The united opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1881-1970, 1921-08-19

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considered serious.
Lewis S Richardson, for 33 years
postmaster at Chester Depot, does
market gardening as a side line.
At the close of the berry season,
1921, he had cleared $40 from his
strawberry patch, $3.50 from his
raspberry bushes, and had pick
ed two bushels of currants from
his garden.
Mrs Fannie F Prouty of Brat
tleboro has sued the Pellet and
Skinner contracting firm of that
village for $4,000 damages, claim
ing that her right knee was in
iured and she was otherwise in
capacitated when she fell over
some material 'carelessly left
scattered about the street." while
the contractors were rebuilding
the Vermont National Bank build
ing in Brattleboro.
According to the report of the
state board of health, Vermont
was comparatively free from con-
tagious diseases during July. The
most prevalent was measles, of
which there were 255 cases, SO of
them in Washington county. Sew
en- cases of poliomyelitis were re-
ported during the month, two in
Middlebury, and one each in st
Adams City, Grand Isle, Hyde
Park, Montpelier and Brattleboro.
The postoffice department now
requires railway postal clerks to
carry revolvers while on duty. At
the present time the various clerks
are practising preparatory to en-
tering a contest in Workmanship
to be held during the latter part
of this month. Several days ago
Arthur B Jackson of Burlington,
a railway postal clerk, made two
scores of 48 out of a possible so
on the rs yard range at Fort Eth
an Allen.
Miss M Joyce Hindley, daughter
of Editor Howard L Hindley of
the Rutland Herald, and Frederick
Brigham, son of Mr. and Mrs. Geo
A Brigham of Rutland, were mar
ried August 9th by the Rev DR.
George f Price, pastor of the Me-
thodist church. The ceremony took
place in a room where five gener-
atoms of the Brighams have been
welded. The couple will live in
Chicago, where Mr. Brigham has
just taken a position with the
Western Packing Co.
AS the result of an attack made
upon her, Mrs Louis Cheeseman,
"a, is in a critical condition at YER
gennes, with bad wounds about the
head and face, and Albert Batch
elder, 18, an inmate of the indus
trial school, is at the Addison Co.
Jail at Middlebury awaiting the
outcome of his victims injuries.
He has readily admitted making
the attack, which was committed
for the purpose of robbing the
Cheeseman home, and says he is
ready to take his punishment like
man.
The Caledonia Mills, Inc, ship
ped from st Johnsbury July 26th
to North Adams, Mass, a carload
of grain, properly sealed, and it
reached the consignee August I'd
with seal unbroken. When the car
was opened a tramp dashed out
of it and down the railroad track.
Unless he secreted food and wa
ter when he entered the car he
must have been without food for
the entire ten days. The car left
st Johnsbury in the early morn
ing and it is supposed the tramp
was hiding behind bags OF grain.
Capt Ernest Gibson of Brattle-
boro has been elected colonel of
the 1st Vermont Infantry, Nation
al Guards, in Camp Devens, near
ly 1000 strong. The election of
Capt Gibson to the colonelcy COM
pletes the organization. He sue
ceeds Lt-Col John w Tinker of
st Johnsbury, and is the first full
colonel to be appointed to COM
mand the regiment, which has
been organized only since July,
1919. Lieut-Col Herbert T Johnson,
acknowledgement of Vermont, de-
clared that the Vermont regiment
responded to the call for field
training with 100 per cent of their
personnel on duty. When they left
for camp only two of the officers
were not present, one being in the
hospital because of an accident, and
one on emergency leave. Nine
hundred and eleven men and IS Of
ficers is the strength of the regi-
ment.