The united opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1881-1970, 1921-05-20
new ENGLAND NEWS
IN TABLOID FORM
Items of Interest From All
Sections of YaRkeeIand

Plant who died Nov. 4, 1918, is val
ued at approximately $17000,000 in
stead of $33,000,000 as originally in
ventoried, it was disclosed at hear
ing in the Probate Court in Groton,
Conn.
The Rev. Harper p Mitchell, former
pastor of the MARYLAND Avenue Baptist
church, Brockton, Mass. appearing be-
fore the church's prudential commit
tee, produced evidence by which he
was completely exonerated of charges
of misbehavior,
The will of JEANNE Latin Couch of
Dalton, Mass, creates a trust fund for
$25,000 for the Berkshire Animal Res
cue League and in addition gives the
home and land now occupied by the
league in Dalton, in trust, for the pur-
poses of the league.
Axel Peterson, Worcester, Mass,
with a record of 35 arrests in II years,
and John F. Hayes of Worcester, with
a record of 33 arrests in IL years,
pleaded guilty to charges of drunken
ness before Judge Webster Thayer in
Superior Criminal Court.
BY the will of Hon. Charles S. Lilley
of Lowell $4,000 is bequeathed to
Lowell Cemetery, of which associa-
ton he was president. In one clause
mention is made of his dog, Rex, and
the request was made that he should
always be well cared for.
Edwin L. Halves, blind political
boss of Scituate, r. l., former deputy
town clerk, at one time Representa-
tive to the General Assembly on the
Democratic ticket from Burillville,
and prominent in political circles in
the State, died at his home in Scitu-
ate, after long illness. He was in
his SD year.
At the 33d annual session of the
supreme lodge, New England Order
of Protection, the first net gain in
several years was reported for the
last term when 81 were added. The
present membership is 1898 divided
as follows Maine, 1852; New Hamp-
shire, 1873; Vermont, 1877; Massachu-
sets, 1902; Rhode Island, 1909;
Connecticut, $3.50. There are 1886
lodges.
Reports of damage to growing crops
by heavy frost, temperatures of from
IS to freezing and formation of ice in
small ponds and brooks were received
from many districts of Massachusetts,
last week. West Springfield truck and |
market gardeners set their losses at |
$50 1000 The mercury dropped 10 de-
gres or more below the freezing |
point in parts of the Cape Cod cram
berry district.
Jordan S. Orler, John d. Boyer, of ]. |
s. Orler & Co., brokers, and Mrs. Jane |
Butland, engaged in the business of |
character analysis were arrested on |
Indictment warrants charging them |
with larceny in II counts of securities |
from Mrs. Walter X. Martin, widow of |
Edmund Clarke of the firm of Dan
forth Clarke Co. Boston. The amount
of the larceny charge in the indict-
ment is $115,992.
Byron Bearce and Wilson Lowell of
Pittsfield, Me-, have just finished a
hike which is attracting attention.
They walked from Rumford to Pitts
field, 81 miles, in 36 hours elapsed
time. The actual was "a hours,
they averaged 2k miles per hour. AS
they made no deductions for brief
halts to eat a lunch or ask directions,
the actual hourly average was much
better than that.
There are three nurses living in
the Lowell, Mass, section who served
in the Civil War. They are Sister Mar
tina of ST. Johns Hospital staff and
Mrs. Mary E. Smith of Lowell, and
Mrs. Hannah P. Buxton of the Blan-
chard Hospital, Dracut. Sister Martina
is so years old and has been chief
nurse at night in st. Johns Hospital
for 80 years. She is quick in recogniz-
ing former patients.
w. A. Lincoln, Marlboro, Mass, a
veteran of the Civil War, who has
Just celebrated his 18th birthday, has
received a letter from United States
Senator David l. Walsh, in which he
says he is giving his attention to a
claim of Mr.. Lincoln against the Gov
eminent Mr.. Lincoln claims two
months ration pay, due Sc years ago.
which, with accrued interest, would
now amount to $500.
Declaring there is no possible obiec-
tion to the proposed investigation by
the Allied Printing Trades Council into
the solvency of companies carrying
compensation, suggest
ed in a recent speech made by Sena-
tor Warren F Tarbell in the Legisla-
ture, Clarence w. Hobbs commission
er of insurance stated he will be glad
to place at the councils disposal all
in his department. In
Probably the oldest Fairbanks scale
in Vermont has recently been pre-
scented to the Fairbanks Museum by