The united opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1881-1970, 1921-01-28
STATE NEWS.

There are three brothers living in
Brattleboro whose united ages total
255 years. These are the Mann broth
ers, Nathan d Mann, SS, William ii
Mann; Sc; and Frank R Mann, 81.
Richford customs officials seized at
that port recently 10 cases of brandy,
10 cases of gin, 10 cases of Scotch
whiskey, IL cases of Canadian whis-
key and 10 gallons of alcohol.
A deer was seen in the village OF
Wells River recently, trotting along
in the road. The animal entered the
garden of Nelson Bailey, climbed the
hill end disappeared into the woods
Warren Hector Langdon, who was
reported in press dispatches as be-
ing shot by Jap sentry at Vladi-
vostock, Siberia, on the morning of
Jan. 10, was born in Brandon March
10, 1888, and lived there for num-
Der of years, attending the public
schools there. He moved to Massachu-
sets with his parents when a young
boy. He was chief engineer of the
American cruiser Albany.
Morris Keough, aged 10 years, is
in a critical condition in the hos
dual III WIN iii &C OlilClo
he was sliding near Graniteville
when his sled ran into the standing
automobile Of Fred LeTourneau.
Keough suffered a fractured skull, a
broken leg, fractured lower jaw,
all of the teeth on the lower left
Jaw being knocked out, and many
bruises. The sled ran head-on into
the spring Of the automobile.
George H Graham, formerly of
Springfield and now a real estate
agent in Springfield, Mass, has
bought of the New England Operat-
ing company the Adnabrown hotel in
Springfield and assigned it to Charles
F Cosgrovenor, Office manager for
the T Slack corporation, a concern
running in Springfield the largest
shoddy mill in the world. Oscar c
Miller, who has been landlord Of the
Adnabrown the last two years, will
yield possession of the house April /,
and the new owner will at once take
steps to put the hotel in a position
to sustain the reputation it has
earned in previous years.
Miss Miriam Mackenzie, for the
past year and a half County Club
EhEGAiN III AiAG INuNldllu AOuEAN II
Bureau, in cooperation with the Uni
versity of Vermont Extension Ser
vice, has recently RESIGNED to become
teacher at Ormsbee House, Proctor.
Vermont is to supply the first as
bestos to be spun into cloth for com
mercial uses. The use of long-fibered
asbestos for making brake Innings fer
automobiles and for weaving into
cloth for packing and variety Of
other uses has already been success
fully accomplished but It has been
the ambition of producers to use the
so-called short fiber" in the same
way. For the first time in history
this has been accomplished and the
raw material for the DEVELOPMENT Of
this importan industry is coming
from the plant Of the Asbestos COM
PAW Of America. whose huge develcp-
ment at Belvidere mountain Is now
approaching completion. The install
lation Of the mill machinery at Bel
videre mountain has Just been com
Melted. This WIS a truly HercuIean
task and included the hauling I'D the
mountain Of a $4,000 pound crushe-.
Charles n Thompson. vice-nresident
and general manager IF the corr
many saws: eve exDect TO he deliver
inc the finished product during The
month Of ADril ard have token on
several large orders for delivery in
the second and third quarters If the
year amounting to $500 tons"
At the dairymen's convention re-
Gently held az Burlington the annual
butter scoring contest was held BY
the Vermont Dairvmen's association.
About forty samples of creamery
butter were entered from the various
creaueries in the state When the
awards were made c NJ Story. butter
maker for the Orange county cream
cry at Chelsea received the sweep
stakes prize with a score Of 971z on