Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1918-04-09

vances received by other municipa
employees. II laborers, police and ever
the school janitors get more pay
why not the teachersf The board re-
ferred the request to special com
mittee.
The Governors approval of the
budget bill last week gave this years
Massachusetts, Legislature good
lead over that Of 1917 In the accom-.
plishment of appropriation work. In.
cluding the budget appropriations
the Legislature for 1918 has thus fsr
made appropriations aggregatine
29,266,607. At this time last year
the appropriations amounted to $24,-
559, ,226. Gov. Mccall has approved
119 general acts this year and 107
special bills. He has sent in but one
veto. Lt-Gov. Coolidge has signed one
general act and one special bill.
More than one hundred acres OF
land In the Boston park system will
be devoted to war gardens again this
year. All plans have been formulated
by officials of the Boston Committee
on Public Safety and approved by the
mayor. It is hoped that plenty OF
land will be available to accommodate
the hundreds of applicants for plots
OF an eight of an acre each. but the
committee will economise. In the
hope Of spending not more than half
of the $4,000, which was last years
outlay.
The Republican platform adopted
at the State convention, Portland, Ne.
declares: "The fact that the party in
power refused to prepare for war in
1914 and 1915 has had no effect upon
the action of Republicans. To that
refusal was no doubt due the fact that
the war found US wholly unprepared
and by that lack Of preparation thous-
ands Of lives and billions Of dollars
have been lost. We know that We can
do more than those now In control
in Congress to brig quickly to pass
the peace Of victory"
The famous old Kickapoo Indian
sagwa is no more. It has gone to the
happy hunting grounds. This came
to pass through the dissolution OF the
Nickapoo Indian Company Of North
Haven, Conn, through papers fled
With the Secretary Of State. The
assets Of the company have been sold
Or collected. About $45O0 has been
distributed to the stockholders.
The Rev. Francis Low, pastor OF
he Congregational Church Of Hud-
son, announced that he would be a
candidate for representative In the
General Court next fall from the 10th
Middlesex district, which is made up
If Maynard, Boxboro. Hudson and
Stow. He will run on the Republi-
can ticket.
Mrs. Alice Wellington Lyman,
treasurer of the Smith College Relief
Unit Fund, has received cablegram
saying that the first Smith College
init In France escaped the advancing
Germans in the big drive. Miss Alice
Leavens of 400 Center st, Jamaica
Plain, and Miss Margaret Bennett OF
Cambridge are members Of the unit.
The following appointments have
been announced by the war Depart
ment: Second Lieutenant, Aviation
Section, Signal Reserve Corps-Mat-
thew Harrison, Herbert A. Hymer
and Silas C. Hyndshaw, all OF the
Massachusetts, Institute Of Teohnol-
ogy.
Rev. Clarence H. Waldron Of Wind
;or, VT, sentenced for disloyalty to
the United States by the Federal
court here a short time ago to 10
years in the Government Peniten-
dary at Atlanta, Ca, has gone to At
lanta In charge Of Deputy United
States Marshal ]. q. Reeves.
Harold Mackley Of Holland, also to
serve Is years for seditious utter
ances, and Jack Lawrence, due TO
spend four years in the Federal prison
for smuggling drugs into this coun-
try from Canada were other mem
bers Of the party on the trip south.
Accompanying him were his wife
and 4.year-old daughter, who Will
live In Atlanta during the period OF
the pastors confinement. Mr.. Wal
dron decided not to carry his case to
the Circuit Court of Appeals as first
Acting under the provisions Of the
Smith Hughes act for vocational edu-
cation, the Massachusetts Agricultur-
al College is making plans to De-
come the States centre for the tram
ing of teachers of agriculture.
A shipment of 1923 barrels Of Irish
salt mackerel. valued at $39,s44, was
lost when the Leyland line steamer
Etonian was sunk by U-boat on the
irish coast. The mackerel were con-
signed to Boston importers.