The independent-reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1909-1955, 1921-12-29
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THE new EAGlANDER
News Of General Interest
From the Six States

high priest OF the Grand Royal Arch
Chapter of Masons and two years ago
grand patron of the Eastern Star OF
Maine, Is dead. He Was about DO
years old and had been engaged in
the grocery business since 1885
Dist Atty, Charles H. Wright is on
the trail of the big follows" in the
liquor running trafic around Spring
field, Mass. A statement by him in
dictated that he will smoke out some
of those who have made thousands OF
dollars through illicit traff1c in liquor
The granite cutters, polishers and
blacksmiths. employed in the granite
inductry at Westerly. r. |. threatened
on Jan. /. have countered with the
demand for an increase of 81 a day
in wages, rest periods duEing the
morning and afternoons and Satur-
day off
Announcement was made by Presi-
dent Guy w. Bailey OF the University
of Vermont that it would probably be
necessary next year to limit the fresh
man enrolment to 300 students owing
to the large number of applications.
The present total enrolment exceeds
1000, about 80 per cent being from
Vermont.
A schedule of the proposed read
justment OF wages of employees of the
New York, New Haven & Hartford
railroad, effective Jan. 16, has been
issued by General Manager c. L..
Bardo. Clerical and station forces.
reduced seven cents per hour. This
covers storekeepers and assistants,
and chief clerks.
Leon f. Higgins of Brewer, Me. pre-
sident of the Maine State Senate in
1920, announces that he will be a
candidate for the Republican nomina-
ton for Governor in the primary next
June. He is a native of Ellsworth,
but has lived nearly all his life in
Brewer and Bangor, engaged for the
last % years in the insurance bust
ness
William NJ Wood, president of the
American Wooden Company, Law
renee, Mass, in extending Christmas
greetings to the employees of the com
pany, assured them there would be no
+, reduction in their wages during the
coming season. His announcement
was contained in a letter to the
booster. the official publication of the
company.
The name Of Names most famous
regiment. the 103d infantry of the Nj
was perpetuated by unanimous vote
OF the assembled officers of the third
Maine infantry national guard. In
Portland, Saturday, which assumes
this designation. The war department
VIII be asked to make the change,
and 1t has already been intimated
that. the request will be granted.
The rum running schooner Ro-
nance, whose Illicit cargo of 800 cases
Of whisky was seized by customs Off
cials recently, has been ordered by
Judge Morton in the United States
district court. Boston, sold at auc-
ton to satisfy the civil libel of the
New Bedford ship-fitting firm Of
Briggs G. Beckman. No one appeared
in court to answer the libel. which
was based on the alleged non payment
og $l073 for ship supplies furnished
the vessel and the sale was ordered
by default.
Ethel M. Kimball, who posed as
James A. Hathaway" and worked for
two years as a man in a cracker fac
tory, when arranged in the Somer
Vile, Mass. Dictrict Court. declared
that her marriage was a prank and
that Louise Marguerite Aechtler was
quite aware that she was a girl when
she married her She said the whole
marriage business was a prank, and
that she and Miss. Aechtler cooked up
the job between them to have a little
fun among themselves.
A large sign reading Federal
Agents-Stop," and further down the
road pavement of heavy planks.
studded with spikes. is a device which
Herbert II. Hoyey. chief field deputy
of Names prohibition enforcement
agents, has proposed for catching
bootleggers running rum by motor.
Hoyey contends that this device would
do away with unnecessary gunplay.
According 10 his theory, respectable
citizen would obey the mandate and
his car would be uninjured, whereas
a bootlegger would speed up and be
caught on the spikes, where federal
agents would grab him.
A film fam game by which tits said
many Worcester, Mass, people were
mulcted out of thousands of dollars.
is being investigated by state detec-
tive Robert h. Mott. In the meantime
the police of Portland. Me. have
traced Robert w Walter, alias R.
Walter. and Margaret Sterling, alias
Emerson, alias Winters, alias Welt.
alias Darby. alias Dunlock to Flint,
Mich, and have sent a warrant for
their arrest to the Flint police. The
Portland police believe Walter and
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