The united opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1881-1970, 1920-12-03
STATE NEWS

The Handy Gamers club of West
Rutland has put up over 1000 jars
of fruits, vegetables and meat the
past year.
Frank H Chapman, for many years
in charge of the Office of the United
States marshal at Rutland, will seek
the appointment for the district. He
has been in the office for 20 years.
A new rest room has been opened
for the shop employees of the Yer
mont Farm Machine corporation at
Bellows Falls. 1t is equipped with
card tables, reading matter and many
other things that go to make it COM
Portable and coy for the workmen.
Henry Pratt, Pownal farmer, on
going to get in his young cattle for
the winter, found one missing and on
investigating saw where it had been
butchered the night before, leaving
only the hide, head and intestines.
The animal was valuable Guernsey
two-year-old heifer.
A bronze tablet is to be placed in
Main street park in Rutland in men,
DRY of all the Rutland boys who took
part in the World War. The tablet
will contain the names of the boys
from there who died in the war.
The local chapter of the Daughters
of the American Revolution has
charge of the matter.
Mrs Mary E Nelson of Barre has
bought the Riverside House at Mont
pelier with an option on the pur-
chase of the Annex later, if so de-
sired. 1t is Mrs Nelson's intention
to reopen on Dec. the dining room.
which has been closed for about two
years, and will accommodate both
transient and regular trade. The
Riverside is one of the oldest family
boarding houses in the city and con-
tains 81 rooms. It's location opposite
the State House helps to make it
attractive.
Louis Chambo and Henry Murray,
four-year men at Windsor, who escap-
ed Oct. 81, are still at liberty. They
were TRUSTEES and were working in
the kitchen. 1t is still a mystery how
they managed to scale the high walls.
Chambo, Is, was in for burglary, and
Murray, 80, was in for larceny.
The will Of ex-Gov. Prouty has
been filed at Plymouth, Mass. For
mer Governor Prouty owned a big in
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Brockton, Mass. No estimate of skc
amount of the estate accompanies
the will. There were private be-
quests and several public ones. The
sum Of $4,000 was given the Good
rich Memorial library at Newport
with the provision that If the library
ceases to exist the trustees are to
return the principal to the estate.
A Chevrolet sedan, driven by a
travelling man and occuRed by him
self and wife, was burned in Ben
nington, near the state line between
Vermont and New York Saturday.
They had barely time to save their
personal baggage and new spare
tire.
Victor Robbins, eight-year-old son
Of Mr. and Mrs Fred Robbins Of Bar
ton, was critically injured as he was
coasting on a hill which crosses Main
street in that village, when he was
run over by a creamery truck The
front wheel ran over his stomach,
crushing il and causing a hemorrhage.
His sled was cut in two. The boy
was operated on at a St. Johnsbury
hospital Saturday night in an attempt
TO save his life. IL is reported that
the truck was on the left side Of
the road The driver did not see
the boy until too late TO stop the
machine, a bank obstrueting the view
ahead.
W c Fairfield. a South Vernon far
mer, was fined $50 and costs by Judge
Cudworth on a plea Of guilty to the
charge Of assaulting and beating. Ed
ward koushian. aged 10. with a morse
whip. The boy Is a ward Of the
state Of Massachusetts,. The COM