The united opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1881-1970, 1908-06-12
STATE, NEWS


Jamestown, has been completed
Mr.. Cross has for some months keel
anxious to retire from the bushes
in which he has been associates
since 1868 and negotiations for thi
sale have been in progress for severa
weeks. This extensive business wa
established in 1850 by Charles H
Cross, and it grew from small be
ginnings to be one of the larges
manufactures of its kind in tn,
state. Mr.. Hayden, one of the nev
proprietors, has been in the employ
of G. HI. Cross & Son for twenty
three years, the past eighteen years
as travelling salesman, and Mr.
Edison, who is now on the road, wa.
former merchant in Williams
town. The price paid is not made
public, but it must have been large
Mr.. Cross will formally transfer the
property as soon as an inventory
can be taken.
Miss Julia A. G. Jackson, of Bran
don, has returned home from Porto
Rico, where she is engaged in mis-
sionary work and where she has
been since last fall.
Albert George, of Barnard, has a
hen which built it's nest in a pine
tree. The nest is on branch forty
feet from the ground. She has laid
four eggs and seems perfectly con-
tent in her position where she can
watch the passers by.
Prof. John w. Burgess, of Column
bia College, and Mrs. Burgess and
Jewett, their son, have arrived in
Montpelier from New York, coming
by special car because Of Jewett
illness. They expect to
pass the summer at their home,
'Redstone", in Montpelier.
Ernest Pike, Of Stratton, while
going horseback for the COWS one
light recently, saw a bear a few
'ods away. He returned home for
lis rifle and on going back found
he animal near where he had left
i'm. 1t took but one shot to bring
i'm down. The bear weighed 246
pounds.
Word has been received in Mont
oelier of the death at Rio Janeiro,
Brazil, of Mrs. John Campbell. Mrs.
formerly resided in Mont
,elier when her father, the Rev.
Toward +. Hill, Of Concord, n. H.,
Fas rector of Christ church. She
ad resided in Rio Janeiro since her
carriage year ago.
All the savings banks iof the State
ave paid their taxes to State
treasurer Deavitt for the period
nding March 81, 1908. These
axes for the past year amounted to
402 ,47916 against 1864, 591.14
aid the previous year. The ma
ional bank taxes for the year end
ng March 81, 1908, which also have
Il been paid in, amounted to $4O,-
1912.
June 2, Rutland paid the State
treasurer $21 1922 as her share in
arious funds. The sum of $7,012.S1
epresents the State school tax,
$3.50 is the States share in the
evenue from Rutland licenses, ST.
80 is the city's share of the high
TX and interest on United States
lrplus money amounts to 81 ,l19.-
6.
Robert Caldwell, aged 70 years,
led at the st. Johnsbury House,
t. Johnsbury, June 4th. The body |
i'll be taken to Woodstock, n. B.,
hich is his native town, for burial.
or thirty years he was a member
the well known railroad contract
lg firm of Farnham & Caldwell of
'oodsville, which did extensive
ork throughout New England.
Mrs. Hannah Louisa Heyde, of
arlington, the favorite sister of
ALT Whitman and the last sur
Ivor of her generation of the Whit
AN family, was remembered Sun
ay, May 3lst at a meeting of the
alt Whitman Fellowship held at
lie Hotel Brevoort, New York.
he Whitman Fellowship is an or
lnization of literary people and
olds a gathering annually May
|, the anniversary of the poets
nth.
A dozen lawyers met June I'd, and
lrmed the Windsor County Bar
ssoeiation, with the following Off
srs elected: President, +. r. Buck
Windsor; secretary, Charles
atchelder of White River juno
on; treasurer, Homer l.. Skeels of
ludlow; committee on constitu-
on and bylaws, J. G.. Sargent of
ludlow and H. II. Blanchard of
pringheld. They will report at the
ext meeting Which will be called
Y the president. /.
W. A. Shaw, weather observer at
orwich university has received
ON Willis p. Moore, chief of the
ureau at Washington, that a
Gather bureau building will be
-ected in Mortified at a cost of /
$4,000, construction to begin July
and be finished in January. This
a part of an agricultural appro-
ration bill recently passed by
9th houses Of Congress. The new
will be two stories high
nd contain residence accommoda-
ons for Mr.. Shaw, as well as Office.
probably will be located on the
rounds Of Norv,-icb ,,,i,-arzitv