The united opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1881-1970, 1909-08-27
STATE NEWS

pdnleS uOlnR business III INC OldlC'
The total deposits of the banks
June 3Qs 1909 were S64, 475,O13.O4, an
increase for the year of 4,O16,359.63i
the largest increase for any year
in the history of the department
except from 1906 to 1907, when the
law was changed with relation to
taxing deposits. Ten savings
banks and twenty-one savings
banks and trust companies have
paid per cent. interest on de-
posits the past year; four savings
banks and four savings banks and
trust companies have paid IL per
cent; six savings banks have paid
8 3-4 per cent, and one, 3 IA per
cent; one savings bank and trust
company paid 3 per cent, and one
ga per cent. Two trust com
panies have nd deposits. In
Vestments in Vermont mortgages
of real estate are S13,953,1O2.3 an
increase of 81, ,272.7O. Invest
ments in real estate mortgages
without the State are $4,000, 1861 SO,
an increase of $2,329,447.OO. The
surplus has increased S145,775.96
during the year, and the banks
have paid 1925, 1883 in taxes, an
increase of $19,382.71.OO. They
paid interest to depositers to the
amount of $2,184, 10000, an increase
of $1S8,235.25 over the amount PAID
in 1908.
Mrs. Herbert Marshall of RoX-
bury died Wednesday night, Aug.
II, from acetanilid poisoning,
caused by an overdose of head
ache tablets. Mrs. Marshall, who
was 40 years old, is survived by
husband and a son.
Among the well-known men who
will attend the State Fair will be
Charles S. Mellen, president of the
New York, New Haven & Hartford
Railroad company, who will be
guest of President Maxwell Evarts.
Gov. G. H. Prouty appointed F. j.
Holman, president of the Vermont
Loan & Trust Co, and formerly OF
| Brattleboro one of the delegates
| to represent Vermont at the Ma
tional Irrigation Congress in Spo-
kane, Wash, last week. This was
the most important session ever
held by the congress.
Supt. c. E. Soule of the Central
Vermont r. R. has issued an order
! that engineers and conductors
must exercise more care about
moving trains before all passen-
gers are on or off their cars. The
order particularly applies at sta
! tons where trains are stopped for
water and where water spouts
drip after they are ready to start
Charles ID. White has been en-
ployed by E. & T. Fairbanks & Co.,
st. Johnsbury, for A years and
during that time he has never had
vacation. Mr.. Waite was born in
| Chester in 1871 of very long-lived
parents, who never employed a
doctor. In early life he learned to
be a painter but later went to sea.
In 1868 Mr.. Waite turned his atten-
ton to other pursuits. Now he is
going to have look at the sea
again.
The Montpelier & Wells River
Railroad Co. received Friday, Aug.
18th, three flat cars which have
been away from home more than
three years and have travelled from
Manitoba to the Mexican border.
The cars were loaded at Montpe--
lier with Barre granite consigned
to a Western city. After the first
WI NilC
remainder of the time they were
away the company received 25 cents
daily mileage on each car.
Burlington, Aug. 49, Wilhelm
Bernhardt, a prominent educator
and translator of Washington, D. c.
and who spent his summers at the
Queen City Park, Burlington, was
instantly killed Aug. 18th, by being
mn Hnrxyr, hHr q fpain Tho anniHnnf
occurred about rods south of the
old Howard park crossing at Lake
side.
The Montpelier Board of Trade
has authorized its directors to go
ahead with the plan of financing
the association for the purpose of
raising money to help industries
which want to come to that city.
The plan is that each member, of
which there are nearly 300, shall
subscribe 500 but not more than
25 per cent. of that amount shall
be collected in any one year and
only on a vote of the board. 1t
was voted to secure from the city
council the installation of a rest
room in the city hall for use of per-
sons waiting for trains and cars.
OHe Vi INT NY oNOA ~ oo
causes of death among cattle ever
heard of in Franklin county is now
being investigated at the farm of
j. X. Curtis of Georgia. Already
nine cows, valued at forty dollars
each, have died and three or four
others are expected to die shortly.
DR.. Frank A. Rich of Burlington
arrived Aug. 18th and is seeking
for the cause of the deaths. Mr..
Curtis, the owner, is at loss to
understand the mystery. He says
that the cattle were kept in the
same field and under the same con-
ditions as in other seasons. There
is a suspicion of poisoning, but Mr.:
Curtis knows of no one who would
do il.
The body of John A. Tufts of
Cambridge, Mass, said to be the
oldest Odd Fellow in point of years
of membership in the world, who
died suddenly Saturday evening,
Aug. 14th, at the home of his
daughter in Vergennes, was taken
Monday to Cambridge, where the
funeral services will be in charge
of the Odd Fellows. Mr.. Tufts,
who was visiting his daughter, Mrs.
A. ID. Vittum of Green street, was
sitting on the piazza when he was
stricken with heart failure. Mr..
Tufts was born in Somerville, Mass.
in ISIS. and was married in 1889,