Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1918-03-15
new ENGLAND NEWS
IN TABLOID FORM
items Of Interest From All
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ment Office for February, shows that
Notwithstanding three heatless Mon
days In the month, the demand for
help averaged sixty-two a day, the
same as in January, but is fourteen
per cent less than for February last
year. The number of positions re-
ported filled shows a decrease of nine
per cent from January. also. a de-
crease of 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 half for overtime.
1t is reported in Boston that bust
ness outside of Government work is
remarkably quiet. The building in
dustry is practically at a standstill.
The demand for erecting machinists.
coppersmiths, boilermakers for steel
shipbuilding, continues to be abnor-
NAL, while there is 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
olive oil was seized in Boston by the
members of United States Marshal
Mitchell's force. Inspector Charles
Linehan of the Boston Board of
Health, and John Walsh, a Govern
ment health official. The product
seized is said by the health officials
to be cotton seed oil.
The Boston and Maine station at
Westmoreland Depot. N. H., was
burned. 1t was a story and half
wooden structure, containing the sta
ton, freight and express Office and
Postoffice. Mail and Office records
were destroyed. The fire caught
from a kerosene lamp. The loss
is about $4,000.
The Interstate Commission has APP
proved increases averaging fifteen per
cent in all-water class and commodity
rates of the Ocean Steamship Com
pany from Boston, Providence and
New York to Augusta, Ga, Beaufort
and Port Royal, S. c., and other
South Atlantic ports
AT Camp Devens, Aver repair
shop Of the 325th Motor Truck Com
pany containing ten machines, was
destroyed by a fire of unknown origin
with a loss estimated at $4,000.
Flight Cadet Lloyd Carter of Bos
ton, twenty years old "a member of
the 92nd Squadron, Royal Flying
Corps, was killed at Leaside Camp
when a machine in which he was be-
ing instructed collided with another
machine immediately over the air
drome at a height Of $50 feet.
Mayor Wilton of Quincy, Mass, re-
ceived from France unique inkstand
and writing set made entirely of cart
ridges and cartridge cases. The gift
came from Lieuts. Leroy S. Wilcox
formerly of the Machine Gun Com
pany of the 9Th Massachusetts In
fantry, now on duty in France with
Gen. Pershing.
Requests for 20 per cent in
crease in wages for all machine shop
workers in Springfield, to take effect
May 6, have been addressed to thirty
eight manufacturers in Springfield,
West Springfield and Chicopee Falls.
Rear Admiral Spencer s. Wood,
commandant Of the First Naval Dis
trict, in an address to 400 sailors and
yeowomen in the armory at the
Charlestown Navy Yard, declared
that all yeowomen must comply with
the navy regulations and from now on
wear the regulation uniform of the
service, consisting Of cap, blouse
and skirt.
When the trucks of timber car
loaded with spruce logs consigned to
an airplane shop in Philadelphia
broke at Essex Junction. VT, the
traffic between Burlington and
points north to Montreal was held up
for more than ten hours. The spruce
was rush order.
At the meeting Of the New England
Federation for Rural Progress in Fan
euil Hall, Boston, the principal ad-
dres was made by william D. Hurd
special assistant secretary, United
State Department of Agriculture. AZ
ter referring to the prospects for in
creases everywhere in New England
of farm products, such as grain, veg
eatables, ETC.. he said that surely the
number of farms keeping hogs will at
least be doubled. He said that only
40 out Of 100 farmers In Maine and
New Hampshire, 55 in Vermont, 20
in Massachusetts, SO in Connecticut
and 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
an increase in the production Of feed.
In short, what New England needs
ia that more people helm produce