The united opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1881-1970, 1921-02-04
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Two hundred employees of the Ros-
sic Velvet Company at Mystic, Conn,
have decided to accept a cut of Is
to 20 percent in wages.
Daylight saving in Rhode Island
from May / to Oct. l is proposed in
an act introduced in the House by
Representative James F. Lavender of
Bristol.
Henry A. Dudley, IL, of 81 Gains
boro street, Boston, was killed by a
bullet from a 22-calibre pistol in the
rooms of the Bay State School of
Musketry, across the street from his
home
The late Judge Henry w. Bragg of
the Charlestown, Mass. court left
nearly a half million dollars by his
will filed in the Suffolk probate office,
the greater portion of the estate going
to various charities.
Some one stole a ham from the
kitchen of Tree Warden John w. Stob-
bart, Franklin, Mass, and now the
town official says that "if the man who
took the ham will call again he can
have some eggs to go with it,"
Better enforcement of liquor laws
in Maine will be considered at a con-
ference of State and Federal enforce
ment officers with Wayne B. Wheeler,
general counsel of the Anti-saloon
League of America, at Augusta, on
Feb. 10.
for office at the Marblehead, Mass,
town election, Feb Il. They are:
Miss Amy B. Lindsey for the School
Board, Miss Edith Fabens for the
Board of Overseers of the Poor, Mrs
Amy Snow for assessor, and Mrs. Mary
F. Boles for trustee of Abbot Public
Library.
superintendent, directors and
other officers of boys clubs from all
parts of New England attended a con-
ference at the Boston Athletic Asso-
citation, at which the Massachusetts
Federation of Boys Clubs was
merged with a new organization to be
known as the New England Fedora
ton of Boys Clubs.
"Fish Engineer" Bachelor of Fish,"
and other engineering terms connect
ed with the ancient and honorable
fish industry, don't appeal to Tech
nology students in Boston at all. The
faculty started the argument by inves-
tigating the proposition to start a
fisheries college in connection with
Tech, which, they will vote on SOON
Mylo d. Campbell, president Of the
National Federation of Milk - Pro-
ducers, told how milk cows, which
year ago sold for $40. are being
sold today for $40 and led to the
SAMPLES" of the stockyards The
former loses 81 on every 100 pounds
o milk he produces, he added. DR..
George r. Little, Schaghicoke, n. Y.
was elected president.
The number of volumes in the Har-
ward University library has passed 80
2 100000 mark which makes ii the
third library in size in the whole
c~rntry Prof Archibald c. Coolidge's
annual report as director OF the IT.
biary, shows 2,01S.l00 volumes and
pam hlets The Congressional libra
r. 4 Wash 'ngton and the New York
public library alone exceed it in size.
Woodward N. Ellis, 80, Waterman
for the Texas Company, Providence,
was committed to the State Hospital
for Mental Diseases. after, il is al
legged he had drawn a revolver and
had driven employees out of the COM
pany's office. Ellis himself called up
police headquarters and stated that
the police were needed there right
away. Els went crazy looking for
burglars. friends say.
None of the half dozen women who
ran for the Massachusetts, Legislature
last fall was successful, but a mem
Der Of the newly enfranchised sex
has been selected for one of the most
important places in the legislative or
Speaker Young announced I
that Mrs. Edna c. Barry had been
named clerk by the committee on
rules. the occupant of which becomes
private secretary to the speaker. |
Orlando L. Martin of Plainfeld, ex-
OF Agriculture, was
elected president of the Vermont
Friesian Association at the
annual meeting held at Montpelier.
committee was appointed TO adapt
the bylaws OF the New England As I.
sociation to the state society. and it /
was voted to put a State herd in COM
petition at the Eastern States exhi- /
bition and at other fairs next Fall.
Speakers at the dinner of the Econ /
omic Club Of Boston widely disagreed ]
as 20 the needs Of Massachusetts and I
their remedies. Former Gov. Samuel /
W Mccall said that the source OF the I
troubles that afflicted Massachusetts, ,