ï~~ runl,A'L r. VunhusIs ''ibte1ks Of:0571511s loatteela "!!{i-s.- --- wa-.Oex.Usea 4"ta le, ebeil M desk. u t31 &*j1. _ lUll lRlIK)IOfl1 flTr' BATTLEGRIP IN SCOOLS s Wood Fires Lighted, Preserving Coal Fot Colder Weather; IV W OLFE Dr. E. Trowbridge Commends Teachers Who Dismiss PR =~ Pupils From Chilly Rooms hundred corps of wood are to be to haul the wood to the various school- GRIP shed the Worcester public school houses. et botters of tdings at once, in order that the build- Oxfod-sreet. Rice-squa.s Weth lnof La i may be heated on chilly days t a a ofnd Gates-lan erda mon CUhoosNthtacto of spanish influenza among the er dismissed the schools yesterday mbrnr hool children and teachers prevented. Ing, the temperature to thebrooms being Hospital A Fight Layor Pdhr G. Holmes. following a con- b, o 0 eges ene with Water commissioner George According to school rules, as accepted of Few Days Batchelder and Sipt. George C. ial- by the school committee. the teachersO tt of the public buiidings department, have a right to dismiss their schools if 1- flounced at the meting of the prini- the mercury registers below ndegrees. Altho never reaching the first lines of asle of the graded and high schools to the Many of the teachers complained yes- h ee eigtefrtlnso on the ham r, ysterday ant- terda morning of the dampness In their battle in France, the name of Priv. Jo month t council chamber, lighteday aft- hoos and the chilly atmosphere, fear- seph Wolfe will go down in history as a ay tinderte boilers ithtedien g that the epidemic of spanish influenza telydisnder the boilers in the different i uid reap a harvest If they attempted to victim of sickness while in the service oat tie rooms were kept comfortably keep the pupils in school with the rooms of his country. After battling with spanish hart this fall and winter, so,old, and for that reason sent the influenza, the drer-ded disease which has ar thoflme and conser.in iofetochildren home. Mayor Holme is conserving on fuel in hl)r. 10. it. Trowbridge. chairman of the been sweeping the country for the past dill of the city buildings, and for thatboard of health. who visited some of the two weeks, he died 'esterday at city hoe an does not want to se anyftthe schooltooms yesterday morning. stated fital, where he had been contined for the '14. now en hand until Dec. 1. It was that there were ot cases of slekAi-As inh haaed yesterday that the water depart- the South high school due to the cold past week. lie was home on a short fur spent has plenty of nood on hand and condition of the rooms and he was glad loigh when stricken. Wilt sell the wood to the city as fast as to know that there were some teachers Priv. Wolfe was a member of C Co., e.various departments require it. who had the courage to dismiss their.Ibth machine gun battalion, stationed at 'Stupt. Halcott has asked for 30) cords of pubis and close the school doors. Camp Devens, being drafted about two *ttia wood at once, and Waler ctimmis- months ago, anti in the first Hebrew pioner Batcheldeb has made arangemio n (ostinued on Page Three. draftee to die of sickness white in the service. He was 27 yesa old. A A N O N T T Coming to the lntedstates when a GERMA S O. boy of 17 years, he oated in the South. latter he was engaged in business in Bal timore, Md. Ito cae to tVorcester about le years ago, and for a short time was Aengaged in the grotery and provision PEEL SA S P IVI A.L, B B TT N ABAN NA mt nnesslHe formed a partnership with Louis Israel several furs ago, under the "The German Swiss papers say that some chock as I was not with the guns name of Wolfe & eurael, drygoods mer ermany can't do anything else but die..that time. Tough tuck! ahant, located at Union iquare.and was s -"Well etiough crepe. To answer your 'onneiteel with that concern tip to the and personally I think she has one foot riueotiota about that book. There should time of his death. it the grave and the other on a banana he one for me and if you don't get it lie has a brother, c:orp. teiben Wolfe. peel," said Priv. A. la. Abbott, e bat. rob.- hell. I aid for it s I want I a who Is with the American expeditionary YoMarrisyi.altl if lndwy ories in France. hacintg gone over see tet, 102d eld art'illery. A.:. I'., non of it ither.