Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1918-04-12


about three ducks and four ducks
eggs. Mrs. Thomas McDermott of 10
Bedford court owns three ducks, and
early in the week she found four
ducks eggs in the nests where her
ducks made their home in the rear OF
her home. A close watch was then
kept over the McDermott duck yard
to see that no strange duck went into
the yard. Four eggs were found
again in the McDermott duckhouse,
and now the neighbors are convinced
that Mrs. McDermott has truly WON
derful ducks. But still Mrs. Nc
Dermott and her neighbors are puz-
zled, for they do not know which
duck is laying the two eggs in a day.
Fifteen women teachers from the
high and grammar schools, Water
vile, Me-, descended upon the school
board with demand for 20 per cent.
raise. They declared that mill girls
were better paid than teachers. In
creased cost Of living was the great
argument. She leather was another
point The schoolroom floors are hard
on soles The teachers cited ad-
vances received by other municipal
employees. II laborers, police and even
the school janitors get more pay,
why not the teachers? The hoard re-
ferred the request to a special COM
mittee.
The Governors approval of the
budget bill last week gave this years
Massachusetts Legislature good
lead over that Of 1917 in the accom-
plishment Of appropriation work. In
Guiding the budget appropriations,
the Legislature for 1918 has thus far
made appropriations aggregating
$29,266,607. At this time last year
the appropriations amounted to $24,-
559.226. Gov. Mccall has approved
119 general acts this year and LOT
special bills. He has sent in but one
veto. Lt,-Gov. Coolidge has signed one
general act and one special bill.
More than one hundred acres Of
land in the Boston park system wiki
be devoted to war gardens again this
year. All plans have been formulated
by officials of the Boston Committee
on Public Safety and approved by the
mayor 1t is hoped that plenty OF
land will be available to accommodate
the hundreds of applicants for plots
Of an eight of an acre each, but the
committee will economic, in the
hope Of spending not more than half
of the $4,000, which was last years
outlay.
The Republican platform adopted
at the State convention, Portland Me.
declares: The fact that the party in
power refused to prepare for war in
1914 and 1915 has had no effect upon
the action Of Republicans. To that
refusal was no doubt due the fact that
the war found us wholly unprepareG
and by that lack Of preparation thous-
ands of lives and billions Of dollars
have been lost. We know that we can
do more than those now in control
in Congress to brig quickly to pass
the peace OF victory"
The famous old Kickapoo Indian
sagwa is no more. 1t has gone to the
happy hunting grounds. This came
to pass through the dissolution of the
Kickapoo Indian Company of North
Haven, Conn, through papers filed
with the Secretary of State. The
assets Of the company have been sold
or collected About $4,000 has been
distributed to the stockholders.
The Rev. Francis Low, pastor of
the Congregational Church OF Hud-
son. announced that he would be a
candidate for representative in the
General Court next fall from the 10th
Middlesex district, which is made up
of Maynard, Boxboro, Hudson and
Stow. He will run on the Republic
can ticket.
Mrs Alice Wellington Lyman.
treasurer of the Smith College Relief
Unit Fund, has received cablegram
saying that the first Smith College
unit in France escaped the advancing
Germans in the big drive. Miss Alice
Leavens of AGO Center ST. jamaica
Plain, and Miss Margaret Bennett OF
Cambridge are members of the unit.
The following appointments have
been announced by the war Depart
ment: Second Lieutenant, Aviation
Section, Signal Reserve Corps-Mat-
thew Harrison, Herbert A. Hymer
and Silas C. Hyndshaw, all Of the
Massachusetts Institute Of Technol"
ogy.
Rev. Clarence II. Waldron of Wind
sor, VT, sentenced for disloyalty to
the United States by the Federal
Court here short time ago to 10
years in the Government Peniten-
tiary at Atlanta Ga, has gone to At
lanta in charge of Deputy United
States Marshal J. e. Reeves.
Harold Mackley of Holland, also to
serve Is years for seditious utter
ances, and Jack Lawrence. duet
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