Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1920-02-10
new ENGLAND news
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SeCuBIH VI IdIIkesIdlIu
The Hotel Woodcock, long time
famous Boston hostelry. has gnus
into bankruptcy.
Mrs. Fred B. Woodman Of Salem
Mass, fears her sister is capdvt
of the bolsheviki in Siberia.
J. J. Ballam of Boston, editor oi
communist paper, has pleaded guilty
to a charge Of provoking anarchy.
Compulsory gymnastic work Is now
required at the Middlesex school,
Concord, Mass. with John w. Waller
instructor.
Charles B. Mcguire, one Of Rhode
Islands most active contractors anc
builders, died at his home In Prov
idence last week.
Louis Lanz, who was confidential
secretary to the Greenwich, Conn.,
town treasurer, wrongfully used $192,
600 of the towns funds, it Is alleged
Out of 253 physicians in Hartford
Ct., only Is have applied for per
mits to prescribe liquors. according
to the estimate Of Collector Of Inter
nal Revenue J. Walsh.
Prying open with crowbars a 600
pound safe In the wholesale grocery
of Daniel F. Howe. Worcester,
thieves made away with $500 In Lib.
erty Bonds, $50 in cash and several
bankbooks.
Lewis s. Gordon, Jr., principal
has closed the Clinton, Mass, even
ing school. Original registration
was 200 but had dropped to the van
ishing point. Americanization class
es will be continued.
Milkmen of Cumberland and Yors
counties, Me-, have lost their fight
in the courts against the pasteur
ization rule made by the Portland
board of health. and designed TO De
come effective at the beginning OF the
year.
Henry S. Dennison, president OF
the Dennison Mfg. Co. Of Framing
ham, Mass. has announced the gt'
of a $50, 900 gymnasium to the Franz
ingham Civic League. with an ad.
ditional gift of $4,000 as a maan-
tenance fund.
Samuel F. F1anzbaum, Geo. M.
Goldsmith and A. NJ. Collins, all OF
Boston, officers Of the F. G.. Collins
Shoe Co., of Providence, were each
fined $1,000 on charges of prohteer-
ing after they had pleaded nolo con
tendere in the federal court here.
A Voluntown, Ct. party of young
people returning from q sleigh noe
down through long woods at midnight
report seeing a huge meteor In the
northern sky falling like a ball Of
fire leaving showers Of sparks Do
hind. 1t was half minute IN sight.
Probably the most unusual ground
given for a divorce in Newport, Il.
l.. appears in a petition filed In the
Superior Court The names are with
held. The petitioner sues ON the
ground that her husband Is "Bol.
sheviki." The case will be heard
May II.
During the summer 10000 Boston
horses were watsred and 81 $50 were
showered by agents Of the WORE
Horse Relief Association, says the
society's report of that society. Al
the Ashton Lawrence Free Hospital
232 horses were treated, an increase
of sixty.
Farmers in the sparsely settled
section of Hebron, Ct.. and Coium.
bia, have lost hens, turkeys and lit.
tie pigs due to night visits of a wild
animal, that must be either a lynx
or wildcat. In several =, instances
people out late have been frightened
by the animal.
Robert Matteson Johnson, professor
of modern history at Harvard, who
served during the recent war as Of
fetal historian to the American Ex'
peditionary Forces, and was widely
known as an authority on military at
fairs, died of heart trouble at his
home in Cambridge.
The Mass. state department Of
health has wearied of making analy'
ses of liquor for federal authorities,
and If bill reported to the House
by the committee on public health Is
successful, will thereafter confine
its liuuor work to cases initiated un
der state law with probably some
exceptions.
Pending further hearings in the
Supreme Court, members Of the Mas
sachusetts Fishermen's Association
composed principally of Independent
captains from Nantucket and Vine
yard Haven, are protected by tenn
porary injunction against interfer'
ence with their business by the Fish
ermen's Union and allied OrganiZa'
tions.
,Major-G General Edwards denies that
he is going to retire from the army
and enter the grocery business. u
simply allowed my name to be used
in a business firm which my father
started years ago, in order to get 1t In
shape since the recent death OF my
brother. l am not going into the
grocery business and l have no in
tention of leaving the army" ex-
planned the general.
Coal confiscations by the United
States railroad administration have
almost entirely depleted the Connec-
ticnt Street Railway Company supply
and the Connecticut company has
wired Congressman John @. Tilson
at Washington that trolley service
would have to be suspended within
three days unless the railroads were
called off at once. On account Of
seizures Of coal in transit, the com
pany has been unable to get ship
ments of coal past New N'rk.