Oxford Democrat., 1920-06-29
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An increase Of 10 cents an hour
, has been awarded the employees OF
the Portland, Me-, street railroad.
: Crepe paper hair ribbons have
been unanimously adopted by tht stu
dents Of the Girls High School, Bos-
: ton.
! Internal Revenue agents have
started to comb Massachusetts for
delinquents and evaders Of luxury
taxes"
Five Massachusetts, women en- route
to Portland were injured when their
!; automobile skidded and upset on the
state road half way between Bidde-
ford and Kennebunk.
The first graduation exercises Of the
Trade Union College were held in
the hall of the English high school.
Boston, Is students receiving GER
tificates Of scholarship.
Edward C. Niles of Boston, taking
as his subject, Mob Violence of the
Negro" was the winner cf the Hal
lowell sreahng contest at Colby Col
lege Waterville, Me-, taking the first
prize of $50.
The farm buildings on the Ebenezer
Albee place, Machias, Me-, said to
have been built 100 years ago, were
entirely wiped out by fire with all the
contents, loss of about $4,000 with
no insurance
One. hundred and sixty-one students
received bachelor degrees and six
graduate students master degrees at
the 18th commencement exercises of
Simmons College, in Harvard Congre-
gational Church, Brookline,
A large party Of ministers and lay
men Of the Congregational Church
has left Southampton, Eng, for New
York to attend the fourth interna-
tional council in Boston in the latter
part Of June and early July.
| Charles Goodwin of Rockland, Me-,
In jail awaiting trial in October for
completely in the robbery of the Tre-
mont Savings bank last August, COM
mitted suicide by hanging himself to
the bars in his cell by strips of bed
clothing.
Leominster, Mass, Hospital is be-
queathed $4,000 by the will of Frank
H. Cook Of LeOminster. and beQuest,
of 5000 each are left to all employees
of Mr.. Cook who worked for him
more than 10 years in his Leominster
machine shop.
Salaries for the teaching corps at
Blown University, Providence, fixed
at the annual meeting Of the corpora
tion, show these increases: Professors,
$4,000 to $4,000; associate professors
$500 to $4,000; assistant professors,
$25O0 to $4,000; instructors, $500 to
$4,000.
Safe robbers, believed by the po-
lice to be local amatuers, broke into
four Offices in the building at 40
Causeway street, Boston, and after
forcing one safe attempted to bore
through another and finally escaped
with two pairs Of shoes as q reward
for their labors.
Four Dartmouth, Mass, coGstables
and two federal officers made q raid
in the woods In the rear Of the
Woodcock road and found six stills
in operation, with 100-gaIlon capac-
ity. They were seized with 600 gale
Ions Of mash, IS gallons Of moon
shine and other apparatus.
How two prisoners made sensa-
tional escape from the Concord, Mass.
Reformatory and were captured after
ven-hour hunt by Jail officials and
a posse Of citizens, came to Light
when the men were found guilty Of
jail-breaking by a jury in the East
Cambridge Superior Criminal Court.
The petition Of the organized tele-
phone workers OF Boston and New
England for a separate department
within the folds Of the International
Brotherhood of Electrical Workers o6
America, or a separate international
charter in lieu of this, has been de-
MED by the American Federation Of
Labor
The Eastern Mass. Street Railway
Company, doing one OF the biggest
trolley freight businesses In the
country, has discontinued that busi-
ness. The reason is that this depart
ment Of its service was Improbable.
All its 70.O00-po freight cars will
be converted into snow fighting
equipment.
President Mary A. Woolley Of Mt
Holyol1e College announced at the
alumnae luncheon, which formed q
part Of the commencement exercises,
the establishment Of an Alice Gordon
Gulick memorial fund, to endow
professorship in romance languages,
Mrs. Gulick, a Mt. Holyoke graduate
of the class Of 1867. founded the first
Protestant schools Of Spain.
The Massachusetts Federation OF
Farm Bureau Trustees elected E. F.
Richardson Of Mills. president; F.
L. Whitemore of Sunderland, vice
president; F. D. Griggs Of Waltham,
secretary; c. J. Grant Of Springfield.
treasurer; e. h. Stoddard Of East
Brookfeld, George Averfll Of North
Andover and Elmer Poole Of North
Dartmouth. trustees. After a dis
cussion of seeking membership in
the American Federation, It was
agreed that the Massachusetts Fed
Grafton must return to its old basis
of membership in vogue before the
antiaid bin went into effect.
The New England Dairy and Food
Council, incorporated to push the
sales Of New England products. par
ticularly milk at the outset OF its ac-
tivities, effected It's permanent organ
lzation, with the election of Glenn c.
Seavey Of Springfield, editor Of the
New England Homestead. ss president,
and Frank g Adams Of Bowdoinham.
Me-, deputy commissioner Of agricul-