The united opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1881-1970, 1921-06-17

been assigned to the battleship Utal
for service.
During the severe thunder storm
of Tuesday, June z, seven COWS be
longing to the Downing farm il
North Ferrisburg were killed by
lightning and one of Fred Harring,
toms cows was stunned when q large
pine tree was struck.
The University of Vermont base.
ball nine defeated Harvard in ar
extra INNING game at Soldiers
Field, Cambridge, June 8 by the
score of to 3.
About a dozen new houses are in
process of construction in Rutland
and applications have been made to
the city council for permission to
build two more.
Three hundred candidates were
initiated into the order of the
Knights of Birmingham at Wood
stock June 2, 1900 persons march
ing in the parade and dinner being
served to 1,400 at the state fair
grounds.
William Walker, one of the four
veterans of the Civil war remaining
in Johnson, died May 81 at the age
of "a. Because of wound received
in the war, he had been in poor
health many years.
The following officers were elected
at the State d. A. A. Conference in
Montpelier: Regent, Mrs L w Han
son; Vice-regent, Mrs C H Heaton;
recording secretary, Mrs G C Bliss;
treasurer, Mrs E H Prouty; registrar,
Mrs H M O'Dell; historian, Mrs L A
Newcomb; auditor, Miss Grace Clark.
From the registration already
made, it is seen that the attendance
at the state summer school for
teachers at the University of Ver-
mont, which opens in Burlington
July 5, will be the largest in its
history. 1t is likely that the at
tendance will exceed 700.
w G Hastings, State forester, has
arranged for the construction of a
lookout tower on the top of Ascutney
Mountain. There has never been one
there. There is a telephone station
on the mountain, but it is not close
to where the lookout will be placed
The mountain is fiat on top so that
a circuit of points is made by the
caretaker each day in watching for
fires.
The residence and barns of the Err
win Reynolds estate in Sharon were
totally destroyed by fire Friday, June
3 at loss of $4,000. The cause of
the fire is not known. The blaze
started in the barn. There were
nothing saved in the house or barn,
SO apidly did the fire spread. The
estate was the former homestead of
the late Henry Marsh. :.
The board of civil authority of
West Rutland, after a session last
ing several hours, voted unanimous
ly to uphold the action of the listers
of that town in increasing the valu-
alton Of the Vermont Marble Co.
approximately S250,000 over that
made in 1920, despite the vigorous
protest made by officials of the con-
Germ who argued before the board
that such valuation was contrary to
law.
A facial scar led to the arrest Of
Shubert K Silver, 45, alleged en-
bezzler of $4,000 from the First Re |
formed Church of New Brunswick, |
N. j., who has been living in a sum-
mer cottage at Lake Hortonia about |
three weeks, his companion being
Miss Adele Guoin of Perth Ambov, |
N. j., pretty waitress. After be- |
ing held at a Fair Haven hotel by |
Constable John Brown of Fair
Haven, the erring pair were taken
back to New Jersey June by
Lieutenant of Detectives John r
Ferguson of New Brunswick.
DR.. James PEBBLES, physician and
author, who has just celebrated his
99th birthday anniversary at his
home in Los Angeles, Cal, was born
in Nottingham March %, 1922. He
has travelled around the earth five
times and has written a book on
'How to Live a Century and Grow
Old Gracefully" DR.. PEBBLES ascribes
his long life to abstinence from
meat eating. He began his abstin-
ence from it when 80 years old. He
walks erect, his sight is good and
MS hearing as good as ever, while
MS appetite and digestion are ex-
,ellent.
During a severe electrical storm
n Underhill Tuesday afternoon, June
7, the horse Of V H Boyd was struck
by lightning and instantly killed and
both Mr. and Mrs Boyd were paralyz-
ID temporarily, as they were un-
the animal. They had
lust driven into the yard and stopped
inder a tree to unharness the horse
when a bolt of lightning came down
he tree and struck the animal, also
earring Mrs Boyd's shoes entirely to
pieces, burning her considerably, and
hen passed off into the ground. Z
Mr. Boyd is getting over
he shock, his wife's condition is
till serious.
Miss Emma Baker, %, daughter Of
ir and Mrs Charles Baker of View
fridge, was killed June Z at North (
lebanon, ~ Y, when the automobile
n which she and her brother, Har-
Id Bakor, we're returning from New
,ork was struck by another car.
Hiss Baker and her brother went to
Jew York Friday to drive home ,
lew automobile They visited rela- ,
ives in New York prior TO starting
or Weybridge. Jun z, message /
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