The united opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1881-1970, 1909-04-09

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: "Uncle Joe" in the Capitol ant
asked if he could take a peep a
: his boys to which he replied "Yol
can go in and look at them, but
thank God, they are no children
of NINE" Perhaps, he will owl
them yet, but how do the children
: feel about it.
Messrs Hays & Reynolds of Bur.
lington, of the Vermont Weekly
Newspaper Association, are re-
ceiving many congratulations ovel
their little brochure "a Few
Things We Know About Vermont
and foremost among them comes
The Inland Printers. 1t really
does what it sets out to do, adver-
tises Vermont weeklies as good
advertising mediums, convincing
ly.
The Messenger calls upon the
state press to be as free to dis
seminate the news that the city
water of st. Adams is now free
from disease germs or faint as
they were to tell of the fears for
its purity at the time of the short
age. We ought to be glad to do
this as good news is much the
pleasantest to print. st. Adams
is to be congratulated.
A few of the state papers are
getting a good deal of amuse-
ment discussing the how and
when of the disappearance of the
small furnishings from the State
House, while others deny that they
ever do disappear. Why not COM
promise and call it that just |
enough stationery goes home with |
the legislator for souvenirs for
all his wife's relations.
Oscar Hammerstein is patting
Boston on the back and Boston
likes it. The Herald says "Now
let's hear no more about Boston's
GOODNESS. Tetrazzini says that
Boston people are warmer than
New York people," Judicious
for Boston still loves to
get ahead of New York.
The Charlie Ross mystery is
still a mystery although numer-
ous men of the correct age and
with distinctive moles upon their
bodies assert their claims that
hey are the missing boy. 1t is )
Utmost useless to hope that the !
ate of the stolen boy will ever be s
cleared up. e
We have about ceased to worry
,ver coal strikes and the empty >
oal bin, but mother nature fur !
fishes us with seasonble worries, !
nd now we hope that the ice !
forage house is full so we can s
ave a full refrigerator through I
II the summer months. s
1t doesn't look like the best o. |
aste for Mississippi to select the Z
LIKENESS of jefferson Davis for b
he silver service which the state /
will present to the battleship, her {
but 1T would be poor a
aste, indeed, to refuse the ser i
ice because of this. i
The two Karageorgevitch prin =
es have not only changed places Y
nut they have also exchanged {
ames and the younger brother I
'ecomes Grown Prince George
luckily he doesn't have to an I
wer for the deeds of the for Il
ner Crown Prince George. |
We have had a little taste of In
ian uprising out in Oklahoma. :
he sheriff who strung up the +
hief's college bred son to make t
i'm betray his father are not very /
hickly veneered with civilizat. on, !
ooking at the result from this n
distance. a
The new wife's cooking joke has c
,een indicated again only it's {
different. j. w. Crawford of At p
anita, Ga has just died from acute
from eating his newly
1edd ed wife's BISCUITS, simply be-
ause they were so good he ate
90 many.
The determination of Mrs. Emma
!. Thomas of Upton, Mass, to go
o her leper son and stay with
i'm even at the risk of sacrifice
ny her own life, is but another of
he innumerable instances of the
over of the mother love to for
ct self.
Spring has came. The Middle
ury Register has caught
limpse of the automobile ground
og as it came from winter quar-
ers and has devoted three col
INNS of its editorial page to a
iscussion of its habits.
And the transplanted Vermont
rs are gathering in many states
o have their annual maple sugar
ats and to think OF the old sug-
ring days in Vermont. What
we have outside the
tatei
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