The independent-reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1909-1955, 1922-03-16
NEWS HAPPENINGS
OF GENERAL INTEREST
Items Cleaned From All Parts
of New England

clafeu LOT city government In the an
nuai town election and. as u result,
Gardner will become the 39th city in
Massachusetts.
surgical operation of more than
ordinary significance was performed
in the Lincoln, y. H.. hospital. when
30 cent piece was removed from the
intestines of Louis Hamnett. -. OF
that town.
Winooski the large mill village &C.
ross the river IRON Burlington VT,
started on its career us Nermont's
eighth city in the recent election, ell.
Getting its first mayor, H. \. BAILEY
and board of aldermen of four mem.
bers.
The average New. England savings
account shows an increase of from
$4G9 on Dec. 81. 1919. to S4SS on Dec.
81, 1921, it is announced in a report
upon savings deposits in New Eng.
land during 1920 and 1921 s." issued by
the Federal Reserve Bank. Boston,
The Maine Central Railroad an
nounces that Il 10 per cent reduction
In freight rates on agricultural com
modities from Maine TO all southern
points is now in effect. It has been
approved by the Interstate Commerce
Commission.
Provision for municipal aviation
field. the first in Maine, was made at
the Brunswick annual town meeting
II was voted to lease a field about
mile and Il half from the town hail
and to equip it as landing place for
airplanes. The site WAS approved by
war department officers
Fred Hart, 27, gassed soldier on
leave from the Walter Reid hospital
Washington, left PittStied. Mass, for
Albany on walking trip from Boston
to Chicago tn regain his health. He
recently Won $40 900 wager by walk
ing from Washington To Boston in "A
days,
The towns of Dover and Foxcroft,
Me-, though divided by the Piscata
quis river, have been united rs one
municipality. They were "wedded"
by an enabling act. passed by the leg.
islature. and accepted by both towns.
Dover was settled in 1905 and Fox.
croft three years later.
Give Maine 800 900 for educa-
tional work, and In 10 years she will
be producing more crops than VIII all
nit
600 which Congress is now talking of
appropriating for irrigation purposes. D."
is the assertion of DR.. Augustus O.
Thomas, state superintendent of the
Maine schools.
Armed with pocket check books on
several Boston banks, Daniel Lift
man, IL, of the South end, Boston.
set out at the head of his gang of
about II members his own age to
amass a fortune. After passing sew,
eral checks for small purchases and
receiving the change he was apprc-
hended.
Without a dissenting vote, the COM
mittees on public health and social
welfare, sitting Jointly, reported ad-
versely on the two maternity benefit
projects before the Massachusetts leg
islature. On the Sheppard ToWner
federal act, the committees report no
legislation necessary ON the bill ap-
propriating S41 900 as n preliminary
to receiving federal aid.
Pigs are turning up their noses ut
garbage nowadays. and the Piltstiell.
Mass. board of health hlames it on
to home brew. The board which. in
It's annual report. said the lar-e
amount of mash and other brewing
and distiIing refuse was hamperiug
the collectors of garbage, has now
decided that these same elements have
made the garbage distasteful 10 the
pigs.
Rufus Coppock, who loves alone in
a little paper covered camp on top Of
Cow Hill. mile frtm Plymouth,
Mass. and makes his living rs a
fisherman and an itinerant pcdler
when his trade of weaving is slack j,
has received word from Media, Pa.
where he has relatives, that he is ore
of 40 heirs to family fortune estl
mated in value at between so 00O. 0O1
and $50 900 600.
Bowlegged men make the best tree
climbers. Wbether they are short 81
tall, lean or fat, good natured OF
grouchy, makes little or no difference
lis long as they sre bowlegged, the
more they are bowed the better the
owners can climb. This was proved
to the satisfaction Of civil service
representatives who conducted a tree
climbing contest in Elm Park. W0r
cester, Mass, to establish a list from
which tree climbers can be selected
in the future.
c. w. Robinson, minister of lands
and mines, told the New Brunswick
legislature that the time is here when
construction should be undertaken Of
the Al miles of railroad from Meduc.