Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1918-08-30
new ENGLAND NEWS
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Items of Interest From All
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Sherman L. Whipple, prominent
Boston attorney, has accepted the
post of general counsel Of the Ship
ping Board.
Governor Beeckman of Rhode Island
ordered all gambling places in the
state closed, including several ut
Narragansett Pier.
Hovey e. Slayton has been ap-
pointed federal fuel administrator for
the state Of. New Hampshire to sue
coed former Governor Charles M,
Floyd.
Mrs. Woodrow Wilson was made
honorary chairman OF the national
wQman's war work council of thu
Young Women's Christian association
at Portland.
BY margin of two votes, 104 to
100, the Massachusetts, Constitutional
convention defeated proposed
to make voting compulsory.
In response to telegraphic request
from President Gompers of the Amer
lean Federation of Labor, Boston la
Dor leaders are planning a big parade
for Labor Day. The army and navy
will cooperate.
Boston's new tax rate is $2120 per
thousand. This is the highest figure
In the history Of the city. 1t Is an in
crease of $3.50 over last years rate.
The next highest rate was In 1916,
when the rate reached $3.50.
Mrs. August Belmont has filed
claim of $3.50 against Berkshire Coun-
ty, Mass, following the killing of 20
of her sheep and lambs by dogs. The
sheep were grazing on her farm,
Gladbrook, at New Ashford, Mass.
Samuel A. Salsberry, 40, held in the
county jail at Norwich, Conn, to
await trial for murder, escaped by
saving off bars of his cell. With
him also went another prisoner, Frank
Weeks, a negro, serving a sentence
for chicken stealing.
At the new yard of the Aberthaw
Construction Company, Of Boston, at
Fields Point near Providence, R. I.
work on two concrete lighters has
been begun. They are to be 112 feet
long, g feet beam and II feet deep.
1t is expected they will be ready for
service Oct. l.
In a severe thunder storm accom-
panied by high wind at York Beach,
Me-, Mrs. George Clougier Of Sanford
and Mrs. Blanche Garneau of Lowell
were shocked by lightning. Mrs.
Clougier was severely burned on the
face, neck and back and her hair was
partially burned off.
Camp Goldman on Pray's Hill, 10
miles from Sanbornville, N. H., was
burned. The camp, which was
formerly known as the Peter Young
place, was owned by Prof. George
Wentworth of Brookline, who was In
charge of 80 boys from the Brookline
Sunday School society.
The Tooth anniversary of the birth
of Lucy Stone, pioneer champion OF
woman's rights, was observed at Bos-
ton by members Of the Massachusetts
Woman Suffrage association. Alice
Stone Blackwell, daughter of Lucy
Stone and president Of the association.
presided at the exercises.
The Brockton, Mass, tax rate Is
$3.50, an increase Of $3.50 over last
year, and the largest in the history
of Brockton. 1t is due chiefly to the
falling off in the new valuations of
real estate, which this year showed
an increase of only $4SO,375, against
s1,7OO0O0 the year before.
OF the 10000 white selective ser
vice men from 81 states for limited
military service called to the colors
by Provost Marshal General Crowder
Connecticut will send ESQ to Camp
Upton, Maine 100, Massachusetts,
900, New Hampshire 100, Rhode Is
land 1875 and Vermont 100.
With the mercury lowering around
%, Mrs. John D. Rockefeller, Jr., and
Mrs. Henry P. Dawson of New York
drove a bolt into the frame OF the
beam trawler Albatross, now under
construction at the South Portland
plant of the Portland Shipbuilding
company for fisheries company.
The loom fxers and weavers OF
Pawtucket, R. l., who have been on
strike for six weeks, returned to work
Monday morning, pending the decis-
Ion of the War Labor Board, whose
representatives have promised to in
vestigate conditions. The strike has
affected twenty seven mills In Rhode
Island and about 1000 employees.
The Middlesex and Boston Street
Railway Company has been sued for
$4,000 by Frank Geraci, minor
who sues through his father, Con-
cetto Geraci Of Newton, Mass. Gera-
ci alleges that on May 9. 1918, while
walking on Eliot street in Newton, he