Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1918-03-01
new ENGLAND NEWS
IN TABLOID FORM
Items of Interest From All
Sections of YankeeIand

American Red Cross has enrolled
1S9, 53S in junior auxiliaries to date,
which is 10 percent of the pupil
population in the six states.
George f. Haley. 81, associate JUS
tice of the supreme u Of Maine,
died at Saco, Me. from an illness or
%iginating in trouble with "a tooth,
Lewis Willard Moulton. &C, for
merly sheriff, deputy sheriff, chief
railway mail postoftice clerk for New
England and prominent Democrat.
died at Standish. Me.
The government may take over 203
houses, now under construction at
WATERFOWL. Mass. for the housing
of WATERFOWL arsenal workmen and
their families.
Newburyport, Mass, high school
girls will become :armerettes this
summer in an effort to DO their bit
toward the backyard garden" scheme
and food conservation movement
Boston ant eastern Massachusetts
is flooded with bogus olive oil, ac-
cording to the Boston board Of health.
The Old South Meeting House, his
toric Boston landmark visited by
tourists from far and wide, has
closed it's doors on account of the
fuel shortage.
The educational conference at
Worcester, Mass, of noted MIethO-
1iSts from all over New England re-
suited in the announcement of Il
mission drive" in which So, 900, 900
is TO be raised within the next five
years.
For fifty-seven years the best
known grocer 81 the North Shore,
Horace p. Woodbury. died at Bev-
erly Cove. Mass, at the age Of 70.
Five hundred tons Of bitiminouS
the lighter POcOmOke, cut through by
ice, f%oundered.
Levi w. Moore, II, for many years
general manager of the Grafton and
Upton Railway company, died at
Milford, Mass.
Philip w. Thorpe pleaded guilty at
Taunton, Mass, to murder in the
second degree, and was sentenced to
life Imprisonment in the state prison
for having murdered Manuel Almeda.
Matthew r. Cady, a veteran of the
CrimeHn war, died at Rutland, Me-,
aged 90. He was a native of Ireland.
Arthur Longwell, 2. and his Sis
ter. Hazel LongwelI, 4, left at home
locked in by their mother, who hal
gone to visit a neighbor, were burned
to death at Millbury, Mass, after
the little ones had been playing with
matches.
A fOur-foot fall caused the death
of Samuel Veazie while at work in
a Rockland, Me-, shipyard. He was
20 years old.
Western Names own regiment &,
the 9th artillery, said good bye at
Portland and 10000 persons saw the
farewell parade of the 1900 kha-
ki-clad sons of the Pine Tree state,
soon to leave for "Over there"
Negro women of Greater Boston
are organizing into units to raise
funds for the necessary comforts for
negro soldiers in the service of the
United States.
Stephen G. Wheeler, So, superin.
tendent of the Winsted, Conn, police
department for ten years, died of
Bright's disease.
Jonathan Y. Stanton, professor
emeritus of Greek at Bates college,
and II of the best known educators
in New England, died at his home
at Lewiston, Me-, in his Saith year.
Mrs. Viola Veo, 43, chambermaid,
was held for the grand jury in bonds
of $1,000 at Springfield, Mass. after
pleading guilty to a charge of arson.
She admitted having set nine fires.
For the first time in sixteen years
a cargo of European coal reached
Boston. 1t came aboard a British
steamship-5000 tons of it-from
Wales.
Despondent over family troubles,
Frank d. Hight, SO, a prominent
and wealthy Bangor, Me, man, shot
himself in that city, dying instant
~.
More than 100 persons were driven
irto a storm at Boston by fire of
mysterious origin which started in
n big fOur-stOry wooden structure
occupied by manufacturers of gun
carriages for the United States war
department, and makers of electrical
goods.
BY a ninth inning" rally Of the
labor unions of Boston the drive to
secure 5000 mechanics to build ships
for Uncle Sam was made a success.
= Frank b. Shea, IT. who recently
lost a son and daughter by death ,
and who disappeared from Braintree ,
Mass, after saying that his bereave-
ment was more than he could bear,
was found dead in a stretch of wood,
land.
Two hundred nect Of the Cane Tod