The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1919-10-16
WHITE RIVER JUNCTION
Windsor County Farm Bureau Annual
Meeting Held Wednesday.

The annual meeting Of the Windsor
County Farm bureau was held at
Brownsville town hall on Wednesday,
Oct. Is, beginning at 10 o'clock in the
morning and continuing through the
afternoon, with an hour Of intermission
at noon, at which time a fine dinner was
served by the ladies in the basement of
the hall Between $50 and 200 farm
bureau members were present at the
meeting, more enthusiasm being shown
than at any previous annual meeting
In the morning the meeting was given
over to business, the yearly reports Of
the secretary and treasurer being read,
program for the coming year which
had been outlined by the executive COM
mittee was also read at this time The
last item Of business on the morning
program was the election of officers for
the coming year The following officers,
all of whom have served in the same
capacity for the past year, were elect
ed: President, }. W. English, Wood
stock; yice.president, j /. Hazen; sec
rotary, Ray l.. Williams Quechee; treas
urer, H. NJ Lee, Windsor; executive
committee, the above officers, and c. A.
Belknap, Cayendish, George d. Bailey,
Rochester, G, F. Joslyn, Sharon 4. W.
Farr, Chester, Amos j. Eaton, South
Royalton, Philip Whitney, Springfield
The afternoon meeting was given up
to addresses on timely farm topics Of
the day O. II. Benson of Washington
national leader of boys and girls club
work, spoke on the need Of such club
work in Windsor county, In order that
the children may become SO interested
in farm work that they will not care to
leave it for other occupations when they
grow up. Mr. Benson reminded those
present that the boys and girls club
members of to-day would be the farm
bureau members of tomorrow, and that
in these days when the tendency Of the
farmers children is to seek for work in
the cities rather than stay on the farm,
it was necessary TO make every effort to
center their interest in the farm. Mr.
Strivings Of New York, president of the
New York Federation of Farm Bureaus,
and state lecturer for the grange, ad-
dressed the audience on farm problems,
He said that in these times when organ
ization was the by-word in the labor
world, it was necessary that the farmer
also have some cooperative organization
if he was to hold his own. This could
best be done through the farm bureau
and was being done in that way. Miss
Pierpont, state home demonstration
agent spoke on the home work which
should be carried on in connection with
the farm bureau and urged that Wind
sor county make strenuous effort to
secure a home demonstration agent. The
meeting adjourned at 5 o'clock A beau
tiful silver loving cup was presented to
Windsor County Farm bureau in the
afternoon by Mr., Bradlee of Burlington,
state director of the extension service,
with the compliments Of the state fair
commission as a reward for the second
best farm bureau exhibit at the state
fair.
Miss Muriel Shea of the White River
Paper Co. spent the week end with her
parents in Moretown.
Myrtle lodge, No. 81, l. o. o. r.,
worked the initiatory degree on four
candidates last Tuesday evening. There
were a large number of brothers pres
emit, and the work was given in an able
ana impressive manner
Wilson Bros have secured the services
Of G. r. Hudson, who is a registered
pharmacist, having had number of
years experience in some of the large
drug stores in Boston
A number of the Knight Templars of
Vermont commandery, No. 4, attended
the funeral Of Charles Wiley Of Sharon
Wednesday afternoon
Charles Wiley of Sharon, who has
been in failing health for the past two
years, passed away at his home last
Monday in his 18th year Mr. Wiley
was at one time prominent business
man in Sharon. He leaves to mourn his
loss his widow and two brothers and
number of other relatives The funeral
service was held from the Congregation
al church, Rev. Mr. Grand, former pas
tor, officiating, and the Sharon lodge,
No. l05, gave the Masonic service. There
was also a Knights Templar escort of
some 10 or II sir knights from Vermont
commandery, No 4, of Windsor
Col. c. NJ. Wiley of Barre was in
White River Junction Wednesday on
his way to attend the funeral of his
cousin, the late Charles Wiley of Shar
on.
The carpenters are at work on the
building where the Western Union tele-
graph office is now located They are
making such changes as will give to the
telegraph people a much larger office
than they have at the present time.