The united opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1881-1970, 1922-08-18
STATE NEWS.

George w. Young of Lyndon, whose
impersonation of Uncle Sam in parades
have become notable, celebrated his SD
birthday Aug. 2. Uncle Sam Young is in
excellent health and spirits.
Fines for violation Of the state motor
vehicles laws, aggregating $4,000, have
been collected this year, according to fig
ures given out at the secretary of states
office.
The 1922 motor vehicle registers which
are being sent out from the Office of sec
rotary of state contain automobile regis
tration numbers up to 37,650 Up to
August 3S, 730 cars were registered A
supplement will be put out later in the
year.
The Vermont Maple Syrup Company,
Inc, of st. Johnsbury, has filed with the
Secretary of State certificate showing
that $50 shares of common capital stock
have been issued at par for cash and that
SIS 900 has been paid to the treasurer of
the company for the stock.
The 22nd annual convention of the
Vermont Funeral Directors association
closed it's three-day session at Bellows
Falls Aug. 3, having elected as officers for
the coming year Ray E. Frye, Burling-
IOu. DE6blutlU, w Il. L6bllOWy NCIEGuIGbj
and R. H. Mecorney, St. Adams, vice
presidents; G. R. Calderwood, st. Johns
bury, secretary; and ID. Z. Watson, Lyn-
donville, treasurer.
The Four Winds Farm" the summer
home of the late Mrs. G. G. Taber, built
about 30 years ago for the home of the
late Edward Martin Taber, artist and
writer, has been sold, the purchaser being
FL. E. Shaw of Stowe, and the price
$11,750.
Mrs. c. B. Snow, aged 81, of Weston,
applied to a Bellows Falls barber the
other day to have her hair bobbed in the
most approved fapper style. The barber
complied and the aged woman, after sur
veying herself in the glass. declared she
was so pleased she would wear her hair
that way for the remainder of her life.
After loading up musket that had
been in the family since 1888, ]. A. Roy
Of West Barnet let the bullets fly in the
general direction of skunk, which was
visiting the Roy henroost. Feeling sure
that he had killed the marauder and not
wishing to get the after-effects, Mr.. Roy
retired to peaceful slumbers, only to find
in the morning that his charge of buck
shot had blown such hole through the
side of the henhouse, that the skunk had
made his way through it and was alive to
come again if he cared to.
Secretary of State Harry A. Black has
revoked the automobile operating license
of Moses Adams of Brandon for not less
than three years because Adams was con-
victed in Bellows Falls municipal court
on July 81 of a second offense OF driving
while under the influence of Intoxicating
liquor.
Governor James Hartness has appoint
ed H. ]. M. Jones of Montpelier as fuel
administrator for the state during the
strike emergencies. The action was taken
at the request of President Harding, who
telegraphed the governor. Mr.. Jones was
fuel administrator for Montpelier during
the war.
The boiler house of the bobbin mill
near the railroad station at Plainfeld was
burned to the ground July 30 in spite of
the work of a bucket brigade and fire
engine. The loss, estimated at $500,
is covered by insurance. The owners
are Ward Carpenter and W. H. Martin.
The mill employs between Is and 20 men.
Thirteen head of cattle out of a herd
of "a, owned by Mrs. Arthur J. Case OF
Castleton, were instantly killed July 30
by a Delaware & Hudson train. The
COWS were being driven by farm hand