The united opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1881-1970, 1898-05-06
y Vermont State News =

! A recent days shipment of butter from
Randolph was 260O pounds.
The Bennington police force has been
equipped with new uniforms.
Italians in Barre recently gave dance
and sent the $50 proceeds to the Cuban
relief fund.
The Heaton hospital of Montpelier has
been presented with $1,000 by Homer w.
Eaton. Additional buildings will be
erected.
A farmer in Essex has had his cows out
| to grass for nearly two weeks and says 1t
is the earliest season for grass he has
known for several years.
Harold Childs, son of Editor Childs of
the st. Adams Messenger, has received
the appointment to the United States Ma
val Academy at Annapolis.
Officers searched several places in the
Italian quarter at the West Dummerston
granite quarry last week but only a keg
! of beer was found, The pool room of P.
{ f. Mccarthy in the village was raided
and key of rice beer found.
The first naval recruit to leave this
state for service is Ensign W. G. Richard
son of Bennington. He retired in 1899,
| but offered his services when hOstilitieS
with Spain opened, was accepted and left
| last week Wednesday for Washington.
A record of the mortality of the five
Vermont regiments in the late civil war
shows that 96S men were killed in actual
! fighting, 925 died from the effects of dis
eases, camp disorders and other causes,
1876 dying in Confederate prisons.
The four children of Mrs. Ezra Jewett
of Derby recently went to a mill yard to
amuse themselves by walking on the logs.
| While doing this a large log sxSrscd
and rolled upon the youngest chwd, a
three years old boy, crushing him to
death.
Several carloads of 1897 tobacco have
lately been shipped from Putney to New
York parties. Price paid was five cents
pound. From 80 to 100 acres of tobacco
was raised in Putney last year but as a
rule the quality was poor owing to the eX-
cessive moisture in the ground.
st. Adams is considering the feasibility
of buying a water power at Fairfax, nine
miles away, and bringing it to that city
electrically. The expense would be
about $4,000, but it would put the city
in position to invite manufacturing in
dustries to locate there.
J. f. Hunton, Barre granite dealer,
Just returned from the west, says that
when in San Francisco he saw Edward
Blackwell of Montpelier, who disappeared
about two years ago. Blackwell was on
tandem bicycle with woman. HuntOn
called HIS udIlG duu u6 answered. lie
story is doubted.
Miss Ethel Fuller, we'll actress,
was born in Jamaica in 1869 and made her
theatrical debut at North Adams Mass.
She has been thoroughly successful in 63
| leading parts and within a few months
has made decided hit in Louis Aldrichs
"The Editor" She has been engaged for
next season by Daniel r. Ryan.
VIM. Sexton, once the greatest of all
billiard players, who died last week Tues
day in New York, was many years ago
bootblack in Burlington. Sexton was
particularly strong at Cushion Carronls'
and for years his run of II stood as a
record, it being only recently eclipsed by
Ives.
When the train carrying the Fort Ethen
Allen troops left North Bennington VIM.
Howard, firing a salute from an AWHILE,
received the entire charge in the calf of
his right leg, tearing it badly. He stoOp-
ed over pulled the wad from his leg and
then fell to the ground. No bones were
broken and the limb will probably be
saved.
The &C. W. Osgood Bible class i" of Bel
lows Falls celebrated it's Goth anniversary
last week Thursday evening with a blA-
quet in the Congregational chsrch yeetS%F
! There were present 125 active and homo
rary members of the class. This class
was first composed of seven boys, who
now live in six different states. The
present membership of the class is $50 and
so far as can be ascertained during the
% years of organization the class has only
lost two of its members by death.
Hon. Frank S. Stevens, II years old,
who died in Swansea, Mass, last week
Tuesday, was a native of Rutland. When
% years old he went to California, be-
came interested in the stage coach bust
ness and carried the first mail from Sac
ramento to Portland, Oregon. He be-
came very wealthy, being interested in
tor in many corporations. He had been
member of the Massachusetts Senate
and had given away many tn uSands in
charities. -
At the ninth annual meeting of the Yer
mont New England Order of Protection
in Burlington last week the following of
ficers were elected: Grand warden, E. t.
Sargent, st. JOhnsbury; vice warden, C..
Rlakely, Montpelier; grand secretary, Fl.
E. Byron, St. JOhnsbury; grand treasu-
rer, H. IL. Davis, Burlington; Grand chap
lain, Mrs. f. G, Rowland, Barre; grand
guide, Miss Linnie Stevens, Barre; grand
guardian, Miss Addie NJ Carr, Barnet
The lodge now numbers 1908 members in
Vermont, an increase of 104 over last
year. Next state meeting will be at Ben
ningtOn.
ANY one interested in forestry can find
an opportunity for studying the art at the
Shelburne Farms. Half hundred men
are here at work setting out large num-
bers of young trees. One of DR.. Webb's
ideas for the Identification of the farms
is to cover Il large part of the land with a
growth of trees. One purchase of $4,000
pines has been made and.a much greater
number is being procured from about
Vermont. Native trees are first placed
in the gardens for year and when they
have proved hardy are set out as are the
others. The greater number of trees
planted are pine, but there are also many
elms. naples and other varieties. About
half the trees set out in the garden sur
vive and are used permanently.
HOW'S THIS? "-eN
We offer One Hundred Dollars Reward
for any case of Catarrh that cannot be
cured by Halls Catarrh Cure.
+. j. CHENEY & Co., Toledo.
We, the undersi gned, have known f. j.
Cheney for the last - years, and believe
him perfectly honorable in all business
transactions and financially able to carry
out any obligations made by their firm.
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