Z, was struck and
killed at Attleboro, Mass, by an
| automobile.
Over 500 900 worth of locally
grown vegetables and fruits were sold
| in the Boston farmers market the
past week.
William j. Power, "A, lives to tell
the tale Of how he fell from the top
of sixty foot building at Bos-
| ton.
Thomas Harrington was killed and
his companion, Edward Larkin, sus-
tanned a fractured skull, when they
were struck by an automobile at Fall
River, Mass.
In the largest raid conducted by
the Boston police in recent years
ninety five men, whom the officers
charge with gambling in Greek COT
fee houses, were arrested
John Larsen, So, a shoe worker,
committed suicide at Everett, Mass,
by cutting his throat.
The total number of deaths in Bos-
ton the past week was 1856.
The Chelsea Mass. school board
officially recognized the Hebrew Ian
guage as a regular elective course OF
the high school curriculum.
An engineer who worked on the
! Lee Huntington, Mass. trolley line
discovered an extensive bed of peat
of excellent quality.
A possible disaster was averted
when it was discovered that the en-
CINE crankshaft of the steamship Ar
rino was fractured. just as the big
munition ship was about to put to
sea from Boston.
Charles Taft, son of ex-President
William H. Taft and Mrs. Taft, and
Miss Eleanor Chase were married
at the home of the brides par
ents at Waterbury, Conn.
Lexington, Mass, parents won
their fight to compel the school COM
mittee to restore barge service for
the school children OF outlying dis
tricts.
A medical examiner found 1863 in
bills and 500 in gold in the pockets
of Ezekiel Buchanan, Al, a Jamaican
sailor, who committed suicide at
Plymouth, Mass, with a razor.
Frederick A. Foster, Jr., OF Bos-
ton, a Harvard graduate and a sec
ond lieutenant, was killed when an
automobile overturned.
Mrs. Mary E. Lund GO. was run
down and killed at Concord, N. H..
by an automobile.
The Second Unitarian church at
Salem, Mass. is celebrating it's 2O0th
anniversary.
James Murphy, so, of .HaverhiH.
Mass, was killed when. in trying
to board a moving train, he fell be-
meath the wheels.
Daniel T. CAVITY, As, machinist,
of Reading, dropped dead in the Ju-
ryroom of the superior court at
Lowell, Mass.
George Davis was killed at New
Bedford, Mass, when an automobile
he was driving was in collision with
an electric car.
Authority to operate one-man
| SIlCCJ Ntll was ~ CllCu W lllt ibdy
State Street railways by the public
service commission.
Harvard announces a college regi-
ment 1000 strong, as a result OF
eleventh hour recruiting efforts at
Cambridge.
The New York, New Haven and
Hartford Railroad company has fall
en- in line with other railroad COM
panies in adopting the plan to OBJ
serve "beehess Tuesday"
The American Jewish relief com
mittee, Boston branch, announced
that $500 900 had been collected for
the alienation of the Jewish war sur
ferers on the Jewish Day of Atone
ment.
Herman A. Dow, a farmer, killed
himself by hanging at his home at
Warner, N. H.
George A. Minges, instructor in
the department of chemistry at New
Hampshire COLLEGE, was found dead
in bed from cerebral kemorrhage.
The smoking car of a passenger