The united opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1881-1970, 1909-09-03
STATE NEWS.

e DequeSt OF $1,000.
n City delivery service has bee
= ordered established November
as follows: Newport, two lette
: carriers, one substitute carrier,
< street letter boxes and IL stee
y posts. John M. Avery and Juliu
0. Seeley, Jr., appointed city let
ter carriers at Middlebu'ry.
Lieutenant Frank P. Lahm, U.
: A, is in Burlington city for shor
time and is stopping at Grass
mount. Lieutenant Lahm, in com
pany with Lieutenant Foulois ha
been appointed by the governmen
for instruction in the manipulation
of the signal corps aeroplane pur.
chased from the Wrights.
The first bequest to be made tc
the Barre City hospital was made
Wednesday afternoon, Aug. 25tb
when DR.. o. H. Ried, executor of
the ANGELA French estate, bjeAsent-
ed check for $4,000 to the II "a
tees of the institution. At ~Yots
of the trustees taken soon after
receiving it they decided to use
the mnoey on the purchase price
of the institution, placing IT IN I'M
mediate use.
State Cattle Commissioner Henry
S. Wilson died Aug. 26th at his
home in Arlington, after linger-
ing illness of diabetes. Mr.. Will
son was born in Westminster April
5th, 1850, and was therefore, %
years of age. When the office of
state cattle commissioner was Gre
ated by the legislature of 1906 Mr.,
Wilson was appointed by Gov.
Fletcher d. Proctor to that office
in December, 1905 and was reap
pointed by Gov. G. H. Prouty in
1909.
Through a press dispatch Will
liam A. Pomfrey, of Brattleboro,
is firmly convinced that he is one
of eight heirs to an estate of
$13, 100000 in England. While Mr..
Pomfrey is not building any great
hopes on the newspaper story, it
comedies with history of his own
family, and from what he knows
of his family and from what he
knows of his family history he is
an heir to a fortune of some size.
Whether or not it will be an eighth
part of S13,OOO,OOO remains to be
seen.
Mr.. Fred A. Emery, of the edi
torial staff of the Washington
bureau of the Associate P ress, was
in Montpelier, last week. Mr.. En-
cry, it may be interesting to note,
though not native of Vermont, is
an enthusiastic Vermonter, claim
ing this as his State. His mother
was born at Tunbridge, VT, where
she has been visiting this week
He has been vice-president of the
Vermont State Association of the
District of Columbia. He is mem
Der of the National Press Club and
one of the original mmebers OF the
Washington Chamber of Commerce.
H. C. Baker, of Hudson, Wis,
great grandson of Capt. Remember
Baker, one of the most famous of
the leaders of the Green Noun
tain Boys, was in Montpelier and
Burlington last week. Mr.. Baker
is 70 years old, but is vigorous and
we'll preserved. This was l-o-~se
visit to Vermont and he says he
can understand now the loyalty and
that Vermonters show for
their native State. He thinks that
the number of statesmen and diplo-
mats developed by Vermont dur
ing the period between the Revo-
luton and the admission to the
Union was truly remarkable. Mr..
Baker is well known lawyer and
for ten years was the law partner
of Hon. John c. Spooner, for many
years one of the leaders of the
United States Senate. Mr.. Baker
has one brother, Maj. j. S. Baker,
Of st. Croix Falls, Wis, who is 70
years old. Another brother, now
lead, Lieut.. L. B. Baker, captured |
J. Wilkes Booth, President Lin
.oln's assassin. A cousin, Col L. c. |
ng the Civil War.
In the belief that through some
investments he had
ost all of his money, Henry U.
Ferry, became mentally derauged
Is years ago and was committed
o the Brattleboro retreat from
Jew London, Conn. Aug. 21st Mr..
Ferry died at the retreat still har-
'oring his delusion. Since his
Ieath it has been learned from rel
.tives, who are settling up the es-
ate, that these investments which
lr. Perry thought so valueless
7ere fortunate in the extreme and
hat they have proved his business
for instead of dying pen
iless as he supposed, Mr.. Perry
yas a wealthy man, his estate ,
to many thousands of !
ollars. Previous to his commit !
tent to the retreat Mr.. Perry was ,
large manufacturer in the south.
lie was native of the state of /.
Georgia. When he was in the :
rhine of life he made large invest :
tents. He became convinced that :
hey were Improbable and he so
rooded over them that II was !
ecessary to send him to the re- =
eat, where he was admitted Nov. =
7, 1873. Subsequently these in ;
estments yielded large returns.
nd although Mr.. Perry never real ;
d il he was a wealthy man. The .
Ody was taken to New York for
1rial in Woodlawn cemetery.
1t is announced that a new paper
to be published. it being the first
its kind in the st. Adams district \
Vermont Conference. II will be I
four-page monthly with three Y
'lumns on a page, and two of '
Iese pages will be devoted to dis v
let news while the others will ?
'ntain religious reading. The ed y
or in chief is to be Rev. q. w.
unit, of st. Adams district. while n
e assistant editors will be Rev. q
f1liara Chuw- ~ O.