The united opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1881-1970, 1921-02-25
new ENGLAND NEWS
IN TABLOID FORM
Items of Interest From All
Sections OF YankeeIand

dropped dead WnlIe raising TIE
American flag on the flag staff
in the schoolyard.
Mrs. Harriet Chapman widow OF
John Chapman, inventor of knitting
machinery, died in the almshouse
at Wethershield, Conn. She was
born in England and was 100 years
old last April.
Howard P. Gilmore, owner of, the
largest peach farm in West
boro, Mass, predicts bumper crop
this season, as he has tested some of
the twngs that readily blossomed
when placed in water.
Five hundred of Uncle Sans fight
ing men in the world war were
either students or graduates of the
Newton, Mass, Classical high school,
OF this number, 40 made the supreme
sacrifice-an unusually high percen-
tage of the total.
The Master Builders Association
has announced wage cut of 20 per
cent for all building mechanics in
Lawrence, Mass, and it's vicinity.
The new wage scale will go into effect
March l and notice of it was sent
to the Building Trades Council.
Sec. Reed of Gloucester, Mass.
Board of Trade, received notice from
the manager of the cup challenger
now building at Essex,
that that craft will be entered in the
races next Fall for selec-
ton to defend the Esperanto Cup.
Joseph H. Mathews, Jr., Is years of
age, of Freeport, Me-, was sentenced
to the State Reformatory for an indie
finite term for locking his mother
out of her home at Porters Landing,
during a severe snow storm. She was
wraps and crawled beneath
barn.
Homer Spurlock, John Brown and
James Purcell, convicted of the muir
Ter of Asa B. Entrekin, the railroad
station agent at Emden, Me-, have
been taken to Thomaston by two
deputy sheriffs, where they are serv-
heir sentences of life Imprisonment
1t hard labor.
The referendum recently held by the
Massachusetts, Retail Merchants As
ociation among its members on the
question of retaining the Daylight
saving law has resulted in about SO
'er cent of the membership voting,
desire that the Daylight
saving law be retained.
At a meeting of the Massachusetts
Common Council, Councilman Long
ey intimated that a bill of So pre-
ented last year was for "hootch."
The statement came out of a dis
ussion regarding the purchase of a
ruck for the Highway Department
t cost not to exceed $4,000.
For the third year in succession the
eomen Cd who served at the Little
and navy yard, Boston, dur
ng the war, have lost their fight for
Inclusion in the 800 bonus which the
tate gave in 1919 to world war
eterans. The committee on foreign
fairs voted leave to withdraw.
An unusual claim against the state
f Massachusetts, for damage done by
7ild deer was presented to the autho-
tiles in Springfield by Deputy Game
Warden j. P. Patch, acting in behalf |
t residents of the outskirts of that !
ity, who allege damages totalling
60 by deer that ate garments from
lothes lines recently.
Charges that the First Corps Ca |
cts considers applications from re- |
ruits only from social viewpoint" /
nd that fragrant discrimination /
xists were made by Representative I
Irthur K. Reading and Harry N /
-uterman before the Massachusetts
louise rules committee, urging adj I
Mission of an order calling for an in /
estigation of the Cadets.
Massachusetts is becoming the |
Apply hunting ground for promo
ers of fraudulent securities" said .
.tty. ]. Weston Allen, in APP +
caring before the legislative com .
litee on banks and banking in sup
ort of the recommendations of the
o-called blue sky commission" of
hitch he is chairman and which re-
emily submitted its report.
Harris A. Reynolds, secretary OF
he Massachusetts Forestry Associa-
on, who has for three years been
Durng the timber lands of the coun-
y, predicted that our forests
ill disappear in so years. He says
lat the adoption of efficient forest
re prevention methods might posi-
ly extend the wods' lease Of life an
dditional 90 years, and suggested
lat in the future fire fighters in air
lanes might drop bombs which
'ould extinguish the flames with
lemicals.
Chaps and lariats may be a com
ION sight in Jefferson. Ne, IL the
Experiment. in beef raising. success
ally conducted near that town at
aims the proportions planned by a
lumber of farmers who are turning