The united opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1881-1970, 1922-12-29
NEWBURY.

been lots of doings in this good old towi
in the past few days and what want to de
is to tell you all about it and as Grindle
the old merchant up at Hadlock's Mill'
Maine says eff l git through without
Citing my wires crossed an fergittint
more'n a dozen things an not maxim nc
inimies for life, I'll consider my sell
lucky"
In the first place Webb our tinsmitf
lost a ten cent piece of tobacco last Fri
day, and if the fellar who took it, or rather
found it will return it, he can have good
"big chaw'. and there will be no questions
asked. We notice that there are lot
of our boys and girls home from scho OILS
college and the marts of trade, and among
The number is Misses Isabel Hartwell,
Alice Dodge, Patricia Smith, Miriam
Taggart, Jesse and Mary Flanders, Marion
Noyes, Helen Temple, Martha Leighton,
Marguerite and Matilda Chase Ruth
Ruth Currier and her mother, Mrs. Emily
Currier Mrs. Thaddeus Wheaton and
Miss ELENA Wheaton, Mr. and Mrs.
Frank Stiles and daugher, and amongst
the boys, we notice Charles Smith, Milo
Leighton, George Tewksbury, James Hib-
bard, Oscar Chassee, Charles Taggart
and Warren Bailey. There may be some
others who have come home to see Dad
and Marin, but their names did not appear
on the Custom House register, so we are
not to blame if we did not get them
What might have been a serious accident,
but happily turned out otherwise occurred
in Webb's Shop the other morning when
the mercury registered 80 below. Webb
is a man of few words, so we will tell the
story in his own language, You know that
/ keep every thing but what | drink,
(water | mean in cold storage these
winter mornings, and in the front window
of my shop l had display of faucets,
when in came one of the Carpenter boys,
of about sixteen or eighteen years of age
and wanted to know if | had faucet
that would not leak told him to blow
in one of those in the window. He had
no sooner done it than howl went up
that would wake up the children of Isreal,
and as soon as that boy could get detached
from that piece of metal, his language,
which | am not used to, shocked me and
what might have been serious accident
to the faucet was averted, but that boy,
his lips looked as if he had been kissing
a red hot stove. we are glad that it
was no worse Mr.. and Mrs. Harold
Hale and Kenneth Hale spent the week
end in st Johnsbury Mr.. George Leslie
of Montpelier was over Monday. The
exercises in the school last Friday were
interesting in deed. There was Christ
mas Tree, with presents for the pupils and
the little ones all took part and made
creditable showing
Principal Jones believes in placing re-
sponsibility on his pupils so Cecil Temple,
one of the larger boys presided. There
is some thought of sending this boy over
to the legislature and let him preside over
the house of Representatives, but Cecil
will not go this winter, as he and James
Whitehill have other fish to fry without
going into politics. They tell us that there is
nothing in the report that Robert Meserve
is going into deep mourning for the next
two weeks while his mind is in St. Johns
bury Robert feels bad enough, but he
is not going to the expense of wearing Grape
John Goodwin says he has just found
out why our State taxes are so---high
John uses rather forcible language at
times to express his ideas). After John
got "Lit Up, 1--WE mean his pipe) he told
us in confidence that one of the reasons
was the shameful neglect of road machin-
cry. Why l says john" Right out in
front of Widow Raisey's house is road
scraper that cost the State good money,
it is left to the mercy of the elements.
The other night when the mercury went
down to thirty below, the poor thing fairly
shook with the cold and Will Taisey came
near getting up in his paiamas and going
out with newspaper to cover the poor
thing up.
By the Holy Smoke if they put two
cent tax on gasolene l will report this
waste, this neglect to the Governor, if
have to walk to Montpelier"
Nine times out of ten John is right, and |
in this case he is. The state, no more
than an individual can afford to let its
property go to waste.
There seems to be considerable dis
as to our electric lights. |
Since they raised the price, they have
cheapened the services, and as one farmer
tells us" There is nothing that gets his
goat any quicker than when he gets his
milking machine ready to milk some
fifty cows than to have the current |
go off and leave him in darkness with his
thoughts, a ten minute walk from a
lantern with one of two scuttles up. If
Charles Prouty had heard the language a