The united opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1881-1970, 1921-06-24
STATE NEWS.

The graduating class of st. Johns.
bury academy this year numbers 60.
Pittsford held its third annual
mother-daughter banquet last week.
The Green Mountain club, Inc, now
has a membership of 800.
The 400 pounds of maple sugar
consumed at the recent Vermonters'
picnic in Los Angles, Cal, was made
by E H Smith of Cabot.
The public service commission has
ordered the Rutland railroad to
countermand it's order for the clos
ing of the station at Whiting. The
citizens of the town appealed to the
commission. :.
MIS- w w Walker fell down the
cellar, stairs at her home in Brattle-
boro recently, receiving a scalp
wound, fracture of ribs and many
bruises.
The first list of draft evaders which
includes New England, and has just
been made public, contains no Ver-
monters. All except one are listed
in Connecticut.
The interests of Mr. and Mrs Chas.
E Crane and Ephraim Crane Of
Brattleboro, held in the Middlebury
Register, have been sold to Robert
w McCuen.
Gov. James Hartness has designat-
ed Miss Mary Kane of Montpelier to
attend the institution for State in
spection of nurses schools and
nurses examinations at Columbia
University.
AT meeting of the State Board
of Education held June and 10, it
was voted to establish three two
year teacher training courses as
provided by an act of the present
Legislature, and to locate them at
Burlington, Castleton and Lyndon
vile.
About % women have been trans
ferred from the state prison to the
house of correction at Rutland. The
Rutland institution will henceforth
be known as the Riverside Vermont
state reformatory for women.
A granite boulder has been placed
upon the common in Coventry and
upon it splaced a bronze tablet con-
tainii y the names of the boys from
that town who served during the
World War.
The amount of taxable property in
has gained S417,503 over
last years valuation. This includes
the S390,300 assessed on the Fort
Dummer Mills cotton mill property,
which came into the tax list the
first time this year.
Ernest Bloch the world-famous
composer,-possibly the greatest
European composer residing in Amer |
lea today-is to come to Vermont |
for the summer. He will spend the |
summer holiday at Greensboro. He |
Is said to have been living meagerly |
in Switzerland, when the war drove I
him to this country.
Lieut.. Wendell Goodrich, an aviator |
1T Carlstrom aviation field, Arcadia, /
Fla, was killed last week in an ac-
,ident. Lieut.. Goodrich graduated /
from Dartmouth college in 1918. The /
body was taken to Norwich, VT, for /
burial. Lieut.. Goodrich's parents j
i've in White River Junction.
Albert Houdlett & Sons, Inc.
manufacturers of the Nu-Way and /
.ynbrook musical string instruments /
and drums at Brooklyn, n. Y, have 1.
purchased the entire plant, lumber b
mills, and forestry Of the Weldon
Manufacturing company at South f.
Royalton, manufacturers Of wooden
irum hoops, banjo, ukelele and tam
BOURNE rims.
Harvey o Hutchinson Of Burling-
.on, superintendent Of high schools I
IN Vermont, has received from SYRIA
,use university the honorary degree
# doctor Of pedagogy. Since Mr.
came to Vermont in
1918 he has built up the junior high
'chool system from seven or eight
scattered schools to 40 such edu-
,ational institutions.
Gov. James Hartness appointed as
! member Of the State board Of
and embalmers DR.. r w
Hartman Of Montpelier in place Of
Dr.. George II Gorham Of Bellows
Falls, who recently resigned. The
statues provide for one practicinp
physician on the board and this is
he position which DR.. Hartman.
who is a World War veteran, will
rave.
Marvin Moore. who lives on a farm
n Middlesex, attempted suicide
4 b. hanging. but failed because
lis wife returned home from getting
he cows too quickly and cut him
i0wn, with the result that he was on
he road to recovery that evening