The united opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1881-1970, 1898-06-17
!, Vermont State News X

Senator Proctor's residence at Proctor
has been undergoing extensive repairs.
Wilmington streams have been stocked
with 10000 trout.
The Lady of the Lake will begin its
trips on Lake Memphremagog June %.
William Allen of West Holland, Is years
old, was struck and killed by lightning
last week Wednesday.
Convention of Republican leagues of
Vermont will be held in Montpelier next
Tuesday.
President Mckinley has nominated
Fred A. Field of Rutland to be United
States marshall for Vermont.
The annual convention of the State
Christian Endeavor union will be held at
Bellows Falls the first week in October.
The Vermont Prohibition party will
hold its convention in the Temple at Bur
! lington today.
The Owls Head hotel at Lake Mem
phremagog will this season be managed
! by c. o. Chamberlain of the st. James
hotel, Jacksonville, Fla.
Landlord Johnson of Essex junction
was lately arrested at Jericho having in
his possession 90 trout less than six inches
long. The fine is So for each trout.
The Central Vermont railroad has paid
Mrs. Charles NJ Erskine of Williamstown
S4OO for injuries sustained at Montpelier
junction last year,
Gov, Grout has scheme to add four
companies to the Vermont militia after
the war and then divide the 16 companies
into two regiments OF eight each.
The closing exercises of the Norwich
University take place June % to 80. The
review by Gov. GrOut and staff, followed
by drills, takes place June 30.
WA L., HILL, r 7 - 5r-.
finger and thumb a few days ago by the
explosion of pistol. He was tamping in
the powder with a nail, which went
through the rim and crown of his hat
Miss Mehitable F. Sumner, a noted local
singer who died lately at Brimfeld,
Mass, was a native of Townshend, born
in 1908. Some claimed that her voice was
sweeter than Jenny Linds.
large chair factory at Readsboro is
working day and night for the United
States government and recently shipped
a large consignment of folding chairs for
the .. S. navy.
st. Johnsbury listers find a little in
crease i'll real estate and personal proper
ty and the number of polls have increased
from 1901 to 1868 i'll spite of 80 names in Co.
d being omitted.
Mary Howe LAWN returned to Brattle-
bOrO last week Thursday, having the sea-
sons en- agements in Germany. She has
been reengaged for the next season and
returns to Germany in August.
Observation at the Mortified Signal
Station shows that the mean tempera-
ture for the month of May was 81 degrees;
lowest temperature, May 10, q degrees;
highest temperature, May 10, Is degrees.
The two popular heroes of the war so
far-Admiral Dewey and Lieut.. HobsOn-
hp1nnp n NET111nnt and Alo hama II ic
fitting that this should be so and the
Green Mountain state gladly shares the
hOnOrs with its southern sister.
The Wagner Car Co. have changed the
name of one of their cars running from
Troy to Montreal from "Blanco' to
" Gen. Stark" Many objected to riding
in it. The company is remaining all the
cars that have Spanish names.
Montpelier has organized a Soldiers Re
lief Association and several hundred peO-
pie have pledged themselves to pay ten
cents a week for the benefit of members
of Co. NJ. Fully 1000 signatures will be
secured.
Capt. Elisha Wells of Deerfiel7 Sasr.
June 4, aged n years. He was one of the |
first men to introduce the cultivation of !
tobacco into Deerfield. He was one OF I
Treasurer StebbinS' bOndsmen at the time
of his defalcation and lost several thous-
and dollars.
Chaplain G. O. Day in letter home
says In the Fist Vermont Regiment are
many noble Christian fellows. They are
doing their best to lift the tone of the
whole. Many are very young, many from
homes of culture and all the retinementS
of life, taking the present discipline and
facing the uncertainties nobly. One can
not but love such set.
Through the district of Vermont 206 i'm
migrants arrived in the United States
through the month of May as follows
From Russia, III; Galicia, "a; Sweden,
10; Hungary, 8; Poland, 10; Germany, q
Spain, 4, in transit to Vera Cruz; Aus
Japan, |; Finland, l; Denmark, l; Tur-
key, 2; Roumania, 1.
Miss Mary d. Stafford, native of Yer
mont, was the first woman in the hospital
service in the west during the war, prac-
tically establishing the camp and hospital
at Cairo, Ill. On Christmas day, 1861,
there were % regiments at Cairo and she
went into camp that day and presented
to every soldier some little useful present
The wealth of her brother was at her dis
oosal
Harry G. Newell of Putney has received
1 letter which he put into a bottle and
dropped into the Atlantic ocean June Is,
S97, when returning from England The
bottle was picked up near the Island of
Jzores, after having been in the water
EN- months and floated about about 500
niles The letter in the bottle was for
varded to its destination and inclosed
vas a letter written in Spanish from the
nan who found the bottle.
Mackie, Hussey & Cos granite plant at
Barre was completely destroyed by fire
Monday night Plant and fixtures were
'alued at $4,000 and the finished work
md rough stock on hand at $4,000.
Nothing saved. There were SO men on
pay roll and they lose 5000
worth of tools. The plant was erected in
S95 and was considered one of the best
or the purpose in the world. 1t is be-
ieved the fire was of incendiary origin.
James Fisk Hooker, son of Col, Hook
r of BrattlebOrO, won 5000 lately ON
wager with a college clasSmate. They
net in New York and joined in the famil-
ar chorus, "Here's to good old Yale,
rink her down" Hooker bet that he
ould 90 to New Haven and hold palm
n his hand on Chapel street for II hours
nd also that he would stand an hour in 6
ront of the principal undertaking estab-
in the city and lift his hat POI :
itely at every woman who passed. He
id all this to the wonder and amazement
f ali who saw him. He got shaved, hold
NO the palm in his hand during the ope-
alton. He closed the days program by
living Temperance lecture to crowd OF
ale undergraduates.