The united opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1881-1970, 1910-01-14
STATE NEWS.

Mrs. Harriet Parmenter. of Viii
Jamestown, aged 90 years, died Sun
!, day Jan. 2. She was a pensione
! of the War of 1912.
: The proposed merger of the Bax
, ter and Rutland County Nationa
bank has been dismissed by the
stockholders of the Baxter Nationa
bank
Monsignor John Joseph Rice O.
the Springfield. MSS. diocese has
been appointed bishop for Vermont
with headquarters in Burlington.
The barn of Fred Smith in Con
cord was destroyed by fire Monday
evening Jan. 3rd. The stock was
saved, but hay and tools were
burned. The fire was started by a
lantern. The loss is about 81 800.
Congressman Frank Plumely, of
Mortified did not leave for Wash
ington last week as business matters
detained him in Vermont. The
first week Of the sess'o on of Congress
was not expected to be busy one.
Thirty-one foreign corporations,
that is, corporations formed under
the laws of other states, filed papers
in the office of the secretary of
state in 1909 for the purpose of
doing a branch business in Vermont.
d. H. Lamberton, former editor
of The Morrisville Messenger, will
start out after the holidays as one
of the speakers in State Supt.
Mason S. Stones campaign of edu-
cation. He is to speak sixty nights
at as many different places.
The state insurance commissioners
have issued a permit to the Man
haitian Life Insurance Co. of New
York to do business in this state
again. For a number of years prior
to 1907 this company did business
in Vermont but for the past two
years it's agents have been with
drawn from the state.
United States Marshal Horace w.
Bailey seized Z, 1S9 lbs. of wool at the
storehouse of W. A. Kicker, of ST.
Johnsbury. The wool had been
smuggled into this country but was
purchased by Mr.. Kicker in good
faith. The shipment was detected
at Newport and traced to the ST.
Johnsbury purchaser.
The veneer, tub and box factory
of the Nelson & Hall Co., the princi-
pal industry of Montgomery Center,
was burned to the ground Friday
night Dec. 81. The loss is estima-
ted as over 100000 and the insur-
ance $4,000. About 200 hands
are thrown out of employment.
This is the third time this concern
has burned out in the past Is years.
The Vermont public service COM
mission has exonerated the Central
Vermont railroad Fl ON blame in the
death of Ernest Hewitt, young son
of Ernest j. Hewitt, who was killed
on the company's crossing at So.
Royalton on December /.
An cid Bennington diary tells of
snow storm in March, 1904, in
which four feet of snow fell on the
level and some drifts were ten feet
high. 1t showed from Friday morn
ing until Sunday mo ming. l was
Iinpossible for children to walk home
from school and the horses sent for
them sank to their necks. At one
time during the storm nine inches
fell in three-fourths of an hour.
The champion English blood
hound, The Queen of Hearts, has
just been received by J. L. Winchell
of Fair Haven, having been accom-
panied to America by certified scop-
les of registration, breeding and
health. These were presented to
the American Kennel club and the
dog was registered with a sworn
decla alton from the importer that
the dog was about to become a res
ldent OF tins county.
George O. Stratton, president of
the Vermont Mutual Fire Insurance
Co., which carries $4,000 insurance
on the state hospital for the insane
at Waterbury, has been given to
understand that Atty-Gen. j. G.
Sargent has ruled that the insurance
companies CARRYING insurance on
hat buL ding can pay their losses to
the trustees Of the hospital but that
these officials have no right to use
the money until the legislature Of
Vermont gives its sanction.
At the closing session of the sugar
makers meeting held in Burlington
Jan. 3, the following officers were
elected: President, George H. Soule
vice-president, W. w. Holden, of
| Mortified, and W. Z. York, OF
/ West Lincoln; secretary l.. II. Cha
pin of Middlesex; treasurer, Homer
| w. Vail, of Randolph; audi or, II,
/ II. Niller, of Randolph.
Through the munifcence of Mrs.