The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1911-09-23
COLONIAL DANES
Annual Meeting Of Vermont Society in
Bennington September 27

NN'f''dN ONfNNffS~' -
The fourteenth annual meeting OF
the Vermont Society of Colonial
Danes will be held at Bennington,
September q. 1911. The business
session will take place at the home of
the president on Pleasant street at
1870 o'clock Members are invited to
come directly TO the house II they ar.
rive in town after half past two o.
clock as tea will be informally served
tin the meeting opens to ladies' as they
come. and guests will be made com
Portable by the Bennington Danes.
Miss Hubbell will welcome the
Danes to Bennington and Mrs Tut
tie will respond to her greeting; the
accompanying ballot shows what cleo
lions must occur, and the amendments
to be acted on; and the years work
will be reported by the various Off
GERS Notice is here given that at the
annual meeting Of 1912 the following
lchange in the constitution will be vot-
ed upon:
Article II, Section 3, to read.
Every applicant must be endorsed
by two members of the society as
worthy to be admitted, II eligible
through her ancestry. and must be
Improved by the Board OF Manage
ment"
AS last year, registration Of mem
bers will replace the old time roll-call.
And now for word regarding the
play end of our gathering this year.
which promises TO be OF an unusual
and, We trust, especially pleasant
sort. At quarter after seven o'clock
in the evening we shall gather at the
Baptist chapel ready for the banquet
prepared for us aud for an hour of
bright short speeches afterwards.
This is a novelty In our history, and
we hope the eating and chatting to
gether may so promote acquaintance
and good fellowship as TO make the
Bennington meeting a notable one in
our memory This banquet is paid
for from our treasury, so Is free 70
the members, whose only duty Is Ia
come In good numbers and enjoy Il and
help others to do likewise. Yes, one
other obligation is yours; to send q
Yes with your name and address e
the president on or before September
goth II you plan to attend, and e
E notify her promptly II. after sendinl
r an acceptance, you find you cannot
3 II YOU find az the last that you cal
X come telegraph to that effect; and /
q utterly impossible for you TO know be
n forchand come Just the same and vi
n will try 10 seat you somewhere.
(. YOU add a request for hotel accommC
y ldations at $500 per day and up, the
will be reserved for you; or applioa
ton may be made direct to the Put
nam House. IT. again. you give IN
time OF train or trolley by which 20
!. mean TO arrive YOU will be met b
Danes who will escort YOU to tn
meeting place.
i The hours for this meeting hav
{, been fixed with special reference {
I" the convenience OF the guests. II
y, leaving home the morning OF the 27t
y you can reach here by S;SO-froT
y either north or east. and leave fo
:, home the next morning, II necessary
y Indeed. II from Rutland and betwee
y stations you can take the midnigl
y train u you wish
II is the desire OF the officers tina
y this shall be large meeting, a merr
y one-held az Il IL at the home OF on
y Honorary President, and Of our pre-
ent head as well. and besides IL IN
y place where our beginnings wer
y made seventeen years ago
y Jennie A. Valentine
- Pres Vt Society Colonial Dame
Bennington. Vt, September, 1911