Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1918-03-28
A telegram from Pittsfeld. Mass

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have announced a voluntary increase
in wages of 10 per cent, to take effect
March rs. More than 5000 hands will
be benefited.
Nathan Matthews, Mayor of Bos-
ton from 1891 to 1895 and a former
chairman of the Boston Finance Com
mission, has been appointed as assis-
tant to John Barton Payne, chief
counsel for the Federal Railroad Adj
ministration.
Herbert l.. Sheppard, who was a
member Of the executive council in
the administration of Governor Henry
B. Cleaves, died at RoCkport, Me-, OF
pneumonia. He was president of the
Camden Savings bank, and for years
was engaged in lime manufacturing
He had been a member of both houses
of the legislature.
Samuel Green ex-Mayor of Boston
celebrated his 88th birthday last Sat-
urday at the Hotel Lenox. One fea-
ture of the day that more than ordin-
arily pleased the venerable former
Mayor of Boston was letter of con-
graduation from Mayor Peters. The
former Mayor is vigorous mentally,
but is somewhat feeble physically.
Congressman William H. Carter of
Needham Heights, Mass, has an
nounced that he will not be a candi-
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retire at the expiration of his term
next March and intends to return to
business. Mr.. Carter was elected to
Congress from the Thirteenth Dis
trict in 1914 and 1916 on a business
mans platform.
To assist the drive for the third
Liberty Loan everw officer and en-
asked to write a letter to at least one
listed man at Camp Devens has been
friend, urging him to get 10 subscrib-
ers to the loan. The announcement
of the plan was received in orders
from Washington, transmitted at the
request of Secretary McAdoo of the
Treasury Department.
General Theodore S. Peck, Is, a
Civil War veteran, is dead at his home
in st. Adams, VT. He was president
Of the National Association of the
Army of the Potomac. He was born
in ST. Adams and lived there all his
life. In 1876 he was chosen command
er Of the Department of Vermont, G..
A. R., aid had previously served as
adjutant general Of the department.
With the exception of IS men who
walked out at the yard of |. l.. Snow
Company at Rockland, Me, and a
similar number who failed to report
at the Thompson yard of the Atlantic
Coast Company, the ship carpenters
and calkers in Rockland Camden
and Thomaston resumed work on an
eight hour basis with the same wages
as have been paid for nine hours.
Differences at these two yards were
expected to be adjusted promptly.
Transfers of the Springfield street
railway system from steam to hydro
electric power generation was effected
last week with the switching on of
the power of the Turner's Falls Power
and Electric Company. The change,
which will effect a coal saving Of 49,
600 tons annually, is expected to solve
power troubles that have hampered
the company's service for two years
or more. A power contract for 80
years has been signed.
Orders have been received at Camp
Devens to fill the ranks of the 3rd
regiment of engineers by the addition
of 1900 enlisted men. This will make
the regiment the largest in the 18th
division. The new men will come
from various parts of the country. A
call was issued for 60 men for the
medical supply department. Clerks
and stenographers are wanted espe-
cially for this service and they will
probably be given an early start over
seas.
The American Woolen Company
has granted an increase Of ten per
cent. wage increase Of thirty thousand
employees in New York and New
England. This advance will apply to
all the employees of the mills at
Winooski as stated from the Woollen
, Mill Office in Boston. This is the
fourth Increase granted the en-
ployees in the last two years. Sew
eral thousand hands at the Winoosh
mills will receive the benefit and the
payroll will be increased accordingly.
Farmers around Montpelier have
visions of new automobiles, pianos
and other joys Of life, for there is
> every indication that they will re-
ceive the highest prices ever known
for their maple sugar and syrup the
coming season. In this vicinity are
some Of the largest maple orchards
in the United States where thou
sands Of gallons of syrup Of the finest
, quality and tons of maple sugar are
2 annually produced. Announcement
' that syrup will probably sell for 81
NOR golIo, opJ euoar for 10 cante ,