Oxford Democrat., 1920-06-22
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Items Of Interest From Al
Sections Of YankeoIaad
A swim of about q mile took
horse owned by the Metropolitan Ice
Company to safety after the animal
had fallen into the basin at T wharf
Boston.
Though sustaining a broken back
and other injuries when he fell Az
feet from a ladder, Mathew Soumter
of Boston, a painter, will live, the
doctors say.
With the exception of few depart
ments, the Marland mills plant OF the
M. T. Stevens & Sons Company, An
dover, Mass, will operate only three
days a week for the present.
All Boston matrimonial records
| were broken when 100 couples ap-
piled at City Hall for marriage licen-
ses. 1t was the largest number ever
to file intentions in single day.
The strike for SO day started
March by the granite cutters OF
Quincy, Mass, has been settled by
the Granite Manufacturers Associa-
tion accepting the demands Of the
cutters.
Diving from a raft, Ernest Grande,
II, son of Mary Grande, North Adams,
Mass, became stuck face down in the
mud on the bottom OF the frog pond
southwest Of the city and was
drowned.
Quantities of Turkish tobacco and
Egyptian manufactured goods arrived
in Boston from Smyrna and Alexan-
dria in the British steamship Barotse,
whose cargo is valued at approximate
ly $2,O00,0OO.
Andrew N. Enelis, aged 80, shot his
wife, Margaret, in a New Britain,
Conn. hotel and then sent bullet in
to his own head, dying instantly.
Mrs. Enelis, who was 81, died half
hour later in a hospital.
The base wall of the bridge across
the Charles River at Pleasant st.,
South Natick, Mass, gave way under
the weight of the town steam roller,
and the machine, weighing 10 tons
fell 20 feet into the water.
George Stewart, Clinton, Mass, has
sailed for Ireland, where at Belfast
he is to attend the annual convention
of the Orangeman order, he to repre-
sent the United States organization.
of which he is National president.
A gift of 100000 towards the 3d.
0O0, 900 endowment fund which Wes-
leyan University, Middletown, Conn,
is raising has been received from the
General Education Board OF New
York, President w. A. Shankitn an
nounces.
Lieut.. James Raiche arrested Rob-
ert Story, 16, Of Springfield, Mass, on
charge Of stealing IL automobiles,
which the boy admitted, the police
state, he taking and driving until the
fuel was exhausted. The cars were
then abandoned.
The estate in Essex County, Mass.
of the late Henry Clay Frfck, mil
lionaire steel magnate, whose Sum-
mer resident was at Beverly Farms,
was valued at $1,e49,059 in the inven-
tory filed with Judge Dow In the Sa-
lem Probate Court.
Clayton NJ. Root, custodian Of the
Westfeld, Mass, Town Hall, has
hen which has established worlds
record. In other words, this fowl
produced Is chickens, when all the
eggs that Mr.. Root placed under her
was the regular setting Of 13.
Eddie Moy Orne of Boston, Chin
ese, % years old, was fined $1,000 and
sentenced to 80 days In Jail in the
United States District Court, Bangor,
Me. He pleaded guilty to the charges
of aiding in the illegal entry Of eight
Chinese into the United States.
1t will be DR." as well as Judge for
all Of the eight justices Of the Maine
supreme court from now on. The
honorary degree Of doctor of laws
was conferred on them all at the
class day and commencement exer-
cises at the University Of Maine.
The maternity benefits bill, which
has been one of the most widely dis
cussed matters in this years Massa-
chusetts Legislature, was defeated in
the House although 1t was we'll
known to the members that Gov.
Coolidge was anxious that some legis- |
lation Of the sort should be accom-
plished.
After three days of successful pull |
Ing and hauling, first with one steam |
street roller and finally with two, the |
immense tree of Revolutionary an
cestry, that stood in front Of the old |
General Lee house on Sycamore
street, Somerville, Mass, was
dragged from the ground, sawed up
and carted away. The tree is said to
be at least 240 years old and the base
was about IA feet In circumference.
The Food and Drug Division of the
Mass. State Department Of Public
HEALTH reports that during the month
,f May there were examined 901 sam
pies Of milk, of. which two showed
evidence Of removal of cream and 81
showed evidence Of the addition of
water. Director Lythgoe says this is
IN unusually high percentage Of wa
ered milk for this time Of the year.
Fifty-five samples Of food were ex-
mined of which nine were adul-
GRATED. |
Fraternal Friendship. |
A curate Of very nervous temper
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