- the slogan of the boys now Mr. and Mrs. John A. Abbott,.in ilean- in Frane is 'Hobuken or hell by Christ- rost months ago wil the 7 h dlaso. Sot tret, n a uch'~0t('ned ettrnaxC." Thlt is ntot tbtinil a tilthut it hits ile father and mother, when last heard tnt street, In a much -omed letter the point to -a 'T.' tGerman-Swis papers from, were ltvin in a rection of Russia just received by hise parentis/ Inay lthat Germany can't do anything else raerrun by the lermans. Priv. Abbott, who was kaveAse frienet but die aid personally I think she has lie was a moenber of the Maccabees pt Walter Hand. me-mber of the:im',-one foot iA the grave and the other one Y..\. Hi. A. and for a number of years company. who fcave his life in the big tn a banana peel, was treasurer if the association. tHe iwe, was emiloyerl by the Heaid Ma- "Weil, to tell you a little about the lit. was also a member of the Worcester hite Co.. prior to his enlleiing. ie her tle town where we are for a rest. It is lodge f'nal Brith. Worcest.'r counel, U. ban over the-re for a year. way behinil the lines and is aituated in t T. In the letter written in A gut. 1915. a valley between the hills. It is rather a The body will lin In state at the Macca said:- pretty little liacet and only has one beel-Y. M. Id. A. rooms, 3s Providence "Here I anst after, liong a time that store. they call them a cafe over here, street. for several ho:irs this forenoon eonmust thinkI wis lst, strayett orlatri all you can buy in it in vin rouge prior tob burial. Itabbi Alexander l,evine gtolen, but not yet. iow ae you sil any-f nri tin blanc. We don't know just how will deliver an eulogy. It is expectet ay? I ot your itter iup to July fi,. lit long we are here for, but as they tell that a detail of men, members of his htave not received ny later one om yet. is we arn all going to get a seven-day company, will escort the body to the 7 am feeling tine and dandy and all that, leave. I think it will be for some time. cemetery. *xcept that I arn pretty well tirerl out "Another fellow and myself are room- At a a.ril meeting of the Marc'abees after we have alt just been thr. Ing with an old Yrench lade and she Y. M. I. A last night a committee was "We'started in where the marinen left in Just as nice as she can be.I morn- appointed to cooperate with the B nal t and maybe the liin din't atch hell ing she showed me two pl (ures of her Bprith In conducting the services. The r a while. We followed him o rinse sion and nephew and I think she said her committee includes the officers and at at one time wo iclet alnecst see- nephew was dead, anyway his arm was Jacob A. Goldberg. David R. Pemstein' iot running. I don't know if the cr-n-1 bandaged in the picture and she said he laob Lyons, am Levy and Joseph B. Sr will let this by. but at one plaice had been wounded. Cohen. ey were driven out at t i. m. ane we' 'Your loving son. The ptnal Brith committee consists of are in at b a. m. And he was still go.' "Priv. A. 1. Abbott." Benjamin Asher, flevid Seder. Maxwell It was that way all along the tine.I I'ri'. Abbott is a member of the Sons Sandberg. Jacob Asher and Max 1. l'eiga. You remember my writing of Walter of veterans organization, his maternal This committee was appointed to draw nd, the fellow I bunked with? Wel, grandfather. John P. Hastings, having up resolutions and to report at the next y got him and I can tell yioi it was done his best in tho Civil war. meeting: Adolph Hirsch, Jacob A. Gold-:. berg and Henry Zarling. The funeral will be at I o'clock and ORTH HIGH SCHOOL GUARD, DIRECTED BY C.E. __-"r-l "'--_-'_ BURBANK, DRILL IN PREPARATION' FOR PARADE FIRE PREVENTION North high school guyrd, under their Ninety students were nresent at yester-S Instructor, Prinepal Charles E. Burbank, day's drill. Of this number 70 were attired -S in the school uniform. The other 3 boys special drill yesterday afternoon who recently were admitted to the guards Mayor Pehr 0. Holmes stated late yes-. school campus. The battalion of will get their uniforms in a few weeka terday afternoon that he favors the post Joolboys, probably the only one of its The two companips which compose the ponement of firs prevention day fron Nrtho high ststdonts' training unit, A Co. Oct. 9 to Nov. 2, as suggested by Wit in tis artof he sate pu on tinder the command of Capt. Gray, anti 11am 0. McAdoo, secretary of the tress hibng touches for the LUberty 105.n pa- H Co. under the command of