Oxford Democrat., 1920-05-25
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Items Of Interest From All
Sections Of Yankee|and

Items Of Interest From All
Sections Of YaHkeeIand
A Lynn woman dropped dead at the
sight of a dead friend whom she be-
lieved living.
hour Sunday asked by carmen
would cost Boston Elevated $S0oo,-
600, says company officials.
Deputy Sheriff Crosby Of Derby
Line, VT, seized an automobile con-
tanning $50 quarts Of liquor on It's
way into the United States from Can
ada.
A floating mine was passed 300
miles of Nantucket by a ship that
reported the menace by wireless, the
Otter Cliff station notifying the navy
yard.
F. A. Mccormick, assistant general
passenger agent of the Boston &
Maine Railroad, died last week at his
home at Undercliffe terrace, Melrose
Highlands, Mass.
Mrs. Frances Blake IS believed to
be Boston's only woman proprietor OF
a shoe shine shop, doing hand cob
bling, machinery repair and shine
Inability to support his wife and 10
children caused Elisee Maichand, A,
of Lowell, Mass, to hang himself In
the attic OF his home. The father
had been out Of work five weeks.
For the third time in three months
demands of the Worcester Consoli-
dated Street Railway company's en-
ployes for a 40 per cent raise in pay
were refused by officials OF the COM
pany.
Most of the silk mills IN the Rhode
Island district will shut down In the
near future, in all probability. The
mills are now working on 3-day-a-
week basis and all night shifts have
been eliminated.
Following a meeting Of the New
Bedford Manufacturers Association,
acting secretary T. o. Nicholson an
nounced a Is per cent advance IN
wages to New Bedford textile opera
tives, effective May 81.
A running dive from third story
window to a concrete sidewalk 40 feet
below netted Michael Davis, LOGGER
at 30 Causeway st., Boston, shght
scratches on both elbows, but len
him otherwise uninjured.
Irving Richard a 15-year-oid boy.
was arrested at Woonsockef, K l..
charged with having held up, shot and
attempted to rob Charles Warren OF
Blackstone, Mass, New Haven rail-
road bridge construction foreman.
An excellent war record saved
Thomas Manning, 19, Of Boston. from
a long prison record. Charged with
holdup and with firing three shots at
a police officer, Judge Cox gave him
but FIVE years at the reformatory.
A cannon ball, kept at the naval
torpedo station, Newport, R. l., as
relic of other days, was dropped In
to forge. The forge was wrecked
and four civilians were injured slight
" by the explosion which followed.
One-man car service was informally
inaugumted in Lowell, Mass, when
Mayor Perry D. Thompson, wearing
a motormans cap stepped from City
Hall and, with a competent Instructor
BY his side, operated the car through
the streets.
Forced to vacate the home In which
he Las lived for FIVE years. Secretary
Edgar Fielding Of the Westfield,
Mass. Y. NJ C. A, is preparing to
spend the summer In a tent. His un-
tiring efforts to seek new abode
have been absolutely fruitless.
The oil heating plant in the base
ment of St. Anne's Catholic Church.
Fall River. blew up while solemn
high mass vas being celebrated be-
fore a congregation Of 1900 persons,
causir~ panic in which man. women
and children scrambled for the exits.
when Lena Fleet. storekeeper at
735 Essex street, Lawrence, Mass,
was arraigned in the District Court
on a charge OF violating the Volstead
act the woman stated that q Boston
grocery firm had forced her to buy
Jamaica ginger from them II she
wanted 10 get any sugar.
The old warship Richmond, once
part of Farragut's feet at Mobile and
New Orleans, was set on fire at East
port, Me-, for the copper In her huh.
She ends her career on the same
beach where other historic craft. in
cluding the Franklin, Wabash, Mime
sofa and Vermont, have been burned
by junkmen in other years.
The alleged rent profteering in
Attleboro, Mass. took on new
aspect when it became known that
Martin Flanagan, president Of the
Tenants League had purchased two
tenement house and had served notice
on the occupants Of the second story
that after June 1, the rate would be
increased from SIS to $40 monthly.
Hermance Grether Nelson, who
claims to be the former Baroness De
Beck OF London and Paris, has been
sentenced to one year in Bangor, Me-.
Jail and her husband, George Leroy
Nelson, former second lieutenant
5O5th U. S. Engineers, to not less than
two or more than four years, in the
State prison for arson, by the Superior
Court.
OF the captured German war
trophies, Massachusetts, is entitled to
| SO big guns, howitzers a1d trench
mortars; to 1872 vehicles. gun car
riages and the like; to about 5000
rifles, 416 machine guns and about
1000 bayonets and scabbards. Also In
the allotment there are some 500
buckles and belts and 10000 helmet
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