Oxford Democrat., 1920-05-11
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Subscriptions to the Irish loan In
Massachusetts, total more than $l,-
OO,000.
Smoking and chatting periods have
been introduced at Marlboro, Mass,
shoe factory in an effort to increase
efficiency.
Chelsea, Mass, BARRIERS have an
nounced a raise in the price Of hair
cuts and shaves. Haircuts now cost
so cents and shaves 30 cents.
Miss Alice Stone, of Barton, VT, who
threw her newborn babe down an en-
bankment, has been sent to the state
hospital at Waterbury for observation.
While playing beside brook near
his home, Horace Gardner, 8, son OF
Mr.. and Mrs. Thomas Gardner Hyde
Park, Mass, fell into the water and
was drowned.
The Rev. s. G. Haggland Of Dorches'
ter, Mass, was elected president Of
the New England Conference Of Swed-
ish Lutheran Churches, at its session
held at Quincy.
The Rev. Arthur Wheelock Moulton,
for 19 years rector Of Grace Episcopal
Church, Lawrence, Mass, has been
consecrated bishop Of the missionary
Jurisdiction of Utah.
More than 1000 gallons Of whiskey,
valued at $4,000, was seized by fed.
eral prohibition agents and internal
revenue men, when they raided the
places in Providence.
A12 IL per cent increase in wages
has been granted to 600 employees OF
the Champion International Paper
Company and the Merrimac Paper
Company Lawrence, Mass.
DR.. Hubert Work of Pueblo, was
elected president Of the American
Medical Association in session at New
Orleans, and Boston, was selected as
the convention city next year.
Separated for 40 years from her two
daughters, Mrs. Davis H. Ross OF
Chebeasue Island has at last got in
touch with them and shortly there
will be a very happy reunion at her
home.
A portion Of the base Of the wooden
steeple on Highland Congregational
Church, Parker and Oscar sts., Rox-
bury, Mass, fell into the street, after
having become loosened from its
fastening.
Mayor Bernard ]. Golden and the
members of the Woburn, Mass. City
Council appeared at the council meet
ing clad in overalls. They are the
first group in the city to support the
movement.
Cranston R. I. police dragging Spec
tacle pond in search for the body
of Anna Rock, 20, whose infant child
was taken from the pond earlier in the
day, found the unfortunate woman's
body a few feet from shore.
The Oldest employe in the city ser
vice, Boston, Michael Devlin, 80 years
old, has been retired on pension Of
$3.50 a year. He had been employed
in the paving service Of the public
works department for 26 years.
George T. Aitchison, inventor Of the
street sprinkling cart and of the tor
sleigh, is dead, aged SO. At one time
he conducted In Worcester, Mass,
what claimed to be the biggest car
riage factory in the United States.
DR.. Felix Barrett. one of the pion-
eers in acknowledgements and presi-
dent of the New England Electro.
Therapeutic Association, died at his
private hospital in Maine. He was
born in 1860 at st. Louis, Quebec.
The bill increasing the rate of in
terest on small loans, carrying a
clause which would permit charges of
s per cent a month on loans of $50
or less, was killed in the Massachu-
setts House by an almost unanimous
vote.
Two hundred jitneymen went out of
business in Springfield. Mass, with
the expiration of their licenses. New
regulations passed by the City Coun-
Gil prohibit the touring car type and
compel operation Of large sized busses
only.
The war department has announced
the award of distinguished service
cross to Priv. Stephen Mclean of West
Roxbury. Mass. company B. 101st
regiment, "for extraordinary heroism
In action near Neuilly, France, Sep
tember IL. 1913"
More than 1000 quarts of whiskey,
alleged to have been smuggled across
the Canadian border, have been seized
at Van Buren,, Me-, by Custom Officer
Reed. The liquor was found IN box
car loaded with lumber from Bath
urst, N. B. The lumber was said to be
consigned to the Studley Box & Lum-
ber Co., at Rochester, n. H.
The Countess Hermance de Beck,
late Of Marseilles and Paris. wife Of
George L. Nelson OF Carmel, small
town near Bangor. Me-, ex-lieutenant
in the U. s. Engineering Corps,
made a complete confession to County
Atty. A. L. Blanchard, admitting that
she and her husband were guilty Of
attempted fraud in shipping nearly the
entire contents of their bungalow to
Roxbury, Mass, later to Winthrop,
Mass, setting the building on fire last
March and filing an inventory Of the
loss, which totals s973S on contents
Ind $500 on the building.