Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1920-08-24
new ENGLAND NEWS
IN TABLOID FORM

items Of Interest From M|
Sections Of YankeeIand
The will Of former Mayor Charles
D. Mccarthy of Maiden, Mass., has
been allowed. The estate b valued
at $2s0,000.
The steamship Elinor. sailing from
Boston, will receive a freight rate Of
$11 per ton coal from Norfolk to
Rio Janeiro.
Mayor Peters, of Boston, has ap-
proved the contract for furnishing
new clothing to the Boston hremen at
a total cost of $50, 6,282.4o.
Edward Norway Of Lawrence, Mass.
has perfected machine which. 1t is
said, will make it impossible for mo-
ton picture films to take fire.
Fifteen women have just passed the
Massachusetts, State examination for
the bar and 125 men have been recon-
mended for admission to practice.
John Barton Crandall is dead at his
home on Eastern Point road, New
London, Ct. He was ninety years old
and one OF the oldest mariners in east;
ern Connecticut
Vast numbers OF seals are reported
OF Cape Cod, in schools numbering
as many as 1000. Fishermen are
doing a thriving business killing the
seals for the bounty.
More than $1,000 horses were wat
cred in Boston by the M. s. P. c. A.
between June % and the last OF July.
The travelling watering cart has wat
cred nearly 1,500 horses up to the last
of July.
In letter to Mayor Peters OF Bos-
ton, Secretary of the Treasury D. ].
Houston denies that United States
health authorities are discriminating
against Boston by means OF strtcter
quarantine regulations.
The city of Boston has purchased
33,25C pounds Of sugar at twenty -one
and one e-half cents pound. which.
according to purchasing agent George
]. Cronin, In one cent pound below
Al
Because he rowed boat for his sol
and helped him in holding a lobster
trap, Joseph c. Nicholson, Of Plym-
outh, Mass, was fined SO In the Dis
trict Court for participating in lob
steering without a license.
Fourteen years ago, Ignata Leone
of No. Avon street, came to Law
renee, Mass, from Italy. poor man.
He has just left Lawrence for his ma
tive land worth a half million lire IN
the legal tender he will handle here
after.
Charles S. knight, a health inspec-
tor who patrols the Wachusett reser-
voir, Clinton, Mass, In motor boat.
reports that a pair OF eagles have an
aeria on an island within the basin.
He believes them to be Of the bald
eagle variety.
Children who 90 in wading At Will
low street, Newport, R l., have
friend in the collie dog Of Arthur w.
Kelly. This was demonstrated when
the dog, without urging. hauled out .
girl eight years old, who had falien
iAto the water.
Operatives of the Cabot Cotton
Mills, Brunswick, Me-, have voted not
to return to work WHEEL the plant
opens on August % unless a Is per
cent. increase Is given. They also de-
mand the discharge Of William Wor-
shop, the mill agent.
Automobiles and liquors conascated
by prohibition enforcement officers as
the result of seizures on Connecticut
State highways this summer have q
value Of a million and half dollars,
In the opinion Of Thomas McAulih OF
the New Haven district
The Portuguese steamship Mormu-
gao one Of the thirty eight former
German ships allotted to Portugal and
the first Of a line to operate between
Lisbon, the Azores and New Bedford.
Mass, reached New Bedford with $50
passengers, 300 for California.
The Pawcatuck river gave up one
peck OF gold to Claude and Clinton
while fishing in the rear
Of the home OF Tristan D. Babcock.
At Avondale. The catch, made in
grain bag, consisted OF watch chains
and ornaments Of 14-karat gold.
Scarcity of labor and not prohibi-
ton is responsible for the few persons
now In jails, according to Judge c. T.
Phelps OF the North Adams, Mass,
court. as stated before the County
Commissioners at hearing on the
Of the county Jail.
Under arrest as q draft Stacker,
having given himself up to the New
York police, Conrad T. w. Janke, o
cabaret singer, committed suicide by
hanging himself In his cell at Hart
lord, Ct. He used black handkcr-
chief, which he knotted to bar over
The door.
The General Lyon homestead, East
lord, c.. comprising between seventy
and eighty acres Of land. has been
purchased by the State Park Com
General Lyon was the nrst
Northern general to be killed In the
Civil War, falling in the battle OF
Wilson's Creek In 1861.
Liquors alleged to be worth IN the
of $4,000, were seized at
Ct, on three trucks held
up by Federal liquor oficers. The
goods were concealed be-
meath a top load Of cabbages and gar
lie, one truck being festooned with
lunches Of garlic on the side.
Governor Cox will visit New Haven
on the night of Saturday, August 2S.
according to announcement by Dem
ocratic national headquarters. The
Governor will address Democratic
mass meeting which. leaders predict,