The united opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1881-1970, 1922-01-06
STATE NEWS.

Inc quarry SaV1HgS Danh, Darre
sent out over $4,000 in Christmas
club checks. The checks ranged from
$1212 to $3.50.
The report of the general secretary
of the Vermont Children's Aid Soci
ETY., Inc. for November shows that
the society now has 80 wards.
More than 100000 pieces of mai
were handled in outgoing and incom'
ing mail at the Rutland postoffice
during the six days of Christmas
week.
Over $500 barrels of apples were
shipped from Isle La Motto during
the past season by Steamer Ticond.
eroga and from Isle La Motto station
and auto trucks must have taken
away 1900 barrels more The apple
crop brought around $4,000 into
town this year and in all the or
chards together there are scarcely
$50 acres of land.
The Office of the Caverly Prevent.
orium, which is now under construc.
ton at Pittsford, will be furnished
with office furniture that was used by
the late DR.. Charles S Caverly. Mrs
Charles S Caverly of Rutland has
offered it to the Vermont Tuberculo-
sis association and the gift has beer
gratefully received. Since the pre-
ventorium is to be memorial to the
health work of DIR. Caverly, it is
most appropriate that his office fur
niture should continue in the work he
had so much at heart.
The state of Vermont fish and game
dep ar tment received S50,893.45 from
the sale of various types of licenses
during the year running from April
1920, to April 1921. The CREATE
number of licenses of any one class
was the resident combination FISHING
and hunting) licenses, of which there
were "a, 1879. Resident hunting Ii.
censes come next with 1887, resi-
dent fishing with 1882 and non-resi.
dent hunting last with 1922.
Fort Ethan Allen is the choice OF
Adjutant- General Herbert t John
son and other officers of the Vermont
National Guard summer camp, in case
one is held. The position of the wal
department on the matter of holding
summer camp in Vermont is moi
known as yet, and the location of The
camp, if one is held; will not be Ger
tain until next February or March,
The winter carnival under the aus
pices of the Woodstock Athletic as
ISOLATION is under way, with ICE
sports and a trip along the Killing
ton trail and Mt. Tom, taking the
form of a ski and snowshoe picnic
The Legion will stage junior snow
sports and the senior sports on Fri
day afternoon will bring the carniva
to close.
A ton of poison was shipped tt
Rutland last week for use in a cam
paign to exterminate from certain
parts of the community a horde o.
rats which have taken refuge il
houses and stores since cold weather
drove them from dump where they
have thrived and multiplied by thou
sands.
Forty-six carloads of tuberculosis
free cattle, estimated to be worth
100000, have been shipped from
Barre within the year. This is 6
large increase over the sales OF
previous years. The Central Vermont
Cattle club has been instrumental ir
selling IL carloads since last August
The sum of S8,451.29 was received
at the State treasurer's Office or
December 81 from the federal gov.
eminent for United States aid in the
construction of post roads. The
money is to be expended as follows
Project IL, 2;118.O5; project 10; ST..
543.43; project IA, $2;995.20; project
10, $794.61. These projects are, re.
spectively, the Danby-Dorset; Yer.
gennes; Burlington and Irasburg fed
eral aid construc ton jobs.
Mr. and Mrs William Folsom of Nc.
anniversary Dec. 23rd, with a large
attendance of relatives and friends
The day was also the birthday an
niversary of the daughter, Mrs Horace
Chamberlin, and of their niece, Mrs
Francis Byron of North Montpelier.
Mrs Lavina Rand, Morrisville's old
est resident, observed her 95th birth
day anniversary Dec. %. She is 6
granddaughter of the first settler OF
the town, Deacon Jacob Walker. Mrs
Rand celebrated the anniversary by 6
candlelight tea in her home, enter
tanning several persons shut in fol-
the most part like herself.
The Bellows Falls Merchants asso'
citation has held a meeting in an effort
to stimulate local interest in provid'
ing Bellows Falls with a new union
depot to replace the one burned re
Gently. The public service commits
sion will be besought to use its in.
f1uence with the three railroads which
use the depot to see that new
L,;lJ;no of +ba r;orb+ daSi op and an.
pearance is provided.
Directors of the Woodstock rail
road on Dec. % declared a dividend
of two per cent out of the net earn
ings for 1921. Something more than
the amount of the dividend has al
ready been appropriated out of the
net earnings for additions and better
rnents. absence of industrial de-
preston in this section and efficient
work of officers and employees of the