The united opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1881-1970, 1893-01-20
o Adjoining Towns =
NeWburY.

@ The annual meeting of the Newbury
~ village creamery company was held in
the north room in Seminary, Saturday
D. M, about seventy shares being rep
resented. The following board of di-
rectors were elected: Alex Greer, Dan
Y. Ford, M. l.. Brock, VIM. M. Rol-
Inns and G. G Doe. The organization
Yves completed as follows: Dan Y.
Ford, Pres; G. G. Doe, Vice Pres :;
A. Greer, manager; f. E. Kimball,
Treas; M. q. Knight, Secy.
There will be no preaching at the
Town House next Sunday, Rev. G.. III.
Coolidge being called to the southern
part of the State on account of the ill.
ness of his brother.
Miss Una Gray closes her labors as
teacher in the Scotch Hollow district
this week, with a school exhibition
Saturday evening. Miss Gray has
taught in this vicinity several terms,
giving excellent satisfaction. Miss
Gray leaves here for Brooklyn, N. Y.
where she enters teachers prepare
tory school.
The Bradford Brass Band will give a
promenade concert, Tuesday evening,
Jan. oath.
Good farming is the best. Here is a
clipping, relative to some good cows
up in Ryegate, from the last weeks
Caledonian. Also some profitable
sheep growing Ryegate has some of
the most thrifty well-to-do farmers in
the Connecticut valley:
ct. A. Meader sold from his dairy the
past year 946 pounds of butter from each
cow. Mrs. Carrie j. Nelson, in her dairy,
fell AZ lbs. short of an average of 300 lbs.
III. X. Grays dairy averaged 300 lbs. per
COW. What was used in the family is not
reckOned in the above figures
"a goodly number of lambs were sent to
market from this place this week. A. III.
Gibson CARED 206, M. j. Brock 157, Geo,
Cochran 17S, Pringle Gibson 45, j, A. Nc
Lam A. we understand these lambs were
sold for cents per pound About 200 were
sent the week before and sold for "a cents"
1t is reported that postmaster Minard
at West Newbury has resigned his
commission and that Horace Wiley
will be next postmaster, and do large
business In new store to be built.
The donation visit at the Town
House scooped in about seven dollars
in change. about 800 in ham, oats, sau-
sage, butter, potatoes and mince pies
at war prices, all of which was duly
charged to salary account. That's
modern Methodism.
There is newspaper printed over
at Haverhill Corner, called the Haver-
hill Courier and ought to be authority
on Haverhill matters. If what the
Courier said in its last weeks issue
about the Haverhill fair and its stock
holders is true, then it is a good time
for the Bradford people TO once more
agitate the Bradford fair gu stion,
which said question flashed into exist
ance last summer and flashed out again.
Prin. Conant of the Randolph Nor
mai School gave a pleasant talk in
Seminary Hall on Wednesday evening.
Owing to the short notice given of the
meeting, the attendance was not large. |
However, everyone enjoyed Mr. Co. |
Il aant's matter-of- fact remarks. The |
IN working of the new school law was in
formally discussed. Representative
M A. A. Olmsted was present and ex-
planned how the free text book ques-
ton met its sudden death in the last
legislature. Rev. j. L. Merrill and
Mr.. G. G. Doe also spoke on the ques-
ton under consideration, and it was
conceded that the new law, if executed
by the right sort of school commission
ers, would be an improvement over
the old law. Mr.. Conant spoke in
very complimentary terms of our vii
lage school, having spent the entire
day in visiting its various departments.
We are indebted 20 Prot. French for
Mr.. Commits visit. State Supt. of ed
ucation Stone has signifed his inten-
ton to hold Teachers Institute in
! this village some time during the pres
ent term, and our people will be ex-
pected to entertain visitors from out
of town, which they will do cheerfully.