The united opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1881-1970, 1920-12-24

with little JapS plying fans beneath
them. The loveliest part of the pa
rade was the flower section. Four
| hundred tots between the ages of
five and eight were dressed to rep
resent the various flowers and then
at every end of the procession was
float after float of undergraduates
with green balloons. Pryop's Band,
Johnny Jones' Band and Sleight's
Band furnished music and marched
in all the parades and that was one
busy week for the bands.
Speaking of parades there was a
parade last evening somewhat after
ten, not announced through the
papers. The Elks were initiating
and so they took their Is candidates
down 18th street in their B V DIS to
Johnny Jones' exposition grounds and
made them ride the trick mules.
They do say it was some show.
Pryor's Band opened it's regular
concert season Sunday afternoon with
the first sacred concert. Mr. Pryor
has a wonderful band this season
and his concerts are great attrac-
tion. Thousands gather every after
noon and evening and what is more
they will continue to gather through
out the seventeen weeks of the en-
gagement for no one tires of Pryor's
music.
DIR. and Mrs C E Chandler of
Montpelier, are in the city for few
weeks. They have spent number
of winters in Jax and Daytona but
decided this winter to put in part
of the time here and they report
r. Ii IL -,
pleasant to have friends from the
north within calling distance and we
have quite goodly number with the
Gales, Mrs Murfey, Mrs Hosford, the
Chambers, Miss Baker of Concord and
the Hall family of Concord on the
way Mr. Rabbit of Montpelier, the
brother of Mrs Edgar Hunt, is al
most regular Miamian and other
Montpelier families have really To-
Gated here since year ago.
Sailing news this week has been
rather interesting as the steamer
Miami arrived the first of the week
and began its regular trips to Mas
sau. 1t leaves at four o'clock in the
afternoon and arrives the next morn
ing at nine and accommodates two
hundred passengers and a crew of
sixty. Christopher Columbus, fly
ing cruiser is soon to make trips
from Miami to Bimini. 1t will carry
nine persons besides it's crew. "The
City Of Miami" will begin its
regular trips from Miami to Havana
Dec. goth, so you see we are getting
to be quite a bit of port of call
already. While we are on water
subjects, there is a little stir over
at the Beach over a strange FISH
Carl G Fisher caught off Soldiers
Key. 1t was about the size of a
dinner plate, had the tail of a toad
fish, was white in color with
small notified area on it's side. 1t
has been taken to the aquarium for
identification but if any of our
fisherman know the fish by name
they might send in the information.
We find we have a new crop down
here and farmers may be interested
to know that the glade soil is adapt
ed for dasheen raising. The dasheen
is something like our potato and
can be used in its place which will
be very comfortable down here
where potatoes do not seem to be a
natural crop. The dasheen is pro-
life and easily raised and as edible
as the potato.
We still have our cable difficulties
and the last report is that the
Western Union has again gone to
court on the cable tangle. Well, it
doesn't interfere so much with us
down here except that Miamians
would like to be the headquarters for
the South American cable business.
Just a personal word. We are
looking for a middle aged woman as
a housekeeper in our family. We
would like an all-the-year-around
proposition, offering a chance to en-
Joy the climate of southern Florida
for winters and New England for
the summer. There are two of us
in family and both homes have all
the facilities for doing homework. |
Should anyone reading this letter |
happen to know of capable woman |
who would like to escape from the
rigors Of a New England winter, we
would be glad to hear and to dis |
cuss terms and the requirements |
more in detail.
BY the time you are reading this |
letter, il will be time to wish you
Merry Christmas, which we do most |
heartily.
Cordially,
Harry f. Parker.