Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1921-08-09
NUMBER 80.

George Guppy was instantly killed
1t Ruskin's Island. Maine, when Q
lightning bolt struck his home.
Miss ed Capron Of Back Bay,
Boston, has been appointed secrstary
10 the Protestant Epi.copsl Board Of
Missions and will be stationed st
Shanghai. China, for four years.
II the Shipping Board, decides to
have the giant liner Leviathan re-
paired 1t will give the Charlestown
Navy Yard an opportunitv t. bid for
the work. Word to this eject has
been received from Chairman A. D.
Lasker of the Shipping Board. Much
pressure has been brought on the au'
thorities at Washington to have the
work done at Charlestown as It would
help greatly in keeping the 400 men
now at the yard employed.
Mayor Peters of Boston has ad-
dressed letter to H. H. Frazee, pres
dent OF the Boston American league
baseball club, asking whether q reduc-
ton in the price OF admission tickets
TO Fenway park, home grounds OF the
Red Sox, was not possible. Mayor Pet
ers stated he was informed that the
charges of IS cents for bleacher and
s110 for grandstInd seats were In ex-
cess of the prices charged by other
major league clubs throughout the
Pulp wood and camps and thous-
ands of acres of valuable umberlands
were destroyed In seven forest hres
which were reported by the Maine
forestry district. The most extensive
blaze was in Benedict, Aroostook
county, where 300 volunteers battled
with a stubborn fire that swept an
area OF two miles long and three
quarters Of a mile wide, threatening
the village Of Silver Ridge.
Judge Decourcey in supreme court
1t Boston enjoined union shoeworkers
In Haverhill, Mass, from continuing
a strike now in p; p;osress and ordered
the local conference committee i'm
mediately to take up consideration OF
q new wage scale. Should the com
mittee fail to adjust the differences.
which were responsible for strike OF
stitchers in nine factories, the mat
ter will 60 to an adjustment committee
and then to an arbitration board, the
Judge decreed.
The barber shop Of John Issroe in
the Roxbury district Of Boston en-
ploying one barber in the afternoon
and several in the evening has been
80 busy that the police Investigated.
Once they saw an unshaven one en-
ter the shop, stay q while and then
emerge wearing q smile and the Same
beard. Then they raided the estab-
lishment. In court the follow
ing day two patrolmen appeared
against Isgroe to charge him with
keeping and exposing liquor for sale
and with maintaining liquor null
sance at his place Of business. In
the backroom. they said, they had
seized q quantity Of liquor. Issroe
was fined 500 and sentenced to
month in the House OF Correction
He appealed.
1.-THE Massachusetts hen, as Tar as
prices 60, sits on the top OF the
world" declared Prof A. e. Canoe.
head OF department Of economics,
Massachusetts Agricultural College,
before about zoo poultry men attend
ing farmers week convention at Am
herst. Mass. while Massachusetts,,
he continued, is not and never VIII
be able to compete with the western
poultry states In raising eggs COM
mercially, because of feed and labor.
she has certain advantages that still
make It a very profitable. worth.
while business for the farmers OF
this state to follow" The poultry In"
dustry of the state produced IN
1880 about 6,5090oo egss. and
reached its high-water mark in 1886.
with 1900, 1000 dozen the record for
the last 10 years being about $780,
600 dozen. In 1890 four dozen eggs
per person in Massachusetts, were
raised, as compared with less than
2 1.2 dozens per person produced at
the present time.
Following the personal loss Of over
s5,OS 900 in eight months from tia
depreciation Of securities, Louis 4.
Liggett, Of Boston, president OF the
United Drug Company, and = movins
factor in q large number Of financial
and manufacturing concerns, trans
ferred his entire assets 70
three trustees, representing Bos-
ton bau...e houses. who VIII
administer them for the protec-
ton of his creditors. The trustees ap'
pointed are Frank w. Remick Of KID
der, Peabody & Co.. Neal Rantoul OF
E g. Moseley & Co.. and Frederic G.
Dumaine. treasurer and trustee OF the
Amoskeag Manufacturing Company.
and director Of the Old Colony Trust
Company. While Mr.. Lixsetts action
was foreshadowed to some extent BY
the recent sale Of his stables and the
placing on the market Of his beautiful
estate At Chestnut Hill. the sudden
decline in United Drug stock Of nearly
30 points was the final straw that
brought matters to q head. The trus-
tees, as we'll as Mr.. Lyyett, declare
that neither the United Drug Company
Ligrett's International Liggetts Drug
Stores, nor any of their subsidiaries
is in any way affected and that all
will continue In every way as hereto
tore.
Arrested in the city treasurers once
while drawing his salary, Charles z.
Barnett, 4 superior court omcer was
taken to the city collectors ONCE.
where he paid his 1870 poll tax for
which the warrant for his arrest had
been issued. Constable John Young
made the arrest. With extra fees and
charges, the original s. tax had
mounted to Q bill for I'll. The con-
stable also sought payment OF Bar
nett's 1919 tax. but allowed another
week of grace when Barn st said he
was not able to pay It ct that time