Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1919-10-21
new ENGLAND news
IN TABLOID FORM
Items Of Interest From All
Sections Of YankeeIand

planted by the government has re-
suited in imposition of a fine Of $25
on Costa GOulard, a lobster fisher
man Of Boston,
Maj.-Gen. Clarence R. Edwards,
commander of the Northeastern De
partment, has purchased the pictur-
esque Dabney estate in Westwood for
his home. The property consists of
between -33 and 35 acres.
Several train loads of potatoes for
Havana left Boston in the United
Fruit Co.'S steamship Limon, which
also carried the complete machinery
Installation for sugar mill In Cuba ;
also many tons of dry and picked
fish, shoes, malt and lumber.
Because of soaring taxes which has
placed Maiden, Mass, as the city
with the highest tax rate in the state
the United Improvement Assn, COM
II sed Of various CIVIC organizations
of the city, is arranging a mass
meeting at which it is planned to
take up the matter of having city
manager.
The Boston Legal Aid Society, in u
letter sent to Adjt. Gen. Jesse F.
Stevens, offers to the members of the
| State Guard the assistance of its en-
tire staff for which no charge will be
made. The society feels that many
of the Guardsmen are suffering Sc
we're financial loss which may result
| in many cases being brought against
them by creditors.
State Atty. 2. NJ. Phelps of Fair
Haven. VT, is Investigating the find
| ing of human skull by John Papin-
eau while digging up ground about
a hencOop at his home there. Further
excavations failed to reveal more
parts of a skeleton. The medical
examiner, after viewing the skull.
| said it had not been in the ground
more than three or four years.
| When A. l.. Jordan of Scarboro,
| Me-, was arraigned in the municipal
court at Portland on the charge of
| having 13 short Holsters in his pos
| session, he was found guilty of hav-
| ing only one under the legal length,
and was fined 81. According to w.
A. Kicker, the warden who made the
arrest, this lobster was only one one
hundreth of an inch under the legal
size.
Arthur Garfield (Honey) Hazard, 1,
the negro farm hand, who figured in
a sensational love tangle with Miss
Mabel Puffer, q wealthy heiress Of
Aver, on hose estate he worked, has
filed suit for $15, 600 damages in the
Superior Court against Chief of Pc
lice Patrick j. Beatty of Aver and
| four others whom he claims falsely
and maliciously prosecuted him in
the case.
| The committee on police Of the
| Newburyport city council has agreed
on scale Of pay for the members
| of the force and this has been accept
| ed by the council, to become effective
Dec. 1S, when the new fiscal year
starts. To provide for a time when
| the new scale might be deemed e1-
| cessive it was decided to grant q
| bonus on each salary instead OF max
| ing lump increase.
The destroy er oacIb. Jones exceed
ed her contract speed of 80 knots
an hour on her Standardization run
on the Rockland, Me-, course, when
she made mile at the rate of 36S5
knots. The average for five high
speed runs was 35.36 knots. The
contract requirement Of 400 propeller
revolutions minute was exceeded
with 459 revolutions. The boilers
generated $1,000 horsepower.
Bishop James DeWolf Perry Of the
Episcopal diocese of Rhode Island
! has failed in his attempt to have Sec.
Daniels of the navy publicly apollo
gize for charges recently brought by
The navy department against Chap
lain Samuel N. Kent affecting the
latters moral reputation, and thus
the matter, which has stirred church
circles in Newport. was carried to
the Episcopal convention in Detroit.
Hunters will not be permitted to
kill partridges this year in Massa-
chusetts. In giving its reasons for
| this prohibition, the BOARD Of commits
| sioners on fisheries and game say
there are fewer of the birds in this
state than ever before, due largely
| to the death of thousands of fledg-
lingS last spring, when the season
was unusually cold and wet.A fine of
$40 will follow the conviction of any
one violating the fish and game law
as it applies to the bird. Already
the deputies Of the board are getting
busy, as Is instanced by the impOsi-
| ion Of the fine upon resident of
randolph.
The case of greatest interest before
e supreme court at Montpelier, VT,
as that of Bert e. Kelsie. MUIR
.erer, whose appeal, which was not
ranted. was before the court on ex-
options. He was tried In the Or
leans county court at Newport last
Nay and found guilty OF the wihul
murder of fellow workman, James
| Allen, 70 years old. The state then
proved that Kelsie killed Allen with
a blow from brass rod and then
robbed him Of $3.50 which Allen had
| received from the sale Of horse.
At the request of Gen. John Il.
Sherburne, chairman Of the Massa'
chusetts Committee on the Necessi'
ties of Life, Senator Lodge made q
strong representation to the rail-
road administration to provide addi-
! t,onal rail facilities for the movement
of coal to New England. According
to Gen. Sherburne the movement OF
coal to the northeastern states by
barges has been seriously retarded
by the strike Of marine engineers.
An unidentified man and horse.
upon which 1t Ia thought he was rid