The united opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1881-1970, 1898-07-08
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hi@uo III ohO ooln canning factory.
new war loan.
A week ago there was considerable
snow on Mount Killington.
Miss Iona M. Jordan has finished a
quilt containing II, 025 pieces.
Bennington has $50 dogs and the reve-
nue. derived thereform is $4,000 Dogs
must pay a good tax in BENIN gton.
Mackie, Hussey & Co. of Barre have
commenced the work OF rebuilding their
granite plant recently destroyed by fire.
Montpelier city fathers want the purest
milk and will not allow any to be sold
that does not come from tested COWS.
The Springfield electric road has earned
$zz,So9, or $o,24O above expenses. The
road is ten months old.
Harry Q. Dwight of Montpelier was
awarded the prize of 500 III the prize es-
say contest held at Amherst college.
/ Charles R. Clark of Co. K, Bennington,
is the youngest enlisted man in the SER
vice, being only 10 years old.
A Randolph summer boarder wanted
horse in quick time and theexpress bill
was $50.
The field in Peru where John Stark and
his army encamped when on it's way fl ON
Charleston, N. H., to Bennington will
soon be marked with granite marker
George j. Holden of Burlington, a
brother of Ensign j. H. Holden who was
on the battleship Maine, has received an
appointment as second lieutenant in TIE
regular army.
| Hugh Henry assumed charge of the pen.
sion office for Vermont and New Hamp-
shire at Concord, N. H., Friday. During
his term as pension agent Col. Thomas
! CogSwell has disbursed between $4,000
600 and $13,000.0O0.
Frederick NJ, son of ex-Gov. Barstow,
has been appointed first lieutenant of the
! Third regiment of volunteer engineers.
He is about 40 years old, a civil engineer
by profession and has been employed on
the Michigan Central railroad.
Major Charles A. Woodruff of the com
missary department is another Vermont
er who is making quite reputation for
himself in the present war, papers speak
ing highly of his services. He has sister
now residing in st. Johnsbury.
Walter E. Spicer son of E. E. Spicer OF
Randolph, who hiss been employed in the
Boston postoffice for IS years, has been
selected by the postoffice department at
Washington to go to Cuba to act as dis
tributing clerk for the U. S. army.
| Burlington has recently entertained
the Grand Army, the Masonic fraternity,
Epworth League, Prohibition party and
the democrats comes soon, all state con-
ventions. The Queen City is favorite
place for such gatherings.
The ninth convention and annual
tournament of the Vermont State Fire
mems association will be held at Middle
bury July 20 and q. There will be dis
tributed in cash prizes $40. The hose
tournament is open to the world,
Fireworks came near causing bad fire
in Woodstock last week. r. l.. Adams
was showing boy how to set off "a pm
wheel when the burning part flew from
his hand into display or fireworks, send
ing them off with bang Damage not
over $780, F~a
A little boy named Matthews of the
Burlington poor farm sat down to rest
on the railroad track while out walking
and fell asleep with his head on the rail.
A freight train made its approach but the
engineer fortunately saw the boy and
stopped the train.
A trotting circuit has been formed by
the Agricultural Fair associations at
Sheldon, Morrisville, st. Johnsbury and
LyndOnville. The classes are three min
utes, 2.40 2.35, 227, 222 and 21S, open to
$3.50. Horses eligible from Aug. To-
The annual meeting and picnic of the
Orleans County Veterans association was
held at Newport Tuesday with about
1900 people in attendance. Every post in
the county was represented. w. j. Bige-
low of the Burlington Free Press was the
principal speaker.
There will be quite social revival dur
ing the legislature this fall. Col. Smith
will have his family at Montpelier and
relatives of his from st. Adams, Boston
and New York will be there. Col. W.
Seward Webb and other prominent peo-
pie of the state will probably be at Mont
pelier this fall. .ss- ,,.s,s...
A. L. Hardy, teacher of mathematics
and civics and vice-principal of st. Johns
bury Academy, has resigned to accept the
position of superintendent of schools of
Amherst, Mass. Mr.. Hardy graduated
from Amherst college in 1879. He has
been connected with st. Johnsbury Acad-
envy for Is years.
The wedding of Miss Alice Mabel,
youngest daughter of Hon. L. p. Norton,
and Hon. Orion Barber, republican candi-
date for state auditor, occurred at Ben
nington June 80 at the home of the bride.
The groom is one of the most prominent
men in Vermont and the bride is the de-
scendant of family that has been prOmi-
nent in Bennington for over a hundred
years.
A Rutland antiquarian and historian
has in his possession communication
and order of Gen. Ethan Allen, commits
sion in the handwriting and issued by
Gen. Benedict Arnold the day before the
battle of HubbardtOn, and also deed of
land covering portion of what is now
the village of West Poultney. These doc
uments were in the possession of Par
son" John Griswold chaplain at Ii
conderOga.
The superintendent of the Elizabeth
mines at South Royalton, owned by Hon.
James w. Tyson of Baltimore, Md, has
discovered a new vein that proves to be
the richest copper ore of the finest grade
ever seen in Vermont. The vein is from
40 to 60 feet wide. Mr.. Tyson has mining
interests in nearly every state in the
Union but is much elated at the success
of this mine which he owns and works in
his native town.
The democratic state committee have
announced that only regular demo-
Gratis " will be expected to particiI ate in
the proceedings of their state convention.
This means, of course, only those who
voted the Bryan ticket. The way things
are going the regular democrats of today
are liable to be irregular before long. BY
good majority the Pennsylvania state
democratic convention rejected Bryan
and the Chicago platform.
George W. Reed, for many years one of
MOntpelier's most prominent citizens,
died suddenly Monday. He was seized
with an attack of heart failure while eat
ing dinner and died without regaining
consciousness. Mr. Reed was born in
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