Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1919-05-27
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Jean Bapiste Norm Of Oldtowi
Me-, Is dead from paralysis, aged 8!
His wife died nine years ago. The.
were the parents of "a children, o:
whom 10 are living, five sons and fiv,
daughters, all of Oldtown.
A 48-hour working week Is now II
effect in the shoe factories of Haver
hill, Mass. Forty nine firms belons
to this association, bpt 1t is expected
that the other 40 plants in the cit!
will be operated on the same basis.
Bishop Lawrence, head Of the Mas
sachusetts diocese Of the Episcopa
church. is reported to be resting com
fortably at the Massachusetts GeneiG
Hospital. Boston, where he recent.
underwent an operation performed b.
DR.. Franklin G. Balch Of Clarendol
street.
Daniel FarnhaIn, 19 years old
pleaded guilty 10 charge OF man
slaughter in the county court In con-
nection with the killing CT Charlie
Clifford at Essex Junction on Apri.
rs. He was sentenced to not les
tlran four nor more than 10 years H.
the state prison.
An organization to develop shipping
at Boston has been formed under ttlt
Of the New England Steamship Asso
citation with the purpose Of obtainins
larger shipping board ships and en-
gaging in trade with South Americ;
Europe or in whatever part Of the
world opportunity offers.
William H. O'Brien, chief Of the
telephone and telegraph department
of the Massachusetts, public service
commission, has issued "memoran-
dunn" in which he gives Gov. Cool
idge credit for bringing about a set
tlement Of the recent strike Of thu
telephone operators in New England
Mrs. Annie Greenburg. president
and treasurer of the A. Greenberr
Poultry company of II Lewis street.
East Boston, where the slaughter
house is located was found guilty OF
the larceny of 156, ,06S pounds OF poul-
try from the Batchelder & Snyder
company, by a jury in the Superior
Criminal Court
H. H. Bond, formerly head Of the
income tax division, urges the Mass
House Committee on Ways anu
Means to report favorably upon bill
which would change the, taxation law
as It applies to levies upon interest
received by stock brokers upon
money lent their customers in the
buying of shares.
"A minimum salary for Methodist
ministers of from $1,000 to $1,000 4
year is the plan Of the Methodist
Centenary" announced Robert NJ.
Pierce, secretary for the life service
department of the centenary. at the
Boston area headquarters. Part Of
the $140,OOO,00G which Is being
raised by the Methodist Church will
be spent for this purpose" he said.
julius Latkowitch of Cambridge, a
law student and formerly employed
in the Old South building as an in
surance adjuster, was sentenced to q
year and day in the Plymouth jail
by Federal Judge Morton for falsi-
flying QUESTIONABLE. He was found
guilty by a jury several weeks ago,
but because Of illness in his family
was given time to adjust his affairs
before being sentenced.
The Georgetown, Ipswich & Rowley
Street Railway, part Of the Bay
State Street Railway Company's sys-
tenn, was sold at auction at Salem
for $4,000. Lt.-Gov. Claiming H.
Cox, representing the Supreme Court
rs master, conducted the sale on the
steps of the court house. ]. H Gid
den Of Boston, representing the re-
organization managers Of the Bay
State, was the only bidder.
Bankruptcy proceedings were insti-
tuted in the federal district court,
Boston, against the Annawan Mills,
Inc, of Fall River. The peutioning
creditors and their claims are the
Granite Mills, $38,7s3; Stevens Manu-
featuring Co., $24.ss6, and Wampa-
noag Mills. s27.534. The petition
states that the company has admitted
in writing its inability to pay its debts
and it's willingness to be adtudged a
bankrupt.
After he had told the court that
he believed in the soviet form Of gov
eminent, that he countenanced the
use of force, 'only In case 1t should
be necessary" William James Sidis,
81 years Of age. was sentenced tn the
Roxbury, Mass. municipal court to
six months in the house Of correction
for rioting and one year for assault
upon a police officer In the May Lay
radical demonstration in the Rox-
bury district. Sidis was graduated
from Harvard university at the age OF
Is and Is a son OF DR.. Boris Sadis, Q
phychopathologist.
The Western Massachusetts, Episco-
pal convention in All Saints Church,
Worcester. voted to erect In Holy
Trinity Church In Paris, memorial
tablet 10 Chaplain Walton S. BANKER
AZ the 104th Infantry, the first AmeE1-
can chaplain killed in war, which he
entered from the rectoTshfp OF st.
Johns Episcopal Church in Worces-
ter. The convention appointed as
committee to accept contributions for
the memorial, Rev. George 8. South
worth, Matthew ]. Whitall and Prof.
Zeletes w. Coombe. all Of Worcester: