The united opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1881-1970, 1896-12-11
From An Iowa Friend.

JESUP, Iowa, Dec Z, 1S96.
EDITOR UNITED OPINION: Enclosed
please find postal note for So in payment
for the OPINION for the present and next
year. | could not do without the OPIN-
ION, it comes like welcome visitor,
bringing so much news from my boyhood
home that is highly interesting to me,
and | thought when | last visited my
good old native State and saw how well
posted | had been kept through the local
news of your valuable paper that |
would always take and more promptly
pay for it.
| have been thinking and wondering
lately if the good people of Bradford re-
allied the great change that had taken
place in their community in the death of
year, as forcibly as do. Among them
remember so well of meeting during my
last visit that good and true man, Dea.
John III. Sawyer, who had always been a
true friend to me, and had been kind
friend to my father when friendship to
him meant something, and he was so
dearly loved by my father and mother
that when | read the account of his death
it almost seemed that | had lost friend.
Then came the sad news of the death of
Hon. }. w. Bliss (Uncle joe that | had
a pleasant visit with, although he was
quite feeble at the time. He was among
Oldest boys in school and | was among the
youngest, but he was always good
friend to me, and so many deeds of kind
ness that | had been the recipient of
from him and the whole Bliss family that
| early learned to regard them with es-
TEEN. They were a noble family
| could mention Esq. Chapman, Geo.
G. Chamberlin, David Blakely and others
who were not native citizens of Bradford
but identified with all her interests.
ln,t Death llod has made'.a great change in the
My good old friend Col. Andross has fa-
vored me with the Montpelier Daily Jour
nal ever since the commencement of The
Legislature, SO through his kind thought
fulness of me have been quite well post
ed. am glad that Orange County was
well cared for by the Legislature. The
charter of the Ely railroad and protect
ing the outlet of Lake Morey were GER
tainly beneficial acts to all concerned;
and the investigation of the nastiness at
Waterbury gives credit to the good old
State, humiliating as it was. | should
have thought the ghost of that grand old
man, Paul Dillingham;, would have visit
ed them before this, and | wonder If Col.
Andross didn't use a little prOfane Ian
guage as the investigation showed up the
nismanagement from day to day. If
there is any class upon the face of the
earth that need our care and sympathy 1T
is the unfortunate insane, and then after
De1ll8 TO all the necessary expense TO care
for them and to have our means and SYM
paety misplaced is certainly an outrage
upon the community and disgrace to
the State.
have spun this out much longer than
~ ~sspected, hut the troubln lnnS1k expense
rs all upon me so far, so if yJn think it
not worth space in your valuable paper it
will make choice bunch of kindling
wood.
| find as the years come upon me the
desire to be and live in Vermont comes
almost irresistably upon me
and it seems now that it will be the great
effort of my life to again make visit to
my old home, until then may God bless
my good old Vermont home with all her
good institutions and noble men and
women.
Respectfully yours,
LEWIS s.. HOvEY.