The united opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1881-1970, 1909-12-10
ST ATE NEWS

fever IN Bennington due, IN the
opinion of the physicians, to chill
dren's parties and a rummage sale
The wall paper mill Of the Stark
Paper company at Salisbury was
damaged by a $4,000 fire Nov.
Both. 1t was discovered shortly
after midnight.
The trustees of Lyndon Instinct
have received an additional be-
quest of $500 from the estate of
the late Dudley P. Hall, making a
total of $4,000 from this source.
James L. Davenport, who has
just been appointed commissioner
of pensions to succeed Vespasian
Warner, resigned, was at one time
a student at Brattleboro Academy
and has many friends in Vermont.
Woolson and Brown of Spring
field have sold their entire herd of
As Shetland ponies to Charles E.
Bum of Peoria, Ill. Mr.. Bun is
one of the leading pony breeders of
America. The price is not made
public but it is said to be a hand
some figure.
Arthur Currier, of Brandon, be-
came lost in tie storm Friday night,
Nov. Goth, while hunting for cows
in a mountain pasture and died
Saturday from exposure. He was
unfamiliar with the ground and
searching party found him at 2
o'clock in the morning, dazed, wet
and chilled through.
The Rutland railroad is installing
at its yards in Rutland a new coal
handling device by means of which
the fireman has only to pull lever
to load his tender, and the price
Of handling is reduced from ten
cents a ton to about three-quarters
Of a cent.
In the Massachusetts superior
court Judson Wofendon, of Will
recently won a verdict |
Of $95 from DR.. C. L. Upton, of
OHClOuhC dllo' ue pldllJlll |
that as he was leading a
colt in the highway the defendant
came along in an automobile, strik-
ng the colt, and injuring it ser
ously.
j. C. Harvey died Sunday even
ng Nov. Dist, at the home of his
Mrs. E. d. Kicker in
Iroton, where he and Mrs Harvey
lad made their home since last
spring. Mr.. Harvey had been in
ailing health for about year, but
lad been very i'll for the past six
He suffered from a com
)lication of diseases, one of which
vas valvular heart disease.
The granite lockout found the
city hall completed with
he exception of a stone window
stool, work on which had been com
nenced. d. X. Lille, senior men,
Der of the firm of the Lille Granite
with an apprentice com
Dleted the job despite the clause in
.he contract that granted an extern
sion in time in case of labor diff
Guilty.
The appropriation for the State
cabinet and State geologist having
oeen exhausted Prof. G. H. Per-
lins, of Burlington, the State geolo-
sist, is working without compen-
3ation at present and will be unable
% draw any more money from the
State treasury for the geological
department. until February / next.
Professor Perkins does not propose
20 neglect his work, however, be-
,ause the appropriation is exhaust
I'd, and he is at the statehouse
specimens in the cabinet
and looking after an exhibit of rock
product.
DR.. j. NJ. Huse. of Berlin, has an
original copy of The Mas 'achusetts
Mercury OF January 10, 1900, giving
IN account of the death of General
Washington. He has canister
hat saw service at Ticonderoga;
| pair of buckskin hunting pants
hat were worn by the Duke of York
over 300 years ago; a history of
and engraving printed in
London, England, in 1899; and a