Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1918-11-05
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Inns Of htDrOst From ID
Sectio0s Of Ya1hseland
Massachusetts health officials stats
that the epidemic OF Influenza ane
pneumonia viii be practically ended
by November !.
Members Of the Students ARM
Training Corps at the Massachusetts
Agricultural College, Amherst. have
been inoculated for typhoid fever ane
smallpox.
Gordon Pray. aged Il years, son Of
Ralph W. Pray of Yarmouth, Me-, was
fatally shot while hunting In Pownal
by the accidental charge Of shot
gun he was carrying.
The election of George 8. Ginsbere
of Bangor as captain Of the Students
Army Training corps football team al
University of Maine is announced BY
Manager Miles F. Ham. Ginsberg Is
playing quarterback.
Nearly 1000 young men from al.
over Vermont were indicted into the
service of the United States, at the
formal exercises of the opening Of
the Students Army Training Corps
at the University Of Vermont
Worcester is to have a volunteer
woman's motor corps consisting Of
"a members under the captaincy Of
Mrs. Willard e. Swift The purpose
Of the corps is to give efficient and
rapid transportation to officials %
Worcester Chapter. Red Cross.
John E. Roberts, a life convict II
the state prison at Thomaston, Me.
died of pneumonia. A pardon hear
ing had been set for Nov. q. He
was convicted on circumstantial evil
dence Of numbering ]. Edgar Dickson
in Smyrna Mills, Oct II, 1906.
Munitions manufacturers Of Con
necticut and the four counties o.
western Massachusetts,, were told II
plain words they must speed up pro
duction, because crisis exists ant
It calls for the unlimited exertion b!
both manufacturers and employees.
Several New Bedford manufactur
ers appeared before the governor!
council to urge that the sum OF $7S,
401 be transferred from the Wa
Emergency Fund for the purpose o
providing for needed improvement!
at the State pier in New Bedford.
DR.. John R. Mott, director genera
of the united war work campaign
told the New England organization!
that the fund of $17g.50o.900 must b
over-subscribed by so per cent II
order that the American army ma!
have the proper warmth and comfor
during the winter.
The resignation Of former Leuten
ant Governor Louis A. rockingham
as a membep of the board Of trustees
of the Boston Elevated Railway com
pany is announced by Governor Nc
Call: In his letter Of resignation
Mr.. rockingham said that he hat
received a commission In the army.
James Sullivan, a baker at the
Hotel Brunswick, Boston, who diet
Oct. 16, had his will probated at SUI
folk Registry and the will recites
that $4,000 be paid to relatives ant
that $1,000 shall be given to the Home
for Destitute Catholic Children ant
another $1,000 to the Carney Hospi
tai.
Charged with refusal to pay wal
revenue tax Of eight cents on
split" railroad ticket between Nortf
Wilmington and Boston, William ]
Creeon was arrested upon arrival o.
his train and turned over to the fed
eral authorities. The case Is said Il
be the first Of It's kind in New Eng
land.
Calls for Massachusetts, to furnish
24,050 registrants for general mill
tary service from the 10 to Sc veal
old group registered last month, are
to be made eat intervals in the i'm
mediate future" according to In
structions sent to all local boards by
Maj. Roger Wolcott, officer in charge
Of tbs draft
Words of warmest praise for the
101st Engineers, Boston's old F4rst
Corps Cadets, have been bestowed
upon the men by Maj.-Gen. Edwards
commanding the 26th overseas divi'
sion, and special commentator has
been given their work in connection
with the movement that reduced the
st. Mihiel salient.
Food rationing will never be adopt.
ed in this State, If its people give al
much support to the Food Admins
tration in the future as they have II
the past, said Henry B. Endicott II
discussing the new regulations rela
tive to what has been termed the
"rationing" Of restaurants and Other
public eating places.
Harry P. Brown, treasurer Of the
Guaranty Trust Company Of Berlin
N. H., and president Of the Conway
National Bank Of Conway, has beer
arrested on q charge Of making un'
authorized loans to himself, his fam.
fly and friends from the nationa
bank. He was held By the fedora
court in $4,000 bonds.
? The Springfield Chamber Of Com
merce Announces that It 10 con.
Quoting an investigation Of war labo,
conditions to determine whether 4
registration Of women for full OF part
time employment should DO under
taken. Should tho plan b adopted
% IL considered Likely, every woman
Win DO asked TO oil out A question.
naare and those available for ser.
vice would DO placed through 4 spe.
csal war service bureau.
Maxwell 0oldburgh. Q young Jew
sles Of New York, who, acting under