Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1918-06-07
new ENGLAND news
IN TABLOID FORM
Items of Interest From All
Sections of YankeeIaHd

The demand for space on steamers
leaving Boston for the West Indies is
unprecedented Every ship Is filed to
capacity and deck loads of lumber and
other rough goods are common. Elev-
en- carloads of Canadian mail were
included in the manifest of a United
Fruit Company ship destined for Hav-
ana, other items being machinery, po-
tatoes, paper, dried fish, shoes, straw
pipe. Prior to the war the entire sup
ply Of malt received in Cuba and used
for brewing purposes came from Aus
tria. Now Canada is furnishing the
malt which is shipped largely through
this port.
An appeal for the cows Of New Eng
land has been issued by the Massa.
chusetts state food administration. In
December, 1890, the statement said
there were 200,65S milch cows asses
sed in this state alone. Last year the
number had dropped to 149,077. With
the cost OF production rising faster
than the price at which milk can be
sold, the statement continues, the
farmer is tempted to sell his cattle for
beef. In order to encourage him to
keep his COWS the statement urges the
public to use more milk during the
time of the greatest surplus from now
until July /.
Notices were posted in the Sears
Roebuck factory, Saco, Me-, that. due
to war conditions, the factory will be
abandoned June l and the machinery
will be moved. The transfer of the
local business to the New England
Office at Cambridge Mass, was made
by Supt. G. A. Bradlee Of Marlboro,
Mass. There are 161 employees, and
two thirds Of them will go to Spring,
vale. The shoe factory was financed
by stockholders from Biddeford and
Saco, and there was 10-year lease.
According to officials, there was not
enough work to warrant the oontinu-
ance Of the factory.
Thomas Mcnamara of Lewiston,
Me-. was arrested by United States
Marshal Jorn S. P. H. Wilson in that
city charged with being the consignee
Of the $4,000 carload of liquors
seized by the police of Lewiston 1t Is
alleged Mcnamara violated the So
called bone dry" law by transporting
the liquor from New Hampshire into
Maine. He was held in $500 cash bail
for his appearance at the September
term of the United States Grand Jury.
The entire carload of liquor, $500 bot
ties, was libeled by the United States
deputy collector of customs.
The public service commission will
give public hearing at 1890 a. m.
June IL on the question of approving
the new schedule Of fares which the
Boston, Revere Beach and Lynn Rail
road Company proposes to put into ef-
feet The company originally set
June for the application Of the new
rates but the commission has sus-
pended operation of the schedule until
July l at least. The company proposed
to increase its unit fare from to 7
cents.
Nineteen men rounded up in vari-
GUS parts of the east charged with be-
ing delinquents under the selective
service law were sent to camp Devens
Mass, and put in the army. The men
were arrested by secret service agents
and were sent to camp following hear
ings before federal commissioners.
Some claimed that they were properly
exempted by local boards. One de-
clared that he was an Austrian by
birth but expressed a willingness to
fight for the United States.
James Cochrane, a wealthy farmer
of Clarenceville, Canada was killed
at Milton, Vermont, when his au-
tomobile, becoming stalled on a steep
hill, rolled down On the bridge and
crashed through the guard-rail into
the Lamoille river. Cochrane was a
brother, Of Frank Cochrane, minister
Of canals and railways in the cabinet
of Premier Borden. He was SO years
Of age The body was recovered
Recruiting service officials of the
United States Shipping Board recently
made an inspection Of the navigation
and engineering school at the Massa-
chusetts Institute of Technology and
the training ship Gov Cobb. Upon
the completion of the tour they ex-
pressed satisfaction in the progress
made toward furnishing competent
compliments for the ships building
for the Merchant Marine.
Col. Paul Azan OF the department Of
the northeast, formerly head Of the
French military mission to Harvard
is to supervise the training work of
the Harvard allied summer camp to
be held during July and August at
Lancaster, six miles from Camp Dev-
ems. 1t. Andre Morize, French officer
at Harvard, will be in direct charge
of the training work.