The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1918-08-22
new ENGLAND NEWS
IN TABLOID FORM
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Governor Hesesman 81 Rhode Island
ordered all gambling places In The
state closed. including several al
Narraeansett Pier
lioyey r. Slayton has been APP
pointed federal fuel administrator TOT
the state Of New Hampshire TO sue
coed former Governor Charles NJ
Floyd.
Mrs Woodrow Wilson was mace
honorary chairman of the national
woman's war work council Of the
Young womcns Christian association
at Portland
by margin of two votes, lof 10
100. the Massachusetts, Constitutional
convention defeated proposed
amendment TO permit the legislature
to make voting compulsory,
In response 10 a telcgraphic request
from President Gompers Of the Amer
lean Federation Of Labor Boston Ia
bor lenders are planning a big parade
for Labor Day The army and navy
will cooperate.
Bostons new tax rate is s2l.2o per
thousand. This Is the highest hSure
IN the history OF the city. II Is an III
crease Of $3.50 over last years RAJ"
The next highest rate was in 1916,
when the rate reached $3.50.
Mrs. August Belmont has filed
claim OF $3.50 against Berkshire Couh'
~. Mass, following the killing OF 20
of her sheep and lambs by dogs. The
sheep were grazing on her farm'
Cladbrook. at New Ashford, Mass.
Samuel A. Salsberry, 40, held IN me
county Jail at Norwich, Conn, 10
await trial for murder, escaped by
saving off bars of his cell, WIN
him also went another prisoner Frank
Weeks. a negro, lerving sentence
for chicken stealing.
Construction Company, OF Boston. at
Fields Point near Providence, X l.
work on two concrete lighters has
been begun. They are to be IL feet
long, &c feet beam and II feet deep.
II is expected they will be ready Tor
service Oct. /.
In a severe thunder storm accom-
panied by high wind at YORK beach
Me. Mrs. George Cloueier OF SANFORD
and Mrs. Blanche Garneau OF lo~eh
were shocked by lightning Mrs.
Clougier was severely burned on the
face, neck and back and her hair was
partially burned off,
Camp Goldman on Prays Ill., :"
miles from Sanbornville, N. H., was
burned. The camp, when was
formerly known as the Peter young
Mace, was owned by Prof. George
Wentworth Of Brookline, who was IN
charge of 80 boys from the Brooklihe
Sunday School society
The tooth anniversary OF the oirth
OF Lucy stone, pioneer champion u
woman's rights, was observed al Dos
ton by members Of the Massachusetts
Woman Suffrage association A'ee
Stone Blackwell. daughter OF Luc!
Stone and president of the associatioh'
nraeidod at the exercises.
The Brockton, Mass, tax rate -
s28 20. an increase of $3.50 over ias'
wear. and the largest In the history
of Brockton. II is due chieny 10 inc
falling of In the new valuations OF
real estate. which this year showed
an increase OF only s4so,375, against
s1,7oo, 600 the year before.
OF the 10000 white selective ser
vice men from "a states for limited
military service called TO the colors
nv Provost Marshal General Cro~der
connecticut will send $50 to Camp
linton. Maine 100. Massachusetts
I 900. New Hampshire 100, Rhode ~
land 1928 and Vermont 100
| With the mercury lowering around
a. Mrs. John D. Rockefeller. Jr' and
Mrs. Henry P. Dawson OF New fofh
drove a bolt into the frame OF the
beam trawler Albatross, now undei
construction at the South Portland
nlant of the Portland Shipbuildinf
compapy for a fisheries company.
| The loom fxers and weavers OF
| Pawtucket, r. l., who have been Oh
strike for six weeks. returned 10 wori
Monday morning, pending the decis-
ion of the War Labor Board, whose
representatives have promised 10 IN
vestigate conditions The strike Ia
affected twenty-seven mills In RHODE
Island and about 1000 employees.
The Middlesex and Boston stree
Railway Company has been sued io'
$40. 900 by Frank Geraci minor
who sues through his father, Con
oetto Geraci OF Newton. Mass. Gera
eli alleges that on May 8. 1918. whii'
walking on Eliot street in Newton, n
was run over by car and 20 Deol'
injured that an arm had 10 be ampu
tated.
Fire destroyed three Of the mills o
the French 4 Ward Wooden Company
.,.-.,ur Me-. .noaped IN Govern