The united opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1881-1970, 1913-10-03
STATE NEWS.

The annual reunion of the Fourteenth
Vermont regiment will be held October
81, the date of the muster of the regiment
into the United States service.
Lucien A. Wait, native of Highgate
founder of the Cascadilla school and
professor emeritus of Cornell university
died recently at Clifton Springs, N. Y
He retired from active service at the
university in 1910. He was born in
| Highgate in 1916.
In preventing a runaway horse from
running over two small boys, aged and
7, Allen Briggs of Searsburg was knocked
down and trampled upon, two ribs being
broken and he being otherwise bruised,
The village hotel, general store and
post-office, a residence and several barns
and sheds were destroyed by fire of I'M
known origin at East Berkshire, Sept. ODD.
Dynamite was used to check the spread
of the flames The loss is estimated at
$4,000. ,
Gov. Allen NJ. Fletcher has announced
the appointment of Prof. Samuel Franklin
Emerson of the University of Vermont as
chairman of the Vermont state public
library commission. He will succeed
President Guy p. Benton who resigned
on account of the pressure of other duties.
The trustees of the state agricultural
school at Randolph Center have selected
w. Ray Tillotson as farm manager in
place of Arthur G. Wells, resigned, Mr..
Tillotson who is from East Montpelier,
is a graduate of the class of 1913.
Charles Baysdorfer, the aviator, who
was injured in an accident at the Dog
River Valley fair at Mortified is gaining
and is now able to be about his room. 1t
is expected that Mr.. and Mrs. Baysdorfer
went to their home in Mineola, n. Y,
last week
Theodore n Vail, of Lyndon, has as
sumed the active leadership of a cam
paign to better agricultural shipping and
conditions through efforts of
the Boston Chamber of Commerce He is
chairman of the agricultural committee.
Miss Sophy Stanton, secretary to Am
bassador Thomas Nelson Page, is at Hill
crest, Marlboro for few days before she
leaves with Ambassador Page for Italy.
Miss Stanton is a granddaughter of Edwin
NJ. Stanton, Lincoln's secretary of war.
A new collection of the late poems of
Mrs. Julia G. r. Dorr, of Rutland, the
recently deceased Vermont poetess, will
be published this week by Charles Serb
ner's Sons New York. The volume will
be designated Last Poems" 1t will
contain all of Mrs. DORIS writings since
The publication of the Complete Edition"
and will include sonnets written during
ler fatal illness.
Miss Marjorie c. Winnewisser of Bel |
ows Falls sailed Sept. Odd on the Ham
)urg-American line steamship Cincinnati
or Berlin, where she will become a pupil
)f King Clark, one of the best known vocal !
teachers in Germany. Miss Winnie |
Wiser always has lived in Bellows Falls !
md for the past four years has been study |
ng in Boston, where she has appeared |
n musicals. She is the daughter of Mr. |
md Mrs. f. G. Winnewisser.
James A. Smith, who has just been !
by President Wilson consul |
general at Calcutta, a promotion from |
Genoa, was formerly a superintendent |
IF the Barney Marble company at Swan |
on. Later he was superintendent of mar |
Die interests at Brandon, Middlebury and |
Beldens Falls, with headquarters at
He was living at the latter |
place when he was first appointed to the |
service about Is years ago through the /
Efforts of the late Senator Redfeld Proc /
or, his assignment being Florence, Italy. |
An advertisement in a Boston news
paper not long ago stated that G. +. Mum
ley of South Vernon, VT, would send /
seven half-pound prints of butter by
parcel post for 81, or three and one-half
iozen eggs, none over three days old, at
he same price, these prices to continue
n force year in and out Being convinced
hat the mails were being used to defraud,
md knowing that no one by the name of
Munzey lived in that place, E. b. Buffum,
at South Vernon, put such
questions to a man and woman
Who called for the mail last Wednesday,