Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1917-11-30

latiOn Thanksgiving Day dinner Will
not violate the letter or spirit of the
federal food administration rules, DR..
Merrill, federal food administrator for
Maine, said.
Two-year-Old Marie Verrecha Of
Providence was shot and killed by her
6-year-Old brother, Amanda. They
were playing in a bedroom when they
came across a shotgun and the boy
pulled the trigger.
Fire destroyed the single story bus
mess block owneu by Ralph Waiting
at West Hanover, Mass. A store, bar
Der shop and poolroom were wiped out,
Herbert L. Smith, 81, a Waltham,
Mass, fireman, who was injured when
he fell through the pole-hole Of the
station to the ground floor, died of hig
injuries.
Eight nurses of Berkshire county.
Mass, have zone to a southern camp
to join an emergency detachment of
the Red Cross. They are the first
nurses to be called into active SER
vice from the Berkshire section.
Fred Ordung, II, and Everett Burg
Wrinkle, II, of Clinton, Mass, were
drowned when their canoe overturned.
Frances Daniels, 8, was drowned at
Cornish, N. H, when the automobile
in which she was riding, dropped into
a pond from the edge of a road.
Mrs. Elizabeth Lister, So, widow OF
the late Gen. Lister of Civil war and
English army fame, died at her home
at Cambridge, Mass.
John Nelson, As, was instantly
killed at Quincy, Mass, when he fell
100 feet to the bottom of a quarry.
Boston is still setting the pace in
the eastern division in the number OF
recruits enlisted for the navy.
New London, Conn, has been with
out a public skating pond, but the
coming winter will find five large
tracts of land flooded and ready for
congealing.
All hope has been abandoned for
the safety of Capt. Lee and crew Of
seventeen of the ~Boston-owned sail
ing ship Timandra. mysteriously MISS
ing.
More than 100 girls employed at
the Lynn, Mass, plant Of the General
Electric company put on overalls, or
"khaki blOOmerettes," as the official
order reads.
The 'horse committee" of Yale uni.
versity announced that seventy-six ar
tillery horses had been donated with
in twelve hours after the need of the
Yale battery had been made known.
A G~ainsborough portrait, that of tho
artists two daughters, was bought by
the Worcester, Mass, Art museum.
The price paid is said to have been
about $4,000.
A liberty bond was rendered in pay,
ment of a fine in central court, Bos-
ton. Samuel Wolf could thus pay $50
for his conviction of allowing gam
bling in his tailoring shop. Judge Duff"
declined it without thanks.
Joseph Bubino of Boston, employed
at the aviation field at SQuantum, was
Instantly killed there when in jump
lllS HUH all duJOlIlblblle lIlCh lie Way
thrown beneath the rear wheels.
Owners of motor vehicles in Massa-
chusetts will pay well over 100000
in license fees this year, according to-
the statistics compiled by a special
recess committee of the legislature.
Granite workers in the Barre, Vt,
district, numbering $500, will receive
a 20 percent advance in wages begin
ming April l, 1918. The action is vol
untary on the part of the employers.
Robert J. Churchill, Jr., As, drowned
at Portsmouth, N. H., while attempt
ing to deliver some groceries to the
tug Piscataqua.
William Green, GA, a retired mer-
chant, of Maiden, Mass, hanged him.
self. He had suffered from insomnia.
Because he was afflicted with asth.
ma and dreaded the coming winter,
Lyman l.. Howard, II, a well-to-dos
Windham, Vt, farmer, committed sui
eide by hanging.
Donald S. Hastings, So, died at
birmingham, Mass. as a result Of loss
Of blood. He was out hunting and in
climbing over a fence his shotgun was
discharged, the charge entering his
left leg.
Rufus n. Elwell of Exeter, N. H.
was appointed state insurance COM
missioner of New Hampshire to sue
coed Robert J. Merrill of Concord, re-
signed.
Philip Billings, 10, was killed at
Allenstown, N. H., by the accidental
discharge of a shotgun while riding
In a hay wagon.
Notices were posted in nearly all Of
the cotton mills of Rhode Island an
~nouncing an increase in the wages OF
the operatives to become effective .
Dec. 3. amount not decided.
Twenty-Five percent of the men who
registered for the draft at Woburn,
Mass, were aliens, according to the