The united opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1881-1970, 1909-07-23
STATE NEWS.

STATE NEWS.
A daughter was born recently to
the Rev. DR.. John M. Thomas
president of Middlebury college
and Mrs. Thomas,
Six private residences and three
large business blocks are now IN
course of construction in Middle
bury, and more are to follow.
For the first time since the mu-
scum was built at st. Johnsbury,
announcement is made that 1t Will
be open Sunday afternoons from
2.3O until 5 O'Clock for the bene-
fit of those who are employed and
unablei to visit it during week
days.
Prof. E. A, Shaw will take leave
of absence from Norwich Univer-
sity, Mortified, the coming year
and will take up post graduate
work in natural science and eco
Monies at Dartmouth College,
Hanover, N. H. He will also teach
in the department of graphics'
Prof. j. w. Burgess and family
left Montpelier Thursday, July 10,
for New York, whence Prof. Bur
CESS sailed Saturday for Leipzig,
Germany, where he goes as dele
gate from Colum bia University to
the celebration of the 509th ami
versary of the founding of the
university in that city.
The Swanton Courier has secur-
ed the services of George H. Stiles
of Springfield, who will take
charge of the mechanical depart
ment of the paper. Mr.. Stiles was
in the office of the Springfield
Reporter when his father, Frank
w. Stiles, was its owner.
Attention having been called to
the statement of Brown & Holden
of Enosburg Falls, that they nave
herds grass growing four teet ana
eleven inches in height, L. ). j. hn-
son, of Morrisville, is showing
field of clover in which are stalks
of red clover four feet, six ana
one-half inches long with a good
thick bottom.
Winifred Dawson, the six-year-
old daughter of Rev. and Mrs. W.
A. Dawson, d. D., presented Presi-
dent Taft at the banquet at Bur
Iington with a plate of seedless
strawberries three and one-halt
inches in circumference, grown by
Mrs. A. o. Ferguson. The presi-
dent expressed his thanks for the
berries.
Martin Cove, of Norwich, aged
"a. dropped dead July 18th in his
cornfieid, where he was at work;
Mr.. Cove was a highly respected
citizen. He moved to Norwich
about two years ago from Lebanon
n H, where he had resided on a
farm for about fifty years. Mr..
and Mrs. Cove observed their flt-
tieth wedding anniversary recent
ly. Beside the wife he leaves one
son, William S. Cove, of Brattle-
boro.
Another St. Adams boy has pass
ed the rigid mental and physical
for entrance to the
limited States Naval Academy at
the young man in TINS
case being John b. Arnold, son OF
DIR. and Mrs. w. B. Arnold of High
street. Mr.. Arnold returned re-
Gently from Annapolis, where he
took the mental examinations, and
last week he was ordered back for
the physical examination, which he
took and passed, and he will en-
ter the naval academy at once
with the rank of midshipman.
Rollins Alonzo Thurston, aged 26
years, unmarried, was run over
by a locomotive in the railroad
yard at Lyndonville at 5 o'clock
Tuesday morning, the 18th, and his
left leg was so severely injured
that it is probable that it must be
amputated near the hip. Thurs
ton is in such serious condition,
however, that the operation had
not vet been deemed advisable.
He was setting a switch and step
ped in front of the locomotive
when, it is supposed, his foot slip
ped. His mother lives in Lebanon,
n. H., whence he came to work at
the railroad roundhouse in Lyn-
donville a few days ago.
Orders have been received from
the war department that the sec
retary of war has directed that
Troop Nj, 10th cavalry, now sta
toned at Fort Riley, Kansas, pro-
coed at once to Burlington and
take station there. This troop
should arrive in the next few days
In the original order only eleven
troops and the band were includ-
ed in the number to be stationed
there, NJ troop being ordered to
Fort Riley. This change brings
the full regiment to this post and
fills the garrison with the excep-
ton of two battery barracks. Nj
troop is reported to be the crack"
troop of the regiment.
Senator W. P. Dillingham;, of
Montpelier, who arrived home
from Washington Tuesday, the
18th. to attend the meeting of the
directors of the National Life In
surance Co, will remain in town
for a few DAYS. Senator Dilling-
ham saws he is of the opinion that
the conference committee on the
tariff bill win complete its work
in about two weeks, and that the
amended bill will generally be &C
ceptable to the people. In his
opinion Congress will adjourn
about August After adjourn
ment, Senator Dillingham;, who is
chairman of the national immigra-
ton commission, will be in the
West several weeks investigating
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