The united opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1881-1970, 1909-07-30
STATE NEWS.


Chester last summer, 600 came by
automobile.
Montpelier Odd Fellows who re-
Gently purchased the old Jail prop
erty are to expend $4,000 in put
ting another story on the build
ing and in other improvements.
The Rev. DIR. E. A Bishop, who
has been making a trip through
the eastern part of the State in
the interest of the endowment
fund for Montpelier Seminary, Sc
cured $1,565, and is still shy about
$4,000.
Gov. G.. H. Prouty has appoint
ed o. M. Barber, of Bennington, M.
C. Weber, of Burlington, and o.
S. Annis, of North Troy, commits
sion to arrange and provide for
the issue of a digest of reported
decisions of the Supreme Court OF
Vermont.
Ground was broken recently for
the new United States weather bu-
reau building at Mortified, oppo-
site Dodge Hall, Norwich Univer-
sity. 1t will be a two-story brick
structure of pleasing architec-
ture. It's cost will be about $4,000.
The ninth annual meeting of the
Vermont Funeral Directors As
ISOLATION will be held in Burling-
ton August 8, and 5. Among the
speakers will be DR.. Chas. Rem
Guard, of New York, and several
other prominent physicians.
Farms in the vicinity of Middle
bury and Vergennes are being Wis
tied by swarms of grasshoppers,
probably brought about by the
continued dry weather. These
grasshoppers, it is said, raise hav-
oc with the meadows, cutting off
the grass stalks near the bottom
and stopping further growth. A
certain kind of weevil is also said
to be damaging the oat crop.
Editor Charles T. Fairfield, of
the Rutland News, was a member
of a party which made an ascen-
sion July 20 in the balloon Heart
Of the Berkshires at Pittsfield,
Mass. They landed in Winston,
Conn.,, without a mishap. The
balloon was in the air one hour
and fifty minutes and reached a
height of $500 feet.
e. A. Cook has sold his interest
n the law firm of Cook and Will
Jams, at Newport, to his partner,
+. c. Williams, and expects to
move to Lyndonville, where for
he past ten years he has main
aimed a law office in company
With N. A. Norton. Mr.. Cook has
'esided in Newport for the past
seventeen years. In the practice
If his profession he has been con-
idered one of the ablest law
yers at the Orleans county bar.
lie was states attorney for Or
cans county for two terms.
At meeting of the Vermont
Press association, held in Burling-
on recently, an invitation to Wis
t the fine summer seat of Theo-
lore N. Vail at Lyndon Center was
The program for the
Meeting which will be held Aug. |
g and 20, will include a clam bake
IN the lawn at Speedweu Farms
Thursday afternoon and a short |
oncert that evening. On Friday |
Ir. Vail will take the party to |
Newport for a trip around the
axe, MIiCn VIII ih1iooS iNhShA Oh /
he boat and a dinner on the re-
urn to Newport.
An agent for the National Child |
labor League, has been recently |
investigating conditions of child |
abor in various parts of the State.
lie reports that the conditions in |
ONE parts of the state are de-
,lorable, and that conditions in
Burlington are far from being as
rood as they ought to be. He is
o continue the Investigations, and
will be able to make a more thor
ugh report later. His opinion is
hat the laws in this state in rela-
ion to child labor are lax and
'ught to be strengthened.
Ex-Governor Samuel E. Pingree,
ecretary of the 3rd VT. Regiment
reunion association, announces
hat the oath annual session will
e held in the G.. A. R. hall at st.
ED at IL a. m. Dinner will be
ohnsbury Tuesday, September II.
! business meeting will be held at
1 a. m. Dinner will be served by
he w. R. c., as usual, at noon. An
ddress will be given by Comrade
[orace French, and the remainder
( the day will be devoted to short
peeches and the renewing of
The members of the
xecutive committee are Carleton
elch, John Mcdonald and Charles
I. Woodbury..
Charles F. Eddy, owner of the
creamery, has added
We new creameries to his already
Irge string, having purchased of
rancis Batchelder & Co.. of Bos-
On, its creameries at Waterbury
enter, Sheldon, Cavendish, Hor-
)nvilIe and Shoreham. The deal
as closed last week, and they are
ow all under Mr. Eddy's control.
he creameries we're known as the
apital creameries. Mr.. Eddy,
no owns creameries in Stowe,
North Thetford, and :
is one of the largest
ldividual owners of creameries in I
ermont. Il
The committee on arrangements
Or the annual banquet of the Yer
lont Fish and Game League has
scertained that Nice-President
ames Sherman and Speaker Can
on of the National House of Rep
are available for Sep
smber II, and that these two
zen will keep the date open for
he Nermonter's spread. Other
otable speakers will be secured, ,
nd the committee win at once go
head to arrange the annual ban ,
uet at Bluff Point on that date.
At De Lorimer Park, Montreal, !
1ly goth, the two races on the :
ard, the 2.21 pace and the 2.15 ,
ace, were decided in straight /,
eats. The summary: 2.21 pace,
urse Si00-L o. b. Newport Stock Z
arm, Newport, VT, won; Prince !
.edium, Hudson, Montreal, sec !
nd; Kings Mantle, Lee, Barton, ,
I third. nn Y Patterson :