The united opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1881-1970, 1909-03-26

STATE NEWS


subordinate and five Pomona gran
ges.
The condition of ex-Gov. Fred
erick Holbrook, of Brattleboro, who
has been critically i'll, is now much
better, and he is able to sit up in bed
a little each day. His physician
expects that he will be able to be
dressed within a few days.
Collector of Customs, Charles H.
Darling, of Burlington, announces
the following figures for the customs
district of Vermont during the month
of February: Collections, $44, $780,
90; value of merchandise exported,
$501 1859; collections for February,
1908, 1924, 259.53.
The Quinn block, at Milton, con-
tanning the Masonic Lodge room and
Anderson's hardware store, together
with the adjoining building occupied
by the post Office and the residence
of Postmaster Ashley we're destroy
ed by fire March II. The loss is
twenty thousand dollars.
One hundred friends called upon
Mrs. Abigail Hartman, of st. Johns
bury, Saturday, March 18th, to con-
graduate her upon her Goth birth
day anniversary. Mrs. Hartman
occupies most of her time in reading
and sewing and carries on an extern
sive correspondence with relatives.
She is reading the Bible through for
the forty-ninth time.
The state board of optometry,
created by the legislature at it's last
session, held it's first meeting March |
18th, in Brattleboro. These officers
were elected: President, Henry F.
Jordan, of Brattleboro; secretary,
A. S. Haskins, of St. Johnsbury; |
treasurer, A. R. Slader, of Rutland.
The members Of the board were APP
pointed recently by Gov. G. H.
Prouty.
Solomon Wright, president of the
company owning the mill property
in Pownal recently destroyed by
fire, will decide by April | whether
he will sell it to the Holyoke Paper
NJ Manufacturing Co. He is said to
value it at $4,000. Pownal people
are content anyway as it is under
stood that the mill will be rebuilt
at once whether sold by the Wright
company or not.
Charles H. Jones, Of Orleans, fl
nancier and philanthropist, became
il at three o'clock Monday morning
March 18th, and died of heart fail
Ire at 130 in the afternoon. Mr..
Jones was about 81 years old. While
/ prominent citizen, i'll health had
his holding public office.
He was a director of the Orleans
bank, the Central Savings and Trust
He was twice married.
md is survived by his second
wife who was Miss Jennie Locke.
Friends of Town Clerk r. j. Glea-
on, of Waitsheld, think he is the
oldest in point of service of any sim
lar official in Vermont. Mr.. Glea- {
on was appointed by the selectmen
o fill vacancy in 1885 and has !
,een reelected town clerk at every
Iarch meeting since His term in {
fice figures over53 years while that ,
f ex-Gov. S. T.. Pingree, of Hart {
ord, is 80 years. Mr. Gleason has |
ust passed his S0th birthday ami !
ersary. l
Charles H. Eddy, aged 50 years, /
Who was known throughout a large
art of New England because of the '
:. H. Eddy beverages, died at his t
ome in West Brattleboro recently
fter a years illness of heart dis /
ase. Mr.. Eddy began selling spruce h
eer on farm in Guilford and thirty I
ears ago he started in the bottling a
in a small way in Brattle- b
ORC. The business grew to large n
before he disposed of il
is interests. {
The Rev. DIR. John r. Dowd, pas n
Or of the First Baptist church of h
and Mrs. Rosa Dezins C.
ere married Thursday afternoon, Il
Iarch 18th, at the home of the Rev. Fl
Dr. Woodman Bradbury, in Cam b
ridge, Mass, by that clergyman. 2
here were no wedding attendants Ii
nd only few friends were present 81
the ceremony. Doctor Dowd, ~
no was formerly president of the 5,
oston Browning Society, was also fl
lie pastor of the Perkins Street OF
aptist church in Somerville, Mass. m
Michael Gilligan, aged 80 years, pr
ne of the few surviving Mexican tc
Tar veterans in this state, died Il
lnday, March 14th, at the home of 81
is daughter, Mrs. T. S. Daley, in eC
ludlow. He served with Colonel W
ansom's famous New England F.
.giment through the Mexican war NJ
nd with Company |, 2nd VT Vols, fl
the Civil War He drew a pen
on for his service in the Mexican pl
lar. Mrs. Galhgan died two years fin
90. Beside his daughter Mr.. Gill; W.
IN is survived by a son, Michael eC
p. Gilligan, of Holyoke, Mass. of
The knight building, of Fair Sc
aven, a three story brick structure, Sc
as destroyed, March 10th, by a b,
e of unknown origin that broke of
It between ? and 3 O'Clock in the te
lsement. The loss is estimated I'm
about $4,000, with an apgre- of