Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1917-01-31
Gil OVER CT .EANINGS
LEONE r. COOK.

! terest to the Monitors readers:
Leon R. Cook, 60, one of the lead
| ing citizens and business men of Var
mouth, died in local hospita! early
/ last evening after months illness.
1t will be generally admitted that Mr.
Cooks death leaves vacancy IN Inc
affairs of his town which will not De
filled easily. He was enterprlslng'
generous and upright in all his deal
ings, respected and relied upon to DO
his part in whatsoever was for the
benefit of the town.
Mr.. Cook settled in Yarmouth in
1878 and opened drug store which
he conducted 38 years. His store has
become one of the permanent lnstltu.
lions of Yarmouthville, the section OF
the town where he was located. De-
spite his political affiliations, Demo-
crat in an overwhelmingly Republl-
can town, he was elected town clerk,
year after year, 25 in succession and
won this distinction through his effl-
cheney in the office. Mr.. Cook was
elected as representative to the leg1s-
lature in 1892 and was a candidate
several years ago and came very close
to election He had served also as
first selectman and as a member of
the school board as secretary of the
board of health, was notary public
and held a commission as trial JUS
tice at the time of his death. Mr..
Cook was a member of the board of
trade from it's formation eight years
ago and served in various capacities
in that organization. He was men,
Der of the First Baptist church, its
Sunday school superintendent %
years, active in the Interdenomina-
tional association and member of the
executive board, was benevolent and
| oh itoh1 in oil
those less fortunate than he.
He was a 32d degree Mason, past
master of Casco lodge, past high
charter member and first patron of
Winnigance chapter, Eastern Star,
member of Ancient Brothers I. o. o.
F. lodge of this city, and K. of P. of
Yarmouth. He was born in Crafts
bury, VT, Sept. 25, 1858, was educat-
ed in West Glover and Barton acad-
envy, learning the drug business in
eight years application to the calling
in Barton.
l Mr. Cook was one of seven boys
and two girls, his father being a far
! mer and lifelong resident of Crafts
bury.
He married Clara J. Andrew, also
of Vermont, at about the same time
he moved to Yarmouth. Their daugh-
ter, an only child, died several years
ago. Funeral services for Mr.. Cook
will be held in the First Baptist
! church in his adopted town at 2.3O
! Wednesday afternoon.
: "DAY DREAMS"
The above was the title of L. B.
: Wickersham's lecture Friday evening.
4 A day dream is mental picture of
, what we would be, of what we could
t be, and what we should be, and in
these dreams our thoughts lead us
outward and upward till the stars
fall behind us and we glimpse heav-
( en-. Day dreams come straight from
e God and if not hindered these dreams
3 indicate what God has given us the
5 power to be and do, not so complete
e and perfect as the dream, perhaps.
All mans ideals are higher than he
ever attains, but with his hand in
! Gods, following the CLEAN, he can go
! far. Every great man that ever
L lived was a dreamer Many of them
! struggled years against the opposi-
|, ton of, not their enemies, but their
u friends, before coming into their own.
= Fathers and mothers, when you
y look at the little ones of your house
T hold, are you sure you know who and
what those boys and girls are? Are
you striving to help them to realize
|
you striving to make them material
t ize dream of your own. Look into
f their souls and read the day dream
n there. The boy who plays doctor
: whenever he follows his own wish
with playmates and pets will if not
:, hindered be a doctor and good one.
: Get down to their level and find out
r what God has placed in them to be
d developed. They may be too shy to
expose their day dreams to you I'M
It less you are one with them. Many a
d child is for all practical purposes a
S stranger to the grown-ups of his own
: household.
! Every great achievement either
o mental or concrete, was first a day
o dream in the mind of master. Every
day dream has in it the possibility of
: reality. Often these dreams are
S made real through great effort and
s privation. 1t is impossible to side
f track some dreamers. Others are
r smothered by the dreams of others
: and by multitudes of opposing forces
S yet the dream remains and often
!, speaks to them all along life. Find
: what the child's dream is and help to
t realize it. When the dreamer dreams,
|, God takes note. When the dreamer
: wills, God permits. When the dreamer
works, God supplies, and nothing can
S defeat him.
' WICKERSHAM breaches SUN
DAY.
= Perhaps no better introduction can
be given to the words of this great
preacher than the following, which he
: calls his creed:
!, What is easily done will be over
: done.
What is hard to do will be in de-
mand.
! What has been done can be done
again.
; You are the ONE to do it.
Impossible is unamerican.