The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1903-08-12
"A BUNCH OF ONIONS"
Unique Title Of a Club Formed
by Amateur Journalists.
MEMBERSHIP LIMITED TO TEN.

when an "onionite" Meets an aOn-
ioniter he Is 10 rake Hite or
Draw Teur, says the club. Com
stieution-Onions OF Every Variety
20 BE Cultivated in Gardens al The
Members.
Undoubtedly the strongest and
strangest club ever organized is the
one formed in Chicago recently under
the unique title of "a Bunch 81 on
ions. and it is not composed Of truck
gardeners either, says the Chicago
Chronicle.
| It was born under very happy cir
cumstances at a wei known down
town restaurant during the annual ma
tional convention Of the Amateur Press
association. There are just ten mem
bers In the organization and each one
holds an Office
There are seven states represented
in the club and the members are all
enthusiastic writer's for amateur pub
locations. The object Of this unique
organization as has been announced
Is to bring tears 10 the eyes Of anna
teur writer's
The membership Is limited to ten,
and the only way to resign from the
club is to die or get married There
is but one meeting each year, and at
that session vacancies are filed Each
year one Of the members must marry
in order to create a vacancy in the
club.
The onion is the favorite flower Of
the organization The motto Is. In
onion there is strength" The officers
are as follows
Chief odor, Louis st. Elmo Ohio;
sliced onion, Edwin Hadley Smith,.
New York: collector Of tears, Miss
Maisie Mclaughlin, Illinois; gatherer
of scents. Miss A. Eunice Frees, ILL
nois; official editor. Miss T. Irene Ma
Ioney, Illinois; executive board soul
lion, Albert Gillespie, indiana fertili-
ger, George A. Alderman, North Caro-
lima; sprouts. Foster Gilroy, Pennsyl-
vunia; proxy committee or guardians
OF the scents. Miss e. Merle Hegert
Illinois; Miss Alemdia Thomas, Mis-
souri,
The election takes place annually,
and an proxies are thrown out by the
proxy committee. The members Of the
club may nominate. second their own
nominations and vote for themselves,
The official organ Of the club is to
be called the Onion Skin. The publica-
ton win be in the form Of an onion
and printed on onion paper What IS
more. the meetings Of the club are to
be called "reonions" The club has one
| sonionary" member. and that is
| Charles r. Burger Of Colorado. He, it
is said, has brought more tears to the
eyes Of amateur writer's during the
past year than any other one person.
One "onionary" member is elected each
year and "onionary'' mention IS made
Of any member where such mention is
due.
One of the strange laws Of this
stranger club IS that when a member
Of the bunch visits town where
in resides another member the visitor
must invite the resident member TO
dinner at his or her expense. The am
nual dinners, which are very elaborate
affairs must be held on the last night
Of the annual convention Of the Ma
tional Amateur Press association, and
members Of the bunch only are allowed
to attend If only one member attends
| the convention he must eat his dinner
with the vacant chairs Of his comrades
surrounding the table.
The badge Of the club is an onion,
and it must be worn conspieuously
during convention Of amateur jour
nalists. The constitution of the club
is the shortest on record and is as fol-
| lows
"When an onlonite meets an onionite
he is to take a bite or draw a tear"
When the chief odor makes d de-
cision il is perfectly in order for any
| member to take appeal The executive
Office is called the onion patch Mem
bership in the organization is eagerly
sought and there IS already a cam
lpaign on for the first vacancy
Carl Hegert Of Chicago thinks the
lpolitics IN the bunch Is "odoriferous,
and he has started an antioniou csG-
SADIE. He is also running for the place
of onionary member in 1904
The members announce that the club
is in its salad days All members are
| asked to become vegetarians and live
as much as possible on the sueculent
onion. One Of the aims Of the society
win be to make fried onions popular,
and onions III every variety will be cul.
tiyated in the gardens Of the members.
Instead Of confetti the members viii
use onion seed in time of carnival
After eating a hearty dinner recently
in which onions figured extensively
one member dreamed the following
bill Of fare
"Onions; young onions old onions;
onion sets; fried onions; boiled onions;
stewed onions; picked onions; presery-
ed onions
This member Is trying now to have
this menu adopted as the official bill
Of fare. No member may, upon pain
of n heavy fine. eat anything To re-