The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1922-03-02
new ENGLAND NEWS
IN TABLOID FORM
News Of General interest
From the Six States

is dead in Danielson, Ct She would
have been l08 years old on March
She was born in Quebec.
What is said 70 be the heaviest
baby at birth in Connecticut in years
is the IS-pound daughter born 70 Mr.
and Mrs. Fred Like OF Meriden
Wright A. Root OF Easthampton
Mass, was elected president OF the
Massachusetts Fruit Growers assoc
alton at the organization's annual
meeting in Worcester.
Reproyed by her parents who con
sidered her TOO young to have a beau.
Lucy Daigon, i6. daughter OF Jacob
Duigon of Torrington. CT, tried 10
end her life by swallowing carbolic
acid.
Charles ID. Mason, who was wound
cd twice in battles in France, denies
the official report sent To the Lowell.
Mass. police, that he was a Stacker.
He has an honorable discharge from
army service.
After IS persons. including nine
sehool children, had been bitten by a
mad dog. City Marshal William ID.
Nolan issued an order That all dogs
In Holyoke, Mass, be muzzled and
kept in restraint
Two hundred cases OF Canadian
whiskey, valued al 10000, were
seized by u. S. customs inspectors in
a Maine Central freight car at Hol
way Siding. near Dennyyille. The
liquor was hidden under bundles OF
shingles.
George Mulligan of Bergenfeld. ".
j.. Hartford, CT, was arrested and
held in 500 bonds on the technical
charge of breach OF the peace in the
course OF an investigation by the po-
lice into the sixth mysterious blaze
at the institution.
The Cisco e. Northeastern railroad |
OF Name has asked for government
loan Of sl4S6O0 The road proposes
to build additional shop buildings, in
stall several new passing tracks along /
its line and provide other minor ad- /
ditions and betterments.
Frederick Brown Brooks and his
stepmother Georgianna Daigle
Brooks, both Of Bangor, were mar
ried at McAdam Junction, n. b.. and /
then held up by immigration author
tiles at VancebotO when they al
tempted to return 10 Bangor
While dressing large Goldfish
aboard the Boston fishing schooner
Ethel b. Penny. Capt Chetwind found
a bucketful OF tinker mackerel n the
tish's stomach The mackere were
in prime condition aud were brought
to Boston when the veseel came in.
An irate parent appeared al the Of
fee OF the city CLERK, Bangor, to enter
vigorous protest against the issuance
of marriage license TO his minor
son, who, he said, contemplated mat
rimony with the divorced wife OF the
parent, the woman being the step
mother Of the boy
Cleanliness is akin TO goodness,
but THAI fact does not assist the court
much in this case, judge Lauren NJ.
Sanborn commented in the superior
court Portland, Me-, when counsel
explained that Mary A. Jacobs OF that
city WAS unable to be present because
she was doing her Monday wash.
A state federation of postofiice
clerks has been organized in New
Haven, Ct, and after discussion
resolution was adopted urging that
postmasterships be taken out of poll
tics. The resolueol advocated the
promotion OF posto.iice employees TO
misunderstanding.
Merrill NJ. Hatch 81 Whitman, Mass. !
figures that his oyster stew the other
evening cost about $500. In one OF (
the oysters he found what he thought |
might be a pearl. and took it to a local
jeweler. who pronounced II a fine
specimen but said /. had been spoiled {
In the boiling He estimated its value {
before cooking. al the above figure }
Joseph NJ. Dowali. state custodian
of liquor. and State officer Edward J
p. O'Neil. destroyed conuaband '
liquor at stills valued AT 100000.
The coHtraband had been held at the !
police station, Lawrence. Mass The
liquor was run into a sewer through
the sink pipe al the station house.
and the stills were broken up 70 be !
sold for junk
The Lynn policeman returned TO :
the STATE National Bank OF Lynn a
bonds Valued at $500. part Of the I
$4,000 alleged 10 have been stoier 7
from the institution Dec. 81 by Bdgar :,
F. Gilmore, a clerk in the bank The q
police refused 70 ssv where they OBJ :
tanned the bonds. and hank author I,
ties we're equally -eticent. although =
admitting TIA; the securities had been \
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