The united opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1881-1970, 1920-12-17

has begun at Lunenburg, N. S. Plans
call for a vessel of 10 feet waterline
with some departures from the usual
Nova Scotian type. Construction ex-
penses are to be met by shares sub
scribed to by Halifax and Nuremberg
citizens.
Joseph Lasky, who is 81 years old
dreamed that he was away from home
and locked up in a strange room
Thereupon he got out of bed and made
break for liberty by jumping out of
a second story window. He took sash
and all with him in his leap and
landed on a large, fiat rock. He
broke not a bone and seemingly is
not seriously injured, though suffering
from shock
The shoe manufacturers of Lynn,
Mass have made formal request of
the joint council United Shoe Work
ers of America for abolition of the
wage bonus of IL IL to 20 per cent.
that has been paid for more than a
year. This is the first general step
w" lSduNblOn VI WcISCO III Ihdt
city where normally $4,000 operatives
are employed in 100 factories en-
gagged largely in the making of wom-
ems shoes.
The Boston & Albany has scored
in it's fight to protect its passengers
from undue officiousness on the part
of dry" agents. The road has ruled
that prohibition agents must not
search patrons of the road, unless
they know a person is transporting
liquor The first skirmish was won by
the dry" forces, who ignored re-
quest of the road that they stop
searching passengers baggage in the
Union Station, Worcester, Mass.
A Christmas crop of more than
100000 of evergreen trees, spruce,
fir and hemlock has been cut in the
forests and pastures of New England
for the approaching holiday obser-
vances east of the mississippi. The
movement to market of the Christmas
trees, some still spangled with the
snow of northern countrysides, is un
derway and figures on the cut are
fairly complete. From the forests of
Maine 100000 trees have been taken.
An influx of German-made har-
monicas to this country is principally
blamed by the Peerless Company,
Meriden, Ct, for the falling off in
orders for it's product in this line,
and for haipo oonnaI1ad d,,rino tho
period of business readiustment to
reduce it's working force about rs
per cent. The German harmonica is
sold in American markets at a much
lower figure, it is said, than a SINH
lar instrument can be produced here
A man who said he did not know
his name or his home was under
treatment at the Rhode Island Hos
pital, Providence, as victim of am
nesia. In his pockets were a check
book of the tSate bank, Williamsburg
Branch, Brooklyn, a souvenir box
marked Supreme Council, Order of
the Amaranth," and an envelope to
F. w. Woodward, SIS North Vermont
avenue, Los Angeles. His hat bore
the initials IS. A. j." and a match
safe was marked "B. H. c."
Free advice, instruction and visit
ing nursing care for women during
and confinement and for
mothers and their infants after child
birth, regardless of their financial
condition we're recommended at the |
State House, Boston, by the special |
commission appointed to investigate
benefits. The report was |
made to the special session of the |
Legislature. The commission sug- |
gests that it would be inadvisable to |
distribute cash maternity benefits, but |
asks that the State spend about $780, |
900 the first year to aid mothers.
The management of the Fore River
plant of the Bethlehem Shipbuilding |
Corporation, Ltd, announce that the |
ieels of the uper-dreadnaught Massa- |
,husetts will be laid soon after New
Years day. The Massachusetts will
Re larger than any vessel now in the
United States Navy. With a length /
If $50 feet overall and 100 feet beam.
Ter displacement will be 43,200 tons.
She will have electric drive and en-
zines of 10000 horsepower. and her
speed is to be twenty-three knots.
The armament will comprise twelve
6-inch gums and a secondary battery
If sixteen 6-inch guns.
Official records show that the 300
lens listed in the contest at tho Es-
lex County School Farm, Danvers,
Mass, produced 1919 eggs during the
,ast four weeks. The leading pen
o date incloses White Wyandottes,
inferred by William c. Peck of Storrs,
,onn., which has a trap nest record of
SO eggs. One of the birds has pro-
uced an egg daily for four weeks.
ZEN Rhode Island Reds entered by
he Essex County Training School
ave produced 265 eggs during the
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