Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1920-01-06
new ENGLAND NEWS
IN TABLOID FORM

Items Of Interest From Ml
Sections Of YankeeIand
The date of the Valley Fair at
Brattleboro, VT, has been changed to
October 5 and 6.
Tax Collector Dickson Of Pittsaeld,
Mass, received by mail q con
| science" fund Liberty bond coupon
for $3.50.
Ex-Gov. Samuel w. Mccall Of Win
chester, Mass, has declined appoint
ment as Judge Of probate in Middle
sex county.
The Massachusetts, Fshermen's as
sociation was organized at meeting
| in Edgartown town hall, with $50
| charter members.
It is rumored that the customs for
ces in the district of Vermont, es-
pecially the inspectors are to be
armed with service revolvers.
Gov. Coolidge, of Mass, has signed
the bill providing for the purchase OF
the Cambridge subway from the Bos-
ton Elevated Company by the state.
The Boston school committee bill,
providing salary increases for Boston
school teachers ranging from $72 to
| 1884, was enacted by both branches OF
the legislature.
The Bay Road Inn, formerly the
Eagle house, and for $50 years pub
| lie inn, situated on the main road in
Rowley Mass, and its contents was
destroyed by fire recently.
Moses w. Merrill, who died re-
Gently in Newton, Mass, was the orr
ginator Of the chain store system. He
was born in Alexandra, N. H., and
started business on a capital Of $1.50.
The members of the FIRE depart
ment Of Lowell have voted to with
draw their affiliation with the Ameri-
can Federation of Labor, with which
they have been connected for about
year and a half.
Prof. William H Pickering OF the
Harvard Astronomical Observatory
who is stationed at Vaudeville, ia
maica, is now engaged in q search
for the planet which Is supposed by
astronomers to exist outside Nep-
tune.
Thirty more steamers were loaded
at Boston during the II months end
| ing Nov. 80, than in the corresponding
period of last year, showing that Bos-
| ton is making a strong fight to win
back her place as the second port
of the United States.
The largest number Of drunken per-
sons arrested in "a hours In Boston
since the policemen strike were TAX
en- into custody. between midnight
Wednesday and midnight Christmas,
when Sc men and women were locked
up at the intown stations.
The Commonwealth drydock, largest
| of its type on the Atlantic coast and
capable of accommodating the biggest
vessel afloat, has been placed In
commission at South Boston. The
battleship Virginia was selected TO
be the first to test the dock.
Federal officials seized 1910 boxes OF
evaporated apples en- route to Eng
land at a pier in East Boston, on in
ton alleging that the apples did not
did not have sufficient evaporation
to conform with the standards, set
by the pure food and drug law.
Safe breakers blew the safe in the
Bay State Savings Bank, Worcester,
and got away with about $1100. The
bank is directly under the Worcester
| Headquarters of the State Police.
The break was not discovered until
the bank was opened for business to-
day.
Boston policemen who left their
posts on strike are barred from. ap-
| pointment to the state and the met
ropolitan park police departments, as
we'll as from reinstatement to their
former positions, according to de-
cision by the new civil service COM
| mission.
Gas, escaping from broken main
following a sewer pipe into houses
along Park avenue, Burlington, VT,
and Shelburne road, killed two WON
en- overcame seven other persons and
caused their removal to the hospital
and placed five others under physi-
clans care.
Great Britain has made Portland a
| full consulate and Lieut. t--Col. John B
Heating, vice consul since 1895, has
been made consul. The office now
includes the entire state and is the
only full state in the New England
district outside OF Boston where the
consul general is stationed.
The last of the bodies in the wreck
age of the Canadian Pacific freight
train and immigrant special, which
was in collision in mountain Gu;
between Onawa station and Bodhsh
Me-, and injuring so, was recovered
when that of Engineer William Bag
ley of Brownville Junction was found
Ireland and Boston will be in direct
connection when new steamship
service inaugurates its initial sailing
early next year, the other loading
ports on this coast being New York
and Portland. In addition to cargo
for Galway and other ports, ship
ments for Glasgow will be accepted
Sufficient patronage for the east
bound voyages is assured and the
return cargoes are expected to bs
made up largely Of Irish manufac.
tured goods, picked fish and Other
merchandise.