Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1920-09-14
FEDERAL AID FOR ROADS

under the final apporttonment o:
available funds made public by the
department Of agriculture. Massa-
chusetts obtained the largest al
lotment, with a total Of $1,104. .5s1. 81:
The other New England apportion
nents were: Maine, $720,172.62:
New Hampshire, $311, 1920; YER
mont, $685.. .557. 80; Connecticut, $780,
012.07; Rhode Island, $174,942.65.
Under the law each Of the New
England states must enter into for
NAL agreements with the secretary
OF agriculture for the construction
upon which this money is to be used
before July 1, 1922. This means that
the New England states must sur
vey, plan and let contracts :or $3,-
108, ,405.98 worth Of federal aid roads
within the next two years unless
Congress acts during the coming ses-
sion to continue appropriations. The
entire national program Of road build
ing authorized in 1915 will suffer a
serious setback according to Thomas
H. Mcdonald, head of the bureau
Of public roads of the department
Of agriculture.
Apparently peeved at the small
amount of loot which they ob.-;ned at
the Buxton station of the Worcester.
Nashua and Portland division Of the
Boston G. Maine railroad, Portland.
burglars who are lodging around the
country in an automobile broke open a
case Of eggs among the express pack
ages and threw them promiscuously
about the place.
To facilitate the shipment o: coal
into New England on its lines, the
Boston & Maine railroad has placed
a temporary embargo, on certain car
load freight felt to be Of less import
ance until the present congestion is
alleviated. The company believes
this will encourage an increasein
the shipment OF coal by water, thus
relieving traffic by all rail rates ma
terially.
Women folk Of So. Hadley, Mass,
are walking proudly to-day for they
believe they have distinction which
the women of no other town in the
Bay State can claim. They have Just
voted in town meeting. right along
with the men. Three hundred vot-
ers were present when the modera-
tor called the meeting to order in
Town Hall and 100 of the voters were
women
The strike of union longshoremen
and freight handlers at the Hoosac
and Mystic piers in Charlestown.
Mass, called as protest against
British treatment OF Ireland at the
exhortations of women pickets. was
/ randed as illegal, unauthorized and
foolish" by William F. Dempsey, Sec
retary of the Atlantic Coast District
of the International Longshoremen's
F. Fl. Prince & Co. Of Boston are
named as purchasers Of the stock
yard interests of the big Five"
packers, according to q enforcement
project filed in the supreme court
of the District Of Columbia under
the decree recently entered in agree
ment with the department OF juustice
The book value of the stock to be
disposed of is reported between $780,
000, 900 and $4,000, 900.
Senator William M. Calder OF New
York, chairman Of the United States
Senate committee on reconstrucfion
and production. asserted at the con-
clusion OF a hearing on local hous-
ing, transportation and the fuel condi-
tions, at the State House. Boston
that the present federal system OF
taxation had done more to impede
the building industry and create high
prices than anything else.
So far as known there are but two
tide mills left in Maine One ts IN
Arrowsic, the other on the oppG ate
side Of the Kennebec river at Winnie
gance. A score OF years ago ehere
were a number Of these milas, while
100 years ago-the year Maine be-
came q state-the greater portion OF
the costal saw mills were tide opera
ted. Modern methods have driven
these saw mills out Of business.
Lyndonvills, Vt. Aug. @-Becsuse
the late Theodore N. Vail, for many
years the president Of the American
Telephone & Telegraph Company, and
resident Of Lyndonville, VI. let no
endowment for the Vail Agricultural
school here, which he bad turned
over to the state several years before
has death, the state board Of education
will recommend 10 the nen state leg
t,lature that the school be abandoned
by the state and turned over to the
Lyndon Institute, which was provided
for in Mr.. vail's win by a generous
endowment. The Vermont Legtsta-
ture Of 1919 considered abandoning
the Vail school ON account Of It's
heavy expense, but decided to Try 20
keep Il going another two years. The
school has been visited recently BY
representative farmers from al parts
Of the state, who made . tour o: m
suection and decided that n would be
for the best policy OF the state 70
abandon the school.
A section Of old Long wharf. built
shout t700 and tamdHar landmark
during the early days Of Boston, was
uncovered recently by wormen e1-
cayating for q foundation Of q build
tux 20 be erected at 1860 State street.
A few feet below the surface OF the
ground was found part Of the wharf
known ss the "crib" constructed o.
heavy cedar logs. some Of them more
than q foot and han n diameter, and
fastened together by crude wooden
pegs. Many Of these logs adthougi
cut more than two centuries were
entirely sound. not even tho barf
having decayed.
Average Duration Of Life.
Good authorities give the avesse
Auration Of human life as about tnirIF