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

Mr.. and Mrs. James Hartness, of Spring
field have given 81 900 for the new hos
pital at Springfield. The fund now
amounts to nearly $4,000.
Mrs. Fred J. Carr, wife of a prominent
Hudson, Wis, banker, who was visiting
A. w. Ferrin, treasurer of the Montpelier
Savings Bank, died Saturday, Sept. 9th
of acute indigestion.
One hour before his daughter, Margaret
was to be married to Robert Mcdonnell
NJ. d. Nichols, of Montpelier, died. The
wedding was postponed indefinitely.
Under the supervision of E. E. Parlin,
supervisor of manual training in the pub
lie schools of Bellows Falls, the high
school boys are building grandstand on
the village playground, The structure
will seat nearly 200 persons.
Eva L. Tudor, of Townshend, is suing
the town for $4,000 damages for alleged
injuries received in an automobile accident
October 6, 1912. The automobile it is
said, slipped over an imperfectly construct
ed embankment.
The Center Congregational church of
Brattleboro plans the building of parish
house to accommodate its growing Sunday
school. The building will probably cost
about $4,000. The first floor will be
given up to a Sunday school room and hall
with a seating capacity of $50.
Tiffany Bros, manufacturers of mems
worsted and cotton fiat underwear at
Bennington, are to retire from business.
Mr.. Tiffany to retire from active business
and the firm to be dissolved. The dispo-
sition of the mill, which operates IA spring
needle NrS Is fat knittine< nbinaS 40
sewing machines, and dyeingShd finishing
machinery, is not yet decided.
Ex-Gov. Z. j. Ormsbee, of Brandon,
who has been very i'll for many months
and has been able to be out but a short
time, made his first visit to Rutland Tues
day, Sept. 80, since his illness. He called
at the county court house while court was
in session and was given warm reception
by Judge Frank L. Fish and the ex-gov-
ernor's fellow members of the Rutland
county bar.
Although the automobile plunged down
a 50-foot bank near Bellows Falls, Joseph
w. Severance, of Bartonsville, his father,
mother, and son escaped uninjured. The
machine was being guided by the boy
while Mr.. Severance put on his gloves and
in some way control was lost. The auto
turned bottom up, but was soon righted
and run down to a road, not having been
damaged.
After undergoing examinations by X-ray
machines and treatment by physicians at
the Mary Fletcher hospital, Burlington,
Roy Cheney, who was shot by his wife
in Hardwick early Sunday morning, Sept.
Is, was able to return to his home Tues
day evening, in the care of a physician.
He did not appear to be very seriously in
iured and during the afternoon, while wait
ing for the train, was shaved at a barber
shop on Church street.
Mrs. Calvin S Harrington, Of Middle
town, Conn, who has many relatives in
and is well known there, has
just returned to America with their son,
Prof. Karl p. Harrington and family, after
a fourteen-months' trip abroad. Mrs.
observed her eighty-eighth
anniversary in Rome few weeks
ago, and in spite of her advanced age was
one of a party to ascend a mountain
1920 feet high.
Governor A. NJ. Fletcher announced !
Sept. 80 that all business relations be- |
tween the State armory commission an
Architect Paul Revere Henkel of New |
York city, who drew plans for the pro-
posed State armory at Bellows Falls are at |
an end, but that he would do all he could |
to hasten the erection of the building. He |
said that the town of Rockingham may ,
rest assured that the building will be built
it will now take a little longer |
time than was at first expected.
After making over 40 quarts of luscious
preserves and putting them on a swing
shelf in the cellar, Mrs. F. I. Bradish Of
Bellows Falls was more than a little per-
turbed when, during a recent night, the
shelf broke from its hangings and deposit
I'd the contents on the cellar bottom with
a crash. A few evenings later, some 25 l