The united opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1881-1970, 1894-02-09
Adjoining Towns.
NeWbury.

NODN
saws of railroads: "The first railroad
commenced in this state was the Yer.
mont Central and the ground was first
spring of 1916 at Windsor. The Con
necticut and Passumpsic River rail
road was opened to st. Johnsburv in
1851" OF the magnetic he saws:
''The first line of telegraph in Yer.
mont forms part of the Troy and
Canada junction line and was COM
menced in 1917, it was opened for
communication from Troy to Burling.
ton on Feb. 2, 1S4S" He gives the
population of Newbury in 1850 as
1884 nearly a thousand in excess of
1890
T. G. Kcves is treasurer of the New
buy Bury ing Ground Association and
all membership fees are payable to him.
Horace w. Bailey is the secretary and
any person not resident of Newbury,
but having friends buried here and
feeling interested in the welfare of the
burying ground can become member
by forwarding to the secretary the
membership fee of 81 the conditions
being the payment of ST. every year.
We acknowledge the receipt this week
of membership fee from Mrs. John
P. Daton of Wentworth and hope to
hear from many others, any communi-
cation addressed to the secretary will
receive prompt attention.
Schools in town with the exception
of the village schools close their win
ter term of ten weeks today.
olo, tod
by Benning Wentworth governor of
the Province of New Hampshire and is
dated March 18th, 1868. The charter
is signed by B. Wentworth, per. |
Atkinson, Jr. secretary, and is copied
into the Proprietors book by Jacob
Bailey, Proprietor's clerk, the book
contains the names of all the original
proprietors and the transactions of
the first settlers and is in much worn
and dilapidated condition, and has
been recently copied into new book
by the town clerk. The second charter
is written on three large sheets of
parchment signed by VIM Tyron, gov
ernor of the Province of New York
and is dated March 49,, 1772, both
charters being granted under the
authority of George Ill King of Eng
land.
Our fish commissioner E. Frank
Bailey has made commendable effort
to stock our principal brooks and its
tributaries with young trout but fails
as he following communication AYERS:
WATERBURY, VIZ, Feb. 2, 1888
E. F. BAILEY, ESQ, Newbury
My Dear Sir am in receipt of your
application for fry, and notice that you say
the stream is partly posted.
The law will not allow us to stock posted
waters, and we trust that you will be able
to arrange so as not to have them or any
part OF them posted, and will then endeavor
to furnish you the desired amount of fry. |
enclose new application and trust you will
be able to fill it out and return as soon as
possible, saying waters not posted.
Very truly yours,
Fish and Game Commissioner.
1t would seem that persons who have
Peach brook waters posted on their
lands ought to haul down the notices
long enough to get in few thousand
infant trout.
The next batch of ten questions on
Vermont are as follows:
81 Name the U. s. senators and representatives
from Vermont.
80 How often does the legislature meet, and
when?
SO Who are voters in Freemens meeting?
81 Name the town officers.
80 How are our schools managed? How may
the board OF directors said to be a continuous
body?
81 What Vermonters have represented the u S.
at foreign courts?
81 What members of cabinent has Vermont fur
nished?
IS What Presidents and Vich Presidents were
born IN the state?
so What is the highest elevation in Vermont?
40 What is the governors salary? What is
salary OF the members oflegislature'
Question eleven viz, Chow many
incorporated villages in the state?"
has caused much unsuccessful search
among people other than our school
children. 1t is like this, f w. Beers
& Co, publishers, have made a new
large map of Vermont costing Sc each,
the board of school directors purchas-
ed twelve of these maps for the schools.
One of the things claimed for this map
is that every incorporated village in
the state is marked ON that map.
A donation visit was given Rev. G.
fl. Coolidge at the Town House last
Friday evening. The attendance was
large, the donation footed up fairly
well and a general good time enjoyed.
Aunt Judith Atwood, widow of the
late John Atwood, is in failing health
being in delirious state of mind near
ly all the time.
Mr.. and Mrs, John p. Eaton of |
Wentworth, N. H., spent Sunday with
friends in town.
On Tuesday the selectmen were call
ed to Wells River by health officer I'll.
Ii. Lee, NJ. D., to discuss the matter |
of vaccination, and if rightly inform
ed it was decided to Yaccinate, because
there are or has been somewhere in
Vermont four cases of small pox.
Your correspondent. not having
wrestled very extensively with medi
cal lore since his debut as president of
a bogus medical college, looked in his
dictionary to see about this vaccina-
ton and found it defined thus, SIN
oculation for the COW pox" then he
looked for the definition of COW pox
and found it to be the "vaccine
disease" So 1t appears that the select
lee. fz.. sh.I