The united opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1881-1970, 1898-09-16
* Vermont State News y

! NJ. JOnnSDuIy ACduemy mas 2Ol stu
dents this term, % over last year.
Bethel recently shipped a car load of
cows away, the average price being $35.
Middlebury college pened yesterday,
the Freshman class numbering about As
members.
Mrs. Darius Hatch of Brookfeld has a
well preserved piece of bareback that was
cast in 81.
Calvin Flint Williamstown's oldest res.
ident, died Sept. 6, aged 81. He had lived
in that town S6years.
Chas. F. Stone, democratic nominee for
governor of New Hampshire, graduated
from Barre Academy in 1865.
Concord in Essex county wants to be-
come part of Caledonia county and will
petition the legislature for the privilege
] In August the MOrrisville restaurant
! disposed of 400 pies, 972 dOughnutS, 2gf
rolls and loaves of bread.too numeroa&tc
mention.
E. J. Walsh of Barre, Vermont's cham
pion bicycliSt, is slowly recovering from
serious injuries received in race in
| Pennsylvania.
Mt. Mansfield has been a more popular
summer resort than ever this season, the
Summit house frequently having from 81
to IS guests day.
Brandon is pestered with chicken
thieves, $50 having been stolen during the
past three weeks and one farmer lost
nearly hundred in one night.
An effort is being made to have Gov,
Circuit pardon Smith G. Davis, the
respondent in the famous Dora Cushman
case who is now IN state prison.
F. j. Raymond, the pedestrian whdT
walking from Portland, Me-, to New or.
leans on wager of $1,000, left BrattIebo.
70 Friday morning for Bennington
Robert J, Kimball of Randolph, New
York banker, has been elected a director
and president of the Iowa Central rail.
road He is patriotic Vermonter.
On account of i'll health G. w. Perry Of
Chester has resigned his position as state
geOlOgist and Gov Circuit has appointed
as his successor Prof. G. II. Perkins of the
University of Vermont.
Henry S. Chubb of Winter Park, Fla
formerly of st. Johnsbury, has been elect
ed chairman of the Florida state central
republican committee. He was a good
democrat when he left Vermont.
Some big people have recently been Wis
iting in Morrisville, s. X. Vaughan and
wife and A. }. Vaughan and wife, tie
ladies weigh 450 pounds and the two
brothers 34719 pounds, a total of 1917.
A. w. Thayer of Burke 50 years old,
is still something of a worker. He has
done all the machine moving, raking and
half of The pitching for the farm this sea-
son and didn't feel overworked either.
Rufus Bames, 60 years old and veteran
of the civil war, is a peculiar sort of an
individual who prefers to remain in the
Bennington county Jail rather than pay a
debt of 81 which he acknowledges isiUst.
The barns of Melvin Austin near Ches-
ter were destroyed by fire last week
Thursday night toge her with % COWS,
two horses, 30 tons of hay and all the
grain. Loss about $500. Cause of fire
probably spontaneous combustion.
An old lady in ST. Adams was recently
run into by young woman on bicycle
and thrown quite violently to the ground,
The old lady picked herself slowly up and
remarked in an amusing way that she
"always was afraid of them things"
Judge Hugh Henry of Chester, pension
agent, is kept busy at his office in Con-
cord, y. II. He has to sign 10000 pension
checks every quarter, but sees a FaF of
s949T5h a N t ne business hen hsswnes
\ An old stone in the Randolph cemetery
has the following inscription: " My days
were short, my years were few, paid my
debts, and so must you" The Herald is
inclined to wonder if the life of the de-
parted was in any degree due TO his pay
ing his debts.
At the Grand Army parade in Gin
cinnati last week the Vermont depart
ment was given the right o. the fourth di-
vision because Of its fine band from I4yn-
dOnville and the banner " Our Dewey Did
| 1t " was greeted with great enthusiasm
all along the route. r
Rev. DR. Cyrus Hamlin of Lexington
Mass, 90 years old, preached in the Con
gregational chHrchat Dorset, wliere he
is visiting, last week Sunday. He was
married there 60 years ago, his wife'S
! father being one of the first settled cler-
gymep in Vermont.
The Champlain Transportation Co. will
withdraw the steamer Maquam after
Sept. II, the Chateaguay now makes trips
between Burlington and WeStport only
on Wednesdays and Thursdays, TicOnde-
rOga on Lake George will be Withdrawn
after Sept II, the Vermont and Horican
! af er October list.
| &. Z. Bingham, long time St. Johns
bury druggist, has gone into insolvency.
The drug store has done good business
but unfortunate investments some wears
ago caused him loss of about SIG 90.
The debts. amount to about $4,000 and
the largest creditors are the four ST.
Johnsbury banks.
Lieut.. Commander Wainw light has
] given W INC navy utDdl IlltIl Il btldlltN
account of the part the Gloucester took
in the destruction of Cerveras fleet. II.
&. Green, quartermaSter, who left his
home in Fair Haven at the beginning of
the war and enlisted in the navy, was one
of three officers recommended for gallant
bearing.
George Hubbard of St. JOhnsbury 93 yrs.
old, discovered that his name was not on
the check list and was inclined to be mad
about it. His first vote was cast for An
drew Jackson in 1923 and he has voted for
every democratic presidential candidate
since with the exception of Horace Gree
ley, whom he couldn't quite stomach and
therefore didn't vote at all.
A Chinese laundryman in Burlington
recently proposed to popular young
lady of that place, telling her "me tired
! livee alice time lonee; me wantee some
one to lovee mee." He said he had $4,000
in gold, would wear American clothes and
cut off his pig tail. AS soon as the girl re-
covered from her establishment she made
a sudden disappearance through the door.
Manchester is raising funds for sol
dier's monument. Hon. f. II. Orvis OF
the Equinox House has increased his sub
scription to $1,000, about half the total
amount of the fund He has also pur-
chased the soldiers monument lot at
DellwOOd cemetery on condition that
$1,000 be turned over to the monument
fund, making $4,000 received through him.
DIR. Thomas s. Robertson, who recently