The united opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1881-1970, 1921-02-04

OF newport, WHO SdCIluCcu lllS lie
twhile rescuing Napoleon Maillot from
drowning in Lake Willoughby, Aug.
81, 1919. Mrs Arthur Rossier, who
resides in Newport, will receive ade-
quate financial assistance.
Carl Wiley. tapped maple tree in
his yard in South Londonderry, gath
cred the sap the 18th and when
boiled down to syrup it made a
feast for four persons.
Arrangements have been practically
completed for taking Alberta Eldred,
the four acknowledgements girl
whose feet were cut off last summer
when she got in front of a moving
machine at Waterbury, to Boston for
treatment. 1t was found the child
would have to undergo three oper-
ations before she could wear arti-
fetal legs.
Additional awards at the maple
sugar exhibit in Burlington were the
following: Largest and best display
of maple products, j P Spear, West
Newburv, S25; largest and best al it's
tic display, H M Hoskison, Cuttings
Vile. S25. There was also a fine
manufacturers exhibit of all forms
of maple products by Helen Dodd Of
South Newbury, who will receive a
special prize.
A A Roberts of Dorset has the
unique distinction of having killed
what is probably the only opossum
ever caught in Vermont. MIR Rob-
erts caught the animal in a trap on
| the Roberts farm last December. The
animal is the size of a small coon,
with black and white fur, long hair
ed. The northern limit of the range
of the opossum is New Jersey or the
lower Hudson valley. Opossums are
common in the South, and are
particularly hunted for eating pur-
| poses as we'll as for their furs. They
seldom range into New England.
The radio wireless station which
has been installed at the University
of Vermont this year has proved to
be one of the most efficient and sue
cessful stations of it's class anywhere
in the country. The results which
have been attained are the more re-
markable when the unfavorable
nature of the surrounding country is
considered. Messages have been ex-
changed with 60 other stations and
signals have been picked up from
scattered throughout the eastern
states and include many in the west.
The greatest distance the local
station has been heard is at Topeka,
Kansas, a distance of nearly 1880
miles.
Herbert Hoover has appointed H A
Graves of st. Johnsbury as chairman
of the motion picture exhibitors of
Vermont in the campaign by which
the industry hopes to raise $780,
900 for the starving children Of
Europe.
Further correspondence between
the Brattleboro village trustees and
the president of the United Con-
struction company, which was award
ed the contract to build the steel
bridge acress the Connecticut river
from Brattleboro to Hinsdale, N H.,
is to the effect that the company
considers it unsafe to try to put in
any bridge work until after spring
freshets, or about the middle of
April stating that the condition Of
the steel market IS what has held the
work up until now. The contract
reads that the bridge shall be COM
pleted March l, 1921, and the towns
hold the United Construction com
pany's bond for 60 per cent Of the
cost of the bridge for the perform
ance of its contract.
One of the interesting sidelights as
ISOLATED with the visit of Vice-Presi-
dent-elect Calvin Coolidge to YER
mont recently was a little dialogue
which took place in the waiting room
in the hotel at White River juno
ton. One of our neighboring towns
men CHANGED to be sitting in the
waiting room of this hostelry when
three gentlemen came in and seated
themselves near him, and soon he
ventured to engage in conversation
with one of the strangers, whom he
found profoundly courteous, but not
especially conversational. After touch
ing on several different topics, he
made the following remark, We'll,
there will soon be a change in adj
ministratiOn, but, according to my
notion, we haven't got the right man
for president" To this remark the
stranger smiled and said by way Of
interrogatory reply, "Who do you
think should have been elected presi- |
dent?" Our neighbor replied, "Cal |
Coolidge is the man who ought to |
have been elected" The stranger /
smiled again, and with a marked de- |
gree of modest hesitancy arose ard /
said he felt compelled to acknowledge /
his appreciation Of the very high |
compliment paid him, since he him
self was Mr. Coolidge.
springfield to Vancouver or bust"
is the slogan adopted by two Young
men about 20 years old from SPRING
field in this state, who arrived at
Brattleboro Wednesday, Jan 10. on a
walking trip to British Columbia.
They are Harry Bazan, whose home
is in Foxboro, Mass, and Rudolph
Drew of Warren, this state both of
whom have been working in Spring
field. Bazan has relatives in Van
couver, and after the young men
have visited there they plan to start
back for Springfield by the same
method Of travel, but by northerly4
route. They had only S1.25 each on
leaving Springfield and it is their
intention not to beg, or to pay for
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