Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1920-09-28
new ENGLAND NEWS
IN TABLOID FORM
Items Of Interest From All
Sections Of YankeeIand

Boston has been selected as the
city in which the next convention of
the Iri h Foresters of America is to
be held. The sessions will be held
in September, 1922.
Six Italians who were being held
by the federal authorities of Boston
for deportation to their native land,
escaped from the immigration sta
ton at East Boston.
The proposed constitutional amend
ment providing for a state tax on in
comes was disapproved by about H.
900 in 355 out of SIG towns at the re-
cent Maine state election.
Miss Emily Legore of 174 Garden
street, Lawrence, Mass, was admitted
to United States citizenship and has
the honor Of being the first Italian
woman to be naturalized there.
Edward, the three-year- son of
Mr.. and Mrs. Parker Ulman of South
boro, Mass, was taken to the Brigh-
ton Contagious Hospital with infantile
paralysis, the fourth child in the
family to contract the disease.
Miss Cora Frances Stoddard of
Boston is included in the list of Of
fetal representatives of the United
States to the International Congress
against Alcoholism named by Balm
bridge Colby, secretary Of state.
A trip OF halibut recently landed by
the schooner Joffre stocked the yes
sci $13,047, and each of the crew re-
ceived s212 as his share, this being
one of the most profitable cruises for
a sailing vessel on recent records Of
the Boston industry.
1t. Haven Spencer, aged "a, was al
most instantly killed in Mortified,
Mass, when the airplane he was op,
Grating failed to clear a tree and
crashed to the ground. Herman Nc
MILAN, who was also in the plane, es.
capped almost without a scratch.
The home Of Joseph P. Griffin, At
tleboro, Mass, was entered by a
stranger, who was discovered by the
children while he was ransacking
dresser drawer. The man seized
newspaper, tore holes in it to see
through and used it as q mask to es-
cape.
Besides losing the nomination in
the 10th Congressional district,
Thomas F. Coffey, Supt. OF Boston
City Hall elevators, states in his cam
paign expenses, filed at the State
House, that he lost a straw hat two
whiskey prescriptions, and broken
water glass, totalling $40.
Prof Robert Goddard's rocket
which, it is claimed, can reach high
attitudes, will be put to an actual
experiment within a month or six
weeks in Worcester, Mass. The rock
ct is practically complete and ready
to make its journey, with the ex-
ception of a few minor details.
Democrats at a caucus in Mont
pelier, VT, selected as their candi-
date for the nomination as city rep
resentative Mrs. Inez M. Bryan, wi
dow of F. M. Bryan, who was we'll
known throughout the state in Demo-
cratic politics. She has been a close
student Of politics for years.
A check for $500 as reward for aid
given in the capture and conviction
of the bandits who figured in the at
tempted holdup of the L. @. White
Company payroll, December "a, 1919,
has been given to Mrs. Ruth G. John
son. West Bridgewater, Mass, by L.
Q. White, treasurer Of the company.
DR.. Samuel Rosenbaum. head o:
the Milford. Conn.,, preparatory
School, announces the school author
tiles will sue the town as a result
of the shooting Of Spencer Libby,
twenty, student at the school, by
Patrolman Douglass, who with
Chief of Police Maher and another
officer were attempting to break up a
'Pajama parade" Of the school stud
ents.