The united opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1881-1970, 1920-11-12

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thrax in Manchester, caused DR.. Eu
gene R. Kelley, commissioner of pub
lie health, to issue warning agains
the use of the cheaper grades o.
shaving brushes. The four cases re
ported were all traced to brushes, the
hair of which was imported from
Manchuria,
Judge Milliken, in district court
New Bedford, Mass, recommended
that the parents of the 16 boys i'm
plicated in destroying property at the
residence of Walter H. Langshaw,
give liberal application of the birch
rod TO the juveniles. A jar of eggs
had been thrown about and the yolks
were hanging from the walls.
Russell w. Bancroft, alias Will
ford A. Bailey, guilty of fraudulent
transaction involving $4,000 in con-
nection with the establishment of a
camp for girls at Lake Willoughby,
VT, has been sentenced to five years
in State prison. Bancroft obtained a
loan of 5000 from the National Bank
of Newport, VT, upon collateral that
proved worthless.
The mystery of the finding of two
sticks of dynamite under an ash barrel
in the rear of Fl Common St., Law
renee, Mass, was cleared up today
when three Juveniles were arrested,
charged with stealing it from the Hol-
land Construction Company last May.
The boys told the police they stole
Fights sticks. The other six sticks
have not been found.
Gov. Carl E. Milliken of Maine, who
was the principal speaker at the dedi-
cation of the new 100000 Lynn Y.
M. C. A. building, declared that If the
spirit of extravaganza continues to
spread in this country at the same
rate as it has spread since the end of
the war, the word work" will have
disappeared from our dictionaries
within the next 10 years.
Charles 8. Barber of Westfield,
Mass, a veteran trolley employe, saw
his Sunday dinner shrink from 1-2
pounds Of Juicy chicken to less than
8 IL pounds, when he dressed the
fowl enough, but on dressing her Mr..
Barber found 90 well formed eggs in
her. OF these Is were large enough
to be salvaged, and together they
weighed more than two pounds.
The Silesia Mills of North Chelms-
ford, Mass, branch of the United
States Worsted Co., has announced a
cut in wages Of Is p. C. The reduction
is attributed to the prevailing condi-
tions, the inability of the company to
dispose of it's goods and the lack of
orders. The plant has been operating |
recently with slightly more than half |
of it's normal force of 600 hands.
A report just issued by the Mass
achusetts State Department of Labor
and Industry shows that at the end of |
June of this year almost 10 p. C. of
all organized labor in the State was
out of work. The abnormal amount of
was due almost wholly |
to the curtailment of production in
the shoe industry. This was the high
est rate of unemployment since 1908.
Many employees in the three plants
of the Jenckes Spinning Company in
Pawtucket and Central Falls, r. /. ac-
cepted a Is per cent, cut in wages
rather than have the mills shut down
for an indefinite period. The Lorraine
Company, another
large Pawtucket textile industry, has
it's bonus payments
which were in effect through the war.
Gov. Coolidge designated Arthur l..
Millet of Gloucester to act as Mass
achusetts commissioner for the inter-
fshermen's races off Hall
fax between the Gloucester schooner
Esperanto and the Lunenburg schoon-
n Delawanna. Mayor Charles d.
Brown win be the official delegate
rom Gloucester, in accordance with
/ resolution adopted by the municipal
council.
The heavy taxes upon incomes i'm
,osed in England and this country
ipon Americans living in England
AVE made the ownership Of real es-
ate in Providence, r. l. so unprifi
able that the extensive holdings of
he Butler Exchange Company will be
losed out. Walter N. Butler, treasur-
II of the company. explained that un-
Ter the English laws more than half
4 the income received by Americans
wing in England is taken as taxes by
he British Government and that this
dded to the income tax in the United
tates, left but little more than ,
killing in every pound to the owners. {
Moses Naked, a Syrian fruit and ,
andy merchant of Dorchester, Mass, I
nd Albert Wyhesek, a stitcher of :
oston, are held in Newport, VT, in r
1000 for U. S. court, charged with {
iolating the proclamation of the G
resident and the immigration laws \
y assisting three enemy aliens into a
lis country. The three Syrians they a
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