Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1918-01-01

Kenneth and Earl Dow, brothers.
were instantly killed near Montpelier.
vt. when their team was hit by q
train on the Central Vermont railroad.
II. R. Small a fireman. was killed
and three other trainmen injured when
n passenger train collided with
switching engine, head-on, near New
Haven.
Andrew P. Raggio, professor OF
Spanish and Italian languages at the
University of Maine, died at Orono
Icemen are getting ready to harvest
the ice crop at North Beverly and
Hamilton, Mass. This is the earliest
for years that the harvesting has been
commenced.
Fire. which caught from machine,
swept through the two upper floors OF
a mill of the w 8. Libby company,
Lewiston, Me. The loss Is $5O,OOO ana
sixty operatives are thrown out OF en-
ployment.
Mrs. Julia Flynn, 80, died at Wal
than, Mass, from burns received
when lounge upon which she was
lying caught fire.
An arbitration board granted the
demand of the Portland, Me-, Long
shoremen's union for an increase OF
wages.
Increased acreage Of oats and the
more extensive breeding Of sheep were
urged by j. A. Roberts, state commits
siOner of agriculture, IN an ADDRESS
before the Maine State Grange.
The city council adopted an order
prohibiting girls between the ages OF
16 and Fl from backing shoes In the
Boston shoe shining establishments.
The $4,000 breach Of promise suit
brought by Miss Georgia e. Ames
against Henry G. Luce, Boston broker,
was settled without its coming up
for trial.
Harold E. Tilson, %, has a well
defined case Of smallpox. the Spring
field, Mass, board Of health decided
The isolation hospital Is filed to ca
pacity.
More than 200 clerks at the Boston
navy yard in the draft age, who had
been Informed they did not come with
In the scope of the selective service
regulations, received notice that only
fourteen of the number are exempt
from the draft.
The retirement Of Superintendent
Gardner, for more than twenty-five
years head Of the Rhode Island state
Sockonossett school for boys, who
has rendered his resignation, is said
to be the result Of friction between
members Of the penal board and
heads of institutions.
DR.. W. W. Gannett, "a, consulting
physician Of Boston, and Miss Ger
trude Maley, 35. are to be married.
Anticipating heavy labor demands
by spring or earlier, the Connecticut
Council of Defense Is planning forma'
ton of labor exchanges throughout
the state.
For the first time in q number OF
years officers, civilian employees and
enlisted men at the Boston navy yard
will work Christmas Day this year
The same conditions will apply to
New Years Day also.
The town Of Wakefield, Mass, has
been liable for sickness Of persons at
fected by gas escaping while repairs
in gas pipes were in progress. yer.
diets totalling $500 were awarded
three persons.
Gov. Mccall nominated Lawrence B.
Evans of Medford to be state librarian
of Massachusetts to succeed Foster
w. Stearns, resigned.
Caleb Saunders, 70, former mayor
Of Lawrence, Mass, and member OF
the school board and one Of the most
prominent Masons In the state, died
at his home. He had always lived
in the same house In which he was
born.
Giving as his reason that he can.
not make his income meet expenses
Sheriff Mann mailed to Governor Ora
ham as resignation as sheriff OF
Windham county, Vt.
Word was received at Brookline,
Mass, his home, that Phillips w.
Page, an aviator with the American
naval forces and former Boston
newspaper man, was drowned In
France.
Arnold F. Salisbury, a Pawtucket,
R. l., photographer, died at the age of
"a. He was a veteran of the Civil
war, Free Mason and Odd Fellow and
was wealthy.
Henry Lanzillo, 18, employed on an
electric switch at a Somerville, Mass,
factory, received a shock while at
his work which resulted in almost in.
slant death.
The Cambridge, Mass, board Of II.
brary trustees elected Thomas H.
Cummings, lecturer and writer, libra
rian of the Cambridge public library
to succeed Matthew r. Copithorne.
Henry ]. Wessling Of Boston was
ordained priest Of the Jesuit order by
Cardinal O'Connell. Wessling is blind
and his ordination marks an epoch In
the Catholic church history.
Fire did $1,000 damage to the in
terror Of the old Friends Meeting
House at New Bedford, Mass. The
meeting house was a landmark.
Three fingers and the thumb were
blown from the left hand Of Joseph
Noretti, IS, Of Lexington, Mass, when
a cartridge he had been picking to
pieces exploded as he sat at his desk
In school.
Army Bill Asks $4,000, 100000