The united opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1881-1970, 1921-03-04
new ENiLAND NEEHS
IN TABLOID FcnN
Items Of Interest From All
Sections Oh Yankeeia.ll

The first case of sleeping sickness
In Nermont has been reported. The
! patient is Bertha, Is year old daugh'
ter OF William Bellmore of Mortified
Arthur w. Stone, 81, of Worcester
Mass, shot himself in the templeGvith
revolver in a fit of dependency
over the death of his wife who was
buried the day before.
William F. McCombs, former chair
man OF the Democratic national com
mittee, who probably did more than
any other man to elect Woodrow Will
son in 1912, died from heart failure
at Greenwich, CT.
Donald Motif Is, of Worcester,
Mass, was arrested by the police
charged with raising the denomina-
tions of bank notes. The police say he
raised 81 bill to s. and 81 bill to
$40 and passed them.
A million dollars in eight days! This
is what officials hope to achieve in
the $1,0OO,O0OO campaign for the New
England Deaconess Hospital, the
drive starting Thursday, Feb. "a, and
lasting until March 8.
Miss Marie Sayles, Acting State
Leader OF Home DEMONSTRATION
Agents in Massachusetts, after five
years of extension work in that State,
has resigned to accept a position of
State Leader of Home Demonstration
Agents in Ohio.
That organized labor is solidly OPP
posed to the proposed censorship of
motion pictures was demonstrated
when spokesman for the workers
fiocked to the Massachusetts State
House to protest enactment of any
bills along these lines.
Employees of the reed chair depart
ment of the Haywood Wakefield Com
pany, Gardner, Mass, have been noti-
fed of a cut of 2 per cent in wages
effective March l. The reed workers
are working on short time. The re-
duction affects 200 men.
al lOuS
appeared at the Massachusetts State
House in support of the bill of Repre-
sentative Renton Whidden of Brook
line, under which labor unions would
be amenable to suit at law. Organ
lied labor appeared in equal strength
against the bill
The Scotia Worsted Company,
Woonsocket, R. l., started its mill
Monday The plant has been closed
down for several months and it will
be some time before things will be
ming full time. There are orders
on hand sufficient to keep the opera
lions up indefinitely.
Activity in shoe manufacture and
definite improvement in textile lines
as compared with conditions of three
months ago are reported from centres
of those industries in New England.
The shoe industry, which was virtual
" fiat last fall, has taken a squirt be-
cause of Easter demands. Z?
Announcement was made by the
Gilbert & Barker Manufacturing Com
pany, Springfield. Mass, makers of
gasoline pumpi and tanks, that ow-
ing to an Increased seasonal demand
the $50 employees that have been laid
off will be re-employed at once and a
night shift would be put at work
Judge Morton of the federal dis
trict court Boston, ordered that is
barrels of the finest bonded whiskey,
seized by prohibition enforcement
agents, be disposed Of by giving away
four barrels and selling the remain
AZ If at a special price of $3.50 a
gallon, to holders of proper permits.
Resumption Of a full-time schedule
and might work at the ]. & p. Coats
thread mills, Providence, r. l., and
Manager Allen that the plant will be
operated at full capacity, is one of
he signs acclaimed in textile circles
Is auguring resumption generally in
III lines.
An act proposing changes of an inn
,ortant nature in the Workingmen's
Law and shifting the
of the law from the
courts to the state Commission Of La
,or was presented in the Rhode Island
senate by Senator Herbert NJ. Sher-
wood and referred to the judiciary
committee.
Old-fashioned chastisement, ad-
ninistered by an official who is ready
o spoil the rod to save the child,
S urged by Alderman Albert L. Bart
EFT, Commissioner of Public Safety,
Iaverhill, Mass, as a means to solve
he juvenile delinquency problem in
hat city. He recommends that the
ourts see that the wood-shed SEN
ence is carried out, and then free
he youthful offender with well-dus-
ed jacket, but without the stigma of
criminal record.
Absence Of labor troubles has been
considerable factor in the improve
,eut in Maine Industries ovar the