The united opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1881-1970, 1907-03-15
STATE NEWS.

Association will be held in Man
chester in October.
Weekly payments in the Yer
mont Marble Co. works at Proc
tor will probably begin April 1
The senior class of the Barton
high school started last week fol
a trip to Washington. 1t was
expected the entire party that
would make the trip would com
prise fifty-five people.
Allen M. Fletcher, who was
operated upon for appendicitis al
his home in Cavendish recently
is still in a critical condition, but
the chances appear favorable for
his recovery.
Congressman ID. J. Foster has
left Washington for New York
and sailed the 9th for Panama,
returning home about March 25.
After a short stay at Bryn Mawr
and in New York, Mrs. Foster
and her daughters, Misses
Mathilde and Mildred, will re-
turn to Burlington.
Mrs. Betsey Gleason and Mrs.
Phoebe Thompson, twin sisters,
OF Waterbury, celebrated their
eighty-secOnd birthday anniver-
sary February 10. The relatives
were invited to the home of O. L.
Ayers where Mrs. Gleason makes
her home, and nearly forty were
present, the occasion being a
happy family reunion.
The Rev. Benjamin Swift, of
Orwell, has accepted a call from
the Congregational church and So
ciety at Woodstock, and will be-
gin his new duties about April.
Mr.. Swift was ordained and in
at Orwell in 1893. He re
Gently received a call from a
church in Stockbridge, Mass,
which he declined.
B. F. Spaulding, of North Da-
zOta, a former resident of Glover,
has recently been appointed to
he supreme court bench of that
state by Gov. John Burke. Mr..
Spaulding had been a congress-
nan from North Dakota and is
leading member of the state
Dar.
A. p. HuntOn of Bethel, the
Oldest member of the Vermont
Dar, has just passed his 93rd
with his mental and
physical faculties preserved to
wonderful degree. He is seen
lmOst daily on the streets and
axes a lively interest in matters
f common concern. He began
o practice law in Bethel in 1888
nd has ever since resided there.
1t is learned that a former
young woman, Miss
Alma johnson, was drowned in
he Larchmont disaster. Miss
ohnson was employed as domes-
ic in the family of Charles A.
Ioore, photographer, several
ears, leaving the city for Provi-
ence three years ago. She later
Oined the Salvation Army at
}Oston and was one of a little
and of saIvationists who perish
d.
An attachment of $4,000 was
laced on the property of the
Railroad Co., March I'd,
S the result of a suit brought by
'. w. Rider a Bristol attorney,
Or severe injuries said to have
cen sustained in a wreck on the
railroad, at Vergennes
december 1, 1906. The case is re
at the next term of Add
On county court. 1t is claimed :
lat Mr.. Rider is still confined to
he house by his injuries. ,,
Dana d. Dickinson of Newfane,
ged Sc, died March Sd, after be- q.
lg in failing health several years.
lie was born in Dummerston, ,
ut had lived in this town since
$50. Formerly he was employed Z
y w. III. Williams, founder of {
Iilliamsville, and succeeded him ,,
the ownership of the wood
Orking mills in 1850. He rep !
scented Newfane in the legisla- I
Ire in 1870 and 1872, and had
ED all the principal town Off
IS. He was one of the oldest I
justices of the Vermont Savings |
lnk of Brattleboro.
Among the army orders is I
led is one in which the retire L
ent of Brig,-Gen. Stephen P. /
Ocelyn is announced. General l
Ocelyn was born in Browning !
m, March 1, 1913. In 1868 he |
llisted in the Sixth Vermont :
lfantry and at the close of the I
ivil War he entered the regu- I
r army. He has been military l
structOr at the University of .
ermont, Burlington, and mus n
red in and mustered out the It
ermOnt troops in the War with "
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