Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1896-10-08

{ BILE. by reason of the many demands
upon my time. With thanks for the
/ polite remembrance, am,
Yours very truly,
, VIM. +. Villas
.'Mr. George F. Edmunds presents
his compliments and brotherly good
wishes to the Orange county bar, and
, sincerely regrets that he is unable to
have the pleasure OF being present at
the anniversary of its one hundredth
year of honorable usefulness to the
state
81 regret that my sight, dimmed by
more than 81 years of use, renders it
unsafe for me to 90 to Chelsea to at
tend the Tooth anniversary of Orange
county bar. ! there saw for the first
time county court, and there first
acted as presiding judge, January
term, 1898. ] salute the bar of my ma
tive county. JAMES BARRETT"
Judge Barrett wrote a second letter
as follows:
after writing my postal to you a
few days ago, ! exercised memory as
to the members of Orange county bar
with whom | had been personally ac-
quainted, some Of them intimately, but
now deceased. : =1close their names
! should : s So be present and
spe EEEn t to tho those who she'
=, : eD- : 1inty seat on the
o 1s:S sssSg -morate the Tooth
@lGy-.5 years Younger than that
airy PEND very dim Of sight, it would
Z " DC safe to try to be there | again
anrv pc them, and am,
i OF cry truly, your obedient servant,
k. JAMES BARRETT
\ The list of names enclosed in Judge
BaTett's letter is rs follows Judge
Dudley Chase, Nutting, j. storrs
Washbun, Weston, Perrin, Dinsmore,
kidder, Buck, +. Jones, p. G. Jones,
Steele, Villas, Clarke. VIM. Hebard. ).
b. Iiebard, Ilinckley Rolfe, Lamb, Ord
way, Weymouth, Daniel Cobb, Jedu-
than LOOMS. Judge Short, Howard j.
W. ID. Parker, Ormsby, Dickey, Bur-
bank, Farr, Un@orwood, Dewey. Berry,
Colby, and JAY, Hutchinson of w.
III n. na Gl'.a dtfereiStOo~s ~. J.. ~ !.
ho, - h ihonn,od ,gryE,t Nv 10 you Oh, IN
| lopte lhduPieu us " NNuo say tlldu
may be wig and ont inst. | am
under the se2,ssity OF saying that if |
am able to cave home | must be in
Central New York in a matter that |
cannot well postpone. | much regret
my inability to be with you, on account
of the place, the occasion and the many
happy faces that know | should meet
there. Thanking you personally for
your kind invitation. and with kind
regards TO the committee, believe me,
Faithfully yours,
Il. 5. TAFT"
II write to thank You for your court
eOus personal invitation TO me to at
tend the anniversary and TO express
my regret that cannot accept it. The
next TWO weeks are all the time | shall
! have this summer that will resemble
vacation from work, and that time |
had made engagements for with friends
! in such a manner that it is not ut my
! disposal. The occasion am sure will
be an exceedingly pleasant one. Men
of eminent ability have distinguished
| the Orange county bar all along down
the century, and it is well, at its close,
to honor their memory and pay tribute
to their worth. ! have had reason to
hold the present bar in high esteem,
and have a real affection for dear old
Chelsea.
Yours very truly.
JAMES NJ. TYLER
II am in receipt of the invitation of
your committee and OF your own cor
dial note of personal invitation to at
tend your centennial anniversary the
10Th inst. | shall attend if possible,
but unless the unexpected happens, /
shall probably be deprived of the
pleasure of being with you, as | have
to hold Grand Isle county court the
25th inst. trust that the occasion
will be such that il will be historic
landmark in the future history of
Orange county. The idea of this gath
ering is a happy one ON the part Of the
Orange county bar. May that bar
stand for law and order, truth and JUS
tice i'm the future as well as it has in the
past. Few realize what hundred
years of the due administration of the
law of the land by the courts of your
county have done in making a law low
ing people who detest anarchy in all
its forms.
Sincerely yours,
LAFoRREsT ii. THOMPSON"
: Thanks for the invitation of the
Orange county bar to attend the CEN
tennial anniversary OF Chelsea rs the
shire of the county. | should be glad
to meet YOU, TO talk with YOU, and eat
and drink with YOU, and look upon the
ladies, and all that, if it were fairly
convenient or possible am five years
older than was Barzillai, the Gideon
lite. when he declined on account of
his age the invitation of David to fol-
low him to Jerusalem TO enjoy his
princely hospitality. (See 2d Samuel,
chapter l9.) Yet | cannot say that |
have wholly lost my taste for what eat
or what | drink. or that cannot hear
any more the voice of singing men
and singing women Still it is better
that | enjoy these things at home.
Truly yours,
DANIEL ROBERTS"