Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1920-04-27
NUMBER II.
new ENGLAND news
IN TABLOID FORM
Items Of Interest From Al
Sections Of YankeeIand

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cording to results Of . survey OF th'
senior class.
OF the 358 votes cast by member
Of the Harvard faculty for presiden
tial candidates, 2S1 favored Hoover
and 81 Wood.
i, A shipment to New York on motoi
trucks Of z2,500 pounds Of fish wa,
made recently by Portland, Me-
wholesale dealers.
DR.. J. NJ. Tibbets in an address On
Norman Temple Secrets" in Boston
declared that polygamy Is still prac'
ticed in Salt Lake City.
On account of the railroaA strike
which has delayed food shipments
"Save Money on Meat Week" in Mas
sachusetts has been postponed indef-
nitely.
Tieves entered the warehouse OF
N. H. Glynn, licensed federal distrib-
utor of liquor, 368 Washington street,
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of liquor. valued at $4,000.
Women will be admitted to the Col
lege Of Medicine of the University OF
Vermont for the first time IN It's his.
tory next fall, Dean Henry C. Tinkham
Of the Medical College has announced
Antonio Teregno, who escaped e3ec.
trocution by three and half hours
for the murder Of Rafael Cammefnts
of Westfeld, Mass, again will go on
trial at the May sitting Of the super1os
Court.
A group of East Boston gangsteri
entered the quarters Of Ffaherty post
American Legion, tore from the wall
an American flag. trampied on It, and
destroyed more than $500 worth oi
property.
The Rhode Island House of Repre-.
sentatives refused to admit the intro.
duction OF resolution inviting PreN.
dent Wilson to make his summer home
on the Oakland farm, in Portsmouth,
the Alfred g. Vanderbilt estate.
Distribution Of potatoes from Aroos-
took county, Me-, to points outside OF
New England was stopped by the rail
road strike and resultant embargoes,
caused an almost precipitate drop In
price from SO to $3.50 a barrel.
The bill to provide for additional aid
by Massachusetts to small towns ir
the payment of salaries to school
superintendents was advanced. The
bill provides that the minimum salary
paid to such officials shall be $1,000
year.
The trustees Of Trinity College
Hartford, Conn.,, have announced an
increase in the tuition fee, from 500
to $3.50, and the cost Of incidentah
from $40 to $50. In the fee for single
courses there Is an increase from $50
to $50.
The Attleboro, Mass, rent commis-
sion Monday notified laudlady that
the $50 per month rate which she noti-
fed two tenants would be effective
after May 1, was exorbitant and rec
commended $23 per month as fair
figure.
Because they threw potatoes and
pennies at the actors OF touring
musical comedy company at the town
hall Middlebury, VT, six Middlebury
College students were fined IN NUM-
cipal court, all pleading guilty to
breach OF the peace.
The Massachusetts, Legislative COM
mittee on ways and means voted TO
report a bill which would grant to
yeoman (F). as women and girls in
the naval service were at one time
designated, the benefits OF the soldiers
and sailors 500 bonus act.
The Massachusetts, Legislature has
been asked by 235 leading physicians,
surgeons and specialists in the state to
kill the present onerous federal re-
strictions an the manufacture, pre-.
scription and sale of alcoholic bever-
ages for medicinal purposes"
The name Of MAI. Gen. Leonard
Wood will appear on the ballots at the
Vermont primary on May q as can
didate for the Republican nomination
for president, as a result Of petition
fled in his behalf with the Secretary
of State. The petition bore 500 sig
natures. the number required under
the law.
Collins Pomeroy, 70, former select
man Of Westfeid, Mass. pioneer whip
manufacturer and for Is years In the
livery business is dead. He learned
the whip business In Mundale before
any factories were established there
where 81 per cent Of whips in the
world are now manufactured. Later
he entered the livery business and for
a quarter Of century was figure
among horsemen in this section o!
New England.
The older teachers of the Maiden,
Mass, high school were elated when
word was received that Carroll R.
Reed Of the class of 1909 had, at the
age Of IS, been chosen as superinten-
dent Of schools Of Akron, O.. 1t sal
ary Of 10000 q year Mr.. Reed, when
he takes up his new duties IN Septem-
Der, will be the highest paid man OF
( his years in the United States educa-
tional field.
BY vote Of u to Ii, the Rhode
Island senate adoted an amendment to
the Rhode Island law defining bever-
ages containing per cent. or less
of alcohol as Notwithstanding. which
would extend the provisions Of the Law
TO incorporated clubs and associations.
The amendment would permit poles
commissions and town councils TO 10
sue licenses for the sale of such NON
intoxicating beverages" to clubs a.
well as to hotels and saloons. "as
soon as the treaty of peace is ratified,
the President has issued proclama'
ton Of rehabilitation or Congress has
declared a state OF peace"
Gov. Coolidge has approved appoint.
ment of Frank 8. Perkins Of Salem
to be colonel Of the new 1921 held ar