Oxford Democrat., 1919-03-18
'NEW W,ENeLAND news ,
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An estate in Italy. worth $4,000 lira
| ($16, 400, has no attraction for Peter
De Simone, Rockland, Mass. bar
Der. To claim 1t he would have to
60 to Italy to live-and be says
America is good enough for him any
day.
The Vermont Press Association
has voted to erect . memorial tablet
to Horace Greeley at EAST Poultney.
where the editor began his anewspa-
per career. w. G. Belknap Of Bel
lows Falls was elected. president OF
the association.
The Vermont Press Association
has voted to erect q memorial
tablet to Horace Greeley at East
Poultney, where the editor began his
newspaper career. w. G. Belknap
of Bellows Falls was elected presi-
dent Of the association.
The tenth annual farmers week at
| the Massachusetts Agricultural Col
lege, win be held at Amherst from
Monday, March II. through Friday,
r,arch q. In all the discussion and
demonstrations particular attention
will be paid to postwar problems.
A message expressing approval by
the Amherst College student body Of
the league of nations plan presented
to the Paris peace conference was
sent to President Wilson byhwireless.
Endorsement Of the league was agreed
upon by the students by q vote of
300 to 8.
At a meeting Of the anti-prohibition
committee of-the Boston Central La
Dor Union, it was announced that 50
affiliated local unions have pledged
themselves to participate In the CEN
trail body's protest parade and dem
onstration on Boston Common, Sun
day, April 8.
The American Thermos Bottle
Company. Norwich. Conn, has just
made its sixth semi annual distribu-
tion of bonuses to its employees who
have been with the company six
months or longer. About l.o in all
are employed. and Of these about 100
received bonuses.
Four men were fined $50 each in
the federal court, Boston, for steal
ing coal from government pockets
at Camp Devens. The men, who
pleaded guilty are Clarence q. Reed,
Ernest Tupper and Harry Simpson of
Aver and Eugene Cronin of Boston.
They were employed at the camp.
Four men were fined $5O each in
the federal court, Boston. for steal
ing coal from government pockets at
Camp Devens. The men, who pleaded
guilty are Clarence e. Reed, Ernest
L. Upper and Harry Simpson Of
Aver and Eugene Cronin Of Boston.
They were employed at the camp.
The act relating to free highway
bridge to be known as memorial
bridge to the soldiers and sailors OF
New Hampshire and Maine was fav-
orably reported In a new draft in the
Maine house. The bridge would be
built over the Piscataqua river be-
tween Kittery. Me-. and Portsmouth.
N. H.
An extra distribution Of approx
mately $2,0O0,000 to the common
stockholders of the American Wool
en- company, Springfield, Mass. was
voted at the annual meeting. Pay
ment will be made in Liberty bonds
on the basis of $40 par value. on
each Of the 100000 shares Of common
stock.
Orlando B. Bray, member Of the
firm Of Howard & Foster, shoe man
ufacturers, Brockton. committed sui
eide in bed at his home. Mr.. Bray
was born in Auburn, Me-, came to
Brockton 40 years ago and worked
himself up to partnership In one
OF the largest shoe manufacturing
establishments here from an humble
position as cutter.
Orlando B. Bray, member of the
firm of Howard & Foster, shoe manu-
facturers, Brockton, committed sui
eide in bed at his home. Mr.. Bray
was born in Auburn, Me-, came to
Brockton 40 years ago and worked
himself up to a partnership in one
of the largest shoe manufacturing
establishments here from an humble
position as cutter.
David Willard, of Brattleboro. VT,
who served during the war as Du-
ropean director Of the national surgi-
cal dressings committee, received
word that he had been nominated
Cavaliere Della Corona DItalia for his
work In Italy following the Caporetto
disaster and retreat. The information
was contained In message from the
Italian minister of foreign AFFAIRS stat
Ing that King Victor Emmanuel
signed a decree to this effect In No
vember. The order corresponds to
the Legion Of Honor in France and
carries with 1t the title Of knight.
Officers of Rueter & Co., brewers,
are planning to engage in the candy
business. The company has fled a
petition with the Boston building de-
partment for permission to build parti-
tions In building adjacent to its big
brewing plant on Terrace street, Rox-
bury, the interior construction OF
which is better adapted to the manu-
facture Of candy than any other line.
Mrs. Mary A. Blodgett. Pittsfeld's
oldest living resident, reached on
Thursday. March 8. the age of ninety
nine years. She walks, reads and Is
In possession Of all her faculties.
Mrs. Blodgett, In the days Of the Civil
War journeyed South from her home
in Salisbury. Conn, to 60 to her son.
q soldier who was III with typhoid,
nursed him back to health and took
him home.
The weekly report Of the oommun-
Ity Labor Bureau shows that thirty
,ne manufacturing concerns in Water
bury, Conn, had q total OF 29,1Ss en-
ployees at the close Of the week ended
Feb. "a and q total OF 27,6G employees