The Mena weekly star., 1920-03-25

But in the wake of the blizzards are scores of stories of human interest, humor and. not infrequently, pathos. Here are a few of them. picked at random:
 From Charlton, Mass. up in Wor- cester county, comes the Tale of the Five Shovellers." Five husky citizens of this country district set out in a blinding storm to shovel off railroad tracks. They went up Overlook Hill and vanished. After hours of anxiety they were discovered in snowbank, every man with his face frozen, all sheathed in snow and all fighting stubbornly against the storm.
 Patrolman James !. Sullivan, of Lexington, Mass, started for the Con cord District Court with a prisoner. Trolleys were blocked and Sullivan had to travel twenty-six miles to Bos ton and then out to Concord. which is two miles from Lexington. After court Sullivan was unable to get a vehicle to take the prisoner to Massa- chusetts Reformatory, so the cop walked the two and one-half miles in the blizzard with the man. Unable to get home, Sullivan had to spend the night in jail himself Who wants to be cop these days?' asks Sullivan.
 
 Twelve manhole covers blew up in South Boston within half an hour of each other because the ice froze in the vent holes, causing a congestion of sewer gas No ono was injured.
 Hopkinton Mass. had to abandon one whole trolley line because seven miles of the line was buried under fifty-six inches of solid ice
 Impossible roads in New Hamp- shire, Maine and Vermont prevented farmers obtaining supplies and there was much suffering One family in Deerfield, N. H., was rescued after being stormbound whole month. James Scribner and his family of six children were nearly exhausted from hunger when found by the rescuers. The mother of the family had been dead in the house several days. Father and children were i'll in the snow bound house with pneumonia.
 Horace W. Fernald, of West Bed ford, Mass, was stalled in the blizzard being the only passenger on the 6:S5 train from Boston when 1t ran into a drift But by a rare stroke of luck the train with its lone passenger stop ped directly behind FernaId's farm. He just hopped over the drifts to his back door.
 c. s. Gale. who runs store above Concord. x. H.. was compelled to "sound" drifts several days before locating the roof of his store Then he began twenty-foot dig to reach the door.
 New England had a great dig when the railroads got clogged with snow and freight could not move to the manufacturing centres. An army of 35,000 citizens released for the day from industrial plants took picks and shoyels and ripped ice from the rail. road tracks and shoyeled snow from the buried rails.
 Scores of buildings all over New England collapsed. The famous Swedenborgian Church at Bath, Me, built seyenty-seyen years ago. was ruined. The Unitarian Church at Wal pole, N. H., became mass of twisted lumber under the weight of the snow.
 Following basketball game at Winchendon, Mass, in which Gushing Academy defeated the winchendon K. of c. team, the feminine spectators engaged in a snowball battle The police had to be called.
 Death or serious injury was threat ened in a peculiar case caused by the storm. A snow blow left the ice blocked rails, rambled across the plat form station at Milo. Me, and ran into the ticket office, forcing the ticket agent and his assistant to leap for safety through the ticket window. The heavy blow continued through the waiting room and out the other side into snowdrift.
 The undertaking business suffered by the heavy blizzard However. Un- deftakef W. W. Fish, of Freeport. Maine, had to walk four miles on snowshoes In order to prepare the body of John Freeman Litchfieid at his late home at Wolf's Neck for burial
 And now for the man who wrote
 snow, beautiful snow" The Whittier Home Association. of Amesbury, Mass. celebrated blizzard by purchasing the house in which John Greenlesf Whittier composed 4snowbound. the