The united opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1881-1970, 1921-09-09

organization of an ambulance COM
pany at Wallingford, and General
Johnson has designated as captain of
the company DIR. Sherwin Cootey of
that town, and as lieutenant, II B
Townsend, also of that town. This
will be a forty-man company, having
four motor driven ambulances and a
motor truck. The enlistment of the
men has begun.
The gift to the Dartmouth Outing
club by James w Newton of farm
in Norwich has been announced. With
this gift Mr. Newton has included
the sum of 5000 to be applied to the
construction of an observation tower
or toward the erection of a cabin
The eastern boundary of the farm
forms the skyline of the Vermont
hills due west from Hanover. The
farm has been held in the Newton
family for four generations.
Harry Boyd, who works in Greeley's
garage in Windsor, was returning
one night recently by automobile
from Lebanon with his wife and
child, when he was held up in the
pine woods between Hartland and
North Hartland by two masked men
with revolvers. The would-be bandits
jumped out in front of the car and
flashed their guns in his face, but
Boyd put on more gas and escaped
Officers found no trace of the bandits
Vermont hunters are again allow
ed to hunt cartridges, after a closed
season of two years. cartridges are
said to be plenty this year and the
season is in the month of October
only. The limit is four cartridges
and four woodcocks in one day and
season limit of 25 each. The sea-
son for duck, geese, snipe and clover
begins Sept. l6 and ends Dec. l, or
rather Nov. 80, inclusive. The fish
and game department has put out
about million and a half finger
lings this season.
Bernie Starr, the Barre boy who
went to St. Johnsbury this season to
catch for the Fairbanks Association
nine, has accepted an offer from the
New York Yankees and will join the
team at the close of the season.
Starr has caught in nearly all the
games the St. Johnsbury team has
played this summer and was also
the heaviest hitter on the team. He
is only 10 years old and played with
the MoretoWn nine in 1919, and in
1919 was connected with both the
Barre and Moretown teams. This is
the second professional baseball play
er ST. Johnsbury has furnished in
five years, the first one being Lawton
Witt, one of the star infelders in
the Philadelphia Athletics.
A new lake for Vermont with an
area of % acres was formed Aug. %
with the closing of the gates on a
dam which the F r Patch Manufac-
turing company of Rutland has had
under construction for about ayear.
The plant, which is situated on East
Creek about mile north of that
city will generate $50 horse power Of
electricity and the company will
generate their own power before
snow flies. The dam is 35 feet high
and 200 feet long, and is built of
cement. Its greatest thickness is 81
feet. East Creek is stocked with
native brook trout and rainbow trout
and the new reservoir is expected to
offer great fishing possibilities as
well as providing THIS city with
conveniently near swimming place
for both sexes.
The elephant with the Sparks
shows, which attacked Mrs Minnie
Green during a circus act when the
company was playing in Richford a
few days ago, has been killed, the
second shot bringing the animal
down, but seven more being fired in
to the huge body. The killing was
because after the circus
reached New York state the elephant
during a performance attacked Louis |
Reed, the menagerie superintendent. |
at the same place in the routine Of |
the act that Mrs Greene was attack |
ed. The elephant knocked Reed |
down and rolled him, is it had done !
to Mrs Green, but the attendants |
were prepared for the act and drove