The united opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1881-1970, 1913-06-20

| CndrJer was granted century later
November %, 1864. At the first United
States census in 1871, the population
was 322, at the last government towr
census in 1860, it was 7,713.
The twentieth annual meeting of the
| Vermont State Pharmaceutical Asso.
citation will take place in Brandon
Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday, June
%, "a, and 25. A feature of particular
interest will be display of old time
appliances, formerly in use by DR.. NJ K
Paine, famous as the originator of Paine's
Celery Compound. 1t is hoped other
members will contribute something OF
historical interest that the collection
may be as interesting and comprehensive
as possible.
W. H. Morey, aged 81 years, who
represented Fairfield in the state legis-
lature, dropped dead on the street June
10th. There were no physicians in the
village at the time of his death, but the
cause is supposed to have been heart
disease. Mr.. Morey was in his usual
health up to the moment of his death.
He was born in Fairfield November 30,
1852, and was druggist. He was elected
town representative last fall on the Demo-
cratic ticket. He is survived by his wife,
two sons and one daughter.
Mrs. Ralph Pulitzer, wife of the editor
of the New York World and daughter
of DR.. Seward Webb of Shelburne, is
playing the part of a fairy godmother to
the newsboys of the metropolis. She is
the originator of a scheme for their social
betterment and chairman of a committee
to raise funds for the erection of a club
house for the little waits who earn their
living by selling papers in the streets.
Mrs. Pulitzer proposes to give these
youngsters common home where they
can get the right kind of enjoyment out
of life, and she hopes similar movements
will be taken up in other cities
The baby son of Mr.. and Mrs. Edward
j. Mumley was burned to death June
9th when flames destroyed their home on
the main street Of Alburg. The child was
l3 months old and had been put to sleep
by his mother in an upstairs room, after
which she crossed the street to a neighbours
house where Mr.. Mumley, who is painter,
was at work
The origin of the fire has not been de-
finitely determined but it is supposed
to have caught from the kitchen stove.
When the flames were discovered the
entire lower floor of the two-story frame
house was on fire. 1t was impossible
to enter and before ladders could be Sc
cured the building had collapsed.
Relief Corps-Department president,
Mrs Eta K. Martin, Burlington; senior
vice-president, Mrs. Emily A. Marsden,
Bennington; junior vice-president, Luella
X. Bickford, Bradford; treasurer, Mrs.
Anna A. Beach, Burlington chaplain,
Mrs. George E. Lessor, Rutland.
Sons of Decentralization COM
mander, Elroy j. Brown, Brandon; senior
vice-commander, G. T. Brigham, Barre;
junior vice-commander, E. H. Shepard,
burlington; first camp counsel, H. S.
Howard, Burlington; second, A. T.
Griffin, Bennington; third, Fred E. Terrill,
Underhill; delegate to national encamp-
ment, Elroy j. Brown; delegate-at-large
George E. Carley, North Calais; secre-
tary, treasurer, Harry W. Ferris, Brandon.
E. A. Lee of Vergennes has an old
hintlock musket that has been in the Whit |
ney family for many generations. The
gun was used in colonial days and in the
in and around Boston before
the American Revolution broke out.
1t also saw service at Bunker Hill, at
Bennington and Plattsburg and is now
in a good state of preservation. Mr. Lee
also has a ship carpenter axe that was
Used in the building of Macdonough's !
feet, that was built at Vergennes in 1873 |
Ia in the basin below the falls.
Reports came from northwestern Mas; |
'achusetts of serious depredations by |
gypsies on their way into Vermont. |
\ band passing through North Adams got
nto trouble in Williamstown, Just over
he line from Vermont, and later, it is
llleged, assaulted a man near Stamford,
'eating him with whiffletree. Attempt
ng to break into the store of Deputy
sheriff Morrissey, of Stamford, they were
frightened away, and when they tried
mother store further up the valley, the
1en of the bank were given rough treat
lent by party of woodchoppers. 1t is
aid that they became discouraged there
nd left for parts unknown.
Mrs. q. G. Mason of Rutland, aged IS,
Tas possibly fatally wounded June2d about
o'clock when she was accidentally shot
l the face with a revolver by George
ease Is, son of Postmaster and Mrs. &
George f. Pease. Mrs. Mason was taken !
} the Rutland hospital, where it was dis !
)vered the bullet had lodged near the {
ase Of the brain. Mrs. Mason, who
lakes her home with her daughter, Mrs
ease, was near when the boy reached up
n the shelf of the pantry for a wrench.
lstead, his hand rested on a 32-calibre
,volver, the property of an older brother
e took the weapon from the shelf and
} he turned about Mrs. Mason came
trough the pantry door. Then in some
anner the revolver was discharged.
The Vermont society, Sons of American
evolution, will dedicate bronze mark
onBlock House Point on North Hero
land, on Friday, July 4. The point was
lie site of an English outpost during the
tier part of the Revolution The block
1use was erected in July, 1881, by Capt. .
lstus Sherwood of the Queens Loyal :
angers, and the point was not evacuated =
Il the summer of 1896. The program
i'll include an historical address by Henry
armon Noble of Essex, n. Y, and an
ldress by Lieut.. A. p. Sherwood of
ttawa, chief of the Dominion police. I
ho is the great-grandson of the builder
the blockhouse. The marker will be
lveiled by Colonel Sherwood's daughter.
overnor Fletcher will speak Bishop
eeks will offer prayer, and f. S. Pease,
esident of the Vermont society, will
eside. John G. Farrar of Burlington
IS written a poem, "The Shadows" for
e occasion.
The appointment of Lieutenant Ralph r