Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1921-09-20
new ENGLAND NEWS
IN TABLOID FORM

Items Of Interest From III
Sections Of YaIkeeIand
Miss Mary r. Gallivan Of Daaven,
Mass, q shoeworker about so years
old. through her counsel filed at Salem
suit for $4,000 against the estate
Of Augustus r. Mead, late OF Danvors,
for an alleged breach Of promise to
marry.
While 1900 persons at the annual
fair, North Adoms, Mass, looked on,
Eugene Nelson Stafford, 80, Boston,
balloonist, fell 600 feet through the
air when a strap by which he was at
tached to q parachute broke. He was
instantly killed.
Merle Gfberson, Presque Isle, Me-.
whose relatives believe he had become
temporarily insane through broodfng
over the recent death Of sister. com
mitted suicide by the use Of cf oro-
form. He was "a years old and single.
A note which he left for his mother
said: 1T Is death or the insane asy-
lum. prefer death"
According to counsel, q marriage
license taken out by the couple In
1886, but never used. will be sub
mitted In support of the suit. Tho
declaration sets forth that Mead and
Miss Gallivan kept company from the
early SOS until last Decem Der when
Mead died without will. leaving an
estate reported at $4,000.
A suit to recover $150.0o0 alleged TO
be due them for professional services
has been fled in superior court, Sa-
lem, Mass, against Arthur T. Walker
Of New York by Frederick N. Chandler
and Fred II. Eaton, members OF the
law firm of ChaL der 4 Eaton OF Law
renee. Walker is executor Of tho es-
tate Of the late Edward F. Searies.
Methuen multi-mAlionaire.
The board OF governars Of the New
England Daily Newspaper Association
went on record in resolution passed
at a meeting in Worcester. Mass, as
emphatically opposed to the 44-hour
week in the printing industry. They
also expressed opposition to any In
crease in wages or change in hours In
the printing trades while the present
Industrial conditions exist.
Former service men marching In .
funeral procession in Auburn, No.
broke ranks and climbed aboard Q
trolley car to attack passenger who,
they said, refused to bare his head
when the colors passed. The man
was knocked down but escaped SER
ious injury. The veterans were part
Of the military escort at the funeral
Of Capt. Frank w. Hullet.
An alleged attempt to run the i'm
migration guard at the Canadian bor-
der with two Cinnamon was frustrat'
ed when H. Tessier Of Barre, N. H.
and a man who gave his name as
Jones, were caught with the aliens
near Hyde Park station. TessteTs
automobile broke down and P. D.
Blake, a farmer, living nearby, ncti-
fed Sheriff J. D. Stevens Of Hyde Park
that Cinnamon were passengers.
Cornell University will probably re-
ceive about $50, 100000 under the VIII
of the late John McMullen. president
of the Atlantic, Gulf & Pacific Dredg-
ing Company, which has been fled fer
probate. At the hearing, Oct1, tho
will in detail will be made known
Mrs. Laura H. Hughes I SO. NorwaK.
Ct. and San Francisco, niece Is left
an annual income Of $4,000 and the
home Of Mr.. McMullen on Judah Isl-
and, valued at $126,0o0.
The New England district OF the
Walther League, at Its 10th annual
convention held at the Zion Evan
gelical Lutheran Church, Boston, took
an uncompromising stand against
worldly amusements. The Rev. p. @.
Prokopy of the Zion Evangelical Lnfn-
eran Church Of Plymouth. district held
secretary. said: worldly amuse-
ments that appeal to the lower in
stincts of men are gnawtng at the
very vitals OF Christian religion.
Protesting that the proposed con-
struction Of a 100000 midway ct
Hampton Beach, N. H.. would pro-
mote immortality and lower the re-
spectability Of the beach, nearly bVo
propety owners at a mass meeting
called for the purpose Of creating q
new board Of welfare to cooperate
with the board Of trade, voted to pro-
test against the project, declaring that
while they have no authority to pre-
vent the contemplated enterprise It
will be blocked by public opinion.
Horses are obsolete. At least they
are in the expressed belief OF the A.
tleboro, Mass, city authorities. The
old watering trough, located In Monu-
ment square for many years, has been
removed to make more parking space
for automobiles and has been placed
In the Briggs Corner road, two miles
away from its old location. The
trough was removed, despite protests
by horse owners, including firms with
many animals, and by the Society tor
the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals.
Pres. Francis n. Rowley OF Boston.
Of the M. 8. P. C. A. reports that since
the starting Of the horse-waferinS
service June Is, water had bean given
at the hydrant stations and travelling
water cart to 60,140; that member
shin in the Jack London Club, the
society's protest against cruektes IN
training animals, has reached 49,
3Ss. During August the society fnves-
tigated 627 cases, examined 5Y4 am
mails, took 1913 horses from work, nu-
namely destroyed sc horses and s4S
small animals; also 141 cattle. swine
and sheep in the stockyards and aoat-
| toiys.
r.nenditures Of $500 for liqu~.
ssoo for cigars and SIS for charitable
vurposes, by q Western Massachusetts,
fratarnal organization. ono Of whose
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