Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1921-02-08
new ENGLAND NEWS
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The will Of II. A. Burlington. filed FOL
probate in Springfield, Mass wal
written on a page torn from q hymn
book.
Two hundred employees Of the Ros-
sic Velvet Company at Mystic. Conn.
have decided to accept a cut OF Ii
to 20 percent in wages.
Daylight saving In Rhode Island
from May / to Oct. ! is proposed In
an act introduced in the House by
Representative James r. Lavender Of
Bristol.
Henry A. Dudley. Il, Of q Gains
boro street, Boston. was killed by q
bullet from a 22-calibre pistol In the
rooms of the Bay State School OF
Musketry. across the street from his
home.
The late Judge Henry w. Bragg OF
the Charlestown, Mass. court Left
nearly a half million dollars by bis
will fled in the Suffolk probate office
the greater portion Of the estate going
to various charities.
Some one stole q ham from the
kitchen Of Tree Warden John w. Stob-
bart, Franklin, Mass, and now the
town official says that "if the man who
took the ham will call again he can
have some eggs to go with It."
Better enforcement of liquor laws
in Maine will be considered at a con-
ference Of State and Federal enforce
ment officers with Wayne B. Wheeler
general counsel of the Anti-saloon
League Of America, at Augusta, on
Feb. 10.
Four women are to be candidates
for office at the Marblehead, Mass,
town election, Feb. 81. They are:
Miss Amy B. Lindsey for the School
Board, Miss Edith Fabens for the
Board of -Overseers of the Poor, Mrs
Amy Snow for assessor, and Mrs. Mary
F. Boles for trustee of Abbot Public
Library.
Superintendents, directors and
other officers of boys clubs from all
parts Of New England attended con-
ference at the Boston Athletic Asso-
citation, at which the Massachusetts
Federation of Boys CluDs was
merged with new organization to be
known as the New England Fedora
ton Of Boys Clubs.
"Fish Engineer" Bachelor Of Fish,
and other engineering terms connect.
ed with the ancient and honorable
fish industry, don't appeal to Tech
nology students in Boston at all. The
faculty started the argument by inves-
tigating the proposition to start a
fisheries college in connection with
Tech, which, they will vote on soon.
Mylo D. Campbell, president Of the
National Federation Of Milk Pro
ducers, told how milk cows which
q year ago sold for $40. are being
sold today for $40 and Ted to the
shambles" Of the stockyards. The
farmer loses 81 on every 100 pounds
of milk he produces, he added. DR..
George R. Little, Schaghicoke, N. Y.
was elected president.
The number of volumes in the Har-
ward University library has passed the
100000 mark, which makes It the
third library in size in the whole
country Prof. Archibald C. Coolfdge's
annual report as director Of the IL
brary. shows 2o1S,100 volumes and
pamphlets. The Congressional libra
~ at Washington and the New York
public library alone exceed II IN size.
Woodward N. Ellis, 80, watchman
for. the Texas Company, Providence,
was committed to the State Hospital
for Mental Diseases, after, It is al
legged he had drawn revolver and
had driven employees out Of the COM
pany's Office. Ellis himself called up
police headquarters and stated that
the police were needed there right
away. Ellis went crazy looking for
burglars, friends say.
None Of the half dozen women who
ran for the Massachusetts, Legislature
last fall was successful, but a MEM
ber of the newly enfranchised sex
has been selected for one OF the most
important places in the Legislative or
ganization. Speaker Young announced
that Mrs. Edna c. Barry had been
named clerk by the committee ON
rules, the occupant of which becomes
private secretary to the speaker.
Orlando L. Martin of Piainheld, ex-
Commissioner Of Agriculture, was
elected president Of the Vermont
Holstein- Frieeian Association at the
annual meeting held at Montpelier.
A committee was appointed to adapt
the bylaws of the New England As
sociation to the State society, and Il
was voted to put a State herd in COM
petition at the Eastern States exhi-
bition and at other fairs next Fal.
Speakers at the dinner Of the Econ
omic Club Of Boston widely disagreed
ss to the needs of Massachusetts and
their remedies. Former Gov. Samnel
W. Mccall said that the source Of the
troubles that afflicted Massachusetts,
bay, not within the state, but at Wash
,ngton, where there was great need for
less taxation, less expenditure and
less government. He declared that,
though we might be saving at the
Massachusetts spigot, we should not
make any material advance toward
economy unless waste at the Wash
ington bunghole were stopped.
RatIoelnation With q Twist