The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1905-09-13
AvnsoN REUNION
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srTe several eoaslns u other fsmiliss
81 Naiiisoh's dislAnily related.
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n, \, Tho oFchssirz lhsi farnishsd
ihs a.asie sss eonposad al ala pisoss
siih pizEo, ohs brother. aRi biz
iamily u Mrs. Edgar isFsins ssFs no
mssieiahs, Tho grounds hsi basH
tsTy hahdson.sll deoofslad, q pretty
-aFch had hssH PLACED over lhs gate,
ssy siih "NsleoHss" 10 large letters
~ sssFsTesa, Tho yard ls profess ia
lsaauial shade trees, haRdsans,
~ issiooaad aEd No tables arranged
10 Nc yard, bai osiHg " lhs heavy
shshdsF shossfs of no noraias. he
guests ssFe obliged 10 b. toasted in,
doors. 4 Vsfy elaborate spread had
lse0a prepared, everything thai woald
issn 4 b. apostle ~ Nc Eplears ~as
spread tsiSFs lhsm.
The si,sFRooa as hlied 90 9Th
music ahd = social tine ssnsrsli,
hsfbefi Johhs"a 81 ilshninsiaa "a.
there ahd look piciurss - ths sroap.
The eldest fsrsoa present sas Mr
ians inhRsoa - NoFih.si llsnningsah.
siis i II isArs old, The younsrs. uas
i~o year old hsios ~ Mrs iorkins.
Tho guests usFs mo.iiy from Nee
Nofs, Massachusetts aud Vsrmoni,
Ih's j. ihs irsi ~ lbs rcuaioas held ia
ihls slate. NJ aud Mrs Eisard Mn.
ilnsloa aud I II Dunlap add wlio sors
pnrsoni irom ihis village.
Tho iollosiag il The srossias which
uss rsad by Dr Miliisgions
TO The MAliesons Assembled 10 To.
unlon'
Dear Frirads.-
The desosndAnis 81 your race Ia Con.
necilcai ~ Hhlch ihsrc arc several,
abd ihose eonneossd herewith by ihs
tss Of marriage. extend 10 you upon
this occasion 81 your family reunion,
greetings most cordial With many
81 you. ! have had tho pleasure Of b..
coming sonsuhsI acquainted through
corrcspondebcc. aud 10 all such DO.
siro 10 extend thanks for III. aid
afforded 10 Tho compilation 81 The
Matisson genealogical records.
To those whom have no, met, al.
90 send cordial greetings snd in the
words ofihe ismonied though aniiquat.
cd Rip Vac Wrinkle. Here's 20 your
health. and 20 your family's health.
May YOU live long and prosper" To
those Of you who have no, sent In
your family records, please consider
this general Invitation, all round 20
70 do, thu, 10 course Of time you may
all b. gathered into one great family
sheai, for the future generations Of
cblldrrn's children 10 wonder al, as
you 10 day may be wondering over
tie identity OF those sturdy ancestors
who for 25i years have lived and
performed their allotted tasks and
have finally passed to the great be-
yond, yet whose memory lives after
them.
You OF the Matteson race have much
TO be proud Of in your long If. his
tory. You spring from a sturdy stock.
Race suicide has NO place in the an.
mails Of your past history. Your for.
bears lived, and breathed the free air
OF the heavens. untrammelled by trI.
vial conventionalities. Sturdy as the
rock ribbed eternal hills among which
so many Of them dwelt. hon st tillers
of the soil, fathers handed down to
sons the family patrimony, and for the
most parts sons increased IT,. There
never was time In all your
family history when the Matteson race
was not race of landholders. Go
back In the annals Of history over 254
years and you find them owners OF the
soil.
They knew what IL was TO battle with
life. The willy woodcraft OF the Indian
was not sufficient To- intimidate those
stout hearts. Amid the virgin forests
they planted their homes and built
their clearings. The sun of the morn.
ing's dawn warmed to life the crops
they planted in the rich though rough
soil of the mountain clearing, and its
last rays at night, fell in benediction
upon their sturdy soil.
Those pioneer women, who spun the
flax and swung the loom, and who
could shoot the rifle with the skill OF
their husbands and sons, those earnest
big hearted men, whose life was bound
up in the little home they loved and
for which they toiled, we're building
better than they knew, for there sprang
up around them, like the leaves of the
forest progeny, sturdy, healthy and
imbued with ambitious desires and
they too, passed outward into life,