The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1922-05-11
NEWS HAPPENINGS
OF GENERAL INTEREST
Items Cleaned From All Parts
Of New England

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town meeting ca the question. The
vote was SOS 10 598 As q result the
clocks were advanced one hour.
Mr.. and Mrs Robert Il. Given oi
Rumford. Nc. have gone by auto
mobile for a leisurely trip 10 the Pa.
dic coast They took with them q
complete camping outfit.
The outstanding feature OF the MAY
return day Of tn. ESSEX county, Mass
Superior Court was the number Of
suits growing out OF automobile acct-
dents There sre 70 such suits, the
damages claimed aggrega ting $4,000
Fifteen thousand gallons OF beer,
valued at between $4,000 and 10000
were turned into the sewer at the
Berkshire Brewing Associations plant
by federal offiyrs The company had
long been engaged In business In Pitts
field. Mass. and decided recently 10
suspend.
Nearly 1000 employees OF the Great
Northern Paper Company, Bangor,
Me, including paper makers, pulp
sulphite workers stationary engtn-
GERS, Inachinists carpenters and labor
ers have agreed TO wage scale for
one year averaging Is per cent less
han that In operation last year.
Arthur Midget, convicted OF the
killing Of Amy Sbouio at Morrisville,
VT. on Aug 20, 1920, has been SEN
fenced 10 State Prison for 30 years by
the Supreme Court The court held
that there was no error In the man.
daughter verdict returned by jury,
10 which Mudgett took exceptions
Maine railroads were found justi.
fed by the Interstate Commerce Com.
mission in making special freight
charges against shippers OF potatoes
to cover the cost OF heating to prevent
freezing during winter months and a
complaint made by the Aroostook
county growers was dismissed
Lawrence W. Carroll, who was man.
ager of the Rialto Theatre New
Haven, CT, al the time IL was burned
Sunday night Nov. q, 1921, was
found guilty OF manslaughter in the
Superior Criminal court He was fined
$1,000 and given one year in jail, with
execution Of the sentence suspended
until an appeal IL made.
Paul A. Robitaille, 6, Of Somerville,
Mass, was almost instantly killed
when he was struck by an automobile |
containing Judge Harry G. Curtis OF
the probate court, Providence and
Alderman Francis W. X. Smith OF
Somerv lille. The little fellow was the
King In a procession OF children on
their way to q May party.
Atty-Gen. Alien. In an opinion sent
70 the Massachusetts Senate holds
that the ShepIa I'd Towner maternity |
act, passed by Congress last summer,
10 unconstitutional and that Mass
achusetts, either M a sovereign state,
or through its citizens, is entitled TO
attack It's validity In the federal
courts.
Gov. Cox Of Massachusetts cut the
first notch In a walking stick which
Mrs Belle Doyer OF Boston will carry
on a hike to California On her trip,
Mrs Doyer will ask mayors and gov
ernors to add to the notches. She was
attired in a walking suit Of breeches
and leggings, and carried with her
a pet cat named for her distinguished
countryman, Tiger" Clemenceau
Because his wife assisted her sister
in escorting a blind man to the thea
tire in Worcester, Mass, TO hear the
music, James Crowley, y, left her
seven weeks ago, he told Judge Sam
Hel Uteiy in district court, when ar
raigned on a charge of neglect to sup
port He was sebtenced 10 the house
Of correction for six months. He ap-
pealed.
Bishop william Lawrence after
calling on the Massachusetts, Episco-
pal diocesan convention 10 elect a
bishop coadjutof to relieve him OF
nGrt ~ the burden Of leadership IN
biz declining years and to succeed
llm fNtHAuhlNs uiaiffFfEl MS hNIuAi
report in which he stressed the sub
iects Of prohibition and the preach
n- 81 the social GOSPEL" He main
aimed that hundreds o. thousands %
having lost the solace
which they had found in a glass Of
lcer. should he allowed 70 expre~
heir views on prohibition 'Prohi-
,ifion ~ drink does not involve tho
,rohlhiiion ~ the liberty ~ express
ng ene's opiniou.- the bishop assert
4. adding. however. that every loyal
itizen was In duty bound 70 stand
" the prohihifioa amendment and by
tate laws which snct Sc enforcement.
william COrmier ~ South Dart
nouth. Mas. Was burned 10 deafh
n THE forest Gre With DESTROYED his
lone whih he was racing through
- woods 20 spcsd The alarrn n Gre
o : nearby settlement - 70 dwellings
Forest fres sre now prevalent In
n ns-fs ~ Massachusetts, according