Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1921-12-07
WORLD NEWS NOTES

The superior court which will con-
vene at Salem, Mass, Monday has
535 divorce cases on the docket.
The German government is trying
to negotiate a loan for $4,000, 900
pounds with English capitalists.
| The Ponzi trustees stated Thurs
day that they would pay creditors a
10 per cent dividend before Christ
mas.
The great Schiltz breweries at Mil
waukee, Wis, have been changed in
to a chocolate plant and give en-
iployment to 1000 people. ].
| John Freedman of Cambridge,
Mass, has sued Joseph Rubenstein for
$4,000 for alleged interference with
his intended marriage to Lillian Ru-
bernstein.
| A federal grand jury his indicted
nicholas E. Dyer, registered chem
list of Boston, as the originator of
scheme to ship alcohol to customers
by parcel post.
| Alfred Boardman, an 83-year old
lcivil war veteran of Taunton, Mass,
is seeking court aid to recover a
valuable engagement ring he recently
gave to woman of %.
1t was announced Thursday night
following long conference that the
112 cotton mills of Fall River, Mass,
would not reduce the wages Of the
NEARLY 10000 operatives employed.
John Kollijian of Providence, r.
l., was arrested by United States Of
Ulcers Thursday charged with expos
ing for sale apparatus and contrivan-
ces from which a still could be made.
The management of the Daughters
of Isreal Home for the Aged, in New
ark, N. j., has yielded to the desire Of
the oldest inmate, ITO years of age, to
have her hair bobbed "like the other
girls"
By the will of Osborne T. Sum-
lner, a wealthy Rockland, Me-, man a
New York city Y. M. G. A. will re-
ceive $4,000 as token of the pleasure
and benefits he received as stranger
/ in New York.
Ora King, a 17-year-old girl, was
arrested at Methuen, Mass, Thurs
day, charged with breaking, entering
and larceny. She was masquerading
: as boy with two young men and her
sex was not learned until after the
arrest.
!, After a fruitless conference Fri
day dissatisfied longshoremen, repre-
sentatives of the steamship lines that
, were to make Portland, Me-, their
winter American port, announced
!, that sailings would be diverted te
Halifax.
!. Five hundred and six candidates
for Rhodes scholarships appeared be.
fore the committee of selection al
Philadelphia Saturday. Ohio had
: the largest number of candidates
Al, while nine Vermont young mer
!, appeared.
/ Charles w. Morse, who was freed
e from prison by President Taft ii
: 1912 because of i'll health, is again
8 sought by the United States authori-
Y ties for alleged shortcomings with the
: shipping board. He recently sailed
t for France.
I A four months. search. by secret
. service agents for the authors Of q
T food Of $40 counterfeit bills has re-
$ suited in the arrest of Max Silver OF
: New. York. The counterfeits were Sc
perfect that, they passed undetected
+ through banks. fas@
t Corn is being burned under the boil
+ ers, of the O'Neill. Electric Light and
Power Company at O'Neill, county
: seat of Holt County, Neb in place OF
coal. Experiments showed corn to be
much cheaper by weight, and its Their
mic value high.
At the Boston public employment
office there were 5184, less applica-
tiors for work in November than in
October, and of the number 1916
were ex-service men. There were
1O3 less applicants for help in Novem-
Der than the month previous.
When the cost of living became un-
bearable in Dallas, Tex, the towr
itself decided to take things into it's
own hands. Now it is feeding 10000
school children at cost of only a
few cents a day. One of the princi-
pie items is chicken stew, which costs
five cents.
A jury at Greenfield, Mass, last
$ week gave Arthur O. Austin a YER
3 dict for $12,950 against the Postal
Z Telegraph company for the death OF
: Mrs. Austin. While the husband
and wife were autoing a sagging wire
: of the company hit Mrs. Austin in
the face, breaking her neck.
According to Paris newspapers
the French reparation commission
has sent the German government a
|
to It's recent communication regard
ing the payment of 5O,OOO,OOO gold
marks due as PREPARATIONS January
Is and of 275,0O0,0O0 gold marks due
February Is.
!. Franklin D. Roosevelt and Cleve-
land H. Dodge of New York, E. A.
Alderman, president of the Univer-
sity Of Virginia; William Allen
White of Kansas, and Mrs. Carrie
Chapman Gait, Iowa, were recon-
mended is five Of the permanent
trustees of the Woodrow Wilson
foundation at meeting of it's Ma
tional committee Friday at New
York.
The Lexington, Mass, police are
investigating the theft of two silve
gray foxes from the estate of Harvey
c. Wheeler, a wealthy Boston bust