The united opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1881-1970, 1898-06-03
4 Vermont State News y

600 n t, GH9 eoId at auction for $3.50 st.
IoRnshury has a shoe shop that is cauS
mo some of the citizens of that town bit
of trouble. a.2
There are in Montpelier 1882 Taxpayers,
155G nolls and total valuation OF aSSessa'
bic property, real and personal, OF S3,956,-
III This is a gain of $166,O50 over the
valuation OF 1871.
A bald eagle measuring five feet two
inches from tip to tip was killed last week
in PownalThe bird had so gOrged himself
with food that he could not get away and ,
a stone killed NM
The Howe Scale Co. of Rutland is build |
mo a coal elevator 81 feet high with lQO (
buckets, capable of holding 100 tons 1t
viii take coal from boat as grain ele-
vatOr takes grain
Commodore Allen ID. Brown, retired,
nresident of the Norwich University at
Eorthfield, has been appointed to have
CHARGE of the first coast defence district
which includes Name.
Summer visitors have commenced to ar
rive in the state, Jericho reporting SeVe-
raj from New York. An unusually good
summer business in this line is predicted
for Vermont this season.
Two Townshend boys filled a horse full
of hard cider and wood alcohol and en-
loved the animals antics until it charged
On them, One boy had a rib and shoulder
blade broken and the other was driven up
a tree.
II is said that Mildred Brewster and
lack Wheeler have resumed correSpOn-
dence. She wrote him from Waterbury
wishing him Godspeed if he was going to
war and telling him there was no hard
feeling on her part.
A recent arrival at the Soldiers Home
is Joseph Stone, IA years old, who served
in MpXlnan
His fatherfought under Lafayette IN the
Revolutionary war He regrets that ne
can not enlist in the present war.
DIR. w. Seward Webb of Shelburne has
sent a check of $500 to Col. Clark at
Chickamauga for the benefit of sick and
needy Vermont soldiers, telling hlm that
when that was gone he would send more
1t was a generous and well dlrected gnu
The Vermont Press association commit
tee recently held meeting in burlington
and decided to postpone the annual press
excursion until the return OF the YER
mont bows from Cuba and meet them at
WASHINGTON. There is little uncertain
tv as to the exact date OF this excursion
) The New York Sun says the Vermont
| troops were all six feet tall but one and
and he was five feet seven inches. Inc
5 Sun also said that the New Jersey girls
} carried off part of their uniforms as SouVe-
Mrs A small Vermonter these days
2 looks big and feels big and has every good
7 reason for doing so.
Frank E. Hopkins of Essex Junction, a
student in Brown University, mas peer
appointed quartermaster III the hhodt
Island regiment. He has worked himself
through college and would have hnlsheG
this year, but President Andrews ADVISED
! him not to throw up his commission ahQ
l gave him his diploma just as II he mac
, completed the course.
| Mrs. Hannah Newell Barrett OF RUTLAND
: celebrated her 9Sth birthday May u. H 1Ie
, father. Noah Lunenburg, served III Tie
Continental army and she is an honorary
4 member of the Tea Party Chapter OF the
f Daughters OF the American, ReVolutloh
! She was presented with gold spoon Jlle
q gift of the National Society to all the reg
: Tlar Daughters of 4he Revolution
/ With the testimonial recently sent Hon o.,
: Chas Dewey CONCENTRATING Admlra
e Dewey on his victory was a letter WRITER
t bv the mayor of Baltimore, once con
: federate, stating that since that battlt
o fine Confederate flag that has Tor years
b Hoated over the home for Confederate
:, veterans near that city has been, taKel
!, down and cold Glory - now flies IN III
t place.
}, Dexter Gleason and Albert Shultz raj
!. across an old bear and three cubs on la
S oar mountain in WoOdfOrd. The CUPS
: Climbed a tree and Shultz went up anQth
: er while Gleason Went after rue. D lnt
: thew went off Shultz started to follow
but when the old bear turned on MN NJ
changed his mind. The two hunters wen
home without their game.
Boston & Maine mileages are not nov
= taken on the st. Johnsbury d Lake Cham
e plain railroad. 1t costs four cents MI
e to carry passengers on TINS roau anu III
+ directors were forced to take TINS step d
, there has been a heavy loss eacn yeadI
- Mileage books containing 900 miles WI
l he sold for $3.50. This system Is dls
Y tinct corporation and not part OF IN
J. Boston q Maine.
:; When the Vermont volunteers paSset
VI through White River Junction one Oh ~
7. boys was presented with box OF supple
h bearing the following inscription
+. member the Maine! TO HI with opaln.
Il There was no discOunting the patllotl
E sentiments of the clergymen who, Whe
i he read the motto, quietly remarK6C
l. ''Well, I'm glad you feel that way. IN
e bows thought they could ENJOY lie"
W his sermons
/ Gen. l.. 4. Grant, assistant secretary
e state under President Harrison; at n
t. cent meeting of the Sons and DaughJeI
t. of Vermont in Chicago said; There al
two important events in the history
- fhis country wrought by ' ermOnters.
y when Ethan Allen took IlcOnderOga
the name of the Continental Congress al
the Great Jehovah and when GeorS
Dewey todA Manila in the name OF II
people of the United States ana the gree
7, doctrine of human brotherhood.
Here is a story from Washington;
it was asked of Speaker Reed why such
nbIegmatic and conservative man as Be
ator Proctor should be so eager Tor WI
and the Maine man thus replied; FRO
ably because he is a wholesale dealer
"reminiscences" When Proctor hearG
this he said, 81 suppose, then, that Ret
is onnosed to war because he is adJust
for Several large life insurance comp
=; MES" Reeds reputation as man OF
70. is first-class but he runs against stun
tie when he attempts to poke little iuh
Senator Proctor from Vermont
Pawlet claims to be one OF the De
farming towns in Vermont and aDandon'
- farms and foreclosed mOrtga e sales
. said to be unknown there. The farme
A have made careful study of their Wor
7 aJonted modern methods of farmln
A arected commodious buildings, great
\ imnroyed their property and the resu
has been steadily increasing incomes =,
A fine oIden DAYS one farm with nero OF
' cows made $3.50. This same farm nc
A keeps Is COWS and the annual income
y $500. Pawlet farmers say that farnl
4 pays and can be made to pay anywhere
The farm is properly managed.
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