The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1919-03-27

4 n n or,clalig cs,ahH he'd that Ms.
carolya Welt Brown who vA aW.
tally murdered in Hocklavd. 1e ON
the nighi az Dercmber 10 msi. rtt
death as the result ~ heavy hloH
infieted on the face and load With 4
club THIS fax, IA established Ia the
report o. Medical Examiner Charles
n MaErath ~ Boston, who iausll-
gated the case
Because he wore an orange Ne on
81 pRlricks Day, Stur Wik. = fresh.
man In the Worcester High school
was nearly choked to death hy a
classmate. wiz was unconscious for
over two hours after being checked
by hts assaiiani, who he Says Is d hoy
named Kane Young WIZ who e 4
Swede, says he had been wearing the
same neckiie Tor weeks without mo-
lestation.
An option on the old Greeley house
al East Poultney. VI. has been Sc
cured by the committee appointed by
the Vermont Press Association at its
annual meeting to provide n suitable
memorial for Horace Greeley II
was in this house that tho famous
newspaper man learned the printers
trade. The building may be restored
and preserved and suitable memo.
rial tablet erected.
Two Greater Boston boys were
prize winners In the sheep judging
contest held during the farming car
nival at Massachusetts Agricultural
College, Amherst. Arthur Sanderson
OF Waltham earning first honors and
James Geoghan OF Brighton second.
Third place went to Miss l.. Knapp Of
Lowell the only girl entry in a field
OF 40 candidates. The classes Judged
were Smithtown rams and Shropshire
ewes.
Maj. p. c. Brubaker OF Washington
visited Burlington, VI, recently in the
interest OF intensive improvements
which are to be carried out at Fort
Ethan Allen for which appropriation
is available. Operations will be be-
gun in a short time and hundreds OF
men will be employed for period OF
four or five months. Road building
and repairs TO buildings and sewerage
system will constitute large part of
the work
Both Maj. Gen. Clarence r. Ed
wards and Lit. w. s. Simpkins iDdig-
nantly deny the published story from
Camp Devens that the regimental col
ors of the 10lst infantry had been
captured by a German raiding party.
The story Is IAN outrageous lie" In
the opinion OF all the "Y. D." men at
northeastern department headQuar-
tiers, who believe the yard is the in
vention of some one who is anxious |
to injure the reputation, Of the New |
England regiment and division.
New Englands effort In the Meth |
odist Missionary Centenary drive, |
originally planned for April, has been |
set for May Is, according to an an
by Rev. J. !. Bartholo-
new executive secretary of the Bos-
ton Area. The drive, which is for /
$40 ,000, 900 for home and foreign mis-
sions and world reconstruction, has
been postponed in order to avoid con-
dieting with the Victory Loan in April
The Government has been offered the
use OF the Centenary machinery for
this loan.
The credit due to the first single
element to cross the Hindenburg line
must be shared by the United States
and Breat Britain according to Lieut.,
Curtis D. Moves, Jr., Of the 30ist Bat
talon Tanks Corps. The feat was
by an American crew,
by Lieut. Duuning, y. S.
A., in a British tank. He emphasized
hep artp layed by the Tank Corps In
breaking the Hindenburg line, giving
full credit TO the Sd and 4th British
Armies. with which his battalion CO.
operated.
A Boston branch of the New Eng
and section Of the Atlantic Coast
Association which com
rises every steel ship construction
Yard on the Atlantic coast. has been
opened at 110 State street. Among
he activities OF the association are
problems. shipyard train
ng, housing craft definitions, port and
Try dock development, legislation,
hipyard publications, statistics, cost
Methods, Standardization OF deprccia-
ion, wages and piece work rates. $.
". Wakeman, general manager OF the
FORE River shipyard at Quincy is
hartman OF the New England sec
ion.
Dan Cupid's success In Massachu-
etts seems to thrive more and more
ach year, according to statistics OBJ
aimed at the State House, which
how more marriages and fewer d.
orces in Massachusetts in 1917 as