The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1918-04-11

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Fire caused damage estimated a.
100000 in building on Main street
Worcester Mass The Il. G Higgins
wall paper company and The Syea
Publishing Company were the heay.
TEST losers Miss Eva Lawrence
aged II, who lived on the fourth floor
In an apartment with her grandpar
ents, jumped from rear window
crashed through glass skylight OF
the Higgins company and was re-
moved later TO the hospital where she
was said 10 be in a critical condition.
ThC cause OF the fire ia unknown
Theological students. to take care
of summer gardens, are wanted on
/ Cape Cod They will also run engines
for pumping water and will find an
opportunity TO conduct religious ser.
vices on Sunday, for which they viii
be paid extra Mrs. George Breed Of
| West Yarmouth, Mass ~ head OF a
movement TO get theological students
interested in summer gardens TO pay
/ for their board and lodging
/ Settlement of ;26930 has been
made by George p Eastman and
/ Perciyal w Clement, of RUTLAND, VT,
/ TO the Vermont Marble Company OF
/ Rutland, as the result of settlement
OF the boundary line between their
adjoining marble quarries. The
trouble dates back more than twenty
years.
The Massachusetts legislative COM
mittee on counties reported bill by
which farmers would be able to OBJ
tain the labor of prisoners by paying
the county in which the institutions
to which the prisoners had been com
mitted are located The prisoners
employed would be in the custody of
sheriffs during the work, and compen-
sation for their labor would be fixed
by the county commissioners.
The United States Employment
Service state that in the next ninety
days $4,000 additional men will be
needed in Boston and vicinity on war
projects. These projects include the
shipping terminal at South Boston
and the Victory Plant at Squantum
Charles T. Clayton. assistant ma
tional director of the services said
that 5000 men were wanted at once
on the Squantum plant Both skilled
and unskilled labor is wanted
The salary bill provides that after
Jan. !, 1919, compensation for teach
ers in the public schools shall not be
less than at the rate of $3.50 for the
school year. The certification bill pro-
vides that after Jan. l, 1919, no per-
son shall be eligible to teach in
public day school without a certificate
issued by a state certifying board of
five members, such board to be crea-
ted for the purpose Teachers certified
by cities and towns prior to the date
of passage of the act are exempted
from the provisions of the act and a
satisfactory record of six months be-
fore July /, 1919 shall make teach
err eligible for certifcation upon APP
plication
In response to appeals from ship
pers the Canadian government has
turned over the 500ton steamship
Aranmore to the Eastern Steamship
Lines, Inc, to restore service be-
tween Boston and Yarmouth, N. s.,
interrupted when the United States
government chartered the Gov. Cobb. |
The Aranmore will be commanded by
Capt McKinnon and will make one
round trip weekly. Although the Ar
anmore has accommodations for Is
passengers she will be used for
freight
Herman N. Baker, Colby "a, pre-
siding at the biennial reunion OF the
Colby Academy Association in the
Copley Square Hotel Boston announc-
ed that the academy Roll of Honor"
now contains the names of 81 former
students who are with the colors
The reunion was attended by more
than $50 members of the association,
including graduates, trustees and
teachers OF the academy The speak
ers included Lt-Gov Coolidge, Col. |
John II Bartlett -, Headmaster ]. O.
Wellman Of the academy and Sher-
man l.. Whipple Jr., who won the
"croix de guerre" in the French am
bulance service last summer. His talk
on his experiences in France was
illustrated The following officers
were elected: President William d
Wyman 80; vice presidents, former
Gov. ] @ A. Bracket '6l, Sherman
L. Whipple, IT, Col John Bartlett 81,
the Rev William A. Hill '9S and Err
nest G. Hapgood 81; secretary, John
A. Taylor; treasurer, James g. Har-
ris.
The Boston and Maine Minority
Stockholders Protective association
has adopted resolutions requesting
the directors of the railroad TO apply |
for government aid to the extent of
sl3, 0000 900, ,the amount Of the roads
unfunded debt Counsel for the asso-
citation explained that this assistance