The united opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1881-1970, 1899-10-06
y Vermont State News v

grown from one potato.
Delmar Smith of Middlebury has been
appointed superintendent OF public build.
ings in the Philippines.
State Superintendent of Education Ma
son S. Stone is seriously ill with typhoid
fever in the Montpelier hospital.
Editor Arthur F. Stone of the Caledon-
ian left ST. JohDsbury last week for a
months trip to London and Paris.
| The 30th annual meeting of the Yer
mont Dalrymen'S association will be held
in Brattleboro, second week in January.
At Westminster about 100000 pint cans
have been filled with excellent corn this
season, and the demand exceeds the sup
ply.
j. S. Viles has given the Bonfire club
of Montpelier the use of the hill in the
rear of the State house for the Dewey
bonfire.
Barre contractors are at work rebuilding
the massive stone abutment for new
iron bridge over the Quechee river at
North Hartford.
The Hyde Park Lumber company has
sold the Buck steam mill just below
Johnson on the railroad, to Messrs.
Stearns & Harrington.
The meeting of the State Teachers as
ISOLATION will be held at Brattleboro Nov.
- W n oblOIlS pIOSlNhihO 10 "oooACNs
which will be published later. al
The work of stringing the wires from
the Bolton Falls plant to Montpelier is
well under way, the linemen being at
work the other side of MiddleseX. s.
The Norman Williams public library at
Woodstock has outgrown its present
quarters and an addition is to be made to
the building that will about double the
shelf capacity. 2
Norwich University began it's SOth year
with forty-siX new students. This is the
| largest class that ever entered the Uni
versity Truly tn fame of Dewey has
widely spread.
The Electric Light company at Yer
gates for two weeks. Investigation
showed the cause of the trouble to be
| two eelS wound about the wheels.
The governor has appointed W. H.
Bliss of Middlebury to be judge of pro-
bate for the district of Addison in Addi-
son county, to fill the vacancy caused by
the death of James M. Slade.
The Riverside stock farm at Newport
has been sold and will be converted into
home for disabled missionaries. The
deal was made through Rev. G.. A. Leith,
for many years foreign missionary.
The will of Mrs. Mary T. Goddard,
llcu dU ILttSG NdIuDIluRc, MASS ledN6S lu6
Goddard Seminary at Barre $4,000 The
seminary was named for her husband,
the late Thos. N Goddard of Newton,
Mass.
The trustees of the University of Yer
mont will meet at the Van Ness House,
Burlington, today to choose new medi-
cal faculty and take action regarding the
closer union of that department with the
university.
7 No, hoe hoo H. L
pital steward bv Col. j. G.. Estey. Mr.
Dane was at Chickamauga as hospital
steward with the Vermont regiment and
his appointment in the National Guard is
an exceptionally good one.
In 1898 Vermont produced more slate
than any other state save Pennsylvania.
The production this year is expected to
show a considerable increase over that
of last for the reOpening of the Northteld
quarries will OF course add something.
Frank Lasher and Charles S. Beach, of
the Lasher Stocking company of Ben
nington, have just been granted vau-
able patent for improvements on a knit
ting machine, They now hold half doz-
en- or more patents on knitting machinery.
Collector Olin Merrill has received a
nice letter from the treasury department
complimenting the custom officials of the
Vermont district on their work in stop
ping alleged Chinese merchants from
coming into the United States by the en-
forcement of the exclusion act.
The trip to be made to Gettysburg bat |
tlefield by members of the Thirteenth
Vermont for the dedication of their bat
tie monument upon that field, will take |
place about October 10. The date de- |
ponds somewhat, however, upon when |
Admiral Dewey comes to Montpelier.
1t now appears that it will be impossi-
BILE to salute Admiral Dewey with the |
two Spanish guns at Montpelier because |
they are not in working order. Their
very silence is none the less an eloquent !
Admirals work at Manila Bay.
The Hon. Chauncey M. Depew, of
New York, is to deliver the Grafton at |
the laying of the corner stone of Dewey
hall at Norwich university which will be |
by Admiral Dewey. 1t is ex-
pected the affair will occur the day fol- |
lowing Vermont's welcome to Dewey
which will occur at Montpelier.
Rev. DR.. Edward Halves. for fifteen
years pastor of the First Congre gational
church at Burlington, has rendered his !
the end of October. Fifteen years ago
the coming Christmas DIR. Halves preach |
ed his first sermon in the church over |
which, since April, 1885, he has presided |
as pastor.
Thousands of trout have died in the
brooks near Lincoln as result |
of the drouth. In the Varney brook |
alone 10000 are dead. Sixty-two dead |
fish. not including yearlings, were count
ed in single hole. Some of the deep
holes are full of big trout which are so
hungry that they will take a grasshopper
from persons hand.
Prof. j. E. Goodrich, the compiler of
the general catalogue of the University
Of Vermont, to be published next year,
has sent out lists containing the names of
all who have at any time been members
Of the institution. An attempt is to be
made to include in the catalogue such
names and every graduate is appealed to,
20 do what he or she can to complete the
'ecord of his or her own class. cod.
Articles of incorporation were filed last
week with the secretary of the state of
New York of the Chatham & Lebanon
Valley railroad, with capitalization of
B, 100000. The proposed line will be 81
niles long and will pass through Column
,ia and Rensselaer, counties, New York,
o Bennington. The road will be operat-
d by steam. Among the directors are
x-Gov. Black and Russell Sage. The
lew road will be known as the Lebanon
springs railroad.
Sherman p. Allen, who went south
With the First Vermont regiment and | :