Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1874-05-15
Decoration DAY.

Decoration Das.
The Grand Army Of the Republic ana
all others interested, are making prepar-
atoms throughout the country TO observe
the SOth day of May as Memorial Day
10 nav bonors to the patriotic dead. A
general order has been issued by 6en'
Devens of Massachusetts,, Commander
| in-Chief, in which he is joined by de-
partment commanders. From this order
we make the following extract;
In making arrangements for its observ-
ance, Departments and Posts are recon-
mended to invite the cooperation OF
comrades not members of the Grand
Army, of the Clergy, and OF all VINO
may feel interested in these memorial
services.
1t is earnestly hoped that in those
places where there are no Posts the DAY
may not be suffered to pass without suit
able recognition, but that friends and
citizens will endeavor to see that the
graves of those who sleep among them
are not left unvisited. By this simple
act. we seem to establish communion
between all who have loved our brave
while living and who honor them when
dead, and we join alike with the solemn
procession which move with banners and
music from our crowded cities or with
the little family, which on some lonely
farm will, on that day, visit the quiet
spot where rest the remains of him who
was once a beloved brother or darling
son. Together we inculcate the lessons
of that self devotion by which alone a
nation can be saved in so terrible crl-
sis of its fate as that through which our
own was called to pass, and we bow our
heads in gratitude to the Almighty for
His signal favor in preserving our Gov
eminent from threatened destruction
and together we rededicate ourselves to
all the duties OF patriotism that are still
upon us.
Nor would we seek to honor the men,
ory of those alone whose graves we are
able to visit, but through them to COM
memorate all that have passed away
who, in the hour of trial, did their duty
faithfully. Our noble dead are scattered
far and wide, but whether they lie on the
land or in the sea, let all be united il
our remembrance, wherever a single
hand may strew with flowers the las
resting place of a faithful comrade. By
order of CHARLES DEvENs, JR.,
Commander-in Chief.
HENRY r. SHELLEY, Adj't Gen.
: "OFFICIAL."
j. o. LIVINGSTON, Asst Adj't Gen.
Department of Vermont.
t DEATH OF REV. BERIAH GREEN
! Rev. Beriah Green, who graduated s
Middlebury College in 1919, and VIII
was pastor of the Congregational Churc
s at Brandon from 1928 to 1929, droppe
dead, on Monday Morning, while az
!. dressing the Town Board of Excise,
e Whitestown, N. Y, against granting al
J. licenses this year. He became a we
g known preacher and anti-slavery ma
Il He stood the coadjutor of that branch
e abolitionists as Gerritt Smith, Wend
9. Phillips, William Lloyd Garrison a
h Samuel j. May. He was the intim,
d personal friend and townsman of Ger
8, Smith, and with him advocated oper
y, and boldly the antisavery doctrine
m Central New York. Though his fa
or was not as national as some of his co
" peers has been, he was worthy to
Mt united with them as one of the forem
moral and social reformers of our
OF He founded the manual labor schoo
in Whitestown, from which Whitesto
nd Seminary grew, and preached every s.
day for years to the people of that pla
He was 80 years of age. He was
ier tive of Pawlet, Vt.
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The Daniel w. Dake, of Beloit Wilson's
of well-known to the dairymen of the w
nth has now offered thousand dollars
ak the eleven best essays on butter maxi
len the essays to be handed in by the
no of June. The amount will be distri
,at ed as follows:
nc For the best essay,
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IN. | For the third best essay,
'n' For the fourth best essay,
doc For the fifth best essay,
'6e For the sixth best essay,
llly For each of the other five, S25,
the Total.
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as well as the United States.
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