The united opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1881-1970, 1920-12-24
new ENGLAND news
IN TABLOID FORM
Items of Interest From All
Sections of Yankeeland

The unusually large number of 2f
divorce DEGREES were granted at the
Houlton, Me-, term of court Just
closed.
A football striking against boys
pocket which contained two explosive
caps resulted in his death at a hos
pital in Brockton, Mass.
A one-year embargo on imports of
potatoes is proposed in a bill intro
duced in Congress by Representative
Hersey, Republican, of Maine
Acting Gov. Charming Cox, of Mass
achusetts has signed the bill fixing
the compensation for Legislators
serving in the present special session
at 5000.
Charles D. Woods, for "a years di-
rector Of the Maine Agricultural sta
ton at the University of Maine, has
been summarily removed by the trus-
tees of the university, following his
refusal to resign.
Rhode Island again takes the lead
of all other New England states in
! the sales of War Savings Stamps per
capita, as shown by the latest official
figures compiled by the Savings Dtvi-
sion, First Federal Reserve District.
/ Alleged to have charged excessive
prices for a special dinner served the
day of the Harvard Yale football game
az New Haven. the Bond Hotel Co.,
Inc, has been indicted by the Federal
grand jury for violating the Lever
act.
Henry Fallansbee Long, private
secretary to the governor has been
named by Governor Coolidge as com
missioner of corporations and taxa
ton, to succeed William d. T. Trefry.
The position carries a salary of $4,000
year.
Nine silver foxes were stolen from
the Sheffield Fox Farm in Florence,
Mass, and four more were found dead
from poison. The two-acre farm is
operated by G. A. Sheffield, whose
animals won prizes in a recent fox
show in Boston.
The explosion of three 40-gallon hot
water tanks in the cellar suddenly
awakened six families occupying an
apartment house in the Woodfords dis
trict, Portland Maine. Although walls
and partitions were badly damaged,
no one was injured,
Miss Eleanor Calnan of Methuen,
Mass, appearing before the Lawrence
Municipal Council, urged that body to
go on record as favoring asking Con-
gress to pass legislation that will
force the mills to operate six hours
a day, five days a week.
A bond of $4,000 was provided by
Raymond H. Healey of New Britain,
Conn, until few days ago vice pres
ident of the United States Bank there,
when he was held for the Superior
Court charged with embezzlement of
$4,000 of the banks funds.
The entire women's voting list of
Boston is to be discarded next year
and each OF the 72,473 women now on
the list must register again. The rea-
son is that there is no record in the |
election department of the heights |
and weights of the women voters.
Judge Dubuque sitting in the Suf-
folk Superior Criminal Court, Boston,
stated that IF ! had my own way |
about il, | would send every one con-
victed of robbery away for life.
have done so before and men are now
serving life sentences for robbery"
Sidney L. Holt, the hermit of Wan
ta3tiquet mountain" died recently at
the Brattleboro, VT, Retreat, where
he had been an inmate at intervals
Stree 1879. He had a shack on the
mCul. tain side, where he spent much
of his time writing poetry and play
ing a violin.
Provisions have been made for
handling crowds of autoists seeking
their 1921 registration plates, but re-
ports from the State House, Boston,
say that not enough persons are call
ing at the offices of the Highway Com
to get their plates to keep
the clerks busy.
The governors and governors elect
of the six New England States will
be the guests at a dinner and recep-
tion rendered to Vice President elect
Coolidge. on Dec. 20, at the Hotel
Somerset, Boston, by the members
Of the Joint New England Commits
sion on Foreign and Domestic Com
merce.
The MASSACHUSETTS Chamber OF
Commerce has put itself on record as
favoring reasonable legislation on the
right to issue and sell corporation Sc
curities. and also as favoring an in
exposition to be held in
or near Boston in the year 1925. in
Of the landing OF the
Pilgrims.
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