Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1921-04-19
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OVOSAOstO VI bussssOVsesssss
Daylight saving from May / to Oct.
2 will be adopted, according to vote of
the Portland. Me. City Government,
authorizing Mayor Clarke to issue
proclamation to that effect.
An invitation to attend banquet in
New York of distinguished Ameri-
cans who are opposed to government
by blue laws" was declined by Gov.
Percival P. Baxter Of Maine.
While looking for his pet coon cat
]. D. B. Bradatreet of Beverly, Mass,
found, in the hollow Of tree, Q
leather bag containing the body OF
fully developed child wrapped in
white towel.
The ]. R. Torrey razor factory at
Worcester, Mass, was broken into,
and 1880 razors, valued at approx
mately 5000, were stolen from the
stock room, according TO q report
made to the police.
The will of Annie Louise Cary, for
mer noted prima donna, admitted to
probate at Norwalk, Conn, includes
bequests of more than 100000 to
charitable institutions. The total es-
tate is valued at $S6o,000.
Profiteering landlords Of PorltnA,
Me-, will be listed by assistant as
SCISSORS, who will require tenants to
disclose their rent charges. This will
be communicated to assessors, who
will fix valuations accordingly.
The city health department reports
the first case Of leprosy in Boston
for nearly a year. The patient Is Eg-
bert Pyle, negro, % years old, who
had been working as porter. He has
been living in Boston four years.
Ella s. Jensen, aged 10, Of Brock
ton, Mass, who has been married So
years, is seeking separation from
her husband, eHnry Jenson, now Of
New York. Mrs. Jensen alleges she
was deserted by Jensen seven years
ago.
The expected happened IN the Mas
sachusetts House when the and-vac-
cination bill, which had already passed
the Senate, was killed by vote Of Il
to 100. Nobody spoke for the measure
and It's opponents debated It only
briefly.
The action Of the Legislature Of the
state of Maine in concrring with Gov.
Baxters veto Of the medical school
bill makes It probable that Maine VIII
have no medical school after June OF
this year, says President Sills OF Bow
doin college.
Creditors of the J. r. Parkhurst &
Son Company, Bangor, Me-, OF which
the late Gov Frederic B. Parkhu1st
was the president and general man
ager, have fiied-a bill in equity against
the corporation asking that receiver
be appointed to conserve its assets.
The Massachusetts Safety Council
organized at the rooms Of the SAFE
Roads Federation. Boston, voted, as its
FIRST item OF new business. to invite
the National Safety Congress TO hold
tts annual convention In Boston, Sept
$3.50, inclusive. The invitation vas
accepted.
shackeled TO a long chain, A meu
from the crew OF the steamer lVel
Health, charged with mutinous con.
duct and robbery,of United States and
Canadian mail on the high seas. were
| taken off the steamer Britannia OF the
Fabre Line when She doched IN Pfovi'
dence. r. !.
The discovery that his pet cat VA
mothering a mouse with her own IN
ter OF kittens astonished Charles
Dube Of Lewiston, Me- Smusg1ed To-
gether In the bottom Of q ram bar
rell. the rodent and three kftten1
seemed happy family, with all snar'
ing the food supply.
1t. Belvin W. Maynard, the Fly
ing Parson," who won the trans-con'
tinental air derby from Mitchell Field
N. Y. to San Francisco and back Las
year, raced the Knickerbocker lin
tied train from New York for Boston
and finally got so far ahead that n
was able to land at Providence AM
board the train.
Triplets were born to q youn4
Ayshire COW owned by Charles s
Grant of Brockton, Mass. Cow expert
say the advent Of three At one tim
ts unusual. One OF the calves de
soon after birth, but the other tw
are expected to survive and add I
the prestige already established b
their mother.
BY vote Of practically - toll tn
members of the Boston Chamber Q
Commerce, In a referendum vote, IN
dorosed the principle Of q geners
sales tax. the abolition Of the e1cee
nroats tax on corporations and tn
surtax on individuals. They also IN
dorsed the idea Of le~ytng sale
tax at a uufforom rate ON al sale'
for the purpose Of equitable, dAstrnu
ton.
| Miss Sarah Louise Arnold .dean en-
erita of Simmons College, Boetol
said in an address on Cnangln
Ideals in Education" before.s 'meeon
| Of the New England HistUfc-oene
logical Society that "all of the pril
cipal aspects Of the educational sy'
| TENS Of the country are being COZ
stantiy challenged" MISS Arnold q
| pressed herself as strongly IN fSv'
| O, state university for Mass~chusee
Il for which a commission VIII short
h aopointed by the GovernofsO =
i sHgs4e the desirabaty.
y Wedding Days In. Holland.