Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1919-02-25
new ENGLAND NEWS.
IN TABLOID FORM
Items of Interest From Al
Sections Of YankeeIand

items of Interest From n
Sections Of YankeeIand
Rev. ]. G.. Dutton, pastor of the AZ
AVIAN Congregational Church, hai
found a nest on the southerly side o
the parsonage, and in that nest thre'
robins eggs, by which token the ma
tiyes VOW Spring has surely arrived.
Luther r. Hanson. formerly assis:
ant treasurer OF the Market Trus
company in the Brighton district, who
pleaded guilty to the larceny OF Sl7l.
600 OF the banks funds, was sentenced
to state prison for term Of from nine
TO ten years.
Guilty Of murder In the second degrot
was the verdict returned by jury In
New Haven superior court in the case
Of Mrs. Annie F. Monahan. charged
with the murder Of her third husband
John p. Monahan by administering
poison. judge Webb Immediately sen
fenced her to life Imprisonment.
Liquor dealers Of the Blackstone
Valley are worried because OF YER
dict given against John Burns, deal
err Of Miliville. who will have to pay
Mrs. Jennie Malhoitt OF Uxbridge
$500 because he sold her minor son
lntoxicants. She alleged that she
warned the dealer, but no heed was
paid to the warning.
A movement in favor Of making the
freight steamers plying between Port
land and English ports mail carrier.
has started and will be decided IN
Washington In the near future. II
Is believed this would expedite the
mail service between the two coun-
tries. as fewer steamers are sailing
across the Atlantic than formerly.
A navy dirigible, missing from the
Chatham base several weeks, was
brought to port by the schooner Ma
talie Hammond, Capt Colson, and
TUNED over to naval authorities. The
airship was sighted in South channel
about 10 miles from Chatham by the
Han,cnond's dorymen, who found the
envelope to be in fair condition. The
car was missing.
DR.. George A. Boucher Of Brockton
claims the record of being the most
faithful and consistent assistant OF the
tabled stork in Southeastern Massa-
chusetts his record for births last year
being 335. He has welcomed that
many chubby boys and girls during
the year. Aside from his local recep-
tons he has welcomed nearly $50 ba-
bies in the surrounding towns so that
his record for the district is nearly
500.
John A. Perry of Upham street.
Maiden, has placed in his home a
bronze memorial to mis- three daugn-
ters. who with their mother, were
found d, I'd Aug. II Of last year in the
bathroom from Illuminating gas, taken
with suicidal intent. The memorial,
? feet long and IL feet high, was
executed by Carl F. Skoog, Cambridge
sculptor. The striking feature about
Il is the absolute lack of any REFER
hrc pQrrv
United States Attorney Harvey Ba-
ker at Providence has been directed
by Secretary of the Navy Daniels to
nav TO the Narragansett Bay Realty
COMPANY of Newport 100000, the
sum the Navy Department had agreed
TO nay for a portion Of the property
ON Coddingtop Point and which the
navy has been in possession OF for the
past eighteen months. Newport con-
tributed in addition $4,000 toward the
purchase of the land.
Col. Stanley Plummer, connected
with the United States civil service
at Washington from 1874 until 1881,
and postmaster of the United States
Senate for four years beginning IN
1889. died at a hospital at Atlantic
City. where he had been spending the
winter. He was 70 years old. Col.
Plummer served for four years on the
military staff of the late Gov. Edwin
C. Burleigh and several terms in botn
branches of the Maine Legislature.
Remarkably mild and pleasant
Weather has enabled the lumbermen
O: Maine to carry on their work with
scarcely any interruption since the
end of November, and more has been
accomplished thus far than had been
expected for the entire season. The
labor shortage and the influenza were
severely felt in Maine numbering
The Maine pulp and paper men have
made pretty nearly their usual cut, or
enough. with surplus, to make their
usual supply, but few logs Will come
to the saw mills.
Edward S. wilkinson of North
Adams, Mass. has been named by the
Y N. C. A. war work council to 80 10
italy and take charge Of all Red Trl-
angle work in that country. He ex-
meets to sail about March Is. He has
served as a member of the war WORK
ceuncils in Washington and Philadel-
mia a. different times and as secre-
tary of the Pennsylvania state board.
He recently completed two months
tour of the country In the interests o.
the Y. N. C. A.
peering through small opening ON
the sixth floor OF the Congress square
Hotel. Portland, while engaged ID
making some repairs to the electrical
apparatus, Percy F.. Morse, one OF the
most prominent members Of the so
cialist party in that state. was caugnt
by an ascending elevator and his head
vas crushed, death being instantane-
Qua. MIR. Morse had been candidate
for several important Offices on inc
Socialist ticket In reeso past amohs
them being governor and congress
Eaan-
Pres. Thomas McCarroll OF me
Springfield Central Labor Union has
charged that organized labor is being
against by the Nation
al Equipment Company: He alleges
that applicants are compelled to re-
norf 70 Soc UIilliannrP Goth rim Of