The united opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1881-1970, 1920-12-17
new ENGLAND NEWS
IN TABLOID FORM
Items of Interest From All
Sections of Yankeeland

Maine must raise nearly 1000 troops
in the next two years, Adjutant
General George Mel. Presson said
when he appeared before the legisla-
tive budget commission.
United States Senator Henry Cabot
Lodge again leads the list of Nahant
Mass, taxpayers who pay real estate
and personal tax in excess of $500.
The senator's tax bill is S2425.50.
With not one person dependent on
the town for support, the town farm,
Norton, Mass, has been on lease.
George H. O'Brien, clerk Of the Select
men, has compiled figures showing
that the town is pauperless.
Congressman elect Charles L. I'm
derhill of Somerville, Mass, speaking
before the Daughters of Massachu-
sets at the Hotel Brunswick, Boston,
said that the high cost of government
was one of the principal reasons for
the high cost of living,
The farm however is beneficial to
the town, inasmuch as pine wood cut
from the land was recently sold for
$4661 and the money placed on inter-
est, the principal and interest to be
kept for the maintenance of the poor
at such time as it is needed.
Because of decreased business, the
American Railway Express Company
has been compelled to reduce the
number of its employees in every de-
partment in, Boston, and several horse
drawn vehicles have been withdrawn
until the business of the company in
creaSes.
Trinity College has broken off ath-
letic relations with Wesleyan Univer-
sity. The action was taken by the
undergraduate body of Trinity at
meeting in Hartford The students
voted for a permanent severance of
relations between the two old Connec-
ticut rivals.
The bodies of Dominic Russo and
Lorenzo Rizzi were found in room
in house at West Newton, Mass, by
members of the Newton police, and
Medical Examiner West, after viewing
the bodies, announced that in his opin-
ion, the deaths were the result of a
suicide agreement.
An effort to secure President-elect
Harding as one of the speakers at the
next convention of the Maine Teach
ers association, which the executive
committee voted to hold in Portland
on Oct. 81 and 2S will be made. A
number of speakers of national repu
tation will be engaged.
Depositors in the savings depart
ments of the four Boston trust com
panies which have been closed by the |
bank commissioner, will be enabled |
to drawn out 25 cents on the dollar |
in time for Christmas use, as result |
of an emergency plan adopted by the !
clearing house committee.
Officials IN charge of market bu-
reaus of the New England states held
a conference in the State House, Bos- |
ton, and organized under the name |
of the New England Association of |
Marketing Officials. The meeting |
was held under. the auspices of the |
Massachusetts department of agricul-
ture
The Massachusetts Senate has re-
fused to concur with the House in ad-
hitting for consideration at the spec
ial session of the Legislature the bill
to allow the state department of
health to spend $4,000 in preventive
M ha ht,hD To
largely by means of an anti-rat cam
paign
A large collie stood guard over the
body of his master, Thomas Maher.
an aged recluse of 9 Suffolk street,
Cambridge, Mass, and would not al
low patrolmen to enter until shot by
an agent of the NJ. S. p. c. A. The
continued barking of the dog aroused
the suspicious of neighbors, who had
not seen Maher about his house for
several days.
Establishment of a professOrship in
American history in memory of the
late Governor Fletcher d. Proctor of
Vermont, by the gift of 100000 from
Mrs. Proctor as a permanent fund for
that purpose, has been announced by
Middlebury college. Governor Proc
tor was a student at the college for
one year and a trustee from 1907 to
the time of his death in 1911.
Three truck drivers and a shipper
employed by the II. A. Johnson Com
pany of Boston, supply house for res
taurateurs. were arraigned in police
court following a long investigation
by police and private detectives, who
believe they have discovered a whole
sale looting scheme. 1t is charged |
that the four defendants are members
OF a ring of conspirators who have
perfected a system of thievery where ,
by already more than $4,000 worth Of
property has been stolen.
A cooperative farm, said to have
been projected on a 100000 basis, I
in which persons along the North s