The united opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1881-1970, 1922-05-26

orders received from the state fire
marshal. The tavern was occupied as
a hotel in 1898 and has now become
so dilapidated as to be dangerous in
case of fire.
Willard L Metcalf and Alexander
Brown of New York City are guests
at the New Fullerton hotel in Ches-
ter for several weeks and are paint
ing landscapes of that section of
Windsor county. Mr. Metcalf is rec
ognfzed as one of the foremost land
scape painters in America.
Louis L Northouse, SO, Benning-
tons oldest citizen, died May II. He
was born in Germany but had lived
in the United States since he was
eight years old. He was a tobacco
dealer and often passed portion of
the year in Cuba in connection with
the business.
FB Bartlett of Beaver Brook farm,
Bristol, lost 10 head of cattle regis
tered Holsteins, in the thunder storm
May 7. They were all under one tree
for shelter from the severe rain and
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bolt of lightning.
The State department of weights
and measures recently prosecuted
case in Caledonia county for giving
short weight in butter. The name
was not given out. The person was
warned, but did not heed the warn
ing, and was brought into court. A
plea of guilty was entered, and fine
imposed.
A demonstration apple orchard has
been started at the farm of E 2
Adams & Son i'm Marlboro, 100 trees
of the Delicious and Duchess varieties
being planted. Next year 300 McIn-
tosh and Baldwin trees will be set.
Experiments will be made in differ
ent kinds of treatment.
Secretary of State Harry A Black
has taken out an automobile opera
tors license and will do some driv-
ing himself this summer. Secretary
Black has the use of a state car,
REQ coupe, but in past years has had
chauffeur, Harold OBrien, al in
spector in the state motor vehicle
department.
DR.. Smaller E Lawton, superintend-
emit of the Brattleboro Retreat for
the past 30 years and physician at
the institution before that, has mott
fed the trustees that at the annual
meeting in July he would resign and
decline reelection. DR. Lawton
gave as his reason his impaired
health, after having had the step
under consideration for several
months.
In cooperation with w E Bettridge,
who owns an estate in Arlington, and
other sportsmen of that locality, H P
Sheldon, state fish and game commits
sioner, has entered an agreement to
close 500 acres of land in Arlington
as a state game refuge. This action
is taken along the lines of the de-
partment's policy of establishing
small game refugees in many differ
ent parts of the state to act as game
reservoirs for the surrounding coun-
try.
Brattleboro will have rather con-
fused system of time this summer
Nine manufacturing plants, including
the Estey Organ Company, have sign
ed an agreement to set their clocks |!
ahead one hour, beginning May z.
Two other concerns will start work |
earlier, but will not change their |
clocks. The remaining five manufac- !
turing plants will change neither
clocks nor hours of working. Mer- !
camille concerns, schools, ETC., con-
tinue on standard time.
A deed has been signed for the |
transfer of the Miller forest property |
of 9,400 acres in Peacham and Groton |
to the state, and this tract, combined |
with $500 acres which the state al
ready owns, will be used by the state
forestry department for forest dem
onstration on large scale. The state
already has several tracts which are
used to show woodlots may be profit
ably operated, but has not had any
means of extensive demonstration.
Barre athletes continue to honor
that city and bring glory to them
selves. Down at Dartmouth college
a young man-"Jimmie" Young-has
carved a niche in the runners hall of
fame and each week finds him bring
ing new fame to his alma mater. At
New York Young captured the two
mile event in the Dartmouth Column
bia meet, setting up a new Columbia
record His time was nine minutes,
AZ 4-10 seconds as against mark of
nine minutes, as seconds. Young was
the most prominent man at Hanover,
recently, having defeated Head, the
Penn runner of international fame.
The Holstein Friesian COW, v S H,
Eliza Pontiac De Kol Korndyke, No.
471647, owned by the Vermont State
hoSpital. has established a new State
butter record for the senior three
year-old class in the seven-day divi-
sion by producing 29O94 pounds of
butter from BIOS pounds of milk in
her best consecutive days while on
test. She is the oldest daughter of
King Korndyke Ida Verman, No.