The united opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1881-1970, 1909-08-13
STATE NEWS

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The Valley fair management is
ers on the sites of the Civil wal
, hospital buildings, SO that visitors
to the fair at Brattleboro may
, see where they stood.
DOC" Miller, a negro, who con-
I ducts a small repair shop in Ben
nington, was a Virginia slave be-
for the Civil war, and was given
his master as a wedding present
!, to the latter's daughter.
c. w. Bisbee, of Ferrisbury, has
curiosity in the shape of small
branch from one of his apple trees
with nearly ripe apples and bios
SONS side by side.
At the town meeting held Satur-
day afternoon, Juy 81, at Swanton
it was voted unanimously to ex-
empt the Robin Hood Ammunition
Co. from taxation for a period of
ten years, dating from Dec. 1906.
w. o. Standish of Montpelier, has
been in the meat business there
for 46 years, and is the ninth lineal
descendant of the famous captain
of the Mayflower. He weighs 300
pounds, and SO far as known is the
largest Standish yet in existence
| Eleanor, Countess Lucas Lang
don Nicholas, widow of Count
Nicholas, who for many years was
a resident of Montpelier, has now
gone to Rutland, where her hus-
band died recently, to make her
home. She has been appointed adj
ministratrix of her husbands es-
tate.
Judge Taylor of the Superior
| Ioe II
Thomson committed to the insane
walton as to her sanity. Miss
Thomson is held in $4,000 bail for
an alleged assault with intent to
kill on Rev. j. F. ellis.
The successful candidates in the
state dental examinations, which
were held at Montpelier, July 10,
IA, and Is, were R. j. Bristol, of
Bristol, H. H. Fullerton, of Water
bury, w. E. Morgan, of Lincoln,
and j. e. Daley, of Rutland. There
were eight candidates.
Three men in Hyde Park have
gone into the business of raising
strawberries, and report the fol-
lowing results for this season:
Daniel Smith had two and one-half
acres and sold 5000 worth; Charles
Whitcomb sold $275 worth from
one-half acre, and Palmer Blake
sold 5000 worth from a quarter of
an acre of ground.
! Frederick H. Whittier, leader of
the Montpelier Military Band or
chestra, and Lyle H. Perry, of
Barre, cello soloist in that orches-
ira, have gone to Red Bank, N. j.,
to- join the Three Twins comic
opera company for a forty weeks
tour through the United States and
Canada. The successor of Mr..
Whittier as leader of the orches-
ira has not yet been secured. Mr..
Perry played with this same COM
pany last season.
The Vermont Soapstone corpor-
alton, with headquarters at Bel
lows Falls, is planning to take over
the Butterfield and Smith soap
stone quarry in Grafton. Investi-
cations indicate that there is a
large deposit of an excellent quail
ity of soapstone there, ana IL is !
expected Massachusetts men will
become interested in the project. |
The wedding festivities of Louis
Napolitano and Frances Palzarano |
at White River Junction Sunday, |
Aug. 1st, were changed to occur
rences of a tragic nature, Alex |
Risk shooting Alphonse Tisi, of
Wilder, the bullet passing through |
his body dangerously near the !
bowels. The man was removed to |
the hospital at Hanover, N. H., and
it is not anticipated that fatal re-
lookup at White River Junction,
nd FOL ID
Buck is making an investigation.
AS the result of a drunken ca
rousal by Joe Pascal and his broth
er Corliss, Charles Perkins, high
ly respected citizen was shot and
killed at South Walden Tuesday
evening, Aug. Sd. The men, it is
alleged, returned from Morrisville
Tuesday in a badly intoxicated
beating his wife. She ran away
from him, and he, thinking she was
concealed at the home of Perkins,
went there and shot Perkins dead.
The deceased was about IS years
of age. Pascal escaped, but the
officers are now on his track. He
was a notorious character. His
brother Corliss has been arrested.
Postmaster j. G.. Brown ia max
ing a card index of all the patrons
of the Montpelier post office,
whether they receive their mail by
carrier, at the post office, or by
rural free delivery. When this
this system is inaugurated each
person on the route of the carriers
and each renter of a box at the {
post office will be given a card
with the request that they notify /.
the post office of a change of adj {
dress or any additions to their
families to whom mail will be adj I
dressed. Montpelier is the second
post office in New England to
adopt this card system. There is {
no money available to pay the ex- s
pense of it, which is borne by the {
postmaster. G
With faculties retained to a re-
markable degree and physically
well preserved, the Rev. Sedgwick {
w. Bidwell, who has been preach s
er of the gospel for 70 years, is
passing his last years at the home l
Of his son at East Middlebury. AL {
though he will be 100 years old S
Dec. 6, Mr.. Bidwell is still in the 7
best of health. Up to few months
ago he had performed his 340th /
marriage ceremony He is said to