Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1918-06-18

,rr,Ir. A. the west Boylston MANI
featuring COMPANY. Ea zee 3
MASS. has been granted y ne.'' 49,
rrdicott executive manager OF tae
s.ata' committee on public safety. wno
acted az arbitrator in the dispute pe
tween the company and IT. EMPLOYS
The 72nd commencement OF :.
1ohnsbury academy was bald N tns
south congregational church, SHf
Johnsbury. VT, . class OF - sraou
ating from the academic department,
and 20 from the commercial uov.r
nor Horace F. Graham addressed inc
claaa One Of the events Of comm ence
ment week at the academy Was tne
raising Of service flag bearing Nv
stars. !,
A small quantity Of dynamite wl.n
fuse attached was found on the No.
Work New Haven and Hartford rah-
road tracks, within 100 feet OF tne
large puritan mills, Plymouth, MASS.
The bomb was wrapped in paper ana
was within a few inches OF q rl.
The Puritan mills are working on
large contracts of cloth for -tne gov
eminent Oficials are invesisauns'
Philip H. arosser. private at Fols
Banks, was sentenced to 80 years I'M
nr,sonment in the disciplinary paT.
racks at Fort Jay having been founo
guilty. by court martial Of making aus
LOYAL remarks and encouraging GUS
LOYALTY among soldiers. Army ON
cials said Grosser claimed to Do .
conscientious objector.
The Massachusetts state food al
ministration has started an inVesu!a
ton of banana prices, which have IN
creased steadily until retail Quota-
tons are from 40 to go cents q doxen'
and in some restaurants as high a.
IN cents each. Wholesale prices are
from $3.50 to 81 hundred pounos'
including the stems.
It ia reported that Dr.. Karl Muck %
organizing an enemy alien orchestra
Al the internment camp at Fort Ogle-
thorpe Ga. The former director OF
the Boston Symphony has picked
thrtty-five musicians from among the
600 prisoners and planning TO enter
tain the camp population.
The collision between the south
bound passenger train from Cam
bridge for Burlington and a work
locomotive running light, in tunnel
between Burlington and 'Winoosk on
the Central Vermont Railroad caused
the death of nine workmen and In
turtes to several others.
The persons who pledge themselves
to buy stamps will continue to buy
them for the year. The quota TO-
Massachusetts is $7s,0O0.o0o and 1t
is expected that. 10000 women
throughout this section will coope-
rate in the work Of raising this
amount.
Women of Massachusetts Will TO-
morrow begin a three weeks drive
for the sale of war savings stamps
through which they hope to obtain
one million pledges from the four
million people Of Massachusetts,.
Preliminary papers from aliens who
want to be naturalized are being re
| ceived at Camp Devens. Mass, at the
| rate of 700 day. The total number
to be naturalized will 'e close to 5000
| It was stated today.
Search Is being made In several ci'
| ties for $50 rolls Of silk, valued al
$4,000, which were stolen from the
| Continental Waist Compan:-. Is Otis
street, Boston.
Bar Harbor, Me-, is made a port Of
entry. by a bill reported to the House
by Congressman Treadway Of Massa'
chusetts for the Committee on Ways
and Means.
Returns received from all but four
| of the local draft boards in Massa'
chysetts showed that 22.452 young
men of 81 years Of age registered fol
military service last week.