The united opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1881-1970, 1922-06-09

same place and beside the same chair
for 80 years.
The workmen who are engaged in
cleaning up the brick from the old
Catholic church in St. Johnsbury for
Henry Juneau came to the corner
stone aid recently made an interest
ing discovery. When the church was
dedicated in the 25th of July, 1860,
tin box was placed in the corner
stone. This box was found and after
81 years the contents were in a fair
state of preservation. The box con-
tanned copies of current issues of the
Boston Pilot and st. Johnsbury Gale
DOMAIN and Canadian penny of the
date of 1852 and American pennies
dated 1857 and 1859 and U. S. three
cent silver piece dated 1851.
c. C Densmore & Company of Bos-
ton were the lowest bidders for the
$4,000 street improvement bonds
which the city of Montpelier asked
bids for and which were opened May
18th. Their bid was 102.771. Other
bids were Blodgett & Company, Bes-
ton, 102.05; Capital Savings Bank &
Trust company at par; Morrill, Old
ham 1929; National Life Insurance
company 1929 and interest on 43
per cent basis; R M Grant & Com
pany, New York, 191.716; Montpelier
Scavings Bank & Trust company bid
on $4,000 at 101.80; James r Ewing,
Montpelier, bid on $1,000 and STOOL
25 for the $1,000; Harris Forbes &
Company, Boston, 1924.
Ten canoes carried by 20 men pass
ed through Bellows Falls May 29th
between seven and eight o'clock with
all needed accoutrements for a long
voyage. They were members of the
Ledyard Canoe club of Dartmouth
College, and left there at noon the
day before on trip down the Con-
necticut river to the sea. They had
paddled through the night in relays.
there being two men to a canoe, and
by continuous work expected to
reach Warehouse Point, Conn, in
three days. Warren F Daniel, '22, is
leader of the party and Prof A P
Richmond of the engineering depart
ment of the college was with the
party. The name of the club, and
the trip, are in commemoration of a
similar trip made by John Ledyard,
a student of the college in 1773. He
used pine log dugout, later became
noted world traveller.
The cutting out of all games of |
chance and the doing away with I'M
clean shows of every sort in official
fairs to be given in the state during
the coming season was decided by |
executives of the Vermont State Fair
association meeting, held in White |
River Junction May o. This decision
was reached following discussion in
which it was pointed out that the
trend of public sentiment is for
cleaner entertainment, debarring
games of chance and the like.
The raw material for American
made caviar will not be obtained
from Vermont waters this year if the
fish and game department can pre-
vent it. Armed wardens are patrol
ling the Lamoille river near the
point where it empties into Lake
to prevent poachers from
hooking up spawning sturgeon in
vic alton of the American fisheries
treaty with Canada. The sturgeon
roe is said to be valued at four dol
lars a pound in the Boston market
for use in making caviar.
The arrival of a colored student
from Haiti at Vermont academy in
Saxtons River has resulted in con-
talk and in the resignation
IF one member of the faculty of the
academy. Erwin Batchelder, science
teacher at the academy and gradu-
ate of Dartmouth college in the
lass of 1921, after refusing to eat at
he table with the colored boy, was
asked for his resignation, which was
given.