Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1920-08-03
new ENGLAND NEWS )
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Items Of Interest From Al|
Sections Of Yalkeaand
Following their wedding Aug. 5
Miss Dorothy Shaw of Marblehead and
the Rev. Chester F. Wood Of Dorches
ter, Mass, will sail for China for Sill
years missionary work.
About twenty manufacturers In
Bridgeport, Ct. have formed an export
managers club. which has for one OF
its objects, the securing and increas-
ing of foreign trade for local indus
tries.
Bessie Brulley, aged sixteen, after
being apprehended at Newport, VT
is said to have admitted that she was
the mother of the infant child aban-
doned near Jordan Hail. st. Adams
recently.
\ The Emerson Shoe Co. Of Rockland
Mass, quoted the minimum bid to the
Navy Department to supply the 10000
pairs of shoes for American bluejack-
cts at prices ranging between $5.79
and $500.
The Chicopee, Mass, Manufacturing
Co. offers to go $3.50" with the city
on the expense of the improvement OF
certain streets at Chicopee Falls, up
on which the company has homes for
employees.
The Massachusetts League Of Wo-
men Voters made plans for the regis
tratton of women of this state during
the next few weeks at meeting OF
district leaders at league headquar-
ters, Boston.
William Raymond Driver, former
treasurer Of the New England Tele-
phone & Telegraph Company, died last
week at the Beverly Hospital follow
Ing an operation. He was born in
Beverly on Jan. 2, 1889.
Unanimous approval of the principle
Of the open shop was expressed by 322
members of the Providence Chamber
of Commerce in vote on referenda
submitted by the Chamber Of Com
merce of the United States.
The Seacoast Canning Company,
sardine packers, Eastport, Me-, has
closed temporarily because Of scare
lty of tin plate for cans and a lack OF
transportation facilities. The com
pany employs 1000 persons.
Believed to have become suddenly
insane, Mrs. Giovanni Belinger, 81
years old, of Worcester. Mass, chased
several children with an axe on
Franklin street, and created consider
able excitement until arrested.
Mrs. Hattie N. Faulkner of Atlantic,
Quincy, Mass, was fined $50 In the
district court at Quincy for assault
upon her daughter, Clara, 16, who has
been pronounced insane by doctors.
She kept the girl tied beneath a bed
In an opinion forwarded to lax
Commissioner William D. T. Trefry,
the attorney general Of Massachusetts
holds that service men who were IN.
Quoted into service and passed 30 days
In camp may apply for abatement OF $3
In the IS poll tax.
Ella Buccerelli. IA. Of Charlton
Mass, and Paolo Santflla, 26, Of
Southbridge are disappointed couple
as the result Of ruling by Judge
William T. Forbes of the probate
court, Worcester, that the girl is too
young to be married.
George Hurd, 72 years old, commit
ted suicide at the entrance to the po-
lice detectives Office at City Hall, Ha-
verhill, Mass. He was chatting with
policemen in the station a few mo-
ments before and bade them good
morning when he started home.
A warrant charging desertion and
non support of his wife and four chill
dren was granted by the Roxbury,
Mass, court against Nathan Messin-
ger, who Is held In Denver, Col, for
sending his wife ashes purporttng to
be his and an anonymous letter telling
of his death.
Berry fields of Western Hassachu-
setts are no longer free to autoists
and their friends. A tax of so cents
for the picking privilege has been as
sessed each picker. Farmers declared
that the man who can afford an auto
mobile and gasoline at its present rate
can afford to pay for berries.
Six men were arrested on Holland
road near Newport, VT, on the charge
Of attempting to smuggie three gal
Ions of wine across the Canadian bor-
der. They we're taken to Newport
for a preliminary hearing before Com
missioner Cleary and held in 500
each for the next term Of the United
States court.
William M. Wood, president Of the
American Woolen Company, told a
gathering of his employees at an out
Ing at hts summer home in Andover
Mass, that he could not tell when the
company,s mills, now closed on &C
count Of business conditions. would be
reopened. He urged the workers to
avoid waste.
Bank Commissioner Everett J.
Sturges Of Connecticut has given out
figures showing the condition Of the
30 savings banks in the state at the
close of the last fiscal year, June 80.
The total amount of deposits was
s415, ,5S4.817 as against 1887. .s46,445 on
the same date in 1919. The total as
sets of the banks amounted to $44S,z
100,294, an increase of $6,700,551 for
the year. Surplus, undivided profits
etc., on June 80 amounted to s31.70I
900. For the quarter endirg J,ne
deposits increased s4.1so %