Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1918-09-06
new ENGLAND NEWS
IN TABLOID FORM
Items of Interest From All
Sections of YankeeIand

the Springfield, Mass, award.
embassies or legations of class A,
made by President Wilson, included
James T. Mariner, Portland, Me.
l.. B. Painting Of Concord, N. H.,
was reelected president of the New
England Association of Photographers
at the annual meeting in Springfield,
Mass.
Fred E. Atteaux of Brookline, Mass,
and Edward Dahl of Germany, have
been indicted on charge of defraud-
ing the United States government by
false invoices.
While Ohio was the banner state in
the sale of War Savings stamps in
July, sales amounting to-$15, 719, 600,
Vermont led in per capita sales, with
a record of $4.72.
The appointment of Dr. J. F. Stew
ems of Milinocket as district health
officer for the northern district of
hdlHc was dpploNCu. I1C w III lSSClNC
a salary of $4,000.
Mrs. George w. Hill of Saco, Me,
is at the Weber hospital, Biddeford,
suffering from injuries received when
she was run into by an automobile
driven by Mrs Ruth Owen of Saco.
Albert e. Watts and Louis B. Good
speed pleaded not guilty in a Boston
court, to an Indictment charging con-
spiracy TO monopolize the fish indus
try of Boston. Each furnished $4,000
bail.
AT the meeting Of the Governor and
Council at Augusta, Me-, the Secretary
of State was authorized to send
representatives to the different mill
tary camps to give instructions in
voting to the soldiers.
The Brown University ambulance
unit has arrived at Genoa, Italy, and
is stationed there. Word of the ar
rival was received Wednesday by
Pres. w. H. P. Faunce in a message
from D. c. Hall, a member of the unit.
A smileage book drive was carried
on last week at Berlin, N. H, by
many of the young women of Berlin.
They took advantage of the Chautau-
qua crowds and the smileage books
were for sale before each perform
ance.
At Hartford, Connecticut, Beatrice
Duke of Newark, N. j., pleaded guilty
in the United States district court to
the charge of wearing unlawfully the
uniform of a United States army Off
Ger and was sentenced to serve 20
days in Jail
The American Astronomical So
ciety, at it's secondary session in
Boston, accepted the report of the spe-
cial committee appointed at a pre-
vious convention, recommending a
change of the astronomical time TO
conform with civilian time.
Albert E. Scott of Brookline, Mass,
said to have been the youngest sol
der in the American expeditionary
forces in France-he was only Is years,
six months old when he enlisted-is
unofficially reported to have been
killed in France on July Is.
G. S. Stetson, chairman of the
Maine board of assessors, says that
ho tn valuation In Vnrk
county will exceed 100000. The
increase in Biddeford will be approx
mately $1,OOO0OO, in Sanford a similar
amount and in Saco $35O,0O0.
A reward of 500 will be paid by
the Lexington, Mass, selectmen for
information which will secure the ar
rest and conviction of the driver Of
the automobile which ran into Miss
Annie M. Kearney, on the evening of
August s, and caused her death.
The August reports of cold storage
warehouses to the Massachusetts
state department Of health show a
storage of nearly 100000 pounds
more of food stuffs than were stored
during a similar period last year. The
existing total is 28,000,000, pounds.
An amendment providing for bien-
NAL elections was put through its
final stage in the Massachusetts con-
stitutional convention, 1872 to 104 and
will be referred to the people in No
vember. Massachusetts is the only
state that elects a governor and other
officers every year.
Calls for 700 men for general SER
vice to be sent to Camp Devens, and
$50 for limited or special service to be
entrained for Camp Upton, ~, Y, dur
ing the first week in September. were
received at Augusta, Me. In addi-
ton IL negroes are to be sent to
Camp Devens on Sept. /.
On charges of injuring Francis j.
Shea, boy, with her automobile on
the Fellsway boulevard, July %, and
not making known her identity to the
police. Mrs. Bmmeline Cheever of
Boston was sentenced to two months
in the house of correction by Judge
Wentworth in the Somerville, Mass,