Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1921-01-25
new ENGLAND NEWS
IN TABLOID FORM
Items Of Interest From Al
Sections Of Yankee|and

tall carpet mills in South Worcester,
Mass. voted to refuse the Is per
cent reduction In wages recently pro-
posed by the company.
DR.. Sidney A. Mathews, Of national
fame as forger and swindler, was
found guilty by jury In the United
States district court, Boston, Of using
the mails in scheme to defraud.
John Clapp, aged S3, who, when he
retired from active work at the bench
nearly two years ago, was believed to
be the oldest shoemaker in the coun-
try died at his home In Brockton
recently.
An estate valued at $2,224.410.03
was left by Francis G. Welch, Boston
attorney and trustee Of estates, &C
cording to inventory of his will filed
in Suffolk probate Office. OF the to-
tai $2,068, ,425.03 is personal property.
In a report submitted by State
Auditor Alonzo B. Cook to the Massa-
chusetts Legislature, the expenditures
by the commonwealth for the year
ending Nov. 8. 1920, were $132,353,-
93763, and the receipts during the
same period were $1S6,5Ss,177.T.
Boston Zoo will be among the few
IN the country having moose among
Its animals. Despite assurance that
moose cannot be raised here, Curator
Morse is confident he can succeed, and
has arranged for several to be brought
from New Brunswick in the near
hture.
Myron Colby, so, a farmer Of Wind
sor Hill, Mass, arose at daylight went
to the woodshed and slashed his
throat from ear to ear with a razor.
He was alive when discovered by his
wife, but died while en- route in an
automobile to the House of Mercy
Hospital at Pittsfield.
DR.. G.. Stanley Hall, former presi-
dent Of Clark University, has an
nounced the sale of the American
Journal Of Psychology to Cornell Uni
versity. The publication was estab-
lished by DR.. Hall in 1887. DR.. Hall
said: 81 sold the publication to give
my time to writing books on psychol-
ogy."
The first launching at New Bedford,
Mass, since 1883 took place last week
when the three-masted schooner
Fairhaven, built at the New Bedford
Dry Dock Company yards, slid into
the water. The owner of the new yes
sci is William 81. Draper Of Provi-
dence. She was christened with bot
tie Of ginger ale.
A new attempt will be made in
the present Legislature to increase the
salaries of the justices Of the supreme
Judicial court Of Massachusetts, to
$4,000 a year, and Of Justices Of the
superior court to $4,000 q year. VIII
liam H. Brooks of Holyoke has fled
q petition for the increases with the
clerk Of the Senate.
Sheriff King Graham, armed with a
warrant to search the Italian steamer
Monte Santo for liquor, was refused
permission to board the vessel in
Portland harbor by Capt. +. Steriese.
Later he returned with II deputies
end placed the captain under technical
arrest for interfering with an officer
The search was then made but no
liquor was found.
Daylight saving time schedules were
condemned by Frank e. Brakeman of
Stratford, State master Of the Connec-
ticut Grange, which held its annual
session there. He claimed daylight
saving, so called, adds materially to
the cost Of producing agricultural
food products. He also said Connecti-
cut should adopt laws to carry out en-
forcement Of the Volstead act.
Work preliminary to building the
schooner Mayflower, financed by Bos-
tonians as defender of the Esperanto
cup, won in the international fishing
vessel contest off Halifax, N. g., last
faI, started this week in East Boston.
Two firms have volunteered to donate
their products In connection with the
enterprise-Roebling & Sons Of Tren-
ton, N. j., and Glidden & Co. Of Bos-
ton.
Efforts to raise In Massachusetts,
a larger proportion Of the food needed
by the people and Of the feed neces-
sary to sustain its farm animals were
urged by Vice President-elect Calvin
Coolidge in an address at the annual
dinner of the Franklin County Agricul-
tural Society in Greenfield. I'VE
need" he said, ito make our own
State the producer of more raw ma
terials and to bring back to Massachu-
sets farming back to its tormer pro-
dctiveness."
. Dealers In more than 60 cities and
towns in Massachusetts, are charging
anywhere from 81 to s. a ton more for
domestic coai than Is proper, accord
ing to Fuel Administrator Eugene @.
Huffman. In the opinion Of the fuel
administrator, the proper price Per ton
Of hard coal for domestic use is SIG.
he says that large quantities Of so
called company" coal are being re-
ceived in the state and costing about
So I. o. b. at the mines The freight
rate to Massachusetts ranges from
$4.27 to $5.81 per ton.
rka nAaI