The united opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1881-1970, 1897-08-20
y Vermont State News y

The new paper called the Sunday Time
has made its appearance at Rutland.
The Arctic explorer Nansen deliver
his great lecture at Burlington, Nov. 10th
In October Morrisville will have tn,
Epworth League.
Franklin Lodge of Masons at st. AL
bans, celebrated the Tooth anniversary O.
its origin recently.
The Columbian Marble Company has
laid off Is of the 81 men employed at its
quarry at Proctor.
Two new pOstoffices have been estab
lished, one at GlOvertOn, Orleans County
the other at Oakland, Franklin county.
A life size portrait of Alden Speare OF
Boston will soon be placed in the library
at Chelsea. The library is the gift of Mr.
Speare, who is native of that place.
The Western Vermont Quakers held
their quarterly meeting at South Starks-
bOro week ago Sunday. There are but
three societies of this denomination now
left in the state.
George II. Almon has been awarded the
contract for wiring the State house at
Montpelier with electric lights. He will
receive S2.25O. There will be 469 incandes-
cent lights in the building.
w. H. Button, the representative from
Middlebury in the last legislature, has re-
Gently been appointed to position in
the Department of Justice at Washing
ton at salary of $1,000 year.
Simeon Long, amotorman on the newly
constructed electric railroad between
Springfield, Vt, and CharlestOwn, n. H.,
was killed week ago Friday night in q
colllslonibetween combination car and
a freight motor.
EX-Gov.f Woodbury. has presented a
large United States flag to the Odd Eel
last week Friday with considerable cere-
mony. band of music was in attend
ance and speeches in keeping with the
occasion were delivered.
A deer was found in South Wallingford
recently, with one leg broken. Two dogs
were pursuing it and one of the dogs was
shot by an unknown person. The Fish
and Game League people have the matter
in hand and will investigate.
The summer schools for teachers at
Randolph, Essex Junction, Bellows Falls
and other places in the state continue to
show good results, and can not fail to
raise the standard of education for the
coming year in all the principal grammer
and graded schools in Vermont.
The will of James Barclay Jermain,
who recently died at Watervliat, n. Y,
was made public Friday. He left large
astate, the most OF it being given Tor
charitable purposes. The President and
5rustees of Middlebury college are given
$4,000 for the endowment of a professor
ship of political economy and internation-
u law B.
The academy at Peacham celebrated its
last week. The institu-
ion was granted charter in 1875, and is
hought to be the oldest institution in
continuous service in the state. EXPIRES.
3artlett of Dartmouth college was in
,harge of the academy sixty years ago.
;. II. Cambridge is the principal at the
present time.
Steps are being taken to mark the spot
n Peru where Gen. Stark camped his |
lrmy when on his way from New Hamp- |
hire to join the forces which he COM
handed at the Battle of Bennington. 1t !
S intended to mark the spot in Dorset |
where stood the house of Cephas Kent, in !
which the first declaration of Vermont |
was made, and where for a |
ime the leaders OF the Green Mountain !
Boys made their headquarters.
A reunion of the members of the Seven
eenth Vermont Regiment in the War of |
he Rebellion will be held at Burlington,
It., Sept. l, 1897. The exercises will con-
ist of business meeting at the hall of
,tannard Post, g. A. X. at 3oclOck p. M,
OllOwed by Banquet and Campfire in
he evening, in connection with the re-
nion Society of the Twelfth Vermont !
regiment. 1t being the week of the
tate Fair, half fare rates have been Sc
ured. 1t is earnestly requested that all
lembers of the Seventeenth, who re-
eive this notice will at once notify Com
ade Dennis f May, st. Johnsbury,
7hether they will be present or not.
!uel J. Derby, President; Dennis E.
lay, Secretary.