Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1919-10-21

Baltimore contractors have been
awarded contract for the c0natruc-
ton Of 10OO0-ton wooden dry dock
for the Fore River Shipbuilding Co.
of Quincy. Mass. It Is estimated that
this dock will cost over 81 200. 600.
The dock will be built at the Solo
mon Island, Md, plants Of the con
tracing company. When finished the
dock will be towed to the Quincy
plant and will be able to accommo-
date ships up to 10000 tons dead
weight.
A capsized vessel was sighted by
the United Fruit Cos steamship San
Jose, in the Gulf stream while bound
from Port Limon to Boston, but 1t
was deemed unwise to approach the
hulk closely owing to possible danger
of encountering submerged spart- It
was evident, however, that no one
remained aboard. Officers of the
steamship express the opinion that
the craft was overturned during a
recent hurricane while off the coast
Of Cuba.
Participation of the public In the
financing and possibly in the owner
ship of street railroads Is the only
policy which will bring a restoration
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of credit and satisfactory conditions
in the industry, Homer Loring, chair
man of the trustee board Of the Bay
State company of Boston, told the
federal electric railways commission.
The witness asserted that rising costs
of materials and labor had ruined
the financial standing Of operating
companies.
Drunkenness is steadily increas-
ing in Boston in spite Of wartime
prohibition and scenes in the NUM-
cipal Court and in the Tombs smack
strongly of those which used to be
enacted there prior to July 1. Many
of the old-timers, both men and Wo-
men, are back again. Most of the
cases are not "Jakey" drunks, but
the result of indulgence in real, old
fashioned whiskey. Some OF these
people state that they have paid as
high as s12 and even SIS quart for
the whiskey.
The anti-prohibitionists scored a
theoretical knockout over the drys IN
Connecticut when nine towns voted
for license in. the "nttle town cleo
TONS" Because of wartime prohi-
bition and the coming national pro-
hibition by constitutional amendment
only IL towns voted on the question
today. against the usual number OF
80 or 60 in previous years. OF the
II towns voting 10 were listed in TIE
no-license column, while one was
"wet". All but two Of the no-license
towns swung over to license, while
the one "wet" town voting stayed In
the same column.
At a meeting of the Stamford, Ct.,
Minister'S League a committee was
appointed to take steps to have the
Connecticut marriage law amended,
If possible, to provide that the resi-
dence of both parties be stated in the
application for license; that at least
two witnesses be required for a mar
rage ceremony; that, if either party
has been divorced, a certified copy
of the decree be produced when the
license is issued, and that the mar
rage ceremony itself constitute the
marriage. The league voted conf
dence In the Rev. DR.. Clarence Hill
Frank, its president, who performed
the Lane-Hercht marriage on April
1, 1919.
The rights Of an employee injured
under the Massachusetts working
mans compensation law should be
fully conserved and all defects in the
law ought to be remedied, according
10 recommendations Of the Industrial
Accident Board in its report to the
legislature. Other noteworthy recon-
mendations include one for compen-
sation to children Of deceased en-
ployee. The board takes cognizance
of the high cost of burial by advo-
eating that the burial allowance be
raised from $1OO to 5000. Recommen-
dation also is made that the time
limit of mot over 500 weeks" dur
ing which compensation is PAID De
removed, but the maximum sum OF
$4,000 be unchanged.
Princess Teeweeleema, direct de-
cendant of Massasoit, friend Of the
white man, is dead at her home in
Middleboro. Mass, at the age OF S2
years. The end came peacefully at
the little cottage on the shores OF
Lake Assawampsett, where he: foe
fathers once roamed, and where she
spent her declining years, accom-
panied by her sister, Princess Woon-
tonekanuske. Teeleeweema, who
WAS better known as Melinda Mitchell
had lived for years on the site known
as Betty's Neck, originally decided by
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