The united opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1881-1970, 1909-08-13

it will eclipse any motor he has
ever seen or read about. A well
known Vermont man is said to be
back of the project.
The state board of education, OF
which Gov. G.. FL. Prouty, State
superintendent of Education Ma
son S. Stone, w. E. Howard, o. d.
Mathewson and FL. j. Stannard are
members, has just issued the cat
alogue of the Vermont state nor
NAL school at Castleton, Johnson
and Randolph. The booklet con-
tains several clear cuts of the
three schools and their surround
ings, and has much reading mat
ter of interest. OF special practi-
cal interest to young women in the
course in domestic science, al
ready begun at one of the normal
schools, a departure from the
usual school curriculum that is
thoroughly up-to-date and abso-
lutely necessary to the rounding
! ing out of the complete education
of to-day. The new course in
cludes study of practical cook
cry, foods and their values, the
planning and serving of breakfasts
luncheons, dinners, the care of the
house, etc.
By peing in a hurry and snatch
ing up the wrong baby, Walter c.
Turner, of Brattleboro, a travelling
salesman got into trouble at the
union station, springfield, Mass,
the other day just after the train
for Boston pulled in. Turner went
to Springfield to meet his sister,
Mrs. G. P. Norcross, and her one
year-old twins, and escort her to
his home in Brattleboro. When
the train stopped Mrs. Norcross
appeared on the platform with one
of the twins, and her brother, who
went into the car to get the other
twin, unfortunately picked up the
first baby in sight, which happen
ed not to be his little nephew. The
mother of the child, mistaking his
intentions, bounced upon him,
scratched him, accused him as
"cruel child-stealing wretch" and
then made off with her baby.
while Mrs. Norcross was attracted
to the scene and removed her Off
spring.
The Hon. Mason S Stone, of
Montpelier, State lecturer of the
Vermont State Grange, has an
nounced a list of available speak
ers for the subordinate Oranges.
The speakers and their subjects
are as follows: w. c. Belknap, edi-
tor of the Bellows Falls Times,
"The Open Mind"; Walter J. Bige-
low, editor of the Burlington Free
Press, Gan Awakened Vermont;
Walter H. Crockett, editor of the
Montpelier Journal, "The Summer
Tourist Crop; The Rev. j. K. Full
Ter, of Lyndonville, Farming a
Profession" The Hon. A. F. Halves
of Burlington, State forester,
Vermont, Her Forest Resources;
Howard L. Hindley, editor of the
Rutland Herald, Vermont, Her
Needs and Possibilities; DR.. H. d.
Holton, of Brattleboro, secretary
of the state board of health, "Hy-
gene and Public Health"; d. H.
Lamberton, of the Essex Junction
Syndicate, "The Broadening of
Rural Life"; Prof. G.. H. Perkins,
of Burlington, state geologist,
"Vermont's Mineral Resources:
Arthur F. Stone, editor of the st. !
Caledonian "The Great
Southwest; The Rev. Wilmond A.
Warner, of Barton, Locks and
Keys"
Mrs. Rose Jarvis and sister, Miss
Anna Poirier, of Shelburne, had a
narrow escape from death Satur-
day, July 31st, while picking blue
berries in a swamp in South Bur-
lington. Mrs. Jarvis stepped upon
a plank which stretched across a
bog, when it gave way and she fell |
in. Her sister Immediately jumped |
in after her, and both went down |
below the waist in the thick black |
mud, which like quick sand drew |
them down as they struggled to |
get out. Both screamed wildly for
help. With considerable presence |
of mind Miss Stella Adams, who
was one of the party of|girls, lay
down on the bank and catching /
hold of a nearby sapling stretch
ed her feet toward the struggling
girls in the mud. One of them
hold and scrambled out,
both being saved. Miss Poirier
was hysterical and both were thor
oughly frightened and exhausted.
There have been other narrow
escapes this season by berry pick
ers in the swamps and boys that
skirt Dorset and adjacent streets.