Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1913-10-24
COLONIAL DANES MET
Sixteenth Annual Session Of
State Society Yesterday
Delightful Banquet in First Baptist
Church Last Evening - Mrs. j. j.
Estey Elected First Vice President.


Estey Elected First Vice President.
The 10th annual meeting of tho
Vermont Society of Colonial Danes
was held yesterday afternoon in the
banquet hall of Masonic temple. Miss
Jennie A. Valentine of Bennington,
state president, presiding and calling
the meeting to order promptly mt ;
o O'Clock. About 60 members of the
order were present .'.
Following the recital of fire Lord 8
prayer the president spoke of the
fact that they all had ceased to be
surprised when knowledge came to
them that something unusual had been
accomplished by one of their number
She spoke of A Song of Old Vermont,
that had been dedicated to the Yer
mont Society of Colonial Danes by
one of their number, Mrs. Carolyn w.
Pember of Wells. Copies of this were
distributed to the members and with
Mrs. Salome Bixby Ross of Benning-
ton at the piano the four verses and
chorus were sung to the tune of
Tramp, Tramp, Tramp, the Boys Are
Marching.
As the last verse was being sung
Mrs. Pcmber entered the room and seat
ed herself near the door, but she did
not escape the eye of the president,
who informed everyone in the room
that they could see the author by
turning around.
In speaking of the fact that it was
customary for a society to be welcom-
ed, the president called attention to
the bouquet of American Beauty roses,
to n huge bouquet of violcts and re-
ferred to chrysanthemum sent to her
room at the Brooks House and said
that with these evidences to attest IA
welcome it seemed supernuous, but
she called upon Mrs. Levi X. Fuller to
extend one.
Mrs. Fuller was especially happy in
her remarks. After expressing the
belief that such organizations as the
Colonial Danes were needed to pro-
mote knowledge of national history
among the younger generation she re-
fcrrcd to the fact that there was n
long period between the landing of
the Pilgrims and the Revolutionary
war that was almost a blank. Refer
ring happily and entertaningly to
some famous Colonial Danes of that
period, she returned to the question of
preserving history.
She said that she wanted it written
down in black and white that those
who come after may read and learn.
She had lost her faith in markers
since one at the site of Fort Drummer
had been moved from the site to
spot fathoms below the surface of the
Connecticut river; and marking graves
she had lost faith in, since portions of
cemeteries have been sold for factory
sites, local references that brought
forth appreciative applause and laugh
ter. "''''''' '''~''
ven, vice, president, responded, saying
that such welcomes and past expert
ences made it dangerous for Brattle
boro unless the town desired their con
venton every alternate year.
Mrs. j. a. DeBoer of Montpelier,
state regent of the d. A. r., brought
the greetings of l40S members of that
order, Saving that for several years
she had been privileged to have the
honor aud appreciated it more in that
this was her last opportunity She 1
closed with congratulations to Presi-
dent Valentine upon her safe return
to her native state from Il long trip
abroad.
Mrs. A. s. Isham of Burlington,
president of the Daughters of lSl2,
brought greetings from that younger
and smaller order, of which there are
only III members, saying that the or
ganization would be glad to cooperate
with the older patriotic organizations
of the state.
President Valentine spoke at someG
length and referred in particular to
her visit to England, where she at