The united opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1881-1970, 1901-08-16
THE UNITED OPINION, FRIDAY MORNING, AUGUST Is, 1901
~ Vermont State News "

cient hotel accommodations.
The hay crop in Lincoln exceeds
that of last year by 1000 tons.
The Rutland railroad system nov
comprises 365 miles of road.
c. C. Doty was in Boston TIL,
first of the week on business.
Mrs. w. H. Wallace and son o.
New York city were at c. c. Doty's
last week.
John Ryan of P1ainfeld, cattle
buyer, recently lost a 500 roll OF
bills in Montpelier.
Mrs. Dwight Hammond of West
Windsor was badly hurt by sticking
a hot poker in her eye recently.
The Fuller house in Athens,
which was built over one hundred
years ago, was recently destroyed
by fire.
Congressman D. J. Foster will
try to have a summer post office es.
tablished at the Summit house on
Mt. Mansfield.
Six small Montpelier boys are
under arrest for stealing apples and
damaging fruit trees. They will
have hearing in city court Aug. 81.
Ont of eight herds recently exam
ined in Burlington thirty cows were
found suffering from a light form of
tuberculosis and were ordered killed.
Winston Churchill, the novelist,
has offered several cash prizes for
the best horses exhibited at the
Windsor county fair August % and
%.
E. K. Smart, the oldest man in
Odd Fellowship in the state, ce1ebra-
ted his 18th birthday at the Gill
Odd Fellows Home in Ludlow,
August l.
In arresting "Hank' Casey, "Jim"
Hogan, and "Meddie" Mann, three
Rutland toughs, Officers Blanchard
and Clifford had lively fight and
were considerably bruised.
Many horses throughout the state
are suffering from mysterious mall
ady which is said to have originated
in New York city and thence to have
spread all over the country.
Frank Culbertson, the buttermak-
er at the new creamery in Benson,
sent tub of his butter to the PAN
American exposition and got a score
of IS, which entities him to a medal.
1t is hoped to establish in connec-
ton with the Wood art gallery at
Montpelier a summer school of art
which will call to Vermont each year
hundreds of art teachers and stu
dents.
The splendid large barn owned by
Walter Laid of Orange was burned
last week Thursday night. The
damage is probably in the vicinity
of s., 900, and it was insured for on
1y SIPS.
A man answering the description
of Blondin, the wife murderer, was
arrested last week at Highgate. He
proved to be Charles Langlois of
Montreal, on the verge of de1irium
tremens.
Congressman Kittredge Haskins
and Mrs. Haskins, of Brattleboro,
will be among the Vermonters to at
tend the triennia1 conc1ave of
Knights Templar at Louisville, KY,
this month.
S. H. Archibald of Rutland, re-
ports that he has pledged. for Vermont
academy $72, 500, which leaves $500
still to be raised to secure the SIS, 900
which Mr.. Rockefeller pledged when
the SIS, 900 was raised.
Frank Bronori, of Bennington,
has invented a slot machine that
upon dropping in nickel plays a
tune, shows six pictures and de1iv-
ers a nickel's worth of goods. The
machine is over six feet high.
A Pomfret young man who sleeps
upstairs with his chamber window
open was called to his duties by a
rooster flying up from the ground
some twenty feet, lighting upon the
window sill and saluting by a Wig
orous crow.
The mammoth stone sheds now
being built for E. B. Ellis and
Cross Bros. in Mortified are among
the largest and best in the state.
Each shed is go it, long and the
two will give employment to about
800 men.
The canvasser of the Verm ont |
Bible society finds in st. Johns
bury population of 1872, which is |
more than the 1900 census gave. OF |
this number 1877 are Catholics. Of
the 5215 Protestants, 30 per cent do |
not attend church.
Woodstock has a very accommo-
dating young woman. She owns an
automobile and runs it every after
noon from 3 to 5 O'Clock on the trot-
ting park so that owners of horses
may get their animals accustomed |
to the machine.
A new kind of beer has arisen
% the surface to defy the pohibitory
aw. 1t is branded "Otis" beer, and
S the Legitimate successor of "Three
per cent" and "Uno." It was dis
covered simultaneously in Winooski
md Burlington one evening re-
;ently.
Frederic W. Pangborn, one of
he most prominent men in the
American literary world today, is a