The united opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1881-1970, 1921-12-23
NEWBURY.
Friday Morning, Dec. 20.

Friday Morning, Dec. 20.
The following item taken from the
Evening Independent, paper pub
lshed in ST. Petersburg, Fla, will be
of double interest to the readers OF
the Newbury column as 1T not only
illustrates the rapid growth in val:
ues of real estate in that southern
city, it gives us an opportunity to
congratulate a Newbury girl on her
good fortune, as Mrs Anna E Drew
was born in our town, received her
education in old Newbury Seminary,
was married on the eve OF her
graduation, July II, 1867 and only
last summer was the guest OF Mrs
Marcia Kasson White, who has been
her friend from childhood. She is
the daughter of Benjamin Atwood,
who was long in active business at
South Newbury, owning the saw
and grist mill and brick yard. he
made the brick of which the Semin-
ary was built, and most of the brick
houses in our village. The item ap-
pears under the following heading:
sS3O,OOO Paid For Property Bought
For 10 Cents i'm 1S73," and goes on
to state: 1.-The property is that
owned BY Mrs Anna E Drew and is
located between Fifth and Sixth SITS.
The tract covers about a quarter OF
an acre, and though the considera,
ton attaching to the deal was not
made public it is understood the
price at which the property has been
held by the owner was 100000. The
lots were part of a tract that IN
1873 was purchased from the State
of Florida for 75c per acre"
Mrs Thomas of Burlington and her
daughter Miss Maude Thomas are
the guests of Mr. and Mrs ID. d
Jones.
1t has been decided to hold the
Christmas exercises in Chadwick hall
on Saturday evening. Rev MIR Ives
will have an appropriate sermon Tor
the day next Sabbath and in the
evening there will be a stereopticon
lecture 1.-THE Star of Bethlehem"
I Miss Edith Stebbins of No. Thet-
ford has been spending a day or two
with her friends the Misses Fland-
ers.
We notice those who are home for
the holidays: Misses Jane and
Gladys Barber, Oscar and Marguerite
S1dSSe, SIldl lCo al uiiN liio WV
daughters Evelyn and Miriam; James
Hibbard, Martha Leighton and Mr.
MIR and Mrs Frank Gunnell; Noble
Foss, Alice Dodge, Isabel Hartwell,
Edna, Jessie and Mary Flanders and
Marion Moves.
We expected our Red Cross Artist
who is gifted with flow of lang
uage and always gets her adiectives
in at the right place, would have
written up that show last week
Deacon Dubbs--but she didn't and
now, though it is rather late in the
day, we feel that it deserves some
thing more than mere mention, so
we are now going to take our pen
in hand and tell you what we think
and thought about it. Mrs William
Monroe as Miss Philipena Popover,
was typical of the old school,, Just
the kind we fellows of sixty or there
abouts used to pick out to buzz
when we were boys, brought us back
to our childhood days, and acted her
part we'll when she set her snare for
the eccentric Deacon Dubbs from
Sorgum Center, West Virginny, who
claimed that the water in the COOL
err was rather peculiar but had a
natural taste just the same" Deu-
teronomy Jones, a country product
was perfectly natural in his part,
and reminded US how he used to act
before his wife polished him up,
while Mrs Haines johnson as Emily
Dale, the richest girl in town; well,
the women folks say she looked love-
ly, we dar'sent say it, as we are a
IsA411 It+ af.ofI - hnf h.,N do
wish she had million in her own
right, and then if we were single
-. Mrs Jones as Yennie Yensen,
the hired girl from Sweden was be- !
arrayed and her persever-
ance was rewarded by Deuteronomy |
himself bag and bag
gage. and as the story books go, they
lived happily ever afterwards George |
Gibson, a wolf in sleeps clothing,
acted the villain so we'll that the /
audience fairly got down on him, and
George is an awfully good fellow;
next time he is going to play the
part of a hero and win back his
good name. And there was Rose Raj
eigh, the brave little school marin.
Mrs Noble Foss took that part, and
as long as Noble is in Boston and
won't see this paper, we are going
TO say confidentially, that we Just
fell in love with her, and If we had
taken the part of Amos Coleman
there would have been something do
ing, but Amos was Earle Bradley of
81 Johnsbury, and any bov from St
Johnsbury is awfully bashful, and
they don't seem to know what a girl
likes. Trixie Coleman was Mrs Har-
bid Hale, full of mischief, torment,
and the fellow who Is supposed to
live in the lower regions; all she had
TO do was to act natural, her real
self, and the old Deacon seemed TO
like her If she did plague the life
but Of him. Major McNutt, auction
eer and Justice of the Peace, was
Frank Meserve. Franks makeup was
that Of rather fast middle-aged
man who had many hot suppers, but
was finally redeemed. The only
criticism we have TO make Is his
weak and effeminate voice, which
Joseph Whitney claims knocked out
4 light of glass in the cellar window