The united opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1881-1970, 1921-10-07
new ENGLAND NEWS
IN TABLOID FORM
Items of Interest From All
Sections Of Yankeeland


low raccoon, so light that in certain
lights it would pass for white. Tit
animal was recently caught alive il
O patch of corn, near Littleheld's farm
The Boston fishing schooner May
flower will not be allowed to enter thu
preliminary races off here Oct. IL II
pick a defender of the Internationa
Fisherman's Cup. This was decided
by unanimous vote of the race com
mittee.
Vice President Calvin Coolidge viii
make his first public appearance il
Springfield, Mass, since taking Office
at Washington when he speaks at &
dinner to open a local community
chest drive. The dinner will take
place Oct. IL.
The record of Medical Examiner
Thomas B. Smith shows that So per
sons were killed in Lowell streets in
the past 10 months. In addition to the
fatal railroad accident in Billerica
there were a few minor accidents in
Lowell streets.
Increased express rates on the Ban
.gor & Aroostock railroad in Maine,
filed by the American Express Com
pany last June and ordered suspended,
have been declared by the interstate
commerce commission to be unjusti-
fed and formally set aside.
At the annual convention of the Ma
tional Womans Relief Corps, aux
Hilary to the G. A. R., held in Indianap-
oils, Ind, Mrs. Agnes H. Parker OF
Boston, who has just closed sue
cesssful year, as National patriotic
instructor, was elected National presi-
dent.
A young girl at the Dedham, Mass,
High School was sent home with a
letter to her mother, for coming to
school with rolled down stockings
The School Committee previously is
sued an order forbidding High School
girls to wear rolled down stockings
In school.
The body of Melville Kimball, lath-
,er, aged 6S, of Saco, Me-, who left his
home Sept. s, 1919, to pick cranber-
ries at the Great Heath, vast
stretch of waste land in the northern
part of the city, and ives never seen
alive afterwards, was found in a sit
ting position under tree in that sec
tion.
Appraisal of the estate of the late
William F. Armstrong of New York,
shows that he left property valued at
$1,S22,192 net. Public requests ex-
coed S1,OOO,OOO, including a specific
bequest of 100000 and the residuary
estate amounting to $726,7S6, to-
Wesleyan University of Middletownr
Conn.
After nine years of retirement from
a long and unusual career in public
service, Brig.-Gen. William G. Ca
pelle died in his home in Brighton
Mass, at the age of So. For years he
had been the sole remaining member
of the military staff of Gov. Andrew
in 1864. In succeeding years he had
served on the stafiis of seven other
Governors.
( Judge Morton, in the Federal Dis
trict Court, Boston, handed down a
decision in the case of the Francis
Drug Company against Prohibition
Director Potter for the return of the
liquor seized from the drug company
and inferentially states that it is for
the court to order the return of the
fcg eli n
der the prohibition act.
F. NJ. Wilcox, chairman of the Wis
consin industrial commission, ad-
dressing a general session of the ma
tional safety congress at the state
House, Boston, auditorium, expressed
the opinion that industrial employers
should be held responsible for all di-
seases contracted by their employees
during their employment in their
particular lines of industry.
Aversion of labor to accepting work
ut reduced wages ives assigned as a
cause of some unemployment by Ros-
well F. Phelps. Director of Labor sta
tistics of the Massachusetts Labor De-
partment, the first witness heard by
the National Employment Conferences
committee on unemployment statis-
tics. which set to work to detehmine
the extent and volume of the Ma
tion's involuntary idle.
Boston has 37S local trades unions
and 25 central unions or councils, &C
cording to figures contained in an in
dustrial directory Of labor organiza-
tions issued by the Department OF
Labor and Industries. The total num-
Der OF the organizations in the State
according to the publication, is 2O79
OF which number 145 are National, 81
State. District and Trades Councils
JIG Central Labor Unions and Com
ellis and 1884 local trade unions.
Three divisions Of New England
troops. including one from Massachu-
sets. will be modified as part Of the
regular army reserve. More thar
10000 officers and men viii be num-