Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1918-03-22
new ENGLAND NEWS
in TABLOID FORM
Items Of Interest From All
Sections Of YankeeIand

filed in the Norfolk Superior Court at
Dedham one day last week, a number
of them being cross libels.
Companions of the Massachusetts
commandery, Military Order of the
Loyal Legion, celebrated the 50th an
commandery at their monthly meet
ing at the Hotel Brunswick, Boston.
By the will of Caroline Bird Of
Scarboor, Me-, filed for probate re-
Gently, $4,000 is bequeathed to the
New England Home for Little Wan
derers. The gift is to be available
Boston to whom the income is to be
paid during her life time.
Street car fares throughout the
State of Rhode Island have been in
creased according to a recommends
ton made to the Legislature by the
Public Utilities Commission. Tho
Rhode Island Company, controlling
all the street car lines in the State,
appealed for the right to charge
higher rates more than a year ago.
A further step to advance the sheep
industry of Maine has been taken.
An order has been passed by the
Governor and Council, the commits
sioner of agriculture being authorized
to appoint man in his department:
whose duty shall be to promote the
sheep industry in the State.
A telegram from Providence says
Supreme and Superior Court judges
should be elected by the people to
serve fifteen-year terms and be sub
jec: to removal by the General As
sembly, according to the Rev. Gill
bert B. Cutler, Senator from Scituate,
who has asked the General Assembly
to enact such law.
Aboard the fishing steam trawler
Swell, Capt. Thomas McComisky, ar
irving at the South Boston fish pier,
was a two-ton anchor and Is fathoms
vt chain, which was hauled up from
the ocean bottom on Georges Bank.
The chain and anchor was in "A faith
pms of water, and is thought to have
belonged to a large vessel.
Receipts of fish at Boston during
the past week were 9,040,370 lbs,
brought in by Ga vessels, the first
time Ibis year that the weekly re-
ceipts have been in the 100000 Id.
class. During the corresponding pc
riod of last year the figures were q
614,190 lbs. landed by Sc vessels.
Boston captains and crews are to
be chosen to man five new fishing
steam trawlers that are to be added
to the local fleet this summer by the
East Coast Fisheries Co. The King
fisher, the first of the squadron which
was recently launched at Portland, is
due at Boston April l for her first
trip to the fishing grounds.
Four fishing schooners were driven
ashore at Provincetown, Mass, by
heavy ice and a northeast blizzard
that swept the cape. They are the
Valerie, Captain Frank Gaspie; Prog
ress, Captain Tony King, both well
known in the Boston fishing feet; the
J. M. Burke. and the Cormorant.
Mayor Haines of Medford, Mass.
has asked the board of aldermen fol
an appropriation to establish a can
ming factory, which will can all home
garden vegetables free of charge, and
a public market. In the letter he
sent, Mayor Haines explained that il
was the duty Of the city to aid in foot
production and consumption in every
way.
Purchase of 65,582 of LIANT
in the White Mountains and Southern
Appalachians for inclusion in thu
Eastern National Forests has beer
authorized by the Government. Thu
land includes 893 acres in Orator
County, N. H, and Oxford County
Maine.
The federal government Is to con
struct the most efficient shipping ter
.minal in the world in Boston. 1t will
cost more than $20,0O0,000 and vii
be built on the 100000 feet of Ian,
and fats running along the entir
length OF reserved channel in Soutl
Boston, which the government ha
agreed to purchase from the state TO
an embarkation site for troops an,
supplies.
Henry Howard, director of recruit
ing for the United States Shipping
Board has been notified that addition
al ships are being secured in orde
to train seamen for the vessels nov
building. At present there are Blu
two training ships, both at Boston
which are capable Of handling onl
about 1900 recruits. AS there are nov
| clio recruits more vessels are neces
sary, and these will be stationed a
other ports.
officers and men in the variou
camps under orders to proceed to an
other post or duty, or who hear tina
they are about to be ordered to a Ger
tain destination, must under no con
ditions furnish their information T.
others outside the service. This ap