The united opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1881-1970, 1896-08-14
NEWBURY.

The Orange County Bar centennia
COMMUNICATING the one hundredtl
anniversary of the holding of courts a
Chelsea will be celebrated at Chelsei
Wednesday. Aug. 26th. The eXercls
es will be held in the Town Hall be
ginning at 2 D. m. and will be OF a lit
erary and musical nature. Gov Farm
ham will speak of the early Courts OF
the County. Hon. Matthew Hale OF
ALBANY. n. y, will give his reminls
cences of the Bench and Bar OF Or
anpe County fifty years ago, Judges
Ross and Rowell, Hon. H. "A. Huse OF
Montpelier and Hon. William +. Has
r. S. Senator from Wisconsin have
been invited to participate in the eN-
ercises. The arrangements are III
competent hands and if we mistake
not the event will be a very interest
mo one and the most important hlstor-
zeal event that has ever transplfeQ III
Orange County. There will be a ban
uuet in the evening and no pains or eX-
pense will be spared i'll making the oc-
casion a grand affair. Let NeWbury
be well represented.
If YOU want to get into the line OF
American citizenship and be natural
lied 90 to Montpelier Wednesday,
Aug. Goth The notice published III u
the last issue of the OPINION Is on
color in dates, it says at White River
junction Tuesday, August 2Sth, by
reference to Ayers almanac you VIII
see that it should have been the 25th
day of August.
Remember the date of the meeting
of the Board of Civil Authority, office
of Smith & Sloan Thursday, Aug. ID,
Town Clerks Office Friday, the 18th.
Republican caucus at Town House
Tuesday, Aug. 18th.
Someone with just wisdom enough
to sign himself subscriber" comes
forward with the great argument that
the Vermont Senate OF 1894 was turn
ed down on the matter OF reelection
because twenty-SiX of them voted
against the optional school law bill.
Let that pass for what 1t IS worth.
Your correspondent has heard no walls
90 UP from the twentY-SlN nor expires
sion of regret on account OF the posi-
ton they maintained. But what has
''Subscriber" to say of the one sole
and solitary Senator who advocated
and voted for the above mentioned
optional school law bill.
The following notice of Mrs. Gage is
inserted in the Newbury column by
request:
Mary Ann (Bailey)i Gage entered into
res, u of Lo,, In.Gond lha had residnG
ueatl ~ ~ ~, Tt.,.Iu Gaya ot WeiIs
n ni.lI it, i Lo,Ice sLa diad after weeks
~ IN; e. sicitness She was tbe daunh.
ter of James A. and Mary c. Bailey and
great granddaughter of Gen; Jacob Bailey.
ulbich She never fully recovered and a
senond shoci a few weeks AFRO rendered
ber entirely hpInIess. Everything possi-
HE was done for her comfort but She suf-
fareG intense nain most of the time till a
fo,,l hours hafdrn bpr death The wish to
INV IGm III TT ho, was granted AZ She
n ,r," cd her s4tb hirthday July 4tb. Fun
P''oI ea,,,riaoe VAN aid \Vadnasdav after
noon Rev Mr. Haddo ofticiatinr assisted
nv Rav Mr. Ru@hee Her remains We're
tSl,nn to EewInrv for burial Rev. Mr.,
EN- oond,,ntinr 10 hnrioi seryice at thn
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FLEMING.
Alonzo Fleming whose Goth birthday
was celebrated at his nome near NeWDurN
Center on Saturday, July 18th, was born
i'll Ascot, L. e., July 10Th, lS6, ON June
I'd, 1926, he was married to Naomi Erwin
in Compton, p. z. He came to Newbury
from Compton III April 1851 ana moved
into the house now owned by Mary eb-
Der being the house nearest to his present
dwelling going towards the Town House,
and has since lived i'll Newbury. He Is
carpenter and joiner by by trade and II Is
said of him that he has done more hard
days work than any other man i'll town.
He has sustained accidents too numerous
to mention. broken and fractured bones
and dislocated joints have no terror for
Uncle Fleming. Work, work, work, has
been his motto all these years. Even at
this advanced age work is his constant
companion, as one of the largest and most
productive gardens in town is evidence.
A remarkably well preserved man in
mind and body.
He is the father of nine children grown
to maturity, Ephriam f., Freeman, Lu-
cinda Mrs. VIM. Putnam. Mary Ann
NIrs. VIM. Goodwin. Lydia Mrs. Horace
Abbott. Mrs John hutchinson. Emily
(AIrs. John BARTLETT, Henry, Alice Mrs.
Frank Greenough), Belle (Mrs. Frank
jones'. On his anniversary day five of
his nine children were alive, all born in
Newbury excepting Ephriam. also TWEEN
ty-seven grand children, also twenty-nine
great grand children. Mrs. Fleming died
June 49, 1881.
Ephriam Edgar Fleming eldest child of
A lOnZO. was born in COMPTON. L. o.. Feb.