The Bennington banner. [volume] (Bennington, Vt.) 1858-1894, 1892-08-19
SONS OF THE REyoLUrIoN.
Gathering aU Burlington in Annual Meet
ing on a Historic Day.

that yesterday the 115th anniversary of
the battle of Bennington, should be the
reunion day of the Sons of the American
Revolution. At 2 o'clock p. M, the
following members of the Vermont
society gathered in the parlors of the
Van Ness House: Col. C. S. Forbes,
Secretary; Col. NJ. X. Paine, Treasurer:
Col. Robert j. Kimball, Col. E, Henry
Powell, Charles A. Smith, Hon. Henry
G. Root, Major A. B. Valentine, John E.
Hubbard, Henry Clark, f. G.. Thompson,
ex-Lieut. Gov Woodbury., Z. G. Fay,
Samuel X. Burbank, Rev. i. NJ. Hardy,
j. S. Pierson, Capt. George Z. Davis,
John M. Stafford, Hon. William H.
Dubois, Gen. t. S. Peck, Hon. George
NJ. Dewey of Michigan, Judge Hartman,
Hon. Daniel Roberts, Hon. b. B.
Smalley, II. w. McClary, Secretary of
State Brownell, j. B, Fletcher, Hon. E.
B. Taft and L. f. Woodhouse.
The meeting was called to order by
General Mccullough. The minutes of
the previous meeting were read by Secre-
tary Forbes, and the Treasurer's report
was made by Col. Paine. When the re-
ports had been accepted and placed on
file, the following committees were ap-
pointed: Auditing, Messrs. Hardy,
Dubois, and Burbank; nominating,
Messrs. Peck, Forbes and Root; reso-
lutions, Messrs. Powell, Smalley and
Roberts. Then Col. Woodbury. invited
the members to carriage drive about
the city, and Gen. Peck followed with
an invitation to five o'clock tea at the
Yacht Club House, both of which were
accepted.
The following officers were elected:
President, Levi X. Fuller of Brattleboro;
Vice-President, Urban A. Woodbury. of
Burlington; Secretary, G. S. Forbes of
st. Adams; Treasurer, Milton K Paine
of Windsor; Registrar, Henry L. Stillson
of Bennington Historian, G.. G.. Bene-
dict of Burlington; Chaplain, Rev. L. NJ.
Hardy of Burlington; Board of Managers,
T. S. Peck, w. S. Webb, j. G.
Mccullough, William H. Dubois, John
E. Hubbard Daniel w. Robinson, Frank
L. Green. Delegates to the next National
Congress S. A. r., were elected as
follows: Delegate-at-large, Col. B. B.
Smalley. Delegates, Hon. C.. S. Page,
Hon. H. G. Root. Alternates, Col. F. S.
Stranaham, Col. Olin Scott and Col. F.
D. Butterfeld.
In the early evening the orchestra
played in the Van Ness House rotunda.
Ats o'clock the Society, led by Mayor
Haselton and Gen. Mccullough, marched
down to the dining-rOom, escorting the
members of the Daughters of the
Revolution, with their invited lady
guests, as follows: Regent Green
Mountain Chapter, d. A. r., Mrs. b. B.
Smalley; Vice-Regent, Miss Arthur;
also, Mrs. L. L. Chittenden, Mrs. Chand-
Ter, Mrs. J. S. Pierson, Miss Pauline
Pierson, Miss Lillian Weed, Mr.. and Mrs.
W. L. Stone, Mrs. Villas, Miss Helen
Converse, Miss Agnes Robinson, Miss
Amanda Stacy, Miss Jennie Wood, Mrs.
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Col Powell, Miss Ruth Boardman and
Mrs. Chauncey W. Brownell.
An elaborate banquet was served,
placing all in a receptive state of mind
for the postprandial programme which
was to follow. At 20 O'clock General
Mccullough raped the tables to order
and proceeded to prove his qualifications
| as POSTMASTER by a series of crisp
stories, after which he said it was time
to turn the water of the feast into wine,
not the kind that the Republicans i'm
port from France, charged with an Internal
| high tariff, nor yet that which the Dem
ocrats transport from California under
free trade, but the wine of the feast of
reason and flow of soul, which were now
to come. He then called upon Hon. G.
G.. Benedict to respond to the sentiment.
''The President of the United States"
which the President had administered
the Government and how he had shown
himself capable of filling, in emergency
| the place of any Secretary on his cabinet.
An ancestor of the President had fought
| under Cromwell, but Mr.. Harrison con-
sidered it a greater honor to point to an
ancestor who was q signer of the
Declaration of Independence. Col. U.
A. Woodbury. followed in an impromptu
but happy response to the toast 1.-The
State of Vermont" dwelling chiefly
upon the old States prominence in the
councils of the Nation and in the defence
of the Union.
Mayor Haseton did full justice to the
sentiment of 1.-THE Queen City," and,
recalling revolutionary days, when the.
prominent families of northern Vermont
moved to the southern portion of the
State, better to defend the frontier there,
said facetiously, 81 would remind Major
Valentine that the only time there were
any abandoned farms in Vermont was in
that period between 1774 and ITO" The
mayor also alluded to Burlington's
statues of Allen and Lafayette, and the
University, which was monument to
Ira Allen.
Judge Hartman of Bennington spoke
on 1.-THE Sons of the American Revo-
luu0n,' atter winch the daughters OF
the American Revolution was calamity
responded to by Gen. T. S. Peck The
after supper programme closed with an
eloquent tribute to young America"
by Mr.. Frank L. Green, S. of T., and
also Son of the Revolution, from st.
Adams.
At a meeting held Immediately after
the banquet the committee appointed to
draft memorial resolutions on deceased
members presented the following
report:
Resolved That we have received with
sensibility and regret the announce
ments of the deaths of our late comrades
and associates, Gen. William Wells, DR..
H. o. Bartlett, Hon. Luther o. Greene
and Mr.. Phelps B. Smith since the last
annual meeting of this Society," and we
cherish their memory as honorable and
patriotic Sons of the American Revolu-
ton.
With the adoption of this report the
session was at an end.
Several Washouts OccasiOned by the Heavy
Rains.
The inconvenience experienced from
heavy rains during the past two weeks,
is attended, to great degree, with loss
of property. This is especially so with
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