Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1920-09-21
NUMBER 38.

James M. Woods. octogenarian.
former Mayor of Somerville. Mass.
and member of the Legislature thirty
six years ago, was nominated In the
24th Middlesex District in the recent
primaries.
Monroe G. Haight, Il, prominent
sheep raiser Of Blandford, Mass. was
found dead near the shearing nen
with a bullet wound through his alb
domen. Death is belved to have
been accidental.
Eight-year-old joseph Gallant, who
is visiting his uncle in Weymouth,
Mass. mistook q red fire box for a
bird house. He fumbled around hit
something" and was surprised when
he saw all the fire engines come run
ming.
The tax rate of Salisbury, Mass.
for 1920, is $42 per $1,000, belived to
be the highest in the state. Last year
It was $17.4O per $1,000. Big expendit-
ures for improvements at the beach
are said to be responsible for the
increase.
Two hundred members Of the Gus
tom Ladies' Tailors' Union, Local 36,
Boston voted to strike II the manu-
features fail to meet their demands
for $50 a week minimum wage. No
demands for a change Of the A-hour
week were made.
DR.. Harmon N. Morse professor OF
analytical and inorganic chemistry at
Johns Hopkins University for num-
Der Of years is dead at his Summer
home at Chebeague Island, Me. He
was a prominent member OF foreign
and American scientific organizations.
Poison gas employed by the pub
lie health service to fumigate tho
White Star liner Cretic, at Common
wealth Pier, South Boston frustrated
a scheme whereby 13 italians might
have entered the country through
connivance with members Of the
crew.
William Brown, Of Lawrence, Mass,
nineteen years old. pleaded guilty
to attempted blackmafl. Fred G.
Kidder, a Sunderland farmer, was the
complainant. Kidder exhibited let
ter ordering him to leave 5000 on
a lonely spot on Montague road on
pain of personal injury.
New England Protestant churches
must get back to rock-bottom
Gospel truth" claims Evangelist Reu-
ben s. Smith, who is making prepara-
tions for the big convention Of gospel
fundamentals which will open Its
three days sessions in fremont Tenn
pie Boston. September 2S.
The advent OF women as voters
will cause residents Of Marblehead,
Mass. to abandon town hall, where
ballots have been cast since 1727.
Henry Sullivan Of Lowell, Mass.
gave up his second attempt to swim
the English channel. He was within
two miles of the French coast.
Members of the commission which
is being sent to France to see that the
graves Of Massachusetts, soldiers and
are properly cared for and to recon-
mend a suitable memorial, have
sailed from New York on the La
France. The party, headed by Col.
Edward L. Logan, left Boston yester-
day
Thomas and John Rychlech. eight
and six years respectively, who
placed stones on the New York, New
Haven and Hartford railroad tracks
in Meriden, Ct. on August q, wreck,
ing a New York Springfield express,
have been committed by the court TO
the state school and then placed on
probation.
Strewn along the shores Of Indian
Lake, Worcester, Mass. are thousands
of dead fish, killed by the chemical
warfare exhibition which was part OF
the New England fair. Perch, pick
erel and pout make up the larger
number, resulting from the spreading
of poisonous gases and exploding OF
bombs, under water and In air.