The united opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1881-1970, 1920-11-19
STATE NEWS

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chased for Miss Josephine Sharkey Of
New York City Camp Winneshewauka
at Lunenburg, where Miss Sharkeg
was head counsellor last season. Next
year she will be general director OF
the property. Mr. and Mrs Karl .
Balch and Mr. and Mrs Lawrence z
Leach organized the camp six years
ago and have conducted it ever since.
Mrs Elizabeth Newcomb of Thet-
ford, who is 101 years old, is prob
ably the oldest woman in Vermont
who voted.
The annual colder boys conference"
has been invited to st. Johnsbury in
January. Over 400 boys are expected
from all over Vermont.
Herbert A Smith, owner and pub
Usher of the Daily Caledonian-Rec
announced last week Wednesday the
/ consolidation of the Weekly Caledon-
ian and the st. Johnsbury Republic
can. The two publications will be
issued hereafter under the title of
the st. Johnsbury Republican with
Charles T Walker, the Republicans
former owner and editor, as editor
of the consolidated weeklies. MIR
Smith will continue as business
manager of both the daily and week
ly papers and Arthur F Stone be-
comes editor of the Caledonian-
Record.
A w Clark of Barton, who was
charged with being implicated in
moonshine distilling business, has
been acquitted in Orleans County
Court, but after a grilling he pleaded
guilty to grand larceny, the object
of his theft being pair of auto
tires. He was fined $500. He was
believed to be one of the ring of
moonshiners who have been operating
in Barton. So great have been the
demand for mountain dew" in Bar
ton village and it's environs that stills
have been regularly manufactured
and sold to the distillers. James
Goad, who until his arrest recently,
hourished on Lowell Mountain, is
said to have gone to a manufacturer
and offered 5000 for apparatus Of
sufficient capacity to turn out 90
gallons a day.
DIR. A j DeFossett of the agricul-
tural department has gone to Brattle
boro to investigate a rumor relative
to a case of the hoof and mouth
disease among cattle. There had
been a few reports of late on this
matter and the agricultural depart
ment is following these up very
closely to prevent any spread of the
malady among cattle. No evidence of
the disease has been located yet un-
less it develops in Brattleboro. DIR
DeFossett finds that wide publicity
among the agricultural people of the
State is having much to do with
prevention of the disease. In Bel
GUM, Holland and England the
malady is raging at the present
time.
Frank Reskhof, IA years of age OF
Springfield, Mass, who had been
missing from his home for some
time, was traced to New York
City and from there to Brandon.
Mr. and Mrs Reskhof, parents of the
boy, came and with Constable l. F
Nichols went to Forestdale, where
they found the boy at the home of
William Bird.
Ward c Prouty at jury trial IN
municipal court was sentenced Nov.
10 by Judge William M Wright to
pay a fine of 500 and costs for
operating an automobile while intox-
icated. His license was also revoked.
Mr. Prouty was arrested last July and
failed to put in an appearance at
court. He was re-arrested August
%, three weeks later. At the trial,
he was his own lawyer and also gave
testimony. Several witnesses were
introduced to prove that he drove his
car to Derby Line and was at the
Derby Line hotel while intoxicated
The divorce case Of Ida R Hyman
against Jake Hyman, a travelling dry
goods vender, was taken up in Rut-
land county court last week, it being
the first contested divorce case OF
the term. This controversy is some
what unique in that Mrs Hyman has
sued her husband for separation four
times. Once the bonds of matrimony
were severed by a magistrate but the
couple soon sought out a minister
and had them retied. Their matri-
monial history runs like this: We'd
ded in New York, 1906; divorced at
Burlington, 1907; remarked at New
York, 1908; suit for divorce brought
by woman and withdrawn at Mont
pelier, 1913; suit instituted in 1913
in Rutland and withdrawn; present
suit brought in 1920. The ground
on which the bill is sought is in
tolerable severity.
Springfield made a general holiday
Of Armistice day, the shops being
closed all day and the stores half a
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