The united opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1881-1970, 1909-12-03
STATE NEWS.

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A Joint meeting of the Vernon
Botanical club and the Vernon
Bird club will be held at the vii
J Hams Science hail. Burlington, Jan
uary q and %.
Marshfeld, taking a lesson from
the recent disastrous conAagration
has secured pledges of $642 for the
purchase of fire engine.
Eugene Kennedy of Chelsea has
made LOO barrels of cider from
1000 bushels of apples the pas
season. He saved 80 bushels o.
seeds. Apples were not so full o.
juice this fall as usual.
Miss Catherine June of Brandon
has left the hospital in Burlington
where she had been some time fol-
treatment, but is still quite i'll. 1t
is thought she was poisoned by eat
ing cheap candy.
j. B. Wilbur, a Chicago banker,
has bought three estates in Man
chester, comprising about 1000
acres, for consideration OF
100000. He will occupy the res
idence of the late A. M. Gilbert,
known as Strawberry Hill"
Sherman P. Allen, formerly with
The Burlington Free Press, is in
Guided in the current newspaper
reviews of the star" newspaper
reporters who accompanied Pres
ident Taft on his recent long jour
ney.
The government report on forest
products ranks Vermont as 30th
in the lumber producing States,
with 500 active mills. The aggre-
gate of hard wood lumber cut in
thousand feet, board measure, was
304 ,O17, yall 81, 917 $50; soft wood
215,S15 value $3,510,4lS.
John w. Stearns, one of Rut-
land S Oldest business men, died
Nov. %. lie had been in the furni-
ture b, siness there for 40 years.
Besides his wife, he is survived by a
son, John b. Stearns, a prominent
President Charles H. Spooner,
president of Norwich University |
has announced the receipt of a |
check for $4,000 from Laura l..
Ainsworth of Williamstown, widow
of the late Capt. J. E. Ainsworth,
Norwich '53. The money is to be
added to the endowment fund of
the university.
Charles H. Davis of Brattleboro,
first lieutenant of Company /, V.
n. G., has rendered his resignation
to Col. j. G. Estey. He has been
n the service Is years and was at
Jhicamauga. After the war he
vas offered a commission in the
volunteer service in the Philippines.
Hubert Bell, son of a prominent
merchant at Lunenburgh, committed
suicide Nov. 25th, while on the
way to his home, as the result Of
irritation over his older brothers
efusal to let him ride up steep
ill.
Hardwick Nov. 22.-Using the
anne revolver with which J. Vernon
)utton, his employer, killed him
elf five weeks ago Monday, Charles
1. Stewart, aged % years, shot
himself Nov. 81, and died at four
o'clock Monday morning. His
riends are unable to account for
lis act, unless he had become sud-
lenly deranged through brooding
,ver Mr.. buttons death and the
eceipt at the railroad station on
saturday of a telegram from Lyn-
Ionville, announcing the suicide of
Hiss Rowena Clark, aged l3. The
elegram was sent by the girls pa
ents to a relative here. Young
stewart went from the st. j. d l..
:. r. r. office, where he had been
for about two years as
clerk, to his home at about
':45 Sunday night and at once fired
he fatal shot. The weapon, which
n five weeks has ended the lives OF
,wo Hardwick men, was the proper
y of young Stewart and was kept
1t the station to be used in the trans
er of money.
Sheriff H. T. Baldwin of Wells
River has drawn the following list
If jurors for the December term of
Orange county court; George Q.
.ufkin and Arthur n. Holmes of
Richard B. Osha and
Theodore J. Williams of Braintree,
!. c. Holmes and Ulysses G. Sprague
If Brook6eld, Fred A. Ordway and
eugene G. Thorne of Chelsea. Frank
!. Eaton and Everett b. Corliss of
Jorinth, L. w. Pierce and c. L.
Bragg of Fairlee, S. S. Tucker and
Fate Richie of Newbury, Edward
3. Rock and Warren J. Morehouse of
Orange. CLAYTON Wight and Fred