The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-04-23
FOR YER N 0 N 7
Sons of the Big Little State i'm
Annual Banquet.
Loyal to Old Home in Green
Mountains.
A new ENGLAND FEAST
Maple Sugar and Pumpkin
Pies for All.
Folks Who Gained Strength
From Rocks and Hills.
A new ENGLAND


gar, fifty pounds of maple syrup and
half a hundred pumpkin pies con-
| tributed to the success of the banquet
/ given by the Vermont Association of
| Kansas at the Y. w. c. A. last night.
Nearly one hundred guests were seat
| ed at five long tables decorated with
CHEEKY red geraniums. Judge George
H Whitcomb, retiring president. act
ed as POSTMASTER and introduced Jo-
seph A. DeBoer of Montpelier, who
responded. to the toast, Vermont as
| a Progressive State Governor
| Hodges, who was a guest of honor,
gave brief encomium on the Sun
flower as well as the Green Mountain
state.
Most of the guests were native Yer
monters. A few should have been
| born in Vermont, but weren't. Each
was loyal to the state that produces
| the greenest hills, the clearest brooks,
the whiteSt SHOWS, the gaudieSt au-
tumns and the finest maple sugar I'M
der the sun. Every one knew that
a Vermont winter is "Snowbound'
vitalized, a Vermont summer Tenny-
son idy1 and an autumn in the Green
Mountain state a bit of heaven on
earth.
Judge Whitcomb introduced Mr..
DeBoer in a delightful little speech.
lone of the characteristics of YER
mont" said he, lis it's self confidence
and self reliance. When Vermonters
withdrew allegiance from New York,
England and the Continental congress
they drew up constitution something
| like this: Resolved, That we adopt
| the laws of God and Connecticut I'M
| til we have time to frame better.
They've been proceeding under the
| laws of God and of Connecticut for
| the last century and a quarter. They
have held March meetings and Sep
TENDER elections. Is Vermont pro-
| gressive state?. Last fall the report
| was given out from White River juno
| ton that Taft had carried by plural
| ity of 1000. After all, Vermont and
Utah went down together locked in
| each others arms. 1t seems right
| that these two states should hang to-
gether in the hour of adversely; the
| first Mormon was a native Vermont
| er. I find that the last legislature
submitted eight amendments to the
constitution. They concerned matters
of grave importance. One eliminated
| the September election. We have
with US tonight a gentleman who can
tell US about the Vermont constitution.
1 take pleasure in presenting Mr..
DeBoer." az a'i
Mr.. DeBoer spoke with hearty Yam
kee twang He carried his hearers
ton, sleepy Brattleboro, Rutland in
the hills, and the capital city famed in
fiction and in history. In As minutes
he convinced citizens of Topeka that
roads, banks, schools, farms, men, gov
ernors and statutes in Vermont stand
as high as the Metropolitan tower.
They used to tell a story in YER
mont he declared, "as a train pulled
into Montpelier Junction, someone said,
BY gum, there's the sos On time Oh
explained the station master, that's
yesterdays 6:05.' They don't tell that
VQrn1nnf'S
progressive state. A man was asking
me about Vermont. I told him we had
10000 square miles, but were bigger
than New York if we were fiattened
out; that our population was 100000.
I know he said, but what's your pc
culiarity? What are you famed for?'
We're famed said I, because we don't
know who are the more loyal citizens
those within the state or those with
out!' -
Judge -Whitcomb declared Kansans had
something Vermonters couldn't have
a Democratic administration.
The governor reminded Mr.. DeBoer
rather cleverly that Kansas had con-
tributed to the progressiveness of Yer
mont; that her sister state, New
Hampshire, came to Kansas for her
college Observation-Disclosures Fox Nichols
of Dartmouth, E. T. Fairchild of Dur
ham. I'm Kansas we live to do things
he declared, I'VE are state of young
men and young women-there's a world
of possibilities in the Sunfower state"
The Rev. Mr.. bingham offered the
Invocation. Mrs E. N. McGregor, of
Wichita, gave a report of the Vermont
association in Sedgwick county. E.
w. Thompson, who has entertained the
society for nine consecutive years, re-
cited THE Habitant'' and other
French-Canadian verses. The Wash
brrn G1ee club OuartettP. including
Frank Ripley, Herbert Blinn, Sherrln
Smith and Pericles Miller, sang ITO
Aithea,'' Annie Laurie and Lucky
Jim" s. A. Hayes fddled oId-fashion-
ed tunes on violin 200 years old.
Preceding the banquet was a recep
ton One of the features of the din
ner was 1913 maple syrup served on
ice-in lieu of a sugaroff. One had
biscuits and maple syrup, doughnuts
and maple syrup, and maple sugar to
carry home to the Riddles.
The program closed with the singing
of vermont For Me" by F. C. Har-
rington, to the tune of Aud Lang
Syne.
"Vermont's the star that never SETS
home of the brave and free.
And no Green Mountain boy forgets
to say, Vermont for mel
The following officers were elected
for the year: President, c. B. Mer-
RAM; vice presidents, c. H. Chandler,
C. M. Heaton; secretary, Paul A. Love-
well.
Those present were: Joseph A De-
Boer of Montpelier, president of the
National Life Insurance company of
Vermont; Mrs. Edward n. McGregor,
club, Wichita; Mr.. E. D. McGregor,
Wichita: Mr.. and Mrs. P. J. Conklin.
Wichita; Mr.. John w. Ripley, Boulder,
Colo; Mr.. S. E. Mcfarland, Holton;
Nv TAoyy Paf