Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1920-08-17
NUMBER 33.

Boston's foreign passenger trafie
shows a marked increase for July
compared with that month last year.
Statistics furnished by custom on
cials indicate that 2,147 passengers
arrived from Europe, 3!046 from Nova
Scotia and New Brunswick and sixty
from Central America and West In
dies. Arrivals during July. 1919 ag'
gregated 3,57S.
Public bequests totalling more than
$125,000, many Of them to churches,
hospitals and charitable institutions
in Detroit and in Walkerville, Ont,
are made in the will Of James w.
Walker of Detroit, fled at SLlem,
Mass. Mr.. Walker died recently at
his summer home at Magnolia, Mass.
To st. Paul's school, Concord, N. H.,
is given $1,000.
Gifts of $150,000 to Bowdoin and
University of Maine, $4,000 to Gees
Northwood academy at Durham, N.
H., $4,000 to the Eastern Maine Cen
tral hospital in Bangor, Me-, and gen.
erous bequests to other Bangor char'
ties, nearly all of which are remem-
bered are contained in the will OF
DR.. Thomas Upham Coe. The estate
is said to be the largest ever disposed
of by will in Penobscot county and Is
.x;--.otod ~ 60 nm mn
Thirty eight registered Hoastein
cattle were recently sold at auction
at Brattleboro, VT. The entire herd
of w. D. Newton & Son Of West Brat
tleboro went under the hammer. Will
liam Corliss of Andover, Mass, paid
$355 for heifer 1-2 years old, con-
signed by George H. Hill Of Marlboro.
N. H. A heifer the same age and
from the same herd went to G. II.
Howard Of Greenfield, Mass, for $685..
James G. Blaine, Jr., Of Providence,
R. l., grandson of the Republican
candidate for President who opposed
Grover Cleveland in the 1884 election
has been appointed eastern treasurer
of the Republican national committee.
II was announced that he would i'm
assume charge OF the New
York office handling the financial
part of the Harding and Coolidge
campaign.
The Leather Workers Local OF the
Shoe Workers Protective Union at
a mass meeting at Haverhiu, Mass,
voted to declare strike at 80 coun-
ter, top lift and tap factories, where
they claim they were practically
locked out. The union recently
presented to 40 concerns new price
lists asking a minimum wage OF |7e
per week. this being an increase OF
81. The old list expired July 81.
When 400 members Of the union re-
ported for work last Monday they
found the factories closed. The
members in voting for a strike also
voted not to return to work until the
new price lists are signed.
The inventory of the estate OF Miss
Mary A. Hunt, the largest estate ever
given to charity in the history OF New
Hampshire, has just been filed in pro-
bate court. 1t totals $1,2S3, ,073, and
is a trife larger than was stated a
short time ago.
Practically the entire estate goes to
the proposed Mary A. Hunt Home for
AGED Women, for needy Protestant
women of New Hampshire, and to the
John M. Hunt Home for Aged Men,
already established. It will made
available more than $1,500,000 for the
two homes, with what the latter home
was given before by Miss Hunt and
her mother.
At a meeting Of the executive COM
mittee of the NewHampshire Tubercu-
losis Association held at Manchester
the executive secretary, DR.. Robert B.
Kerr, gave an exhaustive review OF
recent work in New Hampshire.
It was announced that clinical case
finding and survey work is being done
in all the counties except Carroll.
New clinics and nursing service have
been established in Dover with Miss
Annie R. Provost as county tubercu-
losis nurse for Straiord County, at
Berlin, for Coos; at Keene. Miss Eliza
beth Monus, nurse. for Cheshire: at
Concord, Miss Carrie II. Canneld.
nurse, for Merrfmac: at Peterboro,
Miss Adella Stanley, nurse, for the
development of the tuberculosis sur
vey In the district comprising Hills
boro County exclusive Of Nashua and
Manchester.
AS soon as nurses Of the kind de-
sired can be obtained clinics, and
nursing service will be established at
Lebanon, Laconia, Exeter and New
market arrangements having been
perfected for them up to the point OF
engaging nurses II Is expected that
the new health centers in Grafton,
Belknap and Rockingham Counties
will be opened by the middle Of Sep
tember.
Beside these new fields that have
been entered. old ones In M&nehester,
Nashua and Concord have been great.
ly developed.
After serving continuously mere
than 33 years as q letter CARRIER %
the same route in Brattleboro, VI.
Dennis E Tasker has given ND car
rying mail and is now enjoying q
vacation Of Is days, at the close Of
which he will retire on part pay. He
Is 81 years old and began carrying
mail when the free delivery service
was established at Brattleboro July
1, 1877. He walked 10 miles a day
the first II years and has walked
about Is miles day since then. He
is in good health and for the present
will act as secretary for the Valley
Fair Association.
Homo Of the PtarmIgan.
In the Canadian Rocky mountains
there Is a valley where the ptarmigan
lives and breeds. This region has long
been named Ptarmigan valley, and ii
y Al p