Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1918-04-05

forts and camps under the Northeast
ern Department shows that Insurance.
totalling sl33,000.OO0 has been taken.
Depot Company F.. of the Signal
Corps at Burlington. VT, in the first
drive scored 100 per cent. all men
and officers subscribing for he full
amount. This company was trans
ferred. and the present occupants of
the camp, under Captain Murray B.
Dilley, numbering 166, repeated this
record.
Harry Weymouth of Milo. convict
ed OF killing Oscar Mayo while hunt
ing deer June 81, 1917, was sentenced
to IL months in Jail by Justice Dunn
IN the supreme court at Bangor, Ne.
Food Administrator Henry B. Enid
colt has issued a warning to the
housewives of Massachusetts that
boarding of foodstuffs makes them IL
able TO $4,000 fine or two years i'm
prisonment, and that after April 10
Ignorance OF the law will not save
hoarders from prosecution.
Quotations on fish prices Of the
Boston Fish Pier, issued daily TO the
newspapers, bear no relation TO the
price which the fishermen receive
from members of the New England
Fish Exchange, through whom more
than ~ per cent. of the fish arriving
at Boston is sold. The statement WAS
made by William H. Beaxdsley. PEN
eral manager of the exchange, wnne
giving further testimony before the
examiner, William 3D. Matheson, m
| the tMal OF the suit IN equity OF the
United States against fish dealers
and allied interests, who are accused
OF maintaining monopoly In re-
straint of trade. The witness de-
clared that the quotations are made
up by himself and are what he con-
siders to be fair price for FISH at
the pier on each particular day. He
stated thai his fish quotations aTways
include the various assessments lev
led on the transfer of the fish from
the hold OF the vesseI to the dealers
on the pier.
The battery of French 75's which
have been used by the Yale artillery
corps all year has been recalled bv
the Government for instruction pur-
poses. British guns will be- turned
over 10 the university as a substi
| tute.
Two hundred and ~ boys and girls
in Worcester high schools have signed
up to engage in agricultural WORK
during the vacation period anG help
win the war. The students have en-
of the United States boys working
reserve.
Mrs. Clarice (Marceau Roy, widow
of Simeon Roy, is dead at her home
in Ftchburg, Mass. She leaves SIX
ty-four descendants-eleven children.
fifty two grandchildren and one great
grandchild
All men formerly employed by IL
quor dealers in Newport, +. l., who
are at present out Of work, have been
requested to apply to the naval sta
ton, where they will be given work
at good wages.
Fred Harris Clafin, former circula-
ton manager Of the Boston Journal
under the regime of Stephen O'Meara
died at the Deaconess Hospital,
Brookline. Mr.. Clafin had been en-
ployed as a proofreadeT by the Bos-
ton Post up to the time Of his last
illness. From the time that he start
ed smaA newspaper at Worcester
Academy when stiL youth, until
the time Of his death, Mr.. Clafiln was
engaged In newspaper work. His first
newspaper venture was an amateur
daily called the Press. He assisted
in organizing the Worcester Tele-
gram, where he remained for two
years. He was with the Boston Jour
nal for four years as its circulation
and subscription manager.
Rev. Clarence H. Waldron Of Wind
sor, VT, convicted in the Federal
Court at Burlington of disloyalty to
the United States, has been sen
fenced by Judge Harland E. Howe to
serve Is years in the Government
penitentiary at Atlanta, Ca. His coun-
sci viii later make motion Of a stay
Of execution Waldron broke down ut
terly when sentence was pronounced
and cried like child. Harold
Mackley, employee of cream
cry at Holland, Vermont, was also
found guilty of disloyal utterances by
a jury and was Immediately SEN
fenced to IS years in the Georgia
penitentiary. His trial lasted only a
day and a half and the jury was out
only 25 minutes. Judge Howe, In i'm
posing sentence upon Mr.. Waldron.
said: "The defendant, however hon
est he may be in his religion or paci-
fsm, has actively engaged In oppos-
ing the Nation in this great conflict.