Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1919-01-28
new ENGLAND MEMS
[ IN TABLOID FORM
Items Of Interest From Al
Sections Of Yalkeelaiid

ss0ssS
Sections Of YaIkea1Bd
Monte Cross ot Philadelphia has
been engaged to coach the University
of Maine baseball team next season.
the university athletic board an
nounced. This will be his fourth
year at Maine.
The record for the number OF
wounds sustained In ths grea. war Is
probably held here by . Polish soldier
now somewhere In France. who has
15s wounds to his credit, according to
Sergt. Malcolm Reed Of Worcester
A certificate of incorporation OF
the Eastern Massachusetts Street
Railway company, organized 70 take
ever the property Of the Bay State
Street Railway company. now IN the
hands of a receiver, has BEEN nfeo
with the secretary OF state.
The Vermont Social WORKERS con-
ference in session at Montpelier voted
10 urge the legislature to enact a law
for compulsory medical examination
Of children in schools. The state al
ready has a law providing for such
an examination If parents do not OBJ
iect.
Service between Boston and the
Mediterranean by the White Star line
ia to be resumed about the middle OF
February with steamships Canopfc
and Cretic, it is announced. THESE
ships had been identified With that
trade many years and were taken
over for war work.
Among the suits entered In the
sunreme court at Portland Is one
brought by Admiral Robert E Peary
for $1,000 against Ellery D. and VIII
liam D. Libby of that city. Admiral
Peary ASKS for damages on the plea
that he has been denied possession
of certain property on Spring street
The highest wages paid in the wool
en- industry are paid by the American
Wooden Company. They range from
s12.10 per week, paid only to mex
perienced boys and girls. to $50 a
DER week for those Of higher skill
These figures apply to MIL operatives
and do not include department heads
and overseers.
It has been discovered that the re-
ceiving tomb in Mt Pleasant ceme-
tery in Dexter, Me-. was broken into
three caskets pried open and 3eWeiry
taken from the bodies Of the dead.
Tracks in the snow leading from the
tomb were to be seen but drifting
snow has partially covered them ana
efforts to trace them any great dis
lance failed.
Hay is selling at $40 a ton in Wor-
cester, the highest price ever attained
The crop last year for Worcester
county was short, and the cost OF
labor was high as result OF which
the price is going skyward every day.
In some cases hay was cut and sold
to spectators at SIS a ton on the
field. and these men are now sending
the prices up.
A jury in the third session. superior
court. before Judge Fessenden IN
Boston. returned a verdict for $15,975
for the plaintiff in the suit OF Mrs.
Rose s. Treanor against the Travel
ers Insurance Company. The suit
was brought upon a policy Of accident
insurance covering injury and death
to Peter C. ]. Treanor. The verdict
is the largest ever given In this state
on an accident policy Of this nature.
-Four of the crew of the United
States shipping board steamship
Castalia, disabled of Sable Island,
were lost in the rescue Of the ships
company by the steamers Bergens-
ford and Wan F1jian. Fred Stone
of Andover, N. H., John Tomacayttch
of Olfphant, Pa, and BENJAMIN Sill
verman of Roxbury. Mass, died Of
exhaustion and Andrew Cobb OF
Ware Shoals, s. c., was drowned.
Mrs. Gladys c. Dunn, wife of J..
Allen Dunn, magazine and scenario
writer, has been indicted by the
grand jury in Pittsfeld, Mass. In
connection with the fatal shooting
of her son, ]. Allen Dunn, IT, aged 8,
at the Dunn villa in Leno1 last Au-
gust. The exact nature Of the indiet-
ment was not divulged by Dist. Atty.
Ely, as Mrs. Dunn who Is out ON
5000 bail, was absent when the
grand jury reported.
Following a hearing before the
Massachusetts, state board OF arha-
tration and Cancellation into the
strike Of employees Of the General
Electric company In Pittsaead the
board recommended that the com
pany receive back within two weeks
from all its employees who went On
strike ON December Is, and that thsy
be taken back without Discrimination.
Both sides were instructed to report
to the board in writing at the e1pfna-
ton of the two weeks what progress
had been made.
Representative Nichols Of Fitch
burg has introduced a bill aimed at
the moonlight" and other feature
numbers" at dancing resorts. It pro-
vides that 1t shall be unlawful at any
pubic or private dance 10 have the
hall, room, piazza, roof garden or
other place in which the danceds held.
or any stairway, ante-room or pas
connected herewith or
available to dancers, darhened In
whole or In part during the progress
Of the dancing, or until the pre.Rees
are vacated thereafter"