The united opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1881-1970, 1921-08-12

| white female In vermont In the l9Z0
census. Approximately one-half of
the males-9, 540-were naturalized;
2,106 had taken out first papers and
1886 were aliens. There was an in
crease of IL per cent naturalized
over the figures of 1910; and increase
of As per cent in those who had
taken out first papers and a decrease
of 81 per cent of aliens in the past
ten years. There were $50 foreign
born white males whose citizenship
was not reported.
Frost was reported on the FL War
rem farm near Calais by Mr. Warren,
who says he saw the frost in the
yard the morning of Aug. End, and
who felt it with his hands to make
certain he was not deceived. In
Montpelier, residents of the Cliff
street section report that the mer-
curry stood at 80 degrees during the
night and at other places it was al
most as cold.
Major David Hunt, chief clerk in
the White River Junction district
railway office, and World war over
seas officer, has, in compliance with
orders from the post office depart
ment, already taken the initial steps
to the formation of training school
for all railway mail postal clerks in
the use of firearms. The instructions
will be given in the local office. In
addition to the men, clerks and Off
cials of the local office, all railroad
clerks that halt and transfer in
White River Junction will be train
ed in the local Office by Major Hunt.
A consignment of revolvers and guns
is expected at once from Washington.
Figures given out at the secretary
of states office show that there
have been 1922 automobiles regis
tered in Vermont from Jan. l to July
l, 5402 more than were registered in
the same time last year. Fee receiv-
ed reached S617,385.03, compared with
the $513,23461 taken in last year. In
the first six months of 1920 there
were 29,91l operators and 4,910I
chauffeurs' licenses issued, while 1921
finds the first half-year with $4,000
operators and 6,046 chauffeurs' IL
censes,
Like a page from fiction reads the
World war, nearly dead from starva-
tion, gaunt and unshaven, with his
arms stretched out to heaven, found
recently kneeling in prayer in aroad
near Williamstown by Deputy United
States Marshal G F Lackey. The
soldier, when he received nourish-
ment, gave his name as Frank Les
perance of Rensselaer,, N. Y, and
claimed to have served six months in
France. He came to Vermont in an
endedvor to locate men of his regi-
ment whom he thought might help
him. He was placed in charge of
the town authorities at Chelsea.
Slowly but surely the evidence is
being gathered which will lead to
the gathering in of the whole band
of criminals which have been terror
izing this section of Vermont recent
ly with bold robberies. The latest
link in the chain is the finding July
% by Railroad Detective G l. Hodge
of the Central Vermont and Detective
George Given of the American Rail- |
way Express Co, of the safe which |
was taken from the depot in Ran
dolph on June 8. The safe was locat-
ed on the logging road leading to
Griffiths' sawmill en- route to Bolton
An axe was found near
the safe, with which the hinges of the
safe had been broken off. Most of
the contents of the safe had been |
taken, including about S3S5, although |
a few papers were left behind.
Walter H Crockett of Burlington. |
who is writing a history of Vermont, |
asserts that records show Stephen |
Lawrence was not the first settler in |
as the inscription on his |
headstone in one of the Burlington |
states, but that Felix Pow
ers was the first settler, locating
there 10 years earlier than Lawrence.
Mr. Powell came to Burlington in
1913. Powell must have had an en-
viable record as first settler, for he
had been a settler at Pittsford in
1867 and then first settler at Dorset
N l76S. Powell bought a piece of
and at Appletree Point, which ex-
ended nearly to the Winooski river,
rom Samuel Averill of Litchfield,
Jonn., who was one of the original
He cleared some land
md erected house at Appletree
Point.
While the state insurance depart
nent was preparing to hold an in
Iuest into a fire in the sugarhouse Of
M Parmeter at Greensboro, word
anne to the department of the des-
ruction by fire of Mrs Maria j Par {
meters buildings in Hardwick, to
which place the family had recently !
moved. The parties are man and !
wife. While the Parmeters were
wing in Greensboro last November
heir buildings were burned, and the
insurance companies paid $1,000 on
hem. The fire in the Parmeter
ugarhouse was late in June, and on
he same night another sugarhouse,
elonging TO someone else and locat-
d just across a ravine from the Par 4
meter property, was destroyed. The /
insurance department has been in
and has made some repre-
entations to the insurance companies
After repeated efforts by Depart
tent Adjutant, Allen Fletcher Of the !
american Legion, the Boston head