Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1906-06-14
Col. Ilsley's Gift to the Baptists
of Middleburyp mally
Dedicas
STRUCTURE CO.. $4,000
One of the Best Chur, ,ui,djprs in
New Observation-Disclosures SER
mon by :hr Rev. r. ~. =. Nnr-
Arthur Of New york--
Description OF the
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nu'>ide nf BOSTON and pu.sIIdy Prov
hcuce. as the r.ncrous donor has been
lavish I'm us iulding ana furnishing
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Jeld this evening. There was an o,...t, r.-
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COUSIN OF TO. IlSI"N.
SOMETHING AHor-T THE bo\op
I've years az" COL IISi'N' with his wife
'"'.' To- '"'S LOW" rom Ne" OK cl'N'
this his homo. Accordingly hc had mari.
own ide,s ar tho Addison rIo,,.o .,,d Ia
has proven n most generous bcr,factor
10 the town. year ago on Memorial day.
hc presented $1,000 soldiers monument
- The people and shortly after announced
that ne would present the struggling Bap-
list society with a now church home.
HIS purchase of the fair grounds and
great improvements thereon has placed
tho county agricultural society at the
head Of institutions Of that character in
tho state. ana made their exhibitions re-
muneratve TO high degree.
Colonel Ilsley won his title during a
four years service in tho Union army
during tho civil War rising from the
rank of corporal to colonel uf the I5sth
regiment. y. Y. V. becoming attached 10
n brigade staff as adiutnnt- general. The
Colonel IS reserved as 80 hts personality
that the writer can give only general
terms i'm his behalf. but his work IN this
community show a generosity that stands
NnUQualed 10y any other man. and will en-
dear him to the present generation, while
his deeds Will endure as long rs the mar
bic he has erected here shall remain.
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