Oxford Democrat., 1920-06-15
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The bill to pay bonus of 500 to
the yeoman CD was killed in the
Massachusetts house, after brief
debate.
Lack of dwelling places has re-
suited in a serious shortage Of labor
in at least two of the large industrial
plants at Hyde Park, Mass.
The use of gas masks in the Bos-
ton fire department is to be extended
from the rescue squad to include all
members of the department.
Massachusetts Socialists in con-
ference have named candidates for
State ticket, headed by Walter S.
Hutchings of Greenfield for governor.
Isadore Carey, aged Al, grocer. OF
SS Calumet street, Pitts6eld, Mass,
ran into Onata lake from Thomas is
land and committed suicide by drown
ing.
Jerome A. Crane, general manager
of the Liggett stores of New England,
died last week at the age Of 60 years.
He entered the employ of the firm as
clerk in 1897.
Ralph Scovell, fourteen years old,
was drowned in Otter Creek, Rutland,
VT, when companions thought his
cries for help were joke and did
not go to his assistance.
Herbert Humphrey & Sons. shoe
manufacturers, Marblehead, Mass,
have resumed operations suspended
for nearly two months because OF a
strike for higher wages.
Whiskey, amounting to $500 quarts
and valued at $4,000 was seized on a
big truck in Providence by Federal
agents and the police. The truck had
arrived from New York.
East Cambridge, Mass, has added its
contribution to the number OF escaped
prisoners In this instonce the man
liberated himself by the now popu-
lar ventilator route and made clean
getaway.
After a separation Of 40 years Ed
ward Wright. who during that time
has been in the gold fields Of Califor-
mia and Alaska, will rejoin his sister,
now Mrs. Charles Richardson, OF
Providence.
Patrick Doran, Jr., 13-years old OF
RoXbury, Mass, was fatally injured
while swinging in a hammock on the
roof of his home, when chimney, to
which the hammock was attached.
collapsed and fell on him.
In a circular letter to the members
of the Massachusetts legislature, four
medical societies within the state are
set down as opposed to the passage OF
the bill to provide maternity benefit"
for needy expectant mothers.
DR.. Henry ]. Millard. aged eighty
four, a Civil War Veteran and the old
est practising physician and surgeon
in Berkshire County, Is dead at his
home in No. Adams. He served dur
ing the Rebellion as surgeon.
The Massachusetts house passed
the bill permitting farmers, planters,
ranchmen, dairymen or fruit growers
to combine for the collective market
ing and sale OF their own products
notwithstanding antitrust laws.
John Rising of Westtield, Mass, was
out of a job and needed work He
applied for it by parading the streets
with a placard on his back inscribed
thus: 81 want work" He was offered
four positions within two hours.
Governor Coolidge has signed the
remaining two rent bills thus APPROX
ing all of the five temporary measures
passed by the Legislature for the pur-
pose OF relieving the housing situa-
ton and curbing rent protiteering.
After kneeling, apparently in pray
er, on a wall surrounding lake IN
Lincoln Park. Worcester, Mass. Al
exander Maxwell, 80, drew a 32-cal-
ibre revolver from his pocket, shot
himself through the head and plunged
headlong into the water.
Plans have been made for the or
ganization of the Haverhillr Mass,
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