The united opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1881-1970, 1922-09-22

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f of establishing a fund to b
q known as the Hadley Gibson
Memorial fund, the income onl.
: to be used. The fund is il
! memory of F Hadley Gibson, old
est son of Mr. and Mrs E v
: Gibson, who died on July 1.
Walter, jr, four years old, ant
: Frederick, two years old, child
rem of Mr. and Mrs Walter Smith
of Ludlow, fell into the Blacl
river one day recently and mar
rowly escaped drowning. Walter
was. unconscious when taker
J from the water, but the younger
lad had not been in the water sc
long and was not unconscious
when taken out. Both were all
right next day. They had been
sent on an errand to the cream.
cry by their mother, but stopped
on the bank of the river to
play.
Louis F Dow, U V M, Is, tele-
graph editor of The Burlington
Daily News, is to edit the Alumni
Weekly of the University of
Vermont during the coming col
lege year. He will take up the
editing of the alumni paper in
addition to his work on the
News. He succeeds James R Jen-
nings, U V M, '21, who has re-
signed his position at the Univer-
sity and goes to New York City
to take a position with the Rob-
bins Publishing Co.
The boiler house of the Staso
Milling company's plant about
one and one-half miles from
Castleton was burned Sept 18th,
with loss estimated at about
1000. The boilers were unharm-
ed. The origin of the fire is un-
known. The studding of the
building, which is of sheet iron,
suffered most from the blaze.
The fe was extinguished by the
company's fire department, wa
ter and chemicals being used.
The Methodist church of Rut-
land unanimously adopted reso-
luton condemning stunt flying at
fairs and all other exhibitions
where human life is jeopardized
and calling upon the Rutland
Fair association to eliminate
such thrillers at future exhibit
tons here. The resolution was
introduced by the Rev DR. Mil
ford H Smith, former pastor.
The vote is the outcome of the
death of the Flying Parson" and
three others at the Rutland
fair.
A Chandler touring car aban-
doned in Ludlow Aug. 22d, has
just been claimed at a Ludlow
garage by H M Stearns of Wollas-
ton, Mass, where it was stolen
from it's parking place Aug. 21st. !
In Ludlow the car collided with ,
a telephone pole, and it's driver,
after having it put in a garage,
left and has not since been heard !
of. The garage employees as time
went on and no call came for the !
had decided it was a
stolen car. The same day the driv-
er left the car and went to Rut-
land an automobile disappeared
from that city.
DR. Horace G Ripley of Boston
has been engaged as superinten-
dent of the Brattleboro Retreat
in place Of DR. Smaller E Lawton,
DR. Ripley is superin-
tendent of the Boston Psychopa-
thic hospital, which position he
will resign and come to Bratte-
boro about October. DR. Ripley
is a native of Maine and was
born April "a, 1872. He is
graduate of the training school
for nurses at the Taunton,
Mass, State hospital and the
University of Maryland School
Of Medicine. After completing
MS course in Maryland he return
ed to Taunton State hospital as
assistant physician, was promot-
ed in 1906 to senior assistant and
n 1909 to assistant superinten-
dent. He filled. that position IL
years and year ago berame SUI
oerintendent of the Boston Psy-
,hopathic hospital.
Captain Richard L Greene, 7th
Field Artillery, U. S. Army, son
If Congressman Frank L Greene
If Vermont, last week assumed