Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1920-09-14
new ENGLAND NEWS
IN TABLOID FORM
Items Of Interest From Al
Sections Of YankeeIand

Wakefield, Mass. d 10 have another
new industry in the Steel Specialtiee
Company Of Waltham, which has
broken ground for q plant 100x31
feet
The population Of Massachusetts is
1851 ,651, an increase of486199, or
LA per cent. Boston. Mas. (re-
vised), 74S.060. Previously announced
747,923.
After being missing from her sum-
mer home In Ellsworth, Maine, for
four days, Mrs. Mary Calmane, IS
years old of Somerville, Mass, was
found wandering in the woods.
Drunkenness cases in the Boston
Municipal Court, numbered 168 on q
recent Monday. the largest since pro-
hibition became effective. Twenty
women were included in the number.
The degree of honorary doctor OF
Leyden University was conferred ON
President A. Lawrence Lowell of
Harvard University and Vfscount
James Bryce when the Pilgrim Faith
ers Congress opened at Leyden Hall.
Damage to the tobacco crops in
East Windsor, Conn. estimated at
more than $1,00O,0W was caused by
a severe electrical and hail storm.
Sixteen hundred acres of tobacco,
only Is per cent, harvested, was bad
ly damaged.
The Massachusetts Republican
state committee has begun plans for
a big torchlight parade to be held In
Boston on the Wednesday or Thurs
day night preceding the national and
state elections, which comes on Tues
day. November 2.
Owing to the spread Of infantile
paralysis, the Boston City council,
acting on the recommendations Of the
mayor and Health Commissioner
Woodward, has voted an appropria-
tiou of $4,000 by transfer from the
reserve fund to combat the disease.
Eight Dorchester Mass. boys, play
ing pirates, rowed TO SQuantum and
sent landing party ashore to steal
candy and cigarettes, but they ran in
to Inspector Larhn OF the Quincy po-
lice with the result that six Of them
spent the night in the police station
Of that city.
Farmers now get half cent more
per quart for milk, in accardance with
the advance to 1U1a cents made by
the New England Milk Producers
Association, Boston, as result o. in
creased freight and production costs
Distributors raised the price to con-
sumers correspondingly 10 18A cents
q quart.
The Homestead Association Of the
American Woolen Company. Lawrence
Mass, announces that As houses which
the association has been building in
South Lawrence are now ready fol
occupancy. The association. 1t was
stated, intends to continue to erect
houses to help solve the acute housing
conditions.
The Rev. DR.. Joseph Fort Newton
Of New York, former preacher at City
Temple, London, speaking in Gouces-
ter, Mass. at the exercises in observ-
ance of the landing Of John Murray,
founder of the Universalist faith in
in this country, declared that Chris
tianlty still remains to be discovered
by the world.
The first conviction under the new
automobile law, which requires a per-
son selling an automobile to report
the sale four days previous to the
chief Of police or registrar Of motor
vehicles. occurred when James P
Griffin Of Ashburton place, Boston
was fined $50 by Judge Almy in tht
Cambridge Court.
Reports from Plymouth, Carver ant
Wareham and the cranberry
districts on Cape Cod Mass.
are that the approaching cros
will be one OF the smallest In years.
Carver predicts not more than half
q crop, while in other sections the
berries are 80 scattered that some
bogs will not even be picked
F1oran Jendreau was killed in what
was claimed to have been friendly
wrestling match at North Yarmouth,
Me-, with Philemon Laliperti. His
neck was broken in two places caus-
ing death almost instantly. Laliperti's
horse ran away while he and two
companions were rushing to a ply
sician's Office with the body.
The Princeton Terminal Co. has
been Incorporated in Maine for the
purpose OF building and maintaining
terminal in the town Of Princeton
10 connect with the right Of way O. The
Maine Central Railroad to provide
q landing and loading station fos
pulpwood. The company is q sub
sidiary O. the Orouo Pulp & Paper
Co. and the Eastern Manufacturing
Co.
Old Fort Sullivan. q relic OF the
war Of 1872, win have disappeared BY
another year. Built lis years ago
by the United States government
at Names farthest east frontier port
within two miles Of Canadian Islands
of Pasamaquoddy bay. It was consi'
dered in those days a formidable
fortification. It was built IN the
spring of 1907 and completed the
Following year, when the hrst Ameri-
can troops arrived on the Warsh1p
Wasp. Late In the war Of 1872 II
was still occupied when an EmgH5b
feet Of warships steamed into East
mort harbor from Halifax
No Rivalry.