The united opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1881-1970, 1921-04-01

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At an exhibit of old shawls hello
the other day by Ottauquechee chap
ter, d. A. r., Woodstock, over Al
: were shown, one of them a typica
Woodstock product, the wool being
raised by the ancestors of Mrs Mary
!. Leonard Richardson on Hartland hill
and also dyed with coloring from
plants and woven by them at home
The oldest shawl dated back to 1775
A parsnip that was 29A inches in
length and with a circumference of
IS and a third inches, weighing five
pounds and half, was dug up in
the garden of the village residence
of M C Noyes, Windsor county high
way commissioner, on March 10. The
pa1 snip was clean and smooth and
the fact that it was dug in the
middle of March without injury shows
how we'll the frost is out of the
ground. The parsnip was taken to
! White River Junction to be displayed.
Henry E Hood of Topsham furnish
es some weather records, which make
interesting comparison with the
spring of 1921. In contrast to the
thunder storm of March 20, this
year, is the two-inch snowfall of May
20, 1912, a four-inch snowfall of May
8, 1908, a cold, squally snow of June
8, 1905, a two-inch snowfall of May
81, 1892, and 21-inch snowfall on
April 80, 1874.
Lyman w Clay, almost 72 years old,
of Woodstock, sets an example to
men of younger years by walking
daily three miles to the farm of
Peter Dupuis, working all day in the
woods with an axe and saw and keep
ing up his end with the younger men
and then walking home at night.
THAT would be some stunt for a
man of 3d." says the Woodstock
Journal.
The following officers were elected
at the closing session of the Yer
mont State Dental society in Rut-
land recently: President, Dr.. George
H Somers of Proctor; vice-presidents,
DIR. o S Minis of Burlington and Dr.
Fred F Bailey of Bennington; secre-
tary, DIR. Carter r Woods of Rut-
land; treasurer, DR.. Thomas Mound
of Rutland; executive Committee, Dr.
C H Cole of Vergennes, DIR. C M
Richmond of st. Johnsbury and H B
Small of Burlington. DR.. c M Will
liams of Rutland was elected delegate
from the Vermont society to the
national convention at Milwaukee,
Wis, next August and DIR. E CT
johnson of Rutland was named as
alternate.
be forded, George Cove and Edward !
Prieur of East Middlebury almost
lost their lives the other day in the |
Cornwall salisbury swamp when their
load of hay tipped over into the
swollen Otter Creek. Their horses
were with difficulty saved from
drowning. In the middle of the |
stream that had covered the high |
way the horses plunged in beyond |
their depth and the load of hay
tipped over when caught in the cur
rent.
F E Hamburger, proprietor of
grocery store in Brattleboro, was
arrested recently by Sheriff Frank L
Wellman on complaint of States
Attorney Harold E Whitney, and on
a plea of guilty in the municipal
court, Judge Frank d Stowe fined
him $50 and costs for operating a
punch board on which prizes of candy
and tobacco were given to persons
drawing certain numbers. A large
number of boxes of candy brought
into court by the sheriff were held
by the court to be part of the
game and were declared forfeited to
the state Mr. Hamburger said he had
no idea CT violating the law.
A child wonder in Vermont is little
Dorothy Leroye Espanola Of Pomfret,
whose foster father is Joseph Napo-
eon. Although only four years old,
he little girl has accumulated a !
fund of information. hei
memory being extraordinarily keen. {
She can neither read nor write, vet
he recites any number of poems, '
amous and otherwise, and will re-
,eat after anyone the most involved {
entences made up of five-syllable S
words. Without the slightest effort {
he will pick up what SOMEONE had c
aid in a conversation and repeat it 7
zord for word. Picking up a news c
aper, her father read her a sentence {
obtaining figures that ran into the G
Millions and little Dorothy repeated a
after him. She is the 18th child G
family of % of Bohemian French g
eople, neither of her parents being q
BILE to read or write. When little Y
Dorothy was a few months old her /
lother was taken very i'll and was
AIKEN to hospital. 1t was declared I
hat she was about to die and she i
egged the sisters to see that her s
ably was taken care of. The nun is ].
aid to have pronounced a blessing II
n the child and declared that she s.
'ould be great a
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