Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1918-03-12
new ENGLAND NEWS
IN TABLOID FORM
Items Of Interest From a
Sections Of YankeeIand

Items Of Interest From u
| Sections Of YankeeIaId
The labor market as recorded
through the Boston Public Employ
ment Office for February. shows that
Notwithstanding three heatless Mon
days IN the month. the demand foI
help averaged sixty-two day. the
same as in January, but Is fourteen
per cent less than for February last
year. The number Of positions re-
ported filled elbows decrease Of nine
per cent from January. also, de-
crease of Z per cent from February
last year.
Two hundred employees of the Chel-
sea, (Mass.) Clock Co.. have struck.
They want an eight-hour day with
time and a half for overtime.
1t is reported in Boston that BUSH
ness outside Of Government work ID
remarkably quiet. The building in
1ustry is practically at standstill.
The demand for erecting machinists.
coppersmiths. boilermakers for steel
.hipbuilding, continues to be abnor-
nal. while there is a good demand for
skilled machinists in all branches Of
ammunition work. The demand for
farmers is beginning, with few idle
men In that line.
Thirty gallons Of product labelled
,live oil was seized in Boston by the
members of United States Marshal
Mitchells force. Inspector Charles
Linehan of the Boston Board Of
Health. and John Walsh, Govern
nent health official. The product
seized Is said by the health officials
o be cotton seed oil.
The Boston and Maine station at
Westmoreland Depot, N. H., was
burned. It was a story and half
wooden structure, containing the sta
ion, freight and express Office and
oostoffice. Mail and Office records
we're destroyed. The fire caught
rom a kerosene lamp. The loss
8 about $4,000.
The Interstate Commission has ap-
proved increases averaging fifteen per
cent in all-water class and commodity
'ates of the Ocean Steamship Com
oany from Boston, Providence and
New York to Augusta, Ca. Beaufort
md Port Royal, s. c.. and other
South Atlantic ports.
At Camp Devens, Aver a repair
hop of the 325th Motor Truck Com
2any containing ten machines, was
destroyed by a fire Of unknown origin
With a loss estimated at $4,000.
Flight Cadet Lloyd Carter Of Bos-
ON, twenty years old a member OF
he 92nd Squadron, Royal Flying
Corps, was killed at Leaside Camp
When a machine in which he was be-
ng instructed collided with another
machine Immediately over the air
lrome at a height of $50 feet.
Mayor Wilton Of Quincy, Mass. re-
.eived from France unique inkstand
md writing set made entirely OF cart
,idges and cartridge cases. The gift
.ame from Lieuts. Leroy 8. Wilcox
ormerly Of the Machine Gun Com
,any Of the 9Th Massachusetts In
antry, now on duty In France with
Zen. Pershing.
Requests for a 20 per cent in
rease in wages for all machine shop
workers in Springfield. to take effect
Nay 6, have been addressed to thirty
eight manufacturers in Springfield.
Vest Springfield and Chicopee Falls.
Rear Admiral Spencer 8. Wood,
,ommandant of the First Naval Dis
riot, In an address to 400 sailors and
reowomen In the armory at the
charlestown Navy Yard, declared
hat all yeowomen must comply with
he navy regulations and from now on
wear the regulation uniform Of the
service, consisting Of a cap, blouse
md skirt.
When the trucks of a timber. car
oaded with spruce logs consigned to
IN airplane shop in Philadelphia
broke at Essex Junction. VT, the
rafic between Burlington and
points north to Montreal was held up
or more than ten hours. The spruce
was q rush order.
At the meeting of the New England
Federation for Rural Progress In Fam
suil Hall, Boston, the principal ad-
Tres was made by William D. Hud,
special assistant secretary, United
state Department Of Agriculture. AZ
er referring to the prospects for In
sreases everywhere in New England
II farm products. such as grain. veg
patables, etc., he said that surely the
number Of farms keeping hogs Will at
least be doubled. He said that only
10 out of 100 farmers In Maine and
New Hampshire, IS in Vermont. 70
In Massachusetts,. 80 in Connecticut
md 81 in Rhode Island keep hogs.
The number kept on all farms could
be increased by at least one animal,
such addition giving about 100000
swine, or more than 100.000.000
pounds of pork. He advocated an
increase in all live stock which means
m increase in the production Of feed.
In short, what New England needs
Is that moro people help produce
what they eat
The fishing schooner Acushla ar
rived at Boston with 90. 900 pounds
of fresh fish, out only four days, for
which she received $1,000. Each Of
the crew was given $3.50 a. his
share.
Public spirited women Of Salem,
Mass, have arranged to sell soup OF
nourishing quality daily at II cents .
quart.