Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1919-10-07
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Residents of Savoy, the most highly
taxed town in Massachusetts, are re
joicing, for tax late that was las'
year also the highest in the State mas
been greatly reduced this year and IL
now only S3J per $l00 Of valuation
Last year the rate was S42.
Judsou 5. Ilaii, a iawyer whose sui
for $35U,000 AGAINST his two brothers
and his sister attracted wide attention
In 1916, is dead IRON injuries received
when he tell iron window at the
State Hospital for the Insane IN MID
dletown. Conn, wuere he was con
fined.
Plan b, allowing selected six-cent
fares to be PAID in place OF the pres
ent five cent lare, Oh the Rhode lslano
st. Ry. Co. has been decided by the
State Public Utilities Commission
The present two-mile zone will be re
tanned and two cents will be charged
for transfers in place of cent.
At the annual meeting Of the Maine
Anti-Tuberculosls Association at Fort
land, the following officers were elect
ed: President, DR.. +. d. Merrill OF Fox
croft: ylce-presidents, DR.. S. J. Beacn
of Augusta and Henry Richards OF
Garulner; secretary, A. j. Torslen OF
Bangor; treasurer, Carl E. Danforth
Of Bangor.
Werner Horn, who dynamited the
international railroad bridge at vance
boro, Me-, early in 1915, and has
served three and one-half years In
federal prison at Atlanta, Ca, is held
for extradition to Canada to answer
charge of blowing up a Canadian
Pacific railway bridge on Feb. 2, 1915,
at McA6am, New Brunswick.
James @. Gulnac, president of the
Bangor Chamber of Commerce, mas
been elected president Of the Maine
State Board of Trade at its annual
meeting held in Belfast. Edward M.
Blanding of Bangor was reelected
secretary and H. A. Free of Lewiston
treasurer. The delegates numbered
about so, many being prevented from
attending by the weather.
More than $7,OOO,O0O loss must be
laid to the fish strike in Boston, ac-
cording to the Fisheries service bull
letin issued by the Department OF
Commerce. The average normal re-
ceipts of fish for July in that city are
upward Of $S,0O0.O00, but last July,
when the strike was in progress, the
receipts were only 2,636,366 pounds
was a value OF but $171,311.
For the first time in more than a
century, not one New Bedford whal'
ing vessel is at sea. The whaling
schooner Arthur V. Woodruff, Capt.
John Edwards, the last Of a dozen
whalers, left on the Atlantic ocean,
has just docked with cargo valued
at $4,000. The Woodruff returns
from a years cruise and carries 500
barrels of sperm oil and four pounds
of ambergris.
A steamship line betweer Boston
and the far East, will be inaugurated
next month when the American
freighter Lake Faulk leaves for Kobe
and Manila Via the Panama canal,
with call at Honolulu for bunker coal.
The ship was built at Superior, WIS
A full cargo awaits the Lake Faux
and other sailings will follow If the
enterprise has support OF New Eng
land shippers.
Joseph A. Conry of Boston conferred
with officials of the navy department
on the lease Of the state dry dock
in Boston. The navy department has
laid aside $4,O00,000 for the leasing OF
the dock, but the matter is being held
I'D pending completion Of Its construc-
ton. Mr.. Conry urged the depart
ment to use its good Offices to hasten
this construction, and also asked
members of Congress to cooperate.
willie" A. Andrews, champion OF
Springfeld's service men in doughnut
eating, appeared in police court on the
charge of larceny Of bicycle. He
pleaded guilty and was fined $50. but
not having the wherewithal to pay
this sum will spend the time eating
doughnuts and mending umbrellas in
the York street Jail. Andrews served
in the army during the war, but since
his discharge, he says, things have
not broken very well for him.
German Wallace Lester, an officer
in the United States army, residing in
Boston, has petitioned the Suffolk
probate court for leave to change his
name to Graham Wallace Lester. His
reasons for desiring the change are
three: THE name German always
has been distasteful beacuse OF its
quaintness, it being the name OF a
race and not the common name OF a
male person; my family avoids the
use of the name; II should have q
male heir, / should want him to bear
my own name, and l ask this change
in order that 1t may be possible to
give 1t to him without perpetuatins
a name so distasteful."
John Juditis, taken before Judge
Avery in Quincy, Mass. on charge
Of being tramp, explained in answer
to questions that he had served In
machine gun battalion 338 and was
gassed and shell shocked during bat
tie in the Argonne forest. His dis
charge papers were found to be per
feet. The court sent for a represents
tive of the Red Cross and arrange
ments were made to send Judutis to
his home in Waterbury, Conn.,, where