The united opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1881-1970, 1920-12-24


amount to approximately 1000 deer,
according to the estimate of Com
missioner Leavens. As it has been
customary to receive reports for six
teen days after the end of the open
season it is expected that the adj
ditions during the next two weeks
will bring the total up to the num-
Der killed last year, which was APP
proximately 1000. Commissioner
Leavens believes that continued
slaughter of does will result in the
defamation of deer so that the sport
of deer hunting will eventually be
wiped out. With such a belief he
will make recommendation to the
legislature to refuse further to per-
NIT the killing of does for period
of time.
One hundred cases of Canadian
Club liquor, containing 1900 bottles,
were seized at Richford recently by
United States customs officials. The
cases were found packed concealed
in a car of scrapped leather and are
valued at $4,000 The car of scraped
| leather is valued at $1,000, and was
also seized 1t was en- route from
Montreal to Boston.
Mrs Margaret Carrigan, pastry
cook at the Hotel Berwick in Rut-
land, who suffered a fractured skull
last week, when gas explosion
blew off the door of the oven, strik-
ing her in the forehead, is still in
critical condition at the Rutland
hospital. An operation was per-
formed on her forehead and one or
more pieces of bone, broken when
the door struck her, have been re-
moved
Rather than decrease the wages of
it's employees, the R Booth Lumber
company of Burlington decided to
keep the wages the same as hereto
fore but to work ten-hour day, re-
verting to the old schedule, and
notice to that effect was posted.
This was displeasing to the 120 en-
ployes and not man appeared for
work the next morning.
/ Prof. w M Rider has returned
home after completing a campaign
with other national officers of the
interest and raise money for putting
tension officer who shall devote his
stein interests of that territory. In
the campaign about 200 was
raised to be expended in the next
three years in this work. Forty-five
meetings were >held, beginning in
Windham county. A meeting of the
New England club will be held in
Boston soon to map out a plan of
work. -
The Vermont State Grange at its
49th annual session held in st. Johns
bury elected the following officers:
Master, Orlando l. Martin, Plainfield;
overseer, G C Flint, Randolph; lee
turer, A w Lawrence, Springfield;
steward, E M Farr, Chester; assist
ant steward, H A Stoddard, Bellows
Falls; chaplain, Rev. A w Hewett,
Plainfield; treasurer, F B Pier, Brat
tleboro; secretary, A A Priest, Ran
dolph; gate keeper, f d Adams,
Fair Haven; Ceres, Mrs o L Martin,
Plainfield; Pomona, Miss Jennie B
Bell, East Hardwick; Flora, Mrs E w
Parent, Sudbury; lady assistant stew
ard, Mrs H A Stoddard, Bellows
Falls. The executive committee is
w R Cady, Middlebury, chairman; E
H Hallet, st. Johnsbury; H Stcddard,
secretary, Fair Haven; M B Fisk,
Rutland. The master and secretary
are members ex-officio
The dismemberment of the R r.
Sortwell, an engine run for many
years on the Montpelier and Wells
River railroad and which for major
portion of the time pulled the mail
trains, occurred last week. Daughley
Gould, with a sledge hammer broke |
all of the cast iron connected with |
the engine, to be drawn away for
junk, while the rest of the engine
that had not been removed in the !
last few years it sat on a siding in |
the yards in Montpelier, was placed |
on flat car ready for shipment to
the junk pile in Lvndonville yards
1t is the passing of another engine
treasured for many years bv the |
older employees of the railroad named
above.