Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1920-11-30
new ENGLAND NEWS
IN TABLOID FORM

items Of Interest From Al
Sections Of YaIkeeIand
Latest reports indicate that Massa-
chusetts will have a National Guard
numbering $4,000 officers and enlisted
men.
More than 200 candidates for reg
istered public accountants took ex-
aminations before the Board OF Ex
aminers at the State House, Boston.
When Gov. Coolidge goes to Wash
ington for the inaugural next March
he will have as guard Of honor the
101st Regt. Of Infantry OF the new
National Guard.
Rev. Remsen Brinckerhoff Ogilby
former master of Groton School at
Groton, Mass, has been inducted as
Itch president of Trinity College,
Hartford, Conn.
Refusing to accept a reduction In
wages, rs weavers left their work at
Taunton River Silk Mills. The mill
employs 200 hands. 1t is operated BY
the D. G. Derry Company, Inc, with
headquarters in Allentown, Penn.
Judge Webster Thayer in the supe-
rior criminal court, Worcester, Mass,
announces that his policy in dealing
with violators of the liquor laws will
be to impose a fine for the first Of
tense and Jail sentences for all fol-
lowing violations.
Claim that Jamaica ginger is in
general use as a medicine and should
be classed as such was made by coun-
rel for Martin Waterhouse, on trial
charged with selling "jakey" IN Suf-
folk Superior Court, Boston. The de-
fendant was found guilty.
Haid Mazmian, AZ years old, Wor'
cesters hunger striker, is dead. He
had been. on voluntary fast in a
Worcester hospital 10 days for treat
ment because Of a self-inficted cash
in the throat with piece Of mirror
while in Jail awaiting trial on a
charge OF misconduct.
All shops of the Central Vermont
railway closed this week, putting
about 500 men out OF work. The &C.
ton was said to be one Of economy.
made necessary by the roads fnan-
cial condition. Employees Will be re-
turned to full time at present wages
after the weeks lay-of.
The Rockefeller foundation In the
interest of schools has notified Wor-
cester Tech that it will donate $780,
600 to the endowment fund on condi-
ton that It form part OF a fund OF
$1,000, 900 to increase salaries OF pro-
fessors. This gift Increases the en-
dowment fund to about $1,350,O00.
Mayor Charles B. Clarke. candidate
for the fourth consecutive time for
the Republican mayoralty Of Port
hand, Me-, carried every ward in the
city. The other candidates were sgd
ney B. Larrabee. president OF the
common council, and Freeman M.
Grant, a member Of the State Senate.
ut is either brotherhood or war
and that war will be no chfd's play"
said the Rev. DR.. George l. Cady OF
New York, speaking of the attitude OF
the white race toward the japanese.
Chinese and Negroes, in the annual
meeting Of the American Missionary
Association in the First Church,
Springfield, Mass.
An action for damages against Dan
bury and Norwalk, Conn, hatters for
an alleged conspiracy, which may RI
val in interest the famous "Danbury
Rattsrs" case in which D. e. Leowe
& Co. won a decision in the Supreme
Court after a 15-year legal battle, has
opened in the Superior Court IN
Bridgeport.
A yarn has reached Augusta re-
earding a former resident, who was
at one time a nurse at the Augusta
General Hospital It Is said that Sergt.
Robert A. Mclean has been be-
oueathed a kingdom in the Philippine
Islands, 40 wives and an up-to-date
harem by the will Of the late Sultan
Of lang-Llang.
Col. Frank NJ. Hume who COM
manded the 103d infantry OF the 26th
division during the world war an
nounces that he has been offered the
office Of treasurer Of Aroostook
county by Gov. Miniken Of Maine and
that he will accept. The office was
made vacant by the recent death OF
Thomas P. Putnam.
A fine Of $1,000, the largest in the
history of the United States district
court. Boston, on a violation Of the
Volstead act, was paid by Timothy P
Collins of the Waverly Hotel, New
Bedford, who pleaded guilty to an In
dictment charging him with maintain
ing a common nuisance, keeping and
selling intoxicating liquor.
Hail Mazmain Of Hudson, Mass, on
q hunger strike In the City Hospital
Worcester after slashing his throat
with q part Of a mirror In Summer
street Jail, where he was being held
pending trial for misconduct, is In q
precarious condition. He was forcibly
fed with the aid stomach tube. but
did not retain the nourishment.