The united opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1881-1970, 1921-05-20

Mrs C E Blood.
Harry A Black, secretary of State,
has suspended indefinitely the auto
mobile operators license of Alva J
Pierce, the man whose car it was
alleged was run into by a bull near
Brandon recently. An investigation
of the whole affair is under way by
the officials of that department.
George Howatt, who has been To-
Gated in Pekin, China, has arrived at
his fathers in South Tunbridge, where
the family will remain for some time.
The fare from Pekin to Vermont for
himself, wife and three children,
with their baggage, was nearly $4,000.
A real estate boom is on in Rut-
land, 81 warranty deeds having been
recorded since April l. The housing
problem is the main reason for the
purchases of so many homes, yet
builders declare the number of new
houses erected in Rutland this season
will be small.
An automobile for the secretary of
State and the State highway COM
missioners for use in their respec-
tive departments were authorized
May 18th at a meeting of the Board
of Control. Neither is to cost over
$4,000. The board also authorized the
employing of a reasonable operator
for the cars.
By the will of the late Cornelia w
Bailey of Everett, Mass. Middlebury
college will receive fund of $4,000,
after the life estate of the executor,
the income of which is to be used for
scholarships for deserving boys and
girls of the Protestant faith residing
in Vermont. This comes after a con-
troversy lasting more than ayear, and
was the decision recently established
by the supreme court of Massachu-
sets.
One of the largest business trans
actions to take place in Burlington
in a long time occurred last week
when Bailey's Music Rooms, owned by
A l. Bailey of st. Johnsbury, was
transferred to a corporation known as
Baileys Music Rooms, Inc. The new
firm is capitalized for 100000, with
$4,000 paid in. The president Of
the firm is Stella White Harris. Theo
St. Antoine is vice.president and
clerk and C w Harris is treasurer
and general manager. The purchase
by the new firm includes the st. Al
bans store run under the name of
Bailey's Music Rooms.
The State highway department re-
ceived a report that another BRIDGE
has gone down May 9Th. 1t is in
Barnard and week ago a heavy
truck went over it. The driver re-
that fha
bridge did not appear safe to him
and the farmer went to the place to
look it over. AS he approached the
bridge he met large touring car
which had crossed it. He continued
on his way to the bridge and found
that the bridge had fallen into the
stream, one abutment having given
way after the touring car passed over
it.
C H Morse, a native of st. Johns
bury, died recently at Winter Park,
Fla. When Is years of age he enter
ed the counting room of h and L
Fairbanks and company and has con-
tinued with the company in some
CAPACITY ever since, for many years
being manager of the Chicago house
of Fairbanks, Morse & Co. From
1883 to 1908 he was a director in the
St. Johnsbury corporation of f and 1
Fairbanks and company.
Anna. Stetson, IL, daughter of Mr.
and Mrs w o Stetson of West Hart
ford, who on Monday night, May 9th
returned home and told a weird story
of kidnapping in explanation of her
absence from home since Saturday,
was given a hearing before Judge A
G Whitman of South Royalton May |
10th. 1t developed in court that her
story about the "short man with the |
lark moustache" who she claimed
ured her away and kept her pris-
)ner in a house within a mile from
1er own home, was pure fabrication.
An involuntary petition in bank
-uptcy was filed last week in the
office of the clerk of the United |
States District Court by the creditors
IF Frank B Rowland of Barre, former
president of the Barre Savings Bank |
& Trust company, and Frank b Tow
er of Barton. Rowland was adjudged |
a bankrupt last week on the petition |
Of John Robins, w ID Reid and Earl |
all of Barre. Messrs
Reid and Robins hold promissory
notes over and above $4,000 security, |
while Mr. Batchelder hold a promis-
sorry note over and above $1,000 Sc
curity.
The looting of the clothing and
store of w p Donahue Of
Proctor and carrying away of 20
mems suits, a quantity of neckwear
and jewelry, the haul being valued at
about 1000, is the most daring break
and the biggest loss to a merchant in
Rutland county, reported in many
months. The break was made between
$50 o'clock Tuesday night, May 10th,
and yesterday morning. The au-
thorities have been unable to get the
slightest trace of the thief or thieves
States Attorney Charles + Novak,
Sheriff Henry r Adams of Rutland
and Deputy Sheriff w H Startup of
Proctor were obliged to admit that
they were baffied.
The Harrison Granite Co. of Barre
is the successful bidder for furnish
ing granite for the new million-dol-
lar home Of the National Life Insur-
ance Co. at the corner of State