The united opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1881-1970, 1922-05-05

| OFFERS III TO Cne Sldte Loi anu game
department for state pheasant
hatchery. The club will build cot
tage for the caretaker and coops for
the hatchery. About 1000 eggs will
be Matched the first season. As the
birds become available they will be
released all over the state.
The head of a cow moose which
was injured in Nottingham last win
ter and killed by game warden has
been mounted by taxidermist named
Phillips, in Glover and sent to the
office of the State fish and game
commissioner. The office already has
the mounted head Of a. bull moose
which was shot by Charles Southgate
in South Royalton in November, 1918.
William A Shaw for many years
local forecaster at the United States
Weather Bureau at Norwich Uni
versity, who was removed to Boston
some months ago, has received mott
fication that he is to be returned to
his old station at Norwich University.
Mrs Shaw and daughter, Miss Ethel,
who have been living in Prof. E A
Shaw's house, will move back to the
u. S. Bureau at Norwich University
at once.
Judge Frederick B Pier, aged "a,
died April 18th at his home in
Brattleboro. He sustained shock
April 7th. He had been justice of
the peace so years. For many years
Judge Pier was an assistant judge of
Windham county court, first in the
northern district and then in the
southern district, succeeding Judge
Frank Worden of Halifax after COM
ing here in 1912. At one time he
was treasurer of the state grange.
He represented Jamaica in the legis-
lature of 1894.
A bequest of $4,000 to endow a
free room at the Samaritan hospital
at Troy, N. Y, is made in the will of
Margaret Fay Brown of Bennington,
filed for probate April 25th. The will
provides that the residuary estate,
estimated at between $4,000 and
$50 900, shall go to Middlebury col
lege to create the Stephen Fay Foun-
dation in memory of the ancestor of
the testatrix. Stephen Fay was land
lord of the Catamount tavern of Ben
nington, which was the meeting
place of Ethan Aliens Green Noun
| tain boys and of the council of safe
| ty before the admission of Vermont
into the union.
George Slayton of Moscow, who
has shipped maple syrup this spring
to parties in the states of Washing
ton, California Michigan, New Hamp-
shire, Connecticut, Massachusetts,,
New York and Florida and to the
governor of the island of San Do
mingo, would like to know if any
other small sugar maker has distri-
buted his product to wider market
Mr. Slayton tapped about 900 trees
this year and made the equivalent Oh
800 pounds of sugar, small crop,
but of excellent quality. The gov
ernor of San Domingo is Rear Ad-
miral S Robinson, son-in-law OF
Admiral Charles A Clark, who is a
frequent summer visitor at Lake
Mansfield.
Major Ira H Evans, formerly of
Berlin, who enlisted in Company b
10th Vermont volunteers, July 8,
1862, and served over four and half
years in the Union army, being pro-
noted to brevet major in the United
States colored troops, died in San
Diego Cal. April 49, Major Evans
amassed considerable fortune in
Austin, Texas, following the Civil
war and was elected speaker of what
| is thought to have been the only
Republican House of Representatives
ever elected in Texas. The body was
brought to Vermont and interment
was in the Berlin Corners cemetery.
A Vermont poetess has won dis
tinguished honor. Miss Sylvia Bliss
of East Calais, in the Green Noun
| tain state, has been accorded the
distinction of having her volumes of
verse, Quests" placed on the list of
the Poetry Society's committee on
Library lists, for 1920-21. This list
is prepared in order to indicate the
books published in 1921 which are
considered to be most representative
of the progress of poetry in our
country during that period. The list
is followed by librarians everywhere
and the selection of Quests" is a
marked honor and notable feather
in the authors cap.
Ralph w Brewster, night ticket
agent at the Boston & Maine station
at Winchester, Mass, was found dead
April 20 in his office in the station.
He had been shot through the head.
The door of the ticket Office was
open and the safe and cash drawer
had been tempered with but so far
as the police were able to learn,
nothing had been stolen. Brewster
was &c years old. His wife and three
children live in Pittsfield, N. H. He
was a native of Huntington, VT,
where sister, Mrs Joshua Brown,
still resides. His mother, Mrs Frank
Brewster, lives at Bristol.