Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1920-02-17
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Items Of Interest Frum All
Sections Of Yankeeland

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Pope Benedict has conferred the
knighthood os the Order Of 81. Syi'
vester on william Joseph Muuigau
Of Hartford, Ct.
John Kendrick Bangs has announced
his withdrawal as q candidate for the
Republican nomination for represen-
tative from the LIST Main congressional
district.
Representatives Of organizations in
northeastern Massachusetts, which are
interested in the control Of tubercu-
losis met in Salem and organized the
Northeastern District tuberculosis
Association.
A freight train on the limestone
branch OF the Bangor & ArOostOOk
railroad was wrecked at Grimes, four
miles east of Caribout, four cars
being badly damaged and their cargo
of potatoes destroyed.
Harry L. Lavensaler was in a &c,
rious condition at Rockland, Me-,
hospital, following a four mile walk
with partially severed foot. Law
saler cut his foot while chopping
wood in a woodshed at his home four
miles from ROckland.
Mrs. Guiditta Allaro, the Salem,
Mass. woman who threw her two
children into the South river, Salem.
and then plunged into the river her
self in an attempt at suicide, has
been committed to the Danvers State
Hospital COR the Insane.
More than 200 employees Of the
Boston Navy Yard have gone on
furlough for the remainder of the
month and about as many more will
be given furloughs in few days, as
the lack of money makes 1t impossi-
BILE to continue work at the yard upon
the former scale.
A letter, alleged to have been
dropped from the pocket Of James F.
Welch, Cambridge, Mass, while he
was in the act Of looting store IN
Dorchester, furnished the clew which
led to his conviction in the Dorchester
Court on a charge Of breaking and
entering.
Charles c. Perkins Of New Lon
don, by Advancement from senior
grand warden, has been elected grand
master of the Masonic Grand Lodge
of Connecticut. Grand Secretary
George A. Kies reported 1852 candi.
dates raised in 1919 and that the
present membership is 81 ,298, divided
among 112 lodges.
The Harvard Crimson, the univer-
sity daily paper. after examining
records, finds that there are rs Har-
ward men in Congress. The House
Of Representatives has 20, and the
Senate the remaining six. This State
leads the list of States with Crimson
degree men in Congress.
Xavier Proulx, 45, Of Haverhill, died
from influenza at the Contagious
Hospital while the funeral of his wife,
Clara Proulx, IS, also victim Of the
epidemic, was being held at st.
Joseph's Church, leaving eight or
phaned children in the hospital suffer
ing from the same disease.
The State of Vermont has formally
acknowledged receipts Of fees
amounting to $52,986 from the probate
court, in settlement of the estate OF
Mrs Hetty 81. r. Green, Late of
New York and Bellows Falls. This
sum is exclusive Of 5000 recently
paid to the state as an inheritance
tax.
The Post Exchange at Fort Greble,
3. l., one of the island defences OF
Narragansett Bay, was destroyed by
fire. The artillerymen at the fort.
fighting the flames in a blizzard of
high velocity, saved post headquar
ters, the service club and hospital,
notwithstanding q scant supply of
water.
Resolutions urging upon Police
Commissioner Curtis the need for a
women's bureau In connection with
the Boston police department, ami-
lar to that now conducted in Wash
ington, D. c., for the protection OF
women and children. were adopted al
q meeting under the auspices Of a
score Of Boston and Massachusetts,
welfare organizations.
After more than SO years Of doub,
over the ownership Of the land on tho
North end of Plum Island, OF New
buryport, on which the United State
Government maintains a lighthouse
and lifesaving station, an agree
ment between the government and
the heirs Of Moses Pettingill has
been filed in the federal district
court whereby 80 acres Of land Is
ceded to the government.
Former Mayor Thomas Thompson
of New Bedford, picturesque In poll
tics as the man who campaigned
wearing his marble workers white
overalls, died at his home last week
after an illness of four years, aged 81.
He was a candidate for mayor at
six elections and was overwhelmingly
elected In 1906 over John Mccullough
after a bitter campaign. He served
but one term.
The Rev. DR.. Charles A. Eaton, edi-
tor of Leslie's Weekly and head OF the
propaganda. department of the ship
ping board during the war, declared
at a complimentary dinner given by
the Fidelity Trust Company, Boston,
to its stockholders that Americans
were living in FOOLS paradise,
spending money like drunken sail
ors," and that q day Of reckoning
could not long be delayed unles1
there was a turn to q policy Of thrift.
He said the country had more para
sites today than 1t had had before IN
a generation.