Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1918-01-25

the age OF 81. lie was among the
first to answer the call of President
Polk, more than seventy years ago.
The Massachusetts Institute of
Technology, with its record of achieve
ment and with its $20,000,000 of as
sets, need not fear it will be swal-
lowed by Harvard university, said
President Macaurin at an alumni ban
quet and dedication of the New Wall
ker Memorial building.
Mrs. James G.. Berry of Brockton,
Mass, besides her son, who recently
enlisted in the United States navy,
has also in the service four brothers,
seven nephews and ten cousins.
A campaign to raise a fund of $4,000
to supply the needs of their own SOL
der and sailor boys is being carried
on by the Boston Newsboys' club.
Fourteen summer cottages along the
Longmeadow shore, Narragansett Bay,
were torn from their foundations and
lifted high in the air by ice and flood
tide in seventy-mile gale.
The employment OF women on
street cars is step to be taken only
as last resort, according to the
stand taken by Chairman Macleod OF
the Massachusetts, state public ser
vice commission.
Millbury, Mass, schools will re-
main closed for an indefinite time be-
cause of the shortage of coal.
A dozen passengers were cut or
bruised at Thompsonville, Conn,
when a trolley car ran wild down a
steep hill and crashed into the rear
of another standing on a switch.
While attempting to clear pas
sage up the RoXbury canal, the BOs-
ton police boat Waterman had her
bow so badly pierced by submerged
ice that she sank. The members of
her crew had narrow escape from
drowning.
The state of Massachusetts has
agreed to pay the heirs of James NJ.
Beede S175,O0O for an estate taken
for the west wing of the state house
John Calafato, H. was shot dead
in his home at Boston by pistol in
the hands of Anthony DeLucca, IA.
The police say the shooting was ac-
cidental.
Mrs. Sarah Bahr, SO. released from
the DanverS Insane hospital last Octo-
Der. committed suicide at Maiden,
Mass, by inhaling gas.
Lieut.. Mum. U. s. n. II. F.. is
preparing 10 make a big recruiting
drive at Providence to secure men for
the duration of the war.
After lying in state of coma for
three months, Ernest Paine, 81, died
at the Worcester, Mass, state hospi-
tai. He weighed bur seventy pounds
at death.
Maiden, Mass, public, evening and
high schools will remain closed until
Jan. u because Of the fuel shortage.
The parochial schools will follow the
action of the public schools.
Fire of mysterious origin destroyed
the Methodist church at Scituate,
Mass. Two dwellings and a bust
ness building in the vicinity ignited
from flying sparks. The loss il
500 200.
DR.. Alfredo b. Wilmington of Pitts
field Mass, who has been interested
in Red Cross work for several years,
will leave for France to engage in ac-
tive war service.
David NJ. G. Russell and James
Rafferty, were killed by train at
Lowell. Mass, while transferring a
load of lumber from one freight car
to another.
There were sixteen passengers rid
ing a jitney bus at Lynn, Mass,
when a trolley car crashed into it.
demolished the rear end and injured
eight passengers.
Wilbur Fremont, 4, while coasting
at Winchester, Mass, lost control of
his sled and coasted into the Aber-
iona river and was drowned.
Andrew j. May, a blacksmith, was
found frozen to death in a room in
the rear of the shop at Rutland,
Mass, where he lived alone.
The S. r. Avis & Sons company,
manufacturing gun barrels, closed its
plant at West Haven Conn, and laid
off 500 hands,
The difficulty in obtaining not only
teachers, but girls to train for teach
ers, was shown by a report filed in
the Legislature by the Massachusetts
state board of education against the
construction of new normal school.
Civil service prohibitions block the
plan for municipal policewoman in
Fitchburg Mass, according to men,
bers of the wOman's league, who have
virtually abandoned the campaign.
TO drop a distance of 100 feet over
a cliff in an automobile and escape
with merely a broken leg was the eX-
perence of George w. Hatch, So, a
Cambridge, Mass, business man.
Frank r. Cassidy, 10, died at Bos.
ton following injuries received while
coasting.