The united opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1881-1970, 1899-10-27
y Vermont State News y
The state corporation tax is s4Os,5s5.

The state corporation tax is $403, 535. go
Potatoes are selling at from 25 to &c
cents bushel at the car at Bristol.
The Bennington knitting mills are be,
ing run evenings to keep up with orders.
Preparations are being made for an
electric railway line from Lake Dunmore
to Rutland.
The people of South Pomfret are troub-
led because no one in the place wants to
be postmaster
Richford and Montgomery Peep are
agitating the question of an electric rail
road between the two towns.
Mrs. w. Seward Webb has given $4OO
to the Woman's Auxiliary of the Episco-
pal church of Vermont.
With favorable weather from now on
the Hinesburg railroad will have it's cars
running before the end of the year.
An artesian well has been sunk to a
depth of 300 feet at Rutland and so little
water obtained that the project may be
abandoned.
Mrs. E. P. ellison of Rutland has been
elected president of the Vermont branch
of the Womans Auxiliary of the Episco-
pal church.
DR.. W. Seward Webb is spoken of as
the probable purchaser of the Brattle-
boro property formerly occupied by Rud-
yard Kipling.
A three pound cannon ball found on the
field of the battle of Bennington has been
sent to Albany, N. T., to be placed in the
capitol building.
Mrs. Ida Reed, state president of the
W. &. 7. u, of Shelburne, has gone to
Seattle, Wash, to attend the national
convention of the W. c. T. U.
A Manila newspaper announces the ap-
pointment of Lit. Frank H. Lawton of the
21st Inf, as Judge of the Interior Provost
Court. He is native of st. Johnsbury.
There have already been four applica-
tions for the pastorate made vacant by
d. d., from the First church at Burling-
ton.
The trustees of Ludlow have been
authorized to borrow 100000 at not more
than per cent. interest for the purpose
of building municipal electric light
plant.
Work on the addition to the Queen City
cotton mill is being pushed rapidly to
completion and it is expected that the
contractors will turn the building over to
the company in about three weeks.
Italians have been shooting birds
around Wilmington and eighteen robins
were recently found in the possession of
three of them who were rrested. One
escaped and the other two were fined 500
each.
The White River Shoe Company has
received an order from New York job
bling house for 600 72-pair cases of shoes
to be delivered by Jan. LIST. This is by
far the largest order ever received at the
| factory.
Eddie Gains, son of John Gains, of
Bristol, was shooting chickens, and struck
at one with the breech of his gun, which
p9nOht in his clothes and HiSoha rnQH
He lived about twenty minutes. He was
about IL years of age.
The annual meeting of the Vermont
Bar association was held in Montpelier
Tuesday, the opening day of the October
term of supreme court. The class of can
dldateS tor admission to the bar number
ed 80. The annual banquet was held at
the Pavilion Tuesday evening.
The remarkable demands for all grades
of pine lumber has not diminished and
many of the mills in Burlington are work
ing night and day, trying to fill their or
ders. The price of lumber has not ad-
vanced during the past week and there !
will not be another rise.
An ancient pitcher which DR.. Hill of |
Bellows Falls recently brought from, EngrT
land, a relic in the Hill family, is over |
300 years old and is covered with unique
decorations and inscriptions, among |
the latter being the following; Success
to the fleece, the pillow and the pail, may
taxes grow less and the tenant neer
fall
A curious state of affairs exists in Fair
fax. There is fund of S400 which is to !
be used for Universalist preaching.
There is only one Universaiist family in
the place and the interest has been ac-
cumu lating for four years. Yet the fund
must be used for this purpose or be for
feited. So occasionally to save money
a service is held there by some Universe
list preacher.
Fire near Newport, Oct. II, destroyed
the Owls Head Mountain House, popu-
lar summer resort hotel on Lake Mem.
PIN emagog owned by G.. ID. Watkins of
New York. The fire was caused by the
overturning of kettle of boiling tar,
during the absence of the Waterman.
The hotel had been closed for the season.
The property was valued at 100000, and
was partly Insured
Bridget Fletcher, wife of Isaac Parker
and grandmol her OF Senator Proctor, +
was buried in Weathersheld in july, 1904
AS she was the only member of the fami-
ly buried there the remains were moved
to Proctor and buried in the family lot
The body had been burie@ % years and
when dug up a handle upon each end of
the coffin and parts of the coffin were
found. The bones were in remarkable
state of preservation.
The Westminsi er Canning Company
has been the victim of fraud by means of
false checks and swindled out of about
500 The huskers during the canning
season were paid in checks which were .
at certain stores. The checks
were transferable and tile huskers were
in the habit of using them like money.
Some INSCRIPTIONS person duplicated
the checks and in consequence the can
ming company is the loser
William Baron of Bennington, is a
chicken fancier. He has large number
Of hens which he keeps in large out
house at the rear of his dwelling Two
weeks ago when he went out to feed his
pets he found many of them acting in
Iueer manner and refusing to touch food
Within few hours seventy-six of them
wer dead. The crops we're taken outd
and analyized at the graded school labo-
ratory. Traces of arsenic poisoning were
readily found. There is no clue to the
Derpetrator of this dastardly deed.
While doing some excavating on his
in Bennington, Seymour Van
Santvoord unearthed couple of grist
mill stones. Where they came from or
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