The united opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1881-1970, 1921-03-18

! Native hOthOuSe products sold at the
following prices; beet greens 5Oc-85c,
dandelions $2.OO-$2.25; cucumbers $1,000
/ $500, and lettuce 60c-s1.O0 per bushel;
and rhubarb 12c-15c and tomatoes Zoe
30c per pound.
A bill compelling cities and towns
of Massachusetts to establish courses
/ of physical training in public schools,
against which the Christian Scientists
recently protested, has been reported
favorably by the committee on educa-
ton. The amendments suggested by
opponents of the bill were all voted
down.
Judge Utley in district court, Wor-
cester, Mass, ruled that police off
GERS without search warrants have
no right to seize liquor from the per-
son. He discharged two defendants
who had been charged with having
liquor in their possession, although
each admitted handing a bottle of
whiskey to the officer on demand.
Arthur Pease of Lee, Mass, has on
exhibition a parrot more than so
years old. 1t is as loquacious as ever.
Polly's natal day was before the food
the East Lee fiood-which happened
in the SOS when Mud Pond engulfed
the village after dam had burst.
The parrots screeching warning saved
several persons from the onrush of
waters, it is said
Abandonment of a project to build
silk spinning mill in New Bedford,
Mass, to be union-owned and con-
trolled, was announced by officers of
the United Textile Workers of Amer
lea. The executive council of the or
ganization in December last endorsed
the project, which was to have been
carried out by the Mammoth Silk Cor
poration, with a capital of 100000.
Two New England colleges are
benahciaries in the list of donations
announced by the General Education
Board, which John D. Rockefeller
founded to promote education. They
were the University of Vermont, which
receives $3.50 600, and the Connecticut
College for Women at New London,
which win receive $4,000. Total
gifts to colleges ( announced by the
board aggregated $2.66O,0OO.
The directors of the New England
Shoe and Leather Association at a
in Boston voted unanimously
to oppose the request of the New
+ ngland railroads for an additional 10
per cent. increase in freight and pas
senger rates and to ask the inter state
commission to investigate
the financial condition of
thesNew England roads with a view
to ascertaining the best method of
meeting the existing emergency.
Speaker B. Loring Young declared
for biennial sessions of the Massa-
,husetts Legislature in an address at
the luncheon of the Boston Shoe
Trades Club. Massachusetts, is just
now entering on the biennial election
era he said. but it retained. in the new
form of the constitution, a provision
'6r annual sessions of the Legislature.
He believes that all necessary legisla-
ion could be accomplished II the
sat only every other year.
For the second time in six years,
peach orchards are
going to get a good crop. according
o fruit specialists at the Massachu-
ietts Agricultural College. There is
possibility that a most unreasonable
old wave will settle and again disap-
,oint peach growers, but the pros
,ects for a crop are excellent. Peach
yrowers used to expect three peach
.rops in five years. counting on Mas
achusetts winters to kill their crop
he other two years: but in the last
i've year cycle there has been Just
me crop. that Of 1919. Consequently
many peach orchards are now IN such
condition that they SARGE
y can be counted on to set a profit
BILE crop.
President John +. White Of the Wor-
ester Bank & Trust Company advo-
ated that the sound banking inter
SITS" should drive out Of business
ertain sensational bankers who. he
aid. cried Conspiracy" when their
.anks we're closed because OF certain
Methods they had been using. Mr..
White was speaking at the hearing by
he ways and means committee Of
he Legislature on State Treasurer
arkson's proposal that banks be COM
elled to deposit a surety bond on
tate deposits. thereby making the
tate a preferential deposition.