Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1918-07-26
new ENGLAND NEWS
IN TABLOID FORM
Items OF Interest From All
Sections Of YankeeIand

rect on the boston Elevated system
Aug. 1, according to a statement is
sued by the Boston News. Bureau,
The Dustin Knitting Company at
Kittery, Me-, has been incorporated
with capital stock Of $4,000. Wool
en- and worsted goods and fabrics will
be made.
Fares on the Boston Elevated rail-
way may be raised from to cents
and possibly to cents, according to
statement issued by the public trust
ees of the property.
The Newport, R. l., Daily News, an
afternoon newspaper was sold by T.
T. Pitman, who had controlled the
property for more than so years, to
Edward A. Sherman, a banker of
that city.
The manufacturing property at
Westerly, R. l., recently owned by
the Pequot Shirt Company of Boston,
has been sold to Charles E. Sherman
and Arthur L. Perry. The estimated
selling price is $4,000.
The Manhattan Market company of
Cambridge, Mass, has been sued for
5000 by Ellen Sullivan of Cambridge.
She alleges that she purchased some
vinegar from the defendant which was
not fit to use and as result was
made i'll.
Orders forbidding the use Of coal
for heating purposes in homes or Of
flee buildings for an indefinite period
that may extend to Dec. /, were is
sued by the Boston fuel committee.
Those who wish heat are advised to
burn wood.
E. X. Watson of Warren, R. l.,
who purchased the Upton Manufac
| turing Companw property has sold
the same to A. Leviton, N. Y. city.
1t is understood that the new owner
will install cards and operate the
plant as a shoddy mill.
Wishing to do his bit in promotion
of war work, Dr. Arthur G. Lea
cock, professor of Greek at Phillips
Exeter academy, went to Belfast,
Me, to work in shipyard for the
summer. Though his speciality is
dead language, he is skilled and
def worker with tools.
Preparing for an unprecedented de-
mand for firewood, caused by the Or
der frobidding the use of coal for
heating before Dec. /, Boston coal and
wood dealers are securing the state
forests as we'll as those of southern
Maine, New Hampshire and Vermont,
to purchase all available cordwood
At Augusta, Me-, the public utilities
commission rendered a decision au-
thorizing the Portland Gas Company
to publish and file on or before July
80, 1918, effective August /, 1918, and
continuing one year. an emergency
schedule Of gas rates which shall not
exceed $3.50 per thousand cubic feet.
An innocent looking fan electro
cuted William J. Bogues, 38, ma
chinist, when he attempted to turn
the fan on in the workshop of the j.
T. Slocum company at Narragansett
the ESQ voltage Of the fan went
through his body. He was dead be-
fore the ambulance arrived.
Parts Of human body, bearing evil
dence that an attempt had been made
to destroy all means of identification
were found on the west shore Of the
Taunton river, Near Fall River, Mass.
Bones had been ut inc two as if by a
hair had been shaved from the head.
1t is believed that the body had been
In the water several weeks.
A voluntary increase Of 10 per cent
In wages has been given several thou
sand workers employed in seven of
the largest shoe factories in Haver-
hill, Mass, according to an announce
ment made by Daniel Healey, agent
Of the Boot and Shoe Workers Union.
Wages of cutters on mems shoes have
been advanced 20 per cent and those
working on women's shoes, 80 per
cent.
Rhode Island cotton manufactur-
Skefflngton, federal mediator, and
John Golden, president Of the United
Textile Workers of America, refused
the demands of the loomfxers for an
advance Of Is per cent on wages pre-
vailing on June II. The manufactur
ers say they are paying on an average
s30.3S weekly which. they claim, is
more than is paid in other cotton CEN
tiers in New England.
Boyden Bearce, live stock sanitary
commissioner Of Maine, has an
nounced the discovery of. two new
diseases among the cattle Of Maine,
parasitic pneumonia and black leg
The latter is only slightly less vir-
ulent than anthrax and is one Of the
most contagious of animal diseases
Parasitic pneumonia is also very
contagious and is spread by sneez-
ing and coughing.
Out of more than 1900 women and
girls registered with the land service