Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1903-09-24
NEWS OF VERMONT
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Free Press Rcadcrs-Scmi-Cent
NAL of Oak Grove Seminary
ut PONnnl.

The sem-centennial of Oak Grove
Seminary in Pownal opened Saturday
and continued Sunday. The institution
has had a successful existence, and q
good number of former teachers and
scholars We're present, while many let
ters were received from those who could
not attend. The institution has had at
Its head % different persons. Among
them is Col. Andrew Potter, later the
first city solicitor for the city of North
Adams, Mass; the Rev. Edward Hooker,
\. B., for some time pastor of the First
Church at Bennington Centre, and a
prominent man in the Congregational
Church in Vermont; the Rev Edgar
Walker, a, NJ, NJ D., now a member of
the Troy Conference; the Rev. Marcus
Nelson Horton. a. NJ, of Bloomfield, N.
j., and Thomas Ii. Hall, LII. b., Of
Pownal. OF the Al persons who original
ly subscribed to the institution, all are
dead, and of the IS students who were
in attendance the first two years, 81 are
dead. The anniversary exercises began
at 10 a. IN. with a reunion of the trus-
tees, teachers and scholars who were
connected with the institution for the
first 2S years. There was reunion song.
prayer by the Rev James Hall, calling
Of the original roll by Marcus Nelson
Horton, the name of each being respond
ed to by r. HoXie Hall, who gave a
brief notice of each. Memoriam remarks
were also made by others. This gather
ing closed with singing "Good-by' and
the bencdiction. AT noon there was a
reunion dinner. followed by toasts The
exercises at the Methodist Church at .
p. m. were us follows: Organ selec-
tons, Miss Mary Louise Ashton of North
Adams; singing, prayer by the Rev. X.
II. Washburne of Pownal; a ddrcss.
Fifty Years Ago" by the Rev. William
Hampton Hall, a. NJ, of Parish n. y;
H.. 1
Oaken Bucket address, oak Grove
Seminary" by Il. HoXie Hall of Pow
nal; son, "Goodby,' benediction. Satur-
day evening there were several reunion
gatherings with private families. News
paper representatives were entertained
at the Brooksde Inn. Sunday
there were services in the Methodist
Church, with an anniversary sermon by
the Rev. Allen James Hall, pastor Of the
Methodist Church at Sudbury, Mass.
DON'T WANT RURAL DELIVERY.
The residents of Berlin are making a
fight against the establishment of a rural
free delivery route from Montpelier into
that town, as they believe it means they
are TO lose their daily stage and event
ually their postofiice. When the new
route was put in opera ton many of the
residents on the line refused to accept
their nails, but insisted that it should
go in the regular way it having been
carried before by the star route stage
driver. This agent did not go after the
mail that day as he supposed it had been
discontinued. but a telegram from Wash
ngton notified the Montpelier postmas-
ter that the star route had not been dis
continued. so its service was resumed
The opponents of the rural carrier ser
vice, who have been flooding the post
office department at Washington with
postoffice officials at Montpelier say that
it will be discontinued when the infor
nation reaches the proper department
that the rural free delivery service is r
operation. At the present time the towr
has the benefit Of both services. The
stage driver received $3.50 year for his
work.
PLENTY OF GAME IN CHESTER.
a wild panther was seen a short tim'
ago below Main street, Chester, on tbs
Charles Woolley meadow by two mel
passing along the highway. The ANNA
had a dead beefs head which 1t was eat
ing, and did not appear very wild. 4