The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1916-07-24
Greater Vermont Association Slogans.

Every Board of Trade the liyeliest
force in its community; all communi-
ties organized.
An agricultural adviser for every
Vermont county.
Vermont's agricultural good name
made good by maximum production of
perfect food products.
Greater Vermont better acquain-
lance tours everywhere in Vermont
for every Board of Trade
Vermont: as perfect as garden,
as beautiful as park.
Every drop of water in Vermont
streams counting for Vermont beauty
or Vermont power or both.
A Vermont national guard in keep
ing with the best military traditions
of Vermont
The lobby of every Vermont hotel a
picture gallery of Vermont scenery.
Every Vermont hotel table display
counter for the best Vermont agricul-
tural products.
Vermont a home for the mechanical
ly-minded boy.
Vermonts highways the best earth
and gravel highways in the United
States.
The Green Mountain passes and
mountain SUBMITS accessible by
"Over-the- Mountain" and 'Up-the-
Mountain auto roads.
Vermont: the Denmark of Ameri-
ca.
Greater Vermont; wherever in the
world there are Vermonters working
for Vermont.
At the meeting of the Greater Yer
mont association the following mem.
orial sketches of two former directors
of the association appeared on the
program:
George Hamilton Bckford
with splendid natural talents, aided
by years of student life, success could
have been his in almost any career he
might have chosen. Unlike many Yer
mont boys, the Reckoning west and the
crowded cities held no allurement for
him. 1t was favorite theory of his,
and one he dwelt on in his recent adj
dress before the Merchants Associa-
ton of Burlington, that a man owes
something to his native State. Yer
monters, he felt, are too apt to seek
opportunity away from home
But George II. Bickford had the
vision that could see the possibilities
that lay at home, and we'll he labored
with them. He did great work for
his chosen industry, and, in a large
sense, big pioneering task for Yer
mont.
His business instinct was inspired
Behind the formal contract ever lurked
the dream. II was his lofty conception
of business that took its pride in the
achievement rather than the mere
sense of barter and gain.
1T was the recognition of this spirit
of accomplishment that led big men tc
George II. Bickford with their building
! plans, confident that his was the per
sonality that could transmute theii
drawings into those stately granite
piles that enrich our largest cities ant
are now his living memorials.
= AS public speaker George II
. Bckford will be long remembered
Whether on some topic OF local inter
est in village meeting, vigorous ap
- peal for the cause of temperance,
70 plea for a greater Vermont spirit, or
:. | heartfelt tribute to the nations sol
der dead, his voice rang clear an,
- true. foursquare with sincerely, tn
81 sentences pouring out in stream o
simple eloquence which is the fines
~ expression OF human oratory."
- Timothy G. Bronson.
n "T. G.. Bronson of Hardwick, note
M Jersey breeder wheelhorse in the Coy
IS Test association movement, father O
Z the State School of Agriculture at Ran
- dolph, Nive-President of the Create
nov Vermont association, good either
,e farmer, Vermonter.
re "Fifty-hve years old. His entire Iii
save five years was spent on VeI
IN mont farm. Its successful operatio
cd was at once model and an inspir,
nd ton. Because of the wide Distribute
IA of his sales, literally his cattle lowe
. on a thousand hills in praise of Broi
RS dalo Farm.
'ct "a regular attendant for more tina
err a quarter of century at the meeting
Ia of the Vermont Dairymens Assocli
~ ton and at other educational agricu
-, tural gatherings and leader there il
io he was never too old to learn TO hin
,so perhaps. as President of the Allie
~, Cow Test Association of Vermont, 0
we much as to any other one man is du
''o the spread of the movement through
NV out State whereby fifteen thousan
nh cows are today demonstrating accu
ns. ately their worthiness or WORTHLESS
80 ness.
- He was chairman of the House CO.
raj mittee on Agriculture in its I.egisl
ma ture OF 1910, framed and introduced Il
nc bill creating the State School. of Agi
culture.
sb Early interested In and clearly pr
ral visioning the potentialities OF II
,ra' Greater Vermont Association, he b
a came one of its mosa enthusiast
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