The united opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1881-1970, 1922-12-15
State News

time resident of Westford died last
W eek from a shock. He was a native
of Waterbury.
Rev. w. E. Sturtevant of Lyndon
is the third aspirant for the position
Of chaplain in the next state senate.
Dean Edgar j. Wiley of Middle
bury college cut asparagus in his
garden Nov. 80, the shoots looking
as fresh and green as though cut in
the spring.
Harold Wagner, son of Mr.. and
Mrs l.. R. H. Wagner of Brattle-
boro, broke both bones in his right
leg near the ankle Saturday while
playing football.
The Chester Masonic Home Inc.
of Chester has filed with the secre-
tary of State a certificate showing
that out of total authorized cap
ital stock of $4,000, $1,000 has
been paid into the treasury.
Mrs. Elvira Bell celebrated her
Gath birthday anniversary Dec. 5th
at the Home for Aged Women in
Burlington. She is in good health
and very active and comes down
stairs to two meals day She felt
lively enough to dance but refrain
ed from doing so. There was in
strumental and vocal music in
honor of the occasion.
j. Earl Thompson, &c, son Of
Mr.. and Mrs. John M. Thompson
of St. Adams, died Dec. 9Th of
burns at Hazelton, Pa, where he
was employed by the Hazelton
Electric company. He came in con-
tact with a live wire. Mr.. Thomp-
son left that city about two years
ago, and the body was brought
back for burial. He was graduated
from the Rutland high school in
1913.
A schedule of 20 games comprises
the efforts of the University of YER
mont basket ball team this season,
the first regular game on the sched-
ule being played with McGill in
Burlington on December Is. Knox
College, Dartmouth, Villanova, and
McGill are new corners on the YER
mont schedule.
The First Congregational Church
of Bellows Falls has extended a
unanimous call to Rev. Edward S.
Worcester. who for a few months
has been supplying churches in
Vermont. The previous three years
he was pastor of a large church in
Madison, Wis, and for Is years
before that in Norwich, Conn. He
is graduate of Princeton and has
done postgraduate work in Ger
many. He is a native of Vermont
and both his father and grandfather
were well known ministers of the
State.
The state has acquired the title
to about 1000 acres of marsh land
at the mouth of the Lamoille river,
including the island situated there.
This land is to be used for the pro-
lection of migratory birds and for
a hatchery for pheasants.
The Stowe Butter Package Co.,
Inc, whose saw mill, factory and
other buildings at Stowe were burn
ed last spring, is rebuilding with
cement blocks. The new plant will
be practically freproof, steel win
dow frames and sash, metal cover
ed doors and a metal roof
Bert Brown of Brookline on GO
ing into his henhouse found bob
cat trying to escape through the
meshes of some wire netting. This
gave Mr. Brown a chance to grab |
the animal by the hind legs. Swing
ing it above his head, he brought it
down on a timber with sufficient |
force to kill it. 1t measured 3S |
inches in length.
Two high school juniors, Miss
Florence lockwood and Miss
Helen Morrissey of Bennington,
had a narrow escape from serious
injury Nov. % when bottle hlled
with hydrogen gas exploded in the
school laboratory. The two girls
had been conducting an experiment
and Miss Morrissey had taken the
bottle to the sink to wash it before
going to another class. Enough
Of the chemical remained in the
bottle to create large amount of
gas once it came in contact with
water. Miss lockwood received a
leep cut near the eye that required
TWO stitches and Miss Morrissey's
ACE was slightly cut in several
places.