The united opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1881-1970, 1921-09-30
new ENGLAND NEWS
IN TABLOID FORM
Items of Interest From All
Sections Of Yankeeland


The entire town Of Reading, Mass
turned out because Of the curiosity Of
the 4-ycar-old nephew Of CHIEF Ord
way of the fire department
The Postmasters' Association OF
New England, meeting in convention
ut the American House Boston, cleo
tad Michael T. Crontn OF Lawrence
president of the organization.
Mrs. Ida May Austin of Leominster,
Mass, told Judge Philip J. OConnell
In the divorce court that her husband,
John W. Austin of Leominster, threat
+ened to cut out her heart and carry 1t
around on big stick.
The number Of unemployed residents
of Boston is at least 10000, according
10 a statement that P. H. Jennings,
business agent of the Boston Central
Labor Union, made to Mayor Peters at
a conference on the unemployment
situation.
The George e Keith Company,
Brockton, Mass, viii pay the city in
taxes this year $5O.886,82 on its
valuation Of $1,244,075 leading all the
business concerns Of the city. The
w. L. Douglas Shoe Company tax Will
be So, 862.29.
A giant buck estimated to weigh
400 pounds, leader Of nerd OF eight
deer, attacked an automobile owned
and driven by Walter G. Rochelle OF
Pfttsheld, Mass, ON the Richmond road
In West Pittsfield, smashed both head
lights, bent a mudguaro ano showed
the machine to the side Of the road
A total Of 3743 persons have been
Killed, thousands injured, and losses
of more than $65 900, 900 suffered the
past nine years as a result of acct
dents in industry, the Massachusetts
State Department of Labor and Indus
tries estimated in making public its
endorsements of the No Accident
Week.
Ralph B. Wilson of Babson's sta
tistical organization, speaking before
200 men on the Trend Of Business"
at the Cambridge, Mass, Y. M. c. A.
predicted a turn from the period OF
business depression and unemploy-
ment of 1921 to one of prosperity, to
begin next spring following a hard"
winter.
Ninety of the SO survivors of the
9th Massachusetts regiment met in
Springfield, Mass, for their 5Oth re-
union. II was found that only II of
the 1857 original members survive, the
others having enlisted later in the war.
william P. Saxton on Montague was
elected president TO succeed l. w. West
OF Hadley.
A working agreement between the
carpenters district council and the
building contractors division of the
Building Trades Employers Associa-
ton of Worcester, Mass, has been
signed, giving the workmen IS cents
an hour and double time for all over
time over A hours a week, operative
until March /, 1922.
The cost of living in Massachusetts
Increased GA per cent in August over
the previous month and 1.3 per cent.
since June, when the steady decline
in prices that had been taking place
since July, 1920 recorded its lowest
point, Chairman Eugene c. Huffman
of the Massachusetts commission on
the necessaries OF life announces.
The Boston c. L. us committee on
unemployment, at a special meeting
voted to cooperate with the commit
tees appointed by the Governor and
mayor to relieve existing conditions,
which the leaders of the organized la
Dor movement fear may become more
acute during the winter months unless
something remedial Is done at once.
Gov. Percival p. Baxter of Maine
was host to the other five New Eng.
land Governors at an "All-Maine" din
ner, served in the log cabin in the
Maine exhibit at the Eastern States
Agricultural and Industrial Exposition,
Springfield, Mass. All Of the dishes
served we're Maine products, including
brook trout from the state hatcheries.
Judge E. T. Pierce Of the supreme
court in final decree handed down in
the case Of the Springfield Foundry
Company against the officers and mem
bers of the International Moulders'
Union Of North America, and local
union 127, ruled that the purpose Of a
strike beginning Jan. IA against the
individual contract system was for an
Illegal purpose"
THE reactionary forces which dur
ing the rather prolonged period Of in
dustrial readjustment have resulted in
producing partial paralysis Of industry
have apparently about spent them
selves and there are indications that
a period Of convalescence has been
entered upon without probability Of
any immediate relapse" says the
Massachusetts state department OF la
Dor in a report to Gov. Cox.
Miss Helen r. Hildreth, director Of