News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1891-08-20
Vermont Officers Reunion.

At the annual banquet of the Off.
GERS Reunion society at Newport Fri
day evening, Lieut.. Joel c. Baker,
president of the society, presided
with dignity and grace. In response
to the sentiment to the president of
the United States, Secretary Proctor
said that it was the less necessary
that any one should speak for Presi-
dent Harrison because he would soon
be in Vermont, and he could always
speak for himself, with rare ability
and effect. Able as the PRESIDENTS as
statesman and an executive, said Col.
Proctor, he is above all a true COM
rade. Five members of his cabinet
~ere soAaiers, Due NOT ono Of Ar1ss.
so invariably remembers the Union
veterans. or so often asks, when Off
ces are to be filed lis there some good
soldier to take the place?'' We shall
be glad to welcome him to Vermont.
and we shall see, when we meet him,
that we are greeting a true, high
minded and great man. Gen. W. W.
Grout responded pleasantly to the
toast to Congress.
Major D. T. Corbin spoke effectively
on Vermont patriotism" Mr.. Sher-
man, the orator of the occasion, was
called up and supplemented his adj
dress on the work of the loyal women
by urging the collection and preserva-
ton of a permanent record ofthe SER
vice rendered by the women of YER
mont in the civil war.
Col. g. F. Butterfield of the United
States pension bureau made one of
the best speeches of the evening Oh
the work of the United States pen
sion Office. He said that the methods
of the Office have so improved that
the claims of men enough to form a
full regiment. are now passed by up
on each work day, and the number
disposed of will be still further in
creased in the near future. He be-
spoke friendship and sympathy as
well as pecuniary aid, for veterans.
The resolutions of respect to
the memory of Gen. P. p. Pitkin
and Lieut. c. III. Benton were as fol-
lows:
Resolved. That the Reunion society of
Vermont officers takes notice that since its
last reunion one of its founders and most en-
thusiastic members, Gen. Perley p Pitkin,
has been called from US by death. While a
grateful country has preserved in her ar
chives the account of his labors and success
in her behalf, at time when that labor and
success made victory possible, we, his suryiv-
ing comrades of this society, bow our heads
in sorrow and humble submission over the
empty chair at our banquet, and the void in
our hearts caused by our loss. Our sym-
pathy and coincidence go to his bereayed
family, and with them mourn. A tender
husband, loving father, a devoted patriot
has gone, and the bereavement is not only
TO kindred and comrades, but is a loss to
every lover of his country and her institu- |
tions. His memory will be cherished as long |
as faithfulness to duty is recognized and |
honored, and in token of our appreciation |
and sorrow it is ordered that this notice be |
recorded as part of the proceedings of this
reunion, and a copy thereof transmitted by |
the secretary to the family of our lamented
eomrade and associate.
Whereas, Since the last meeting of this So
clety death has taken from us Iieut G [
Henry Benton of Minneapolis, Mimi, late
first lieutenant of Co. ID. of the 9Th Rept VT
Vols. and vice president of this association
Therefore be it
Resolved, That in the death of Lieut.. Ben
ton this society has lost valuable and es-
termed member, the State brave soldier
and society good citizen and we hereby
extend to his family and friends our sincere
sympathy in their bereavement:
Resolved, Further that the secretary be re-
quested to send copy of this resolution to
Col. X. Z. Benton at Minneapolis for the ben
eft of tine family of Lieut.. Benton
AS has been said the reunion was
success. The arrange
ments were excellent; the attendance
fair, orations of high interest and
value; and all the exercises interest
lng.-Fress Press.