Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1918-08-23

bOhOidi' SOuSIdluldllHS ulLl upon Ile
splendid showing made in July In
postal savings deposits by the Boston
postoffice. During the month the net
gain was s129,3S1, the total amount
on deposit July 81 being $3,352,87e.
The war department, in a telegram
to John Quinn, president of the Brock
ton Independent Cutters association.
gaze warning that action in attempt
ing to establish separate unions is
endangering half the needed produc-
ton in shoes for troops, and that
continuance of this would inevitably
lead to the placing of contracts out
side of Brockton
A message pledging maximum
efforts in expediting the building of
bridge of ships to France was sent to
General Pershing by the employees at
the Fore River and Squantum plants
Of the Bethlehem Shipbuilding cor
poration. Ground was broken by ths
government for dormitories for 1000
men at the two plants. There will
be rs buildings in all.
Patrick J. Duane, United States
deputy marshal, former mayor OF
Waltham, Mass, has entered three
$4,000 suits In the Suffolk superior
court against Chief of Police Daniel
R. Mckay of Quincy and John Wha-
len and Daniel H. Doran. both OF
Quincy. Mass, for alleged assault ON
him and Imprisonment and restrain
ing him of his liberty
A trolley car ran off the tracks and
speeded along the east sidewalk OF
Purchase street, New Bedford, Mass
killing William Lemos, who was walk
ing with his wife and two children.
Mrs. Lemos and the children were ON
the inside of the walk and were IN
injured, but Mr. Lemos, who was
knocked down and run over by the
car wheels, was killed instantly.
Massachusetts still needs 500 young
women to register for service in order
to fill her quota for the United States
Student Nurse Reserve. Miss Helen
Wood who is representing the Council
of Defence at the central recruiting
station, at the Massachusetts General
Hospital, Boston, states that over 1000
young women have applied to her per-
sonally for registration blanks, and the
greater number Of these have proven
The Massachusetts, constitutional
convention voted, 1856 to Sc, to submit
to the people at the fall election q
resolution to determine whether the
state should develop its natural re-
sources. Supporters Of the resolution
urged that with authority to develop
waterpower the coal deficiency could
be overcome. Opponents of the plan
expressed fear that it would tend to
overthrow existing rights of property
owners.
One fourth of the patrolmen OF
Mass, have announced
their intention Of asking for leave OF
absence for the duration of the war to
work in shipbuilding plant at Ports
mouth, N. H., Police Commissioners
Roswell L. Wood declared, when in
formed that members Of the police
force were planning to shake their uni
forms and seek war jobs, that there
is not man on the force who can be
driven away from it.
Clarence H. Cooper Of Boston,
George D. Burrage and Stanley Bish-
op Of Brookline, and w. c. Wait OF
Medford, members of the Bar Associ-
alton of the City of Boston
were made defendants in a suit for
$4,000 brought by Horatio N. Al
lin, who was disbarred last month.
Allin claims that he was disbarred by
the association following a conspiracy
to extort money from him. He prac-
tised law from 1879 to 1916.
In the height of one Of the worst
electrical storms that has ever visit
ed Weymouth, Mass bolt Of light
ming entered the bungalow Of Norman
F Tupper on North av., demolished
the chimney and the stove and then
struck Mr. Topper, who was sitting
alone in the bungalow. All that Mr..
Upper remembers is having heard a
crash, and when he revived saw that
he was bleeding on the right foot
The bolt had ripped off the shoe and
stocking from his right foot and also
had torn off the four smaller toes
The skin was stripped from the sole
Of the foot, the heel injured and the
ankle broken.
Manchester, N. H.-Wholesals
wood dealers are paying SO and $3.1
a cord to wood choppers for choppinS
and stacking one cord Of wood, and
under these prices choppers are earn
ing from 81 to Sc a day in the woods,
prices hitherto unheard Of in New
A first class chopper. U
be keeps busy every minute can chou
and pile two cords in long working
day. Hard wood retails from sls q
cord to SIS, sawed and delivered. IL
costs $1O0 more If split Coal is sell
ing at $10.75 for egg coal and sI1.7s
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