The united opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1881-1970, 1920-11-26


report filed with the Secretary o
State. Marcus Coolidge, Democratic
candidate for ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
spent $2S59 and Louis A. Frothnig
ham $27S5 in his successful Congress
sional fight in the 18th District.
A number of Maine towns that have
rever had electric current will be 81
provided shortly through the develop
ment of the Central Maine Power Com
pany. The high tension line from
Pennington to Lewiston, 80 miles
was built in a month A new higI
tension line from Waterville tt
Skowehegan and still another from
Skowhegan to Guilford are being
constructed.
Riveters of the Fore River plant
of the Bethlehem Shipbuilding Cor.
poration in Quincy who have been or
vacation" for several weeks are
breaking ranks, and several applied
for reinstatement to the company and
were taken back. About 500 left work
without the sanction of the Boiler
makers Union, of which they are a
part, and the company told them
their services were no longer required.
Forty thousand workers had to walk
to their places of employment as a re-
suit of the unexpected announcement
by the Connecticut Company that
trolley service on all Waterbury lines
would be suspended. Six hundred
trolleymen were thrown out of work.
The trolley company's decision to
suspend service on the Waterbury
lines came as result of the failure
of the Board of Aldermen to elimi-
nate jitney competition.
The Brockton Agricultural Society
has recently held the most success
full Brockton Fair in the 46 years
since its organization. The combined
attendance for the four days and
evenings exceeded 215,000. Regard
ess of the measure of it's success, no
dividends have ever been paid to it's
stock holders. The society functions
exclusively for the agricultural, in
dustrial and educational advantage of
it's many thousands of patrons, and
the receipts each year, after chart
table gifts have been made, are devot-
ed to the further upbuilding of the
fair, the coming year.
Worcester Polytechnic Institute an
nounces a gift of 100000 from the
DaoIxofod1Ax tn he Int
est of Schools and Education as a
to the $2,000,000 endow-
ment fund which the institute is rails,
ing to provide an income that will
replace the $4,000 annuity from the
Commonwealth of Massachusetts,
which was taken from Tech by the
passage of the bill which prevents ap
to any schools except
those maintained wholly at public ex-
pense. The gift is made on condition
that it shall form part of fund for
81 100000 to increase the salaries Of
professors"
Returns of expenses in the recent
election, so far filed at the State
House, Boston, show that Governor
Elect Charming Cox spent SS23.69 of
which $500 went to the Republican
State Committee, S100 to the Republi-
can Club of Massachusetts and $123.69
to the Republ can City Committee of
Boston. Lieutenant Governor Elect
Avian T. Fuller spent s1145.53; Con-
sressman Frederick H. Gillett of
1896; Attorney General
]. Weston Allen, 800; Congressman
Allen T. Treadway, SAIL; Congress
man Robert Luce, 1898; Congressman
Frederick w. Dallinger, S175. State
Auditor Alonzo B. Cook and Sheriff
John A. Keliher spent nothing.
Gov. P. w. Clement of Vermont
1onored a requisition of Connecticut |
officers to take Luman c. Beckett.
wanted in New Britain, back to that
city for trial on the charge of MUIR
leIdng Charles C. Taft, taxi driver. !
Beckett has just completed a term in
he state prison at Windsor for assault |
With intent to commit robbery. 1t is
.laimed that since his committal be
to the killing of Taft, claim
ng, however. that he acted in self-de-
ence; that Taft assaulted him while |
be was riding with girl companion
hat the girl placed a revolver in his
'Reckett's hands and that when he
made an effort to hit Taft on the head /
he gun exploded.
Figures submitted by the Massachu !
etts State Department of Labor and |
Industries show the percentage OF |
in the State is the |
highest since 1908, although present
conditions indicate that the situation
s improving. In its comment the de-
,artment report says: There has
,een little change since September in
he unemployment situation. The fig /
res as Of Sept. 80. representing un-
in the principal indus
ries of the State. show that the per-
entage OF unemployed for all causes
5 1913. The estimate is based upon
eports submitted by 1903 labor un-
ons reporting a membership OF 254,'
90. The percentage OF unemployn-, n,
:, n y,,r,hor Of fnduofrfae fol "a