The united opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1881-1970, 1922-09-15
STATE NEWS.

Lewis S Richardson has been ap
: pointed postmaster at Chester Depot
an office which became presidential
on Jan. l, 1921.
In the vicinity of Rutland the CROP
of early apples is the largest fol
several years and it is almost i'm
possible to dispose of them even at
rs cents bushel.
: Rev. w d Stenlake, pastor of the
Methodist church in johnson was SO
badly injured when his Ford car
kicked as he attempted to crank it
recently that he was unable to preach
last Sunday. One of his legs was
bruised and he was thrown several
feet.
Rita, four year-old daughter of Mr.
and Mrs Francis Tucker of Burling-
ton was knocked down by a Ford
truck driven by Otis Yandow Mon
day afternoon and the child's left leg
was broken above the knee. The
child was crossing the road, waited
for one truck to pass and then stepped
in front of the other without noticing
it.
The Beaton Brothers Quarry COM
pany of South Ryegate has filed ar
ticles of association in the secretary
of states office with a capital stock
of $15,000 of which a certificate that
$4,000 of that sum has been paid up
was filed in the office Saturday. The
papers are signed by Raymond and
Forbes Beaton, among other subscrib-
| erS.
1t had been announced that the
Brattleboro high school would be
without teacher training course this
year, but arrangements have been
made to maintain one and Miss Min
ME Stinson, formerly teacher of
similar course in Chester, will be in
| structor.
COL Ernest w Gibson of Brattle-
boro, commander of the 172d infan-
try, has accepted an appointment by
Gov. James Hartness as secretary Of
civil and military affair.", to succeed
Judge H B Shaw, Burlington, resign
ed
The two-year-old son of E M Hol-
den of North Tunbridge was killed
when an automobile in which he was
riding with his father went down the
bank into the White river in turning
out for another automobile, Sept. 3rd.
The other occupants of the auto
mobile were not injured. The place
! where the accident happened was
about half mile south of South
RoyaIton. The automobile landed
bottom side up.
Five Rutland boys, Emmett Howe,
Is, Edward LaCross, Is, Clement
Abatielle, IA, Matthew Alberico, II,
and William Greenwood, 16, were in
city court in Rutland last week,
charged with breaking into a freight
car and stealing fruit from it. They
pleaded guilty and their case was
continued a month, after they were
ordered to pay the cost of prosecu-
ton and given sound lecture by the
judge. They stole a box of oranges.
Fred H Miller, aged 70 years, care
taker of the deer park farm in Hall
fax owned by P M Ward of New York,
died recently of heart trouble. He
took pride in walking long distances
and every year on his birthday walk
ed from Halifax to Brattleboro, dis
lance of IA miles, his last birthday
anniversary being no exception.
Five artists have made their head
of them being landscape painters al
though Edwin B Child has also includ-
ed portrait painting among his works
Of art and Francis Dixon devoted his
art more particularly to woodland in
teriors. These two, with Herbert
Myer, John Lille and Mr. Leigh. held
an exhibition of these Vermont paint
ings last week.
G G Cages, a Corinth, N. Y. hotel
proprietor who recently underwent a
civil marriage at Watertown, N. "
with Miss Eriketa Savas of Benning-
ton, has been made the defendant in
a $4,000 breach of promise suit
brought by Miss Marion Irene McGraw
of Watertown. The bridegroom denies
that he is in an way obligated to
Miss McGraw.
A touring car, bearing the New
York license plates, numbers 705,153,
with load of 20 quarts of Old Bur-
bon whiskey, was taken Sept. LIST by
Custom Officers Ralph Hawley and S
D Stewart and Emigration Officer S
A Caldwell at Branches Corner on
the road between Swanton and St.
Adams. The driver Of the car, who
gave his name as Charles Jones of
New York City, was taken to Frank
lin county Jail at st. Adams to await
a hearing before United States Com
missioner G D Watson.
Chairman Charles Batchelder of
the board of selectmen in Bethel and
a well-known lawyer, who has prac
tised law there about eight years,
formerly states attorney of Windsor
county, disappeared from the place
Aug. &c. after an accident to his !
automobile on Pleasant street He is
thought to be in Canada but nothing |
has been heard from him so far as
known For few days his disappear
ance caused little comment. How |
ever, when it became known that sew
eral private funds of which he was
trustee were impaired or missing, |
legal action began to be taken by in
terested parties. These included
divorce suit by his wife, who divorced !
him on a previous occasion and then
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