Capt. Glee- ury., Friday ntght. ThIs witH be the first sonl, had nearly two hours of solId drill The mayor receIved a letter yesterday e flappearance of the North high guard under the school Iistructor and organlser, from W. E. MtallalIeu. general -manager ir new unIforms.; Principal Burban i. ef the National board of fire underwriters, Je guard, whIch was organised during 'The cotor guard. composed of two ser.i New York, stating that most of the gova a.' t.....e., e. cant een nse. e.......... C..,-..l. netneatac. eae-t ernors and fIra- marshals already have IS BEP tH,rIN y;pgr Mrs. Louise. LambsCollapselon Poisoning, But.eor One of the strangest poison mysteries hi$ e the police and city hospital authoritie soi have had called to their attention in years the. developed yesterday afternoon. when any Loutse Lannine, 21 yearsold, wife of An- Delg thony Lannine, 4 Henry. street, collapsed tur on the doorstep of her home, and sank I: Into a coma from which she cannot be the; aroused. arh' Hospital authorities are almost ppsi- wet tive that her condition is due to poison- D tng, but not a single trace of poison of t could be found on her person or in thoean' home. An odor of acetic acid was preo- wh ent, but not sharply defined. The hospital ega authorities say that Mrs. Lannine might lien have used a mouth wash containing a intl poison and had swallowed some in thi tile manner, but no mouth wash a found 'A in the home bythe police. for The woman's'name in on thE angeroue sor list at the hospital cy here shef'was taken tel It the police amulance in charge of eil Police surgeon Arthur J. Nugent. 17 When the ambulance reached Shrews. Int bury and Henry streets in responoe to a wo call. Dr. Nugent foundi Mrs. Lannine on ma the doorstep of the house, surrounded by of several Italian-speaking women. She was an in a comatose state, and Dr. Nugent in dri ALBERT E. JEWELL, FOOD I /. Abr'TABS ON FLUCTUh Albert E. Jewell, formerly a grovery fo: and protiolon dealer on Southbridge th street, has volunteered for patriotic serv ice with the food administration. w) County food administrator Louts H. hi; Buckley has appointed him a deputy, antI h yesterday he began his new duties. ror de a time he will devote himself to follow- pr tng up the lotal butter stores to see tat dealers are keeping within the new goc- t ernment ruling that only a G per cent he profit shall be madeto The. new ruling idoes not allow for a 0ri rents net proft, as many have believed, but just a 6 rents gross profit over ac tual cost. Out of this margin dealers have In to pay handling costs and alt overhead so and make their profit. i l Until prices are adjusted by the sale of m butter on hand so that all dealers will be it buying on the same General open mar ket, there is likely to be conaisdeitble va- to elation in pricee ii the Worcester Store. m For inestance the grocer who may hate er been fortunate enough to buy goor) stor v. age butter some tino back at, cay, 45 cents a pound, can now sell that product n WORCESTER CANDIDATES' COMPLETE CAMPAIbI Worcester candidates for state offices completed their campaigning last night. in all sections of Worcester the various republican and democratic office seekers put In several hours of political talk and planning as to how to win out at the I primaries today, and Jiudging from the work done, the contests will be sharp and t snappy in many of the wards, Atho the voter appear to be disinter ested in state politics this year, the inter. eat has grown the past few days, due' to the activity of the candidates runnsing foer the various nominations, and It is ax pected a good-stized vote wilt be polled at the Various precincts in spite of the fact that a large number of voters are now in the government service In France or at the various training camps and canton mentz. Chief interest in today's primaries cen ters in the nomination of a candidate for nator in the trst Worcester district, where Senator James L. Harrop Is seek Ing a renomination with Atty. Charles R. Johnson as his rival. Voters in this dis trict.predicted last night that the vote will be close with chances good for Atty. Johnson to win out. Suppoorters of Senator Hfarrop say that. they havo made a canvass of the dIstr~ rmite nuaX.14 were presented the North at the close of school in Ams, lne 1er.u of last year its two company 0