Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1918-07-05
Thousands OF dollars, worth ~

tons of these States the mercury fell
below the freezing point. Hundreds
of war gardens were destroyed. In
some cases the entire planting of big
| farms has been ruined. 1t is too late
in the season to replant some of the
crops, and there will be a scarcity Of
them in the market The minimum
temperature in Boston was forty
| degrees, but in many surrounding
places the mercury fell to thirty four
degrees, and in the lower regions
to thirty-one and even thirty degrees.
Professor Ernest Isaac Werber, an
Austrian, who holds a fellowship at
Yale, has been arrested and will be
interned, it is expected. The reason
given is that as a fellow at univer-
sity he has every opportunity to Wis
it laboratories and that it is danger
Gus to permit him to remain at large.
Miss Rhoda .Erdmann another distin-
| guished scholar, who was studying at
Yale, was recently arrested and in
| termed
Exceptionally high prices for fish
prevail in face of large receipts at
Boston, and the comparative ease with
which trips are obtained. Mackerel
continue oarrive by the vessel load,
yet the wholesale prices, as given by
the Boston fish bureau is II and IL
cents per pound.
Personal property amounting to
$1,0S4 ,86934 and real estate estimated
at 100000 was left by the late Major
Augustus P Gardner, who died at a
cantonment in the South last Janu-
airy, according to the inventory filed
by the executors of his will at the Es
! sex County Probate office at Salem,
Mass. The most of Major Gardeners
personal property was in shares Of
stock and bonds of lareg corpora
lions.
William J. (Big Bid Keliher, who
was sentenced to an 18-year term in
1910 for aiding and abeting George
| w. Coleman, wrecker of the National
City Bank at Cambridge, Mass, was
granted a parole by the federal pa
role board, now sitting in Washington
according to telegram received at
the office of United States Marshal
John j. Mitchell. Keliher was SEN
fenced by Judge Hale of the United
States circuit court, Dec. 20, 1910, and
was taken to the state prison at
! Charlestown, where he was confined
until April of this year, when he was
removed to the federal prison at Fort
Leavensworth, Kas. His friends
made frequent attempts to have him
pardoned.
The old frigate Constitution which
has held fast to it's present mornings
at the Charlestown Navy Yard for Is
years has been moved to the east of
Pier. 4. This change was made
necessary through the lengthening of
the water front at the yard.
The Aberthaw Construction Com
pany of Boston is negotiating with the
city of Providence for the leasing Of
100000 square feet of land at Fields
Point. 1t is the intention Of the
company to build concrete vessels at
this location, beginning with small
concrete barges and increasing to yes
sells of any dimensions that the indus
trial times and war conditions will
warrant.
| Inscriptions persons in and about
Boston are said by the officers of the
New England division of the Red
Cross to be actively engaged in an
attempt to lure young women from
their homes by false promises of
nursing service under the Red Cross
The Maine G. A. r. men now total
229S.
William G. Beale of Chicago was
elected a member Of the board of
trustees of Bowdoin college at Bruins
wick, Me-, to fill the vacancy caused
by the death of Judge William l..
Putnam of Portland.
Gifts to Yale university the past
year totaled $1,279,764.
Members of the district draft board
having jurisdiction in the city of Bos-
ton have started campaign to fer
ret out slackers under the selective
service law. In statement, Judge
A. X. Cohen, chairman Of the board,
asked the aid of citizens in detecting
registrants who have been given de-
ferred classification on claims of de-
pedency which are unfounded. Judge
Cohen said that investigation showed
many such cases in Boston.
At Brattleboro, VT, J. r. Harring-
ton, claivoyant, paid fine of $40 and
costs after pleading guilty to the
charge of obtaining money under false
pretences. He agreed to leave town.
One hundred and fifteen students
received diplomas at the graduation
exercises of the Brookline, Mass.
high school. One Of the features Of
the evenings program was the presen-
) tation by Miss Mary p Frye in be-
half of the class, Of service flag