Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1920-08-10
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Items Of Interest From All
Sections Of Yankee|and
Governor Holcomb of Connecticut
for the eighteenth time refused to call
special session Of the Legislature to
consider the woman suffrage amend
ment.
Thousands Of loaves Of bread in the
process Of making were destroyed
when fire consumed the interior Of
the new plant OF the Grocer's Bread
Company, Brockton, Mass.
Byron Madison Pettibone was found
guilty by a jury at Manchester. VT,
of second degree murder for killing
his wife, Eva Bond Pettibone, and was
sentenced to life Imprisonment.
The steamship Lake Cayuga has ar
rived in Boston from Preston, Cuba,
laden with 5,536,0O0 pounds Of Cuban
sugar for the Revere Sugar Refining
Company's plant in Charlestown.
During a fit of insane jealousy, Will
liam Brown, thirty years old, Yam
kee Division veteran of the war, shot
his bride of two months, and then
killed himself at their home in Wes-
terly, R. I.
Frederick H. Gillett OF Springfield,
Speaker of the House, and four other
Massachusetts Congressman have
filed denomination papers with the
Secretary of State. But one Demo-
crat is included in the number.
Business was suspended at Attle-
boro, Mass, during the funeral OF
John M. Fisher, prominent jewelry
and at one time candi-
date for Governor Of the Common
wealth on the Prohibition ticket.
While fishing from a ledge, about
six feet above the water, Charles Vas
seur fell into Kendrich Pond, near
Pittsfield, Vt, and drowned. His
wife and five children, who accom-
panied him on a picnic trip, witnessed
his death.
First of four tests made Of the two
Penikese Island lepers who were
treated with chamulga oil have proved
negative, according to report made
by the special medical board appoint
ed by the State Department OF health
OF Massachusetts.
Warning to seaport towns in Maine
to provide for protection against the
entrance of bubonic plague into the
state has been issued by DR.. Lever
EFT D. Bristol, state commissioner OF
health. He emphasized the need OF
rat campaigns not only on the coast
but inland as well.
The population Of the thirty-nine
cities and towns in the metropolitan
area of Boston, according to the last
census, was 1,65o,9O3. This figure
was an Increase of 227.474, or 1888
per cent. since 1910, and an increase
Of $3.50, or AZ per cent. since the
State census of 1915.
BY the will of Mrs. Kate V. Beechef
of Great Darlington, Mass, practical
ly all of her $4,000 is left to found
home for aged women in Great Bar
rington ,one room to be furnished in
OF her husband. Chester Z.
Beecher. A nephew and two nieces
are the surviving relatives.
Nine of herd OF Is cows owned BY
the hospital cottages OF Baldwinsville,
Mass, were found dead in a pasture
from what is believed to be anthrax
or black leg, or both. Dogs and foxes
had stripped the carcasses and are
believed to have scattered shreds OF
The infected flesh about many pas
lures.
Resolute. which decisively defeated
Sir Thomas Lipton's Shamrock Nv. in
the deciding yacht race in defence OF
the Americas cup, probably will not
run another race. The defender,
which cost thousands OF dollars, Will
be taken to Bristol, r. l., where she
will be dismantled at the Herreshor
yards.
The Massachusetts, commission on
foreign and domestic commerce has
instituted a worldwide campaign to
direct the attention of foreign buyers
to the products Of New England
and to make Boston more Of a con-
tact point between foreign exporters
and importers and the overseas trad
ers Of this country.
The Plymouth & Sandwich (Mass.)
Street Railway Companys property
was sold at a receivers sale for $685.
200. This sale included all the real
estate and personal property OF the
road in Plymouth and Sycamore, a
distance of 17.S miles. The road was
completed July %, 1917, and suspend
ed operation April l, 1918.
The Joint New England commission
on foreign and domestic commerce
announced that It had invited the
national foreign trade council to hold
its next conference in Boston. The
commission believes that by bringing
the conference to that city the over
seas trade of Boston and all New
England would be benefited.
As an indication Of the magnitude
of the blueberry picking business in
the town Of Hubbardston, Mass, a
Worcester buyer says he paid one man
in Hubbardston last year a total OF
81 900 for berries, all picked by mem
bers of his own family and hired
pickers in pastures owned or hired
by him and nearby neighbors. The
crop in Hubbardston last year
brought about $4,000 in money into
town. It is thought this years crop
from the otherwise almost barren hill
side pastures will bring even larger
sum to owners and pickers.