Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1918-07-19
new ENGLAND NEWS
IN TABLOID FORM
Items of Interest From All
Sections of YankeeIand

George P. Greeley, died at the Dewey
homestead at Montpelier. Mrs.
Greeley who was Admiral Dewey's
only sister was 70 years of age.
Seven negro walters from a Lenox
hotel, Boston We're taken to Camp
Devens under the work or fight"
regulations. They are natives of
Bermuda and on reaching camp de-
manded they be permitted to see the
British consul All, however, were
placed in the depot brigade with
draft evaders.
A bequest of 100000 is left to the
Salem, (Mass,) Hospital in the will
of John E. Maynes, who died in Phil
adelphia, June 81 He also leaves
$500 each to the Little Sisters of
the Poor in Boston and Philadelphia.
The residue Of the estate goes to
the city of Philadelphia, the income
to be used to buy fuel for the needy.
Mr.. Maynes was the son of the late
William Maynes, former Salem
business man.
Frederick H. Gillett of Springfield,
dean of the Massachusetts delegation
In the national House of Represen-
tatives, for twenty six years a mem
Der of that body and a potential can
didate for Speaker, has filed his
papers for the Republican nomina-
ton in the Second Congressional Dis
trict He Is the first candidate for
any office to file a complete set of
signed papers. 1t is said that he will
be unopposed for the nomination.
The Bay State Street Railway
Company of Massachusetts has made
application to the Interstate Com
merce Commission for an increase Of
rs per cent. in class and commodity
rates.
| Mayor Peters sent a telegram to
President Wilson informing him Of
the inspiring demonstration on Bos-
ton Common on Independence Day
and assuring him Of the answering
loyalty and devotion of the citizens
of Boston The telegram, in part,
said: Men, women and children of
all nations marched through the
streets of Boston and gathered on
the Common to celebrate the day in
numbers never before equalled or APP
preached in this historic city where
the principles of Liberty were born"
Mr.. and Mrs. William B. Cummings
of Ware, Mass, have just celebrated
their I'D wedding anniversary. They
are aged respectively ninety-six and
ninety-two years, and have six chill
dren, twelve grandchildren, twenty
two great-grand children and three
great greats grandchildren
With three blue stripes on his left
sleeve for three years of service and
two gold stripes on his right arm
signifying that he has been wounded
twice, Frank Pitnam, Houlton,
(Me.) boy, who has given his best in
the great war, has returned to his
home.
oil burner of $500 tons, was launched
from the yards of the Texas Steam
ship Company, Bath on the Fourth
while the company's band played the
national anthem and Miss Dorothy
Sewall, sister of 1t Sumner Sewall,
American aviator, christened her in
time honored fashion The Sagada-
hoe measures 421 feet overall, with
54-foot beam and depth of 80 feet, 9
inches. The vessel was built to make
1914 knots, and will be turned over
to the Emergency Fleet Corporation.
A service flag containing GIL stars,
representing the boys of the city of
Newburyport, Mass, In the service of
their country, was unfurled from a
Flagstaff on Washington Park July
4th.
Governor Graham of Vermont has
received favorable replies from all
the New England governors regard
ing his suggestion that an effort be
made to bring all the National Guard
regiments now at Spartansburg, S. c.,
back to some New England point to
recruit them for war service. The
plan was proposed as an economy
measure, as it is argued that the
New England regiments can be re-
cruited and modified for service
here at less expense to the govern
ment than by sending recruits to
Spartansburg.
For being absent without leave
and stealing motorcycle, Private
Horace b. Cote, Of Orange, Mass, an
engineer, at Camp Devens, was SEN
fenced to ten years in the federal
penitentiary at Atlanta. 1t was
brought out at his trial by court
martial that he stole the motorcycle
at Claremont, N. H., on April 27.
The four masted schooner Samuel
II. Hathaway, reported sunk by a
German submarine off the Atlantic
coast June 3, has arrived at a South
American port. Word to this effect
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