Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1918-08-06

John Lemont, aSoo w. ~
-. Mas was taken to Rockland
1Mso hospital crippled for life. as
.the result Of becoming entanelsd "
= moving machine at stomhson
The machine amputated nus isl'
foot at the ankle joint. cut the Toes
rom the right foot and cut Two NM
eera from the left hand. ,,'a.--->a. ~.
BY closing out the stock OF inc
e. R Sherburne company. NnpassE
.ugar dealers, controlling Ar
branches in Springfield, Mass. gnu
Iolyoke. Mass, fully 5000 barrels o.
:urar were released for Consumption
in Hampden county. The company
was forced -out of business ~ tne
tate food administration. ~ ~ q
After years of controversy inc
state Of Massachusetts has rcoeiveu
from the federal government tniousn
N award made by the court OF
aims, a check. for 1886, Sss.6S. rep
..sentine the premium on gold coin
,sed by the commonwealth for pay
nent of bills incurred IN furnisnine
tate troops during the Civil waf.
submarine, said by Its builders
n, embody all the latest designs IN
submersibles went down the ways
at the Fore River plant OF the betn
Ser, sh.pbuilders corporation q.
.,u;ncy. Mass. Several Thousand
| workers Joined in a mighty cheer ss
the new undersea boat struck inc
wafer She was chrstened the AL
Criticizing the young men OF North
Brook6eld, Mass. for not forming q
military organization as they 90 NJ
China. Wo Lung. for twenty-tnlee
years proprietor of laundry N taa'
own will close his laundry In Au-
ust and 20 back 10 China. where no
| Will ,oin the army. Lung served IN
&c Chinese army before he came 70
| his country.
Massachusetts Food Administrator
Endicott has ruled that any groce'
or other dealers in sugar found guilty
Of supplying the Stedaco Bottling 20
Of Sudbury with sugar, or. to Hs
proprietors, Benjamin Stern ano
David Davis, or to their Households
will have their permits to sell sugar
taken away fom them and the sup
ply stopped.
Chas. s. Bird of Walpole. Mass
after experimenting for many months
with peat In his paper factory
is absolutely convinced that. as q
fuel product, It possesses no value
He advises against spending any
more of tire states money in expert.
menting with this product until q
study has been made Of the expert
ence Of other countries.
Andrew Schmitt, German, who
had appeared Respondent recently
over the Teuton reverses, committed
suicide in Providence, R. l., BY shoot
Ing himself with a revolver at his
home. He was ~ and had been
working in q munitions plant Hi
wife, employed in local factory
was at work at the house. Sohmitt
had tried twice before to shoot HIM
self.
Word has been received at Lewis
ton, Me-, that the old clipper ship St
Jamos Of Bath is to be rerigsed % q
barkentine. The st. James , wal
built at Bath by John Mcdonald fol
Flint & Co.. for the Pacific trade
and established some excellent rec
ords between ports, notably Boston
and San Francisco. About II years
ago she was converted into . eoe
barge for use on the Pacific.
The 200 paper makers and pulp
sulphite and paper mill workers. ON
ployed in the Franklin, ~. H., plan
of the international Paper company
went on strike and the mills closed
Immediately upon learning Of thu
strike, the local exemption board
asked the company for list Of al
men of draft age on strike. The OF
emption board announced that tn,
men would be Immediately reclassi
fed and placed In Glass One.
Four thousand, tire hundred ant
sixty-four Massachusetts, mon hav,
registered under the state anti-loaf
Ing law. which went into effect OF
July IL. In making this announce
ment Charles F. Gettsmy. director o
the state bureau Of statistics. sait
that lat Of the 864 cities and town
in the state had reported and tina
there were no registrations In 8,
communities. Boston led with /,
616. and Lowell was second with 27s
HAMPERS and stiehers from som,
Of the Brockton, Mass, shoe factorie
voted to sscede from tho Boot ant
Shoe Workers union and form .,
Independent organization. This &C
ton has already been taken by cut
ters and lasters. The vampers an
stitchers voted to remain Ct work
but threatened to 60 on strike II on
Of their number was discharged 70
, non-payment Of dues to the Boo
and Shoe Workers union. witt
, which many factories have contracts
There are $500 union vampers AM
lasters In Brockton.
What the federal authorities ~
gard as an extremely important or
rest was made at Manchester by
, the-Sea, Mass, when Oswald Kun
, hardt. consul general Of Germany q
Boston until the outbreak Of the wal
|, and for some time after that consu
general for Austria Hungary. wa
taken into custody for the depart
! ment Of Justice by Chief of Polio
; William H. Sullivan Of Manchester
: Xunhardt up to the outbreak Of tn
, var was one Of the social Hons o
) Boston and the North Shore, an
I was widely known in business cir
. cles az the head Of the Boston ofic
i ~ 10 Ill N a