The united opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1881-1970, 1921-11-11
STATE NEWS.

Mr. and Mrs Joseph Murray of Wal
lington observed their 51st wedding
anniversary Nov. 2.
Hale Gochee of Barnet set five
traps without bait on a recent night
and at l o'clock the next morning
found skunk in each trap.
1t is costing about $3.50 per week
for the special policing of Bellows
Falls during the trouble at the paper
mills. 1t is expected that the state
will pay part of the officials fees.
Fred Hutchinson and Jefferson Flint
of the hamlet in Braintree called
Peth recently found a bee tree with
about 125 pounds of honey, and d l.
Bass of the same place, while plough
ing recently, found box containing
a diamond ring.
r The Fowler-Nicolet company of
Rutland, which was recently incorp-
grated for $4,000, is to take over
the defunct plant of the Rutland
Garment company of Rutland, which
for some years has made skirts under
the direction of E l. Olney, and will
manufacture sleeping apparel.
The Vermont Box company, whose
plant is in Bristol, is now employing
100 persons and expects to have 125
within the week. Business is boom
ing and the portion of the plant
burned last spring is being rebuilt.
Fifty years of continuous service in
the employ of the Howe Scale COM
pany were completed recently by AL
bert L Pratt, foreman in the carpen-
ter shop. This is the record for num-
Der of years of service of any man at
present in the employ of the COM
pany.
Dexter w Kathan of Putney, who
is trapping in Goshen, caught large
male opossum in his fox trap about
one and a half miles from Mt. Hor-
rid. As this is at least 200 miles
further north than the known range
of this animal, the capture is of I'M
usual interest.
Mrs Benjamin F Fisher of st. AL
bans, daughter of Editor Charles T
Fairfield, former publisher of the
Rutland News, was run over by a
taxicab in Chicago recently and is
now in hospital there. The Fisher
family have recently moved from
Vergennes to st. Adams and she was
on her way west to visit her parents
when injured. She had only a short
time in Chicago, having stopped over
between trains.
Lake trout from one to Is pounds
have been taken at the Lake Dun
more stripping station by agents of
the fish and game department, who
are seiniag the fish preparatory to
stripping them for eggs. The strip
ping season is not we'll under way as
yet, but 2,417 trout have been taken
and $4,000 eggs have been collected.
The work is in charge of special
Warden Chaffee. Some of the best
of the adult fish will be sent to the
state hatchery at Roxbury to be put
on exhibition. The eggs will also be
sent there.
What is thought to be a record in
the laying of water pipe in this state
was made in st. Adams Oct. Both. Al
a o'clock Saturday afternoon 120C
feet of six inch water pipe belong
ing to the city was at Bethel on it,
way to St. Adams and at o'clocl
| Sunday afternoon the entire amount
of pipe had been laid and tested
Fifteen men took part in the laying
of the pipe under the direction o.
city manager ODonnell.
Mr. and Mrs Robert B C Noorduyr
who were recently married in Brat
tleboro, are to make an airplan'
flight to Omaha, Neb, soon, a dis
lance of about 1000 miles. Mr. Moor
duyn hopes by this flight to viii
some international prizes, His wifi,
was Miss Bertha Piggott, teacher o
home economics in the Brattlebor,
schools.
Mrs Edward Porter of Orleans suf
fered broken nose and laceration
Of the face in an automobile collision
near Orleans according to a recen
report received at the secretary o
states office. Mrs Porter was takel
to Orleans hospital. The car il
which she was riding was driven b,
her husband. The other party to tn,
collision was Floyd Kennseon of Iras
burg, who was driving a car owned
by the Jersey Star Creamery asso
citation.
Heber f Shaw, Norwich university
'16, flute soloist of the Westinghouse
orchestra of Pittsburg, Pa, playe'
several solos during the concer
given in Pittsburg the evening o
Nov. 1st His father and mother, Nj
and Mrs William A Shaw, and hi
sister. Miss Ethel, with relatives AM
friends, in the wireless station a
Dewey hall ef Norwich university,
thousand miles away, had the pleas
ure of hearing and enjoying the con
cert transmitted by wireless.
Springfield voters held a specia
meeting Oct. % and voted to bon'
the town to cover an Indebtedness o
$4,000. Town Clerk Lawrence pre-
sented to the town a beautiful tow
seal, the design Of himself and Rus
sell w Porter. The seal is to be tw
inches in diameter and shows a viey
Of the falls in that village. At tn
left side stands the figure of a me
chanic with one hand resting on
mallet, with the other outstretche,
and holding a scroll. The figure /
symbolical Of the industrial life o
the town. The mechanics foot rest
on a gear, the result Of invention
and industry combined In the lowe