Potter County Journal

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Iflttrnal
ESTABLISHED 1848.
COUDERSPORT, PA., WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 1, 1897.
VOLUME 49, NUMBER 21
HISTORY OF COUDERSPORT.
(Read by Mrs. John R. Groves.)
It was perluips quite natural that the conimittee who planned thi.s reminiscence nieetint,'- of the Presby¬ terian church of Coudersport should
the fir.st child born in Coudersport, and Mrs. Hinkle's death, the ensuing winter, was the first death.
About this time also came the Dickinsons, the Strongs, Dennis Hall's family, the McDougalls, and in 1839, Mr. John S. Mann, IbHowed
desire  also  that   .some, one take  a j later by others of his family.    But backward glance at our town, for the ja few years later the Jones, Olmsteds
and Hamiltons had  been added to a
organization and growth of the Church have been so associated with that of the village thatthe history of either is incomplete without the other. Let me say, first, that my chief iu former aud authoritj'^ iu pre¬ paring this sketch was Mrs. Mary A. Ross, and if any interest attaches
growing community.
The first Court House had beeu built iu 1835, the Commissioners' ofliee having preceded this by some ^-^ears. The first public school build¬ ing was the one on the corner of West and   Fourth   streets,   now a
to the  material heri
credit for   its   ])reservation.   it   is
largely due to the excelleut memory
])resented. or dwelling house, though several schools had been taught prior to its erection; one iu the Comuiissioners" and remarkable descriptive powers ; offiee by the clerk, one Dea. Reed, of this venerable woman who was a | another on the site of M. S. Thomp- meuiber of the first family that set- i son's drug store, and very soon after tied in Coudei's])ort. and who still [this, Mrs. Mary Kent, who liad come lives iu our midst in fail- health aud [here from Delaware county, N. Y., in full possession of all her mental ! taught both a select school and the powers. ' district school  for 18 mouths.    The
Potter county was orgauized in'academy, to fouud which Mr. Keat- 1804, out of a part of Lycoming i"M'had given money and land, as county, to which county it remained above stated, and for which the State attached for judicial purposes mauy jL^oislature had afterward appropri- vears after. The name ^-Potter" was jated $2,000, was opened  in Septem-
given in honor of James Potter who had "come into the Susquehanna country" as landagentandsurveyor before the Revolutionary war. He served under Washington or La Fayette iu that war. The name of the towuship, •¦.Eulalia," was in honor of a daughter of John Keating, the principal owner of lands" in all this region. To perfect the organi¬ zation of the county, a county seat must be chosen, surveyed and legal¬ ly maintained. The present site was selected and the survey made in 1807-8, by Surveyor John King. By a deed executed JuueH, 1808, John Keating conveyed two-thirds of the lots then surveyed in Coudersport, two public squares, one for a Court House and one for an academy, to¬ gether with loO acres adjoining the town site, to the county. He also gave $500 for the erection of a school building, andasked that the name he had given the place, in honor of a friend, Johu Couder, should be re¬ tained.
But the Court House square re¬ mained a forest until 1822, and no building, except a temporary slianty. put uj) probably by .some huutingor fisliing party, was reared here until the autumn of 1824. when Johu L. Cartee. the step-father of Mrs. Ross, theu Miss Mary Knight, then a girl of 14 years, came here from Tioga county, N. Y., and with the help of two men he had brought with him. atteni])ted to build a house on the site of the present county jail; he was only able to raise the frame of his house before cold weather came on, but he had prudently leased the Court House square and some other lots the commissioners had cleared a couple of years before, and sowed them to wheat, aud returned to New York State.
lu May of thefollowingyear, 1825. h(^ returned with his wife, the step¬ daughter, little son and two hired men. Mrs. Ross says that in the one sunny spot iu the almost unbroken hemlock forest, she planted some garden seeds, the next day after their arrival. Boards were set up tent fashion, to shelter the family and their belongiugs till a roof and siding could l)e gotten on to the frame iiut up the fall before.
A road, called the State Road, had been cut from Wellsboro to Smeth¬ port years before, but it was only barely passable for teams. Lymans- ville was ali-eady quite settled, Mr. Isaac Lyman aud Mr. (wephas Nelson having been there a number of years, and the former having at this time a saw mill and a good dwelling house. ¦ (]\lrs. Ross makes vigorous protest against the recent changes that have been niadc in .some of our local names. To tliink of ''Lyniansville" being droi)i)ed for the name of "La¬ dona, "a name with no significance and no connection with the history or the people. ''No one will ever hear/,/r call it that, " she  declares.)
13esides the Lymans and Nelsons, the Carteefaniily had/^r/V/Z/Aoz-.s'on the west, where Julius Colcord now lives. Mr. John Peet having come there from New Jersey in 1811, and on the north Mr. Daniel Clark, grandfather of Mrs. Snyder, had settled in 1807. .Mrs. Ross remem¬ bered that the few lots cleared were fenced with charred logs, where now are our fine buildings and beautiful lawns.
built fii-e-places in his for baking he built a stone oven in the present street between the jail and the --Cou- dersi)ort lloti-l."' There was a little grist mill at the mouth of Dingman Run. where the Hammond tauuery now is. But most of the provisions and nei-essaries of life had to be brought fi-om Jersey Shoreor Oleau. A postman, with the '"fast uiail," made the trip once in two weeks. Letter ])Ostage was 25 cents. Mr. Cartee paid .$10 for the whole jail aud Stebbins square.
During ]''-^25 came also Timoth}^ Ives, grandfather of Watson Dike, who built a house and the first store in Coudersport in lS2t). In 1827 a Mr. Hiukle, a blacksmith, settled here,    His son, Samuel Hinkle, was
M r. house, rou'rh
Cartee but
ber, 1840. a Professor Max.son, of Allegany county, N. Y., being the first teacher. It is worthy of note, just here, that at the time the acad¬ emy rose on the west hillside, state¬ ly and white against its dark ever¬ green background, this primitive settlement in the heart of a hemlock forest, had less than a dozen dwell¬ ings iu it; thus, almost before the barest necessities of life had beeu secured, thisiDCople were moving for a high school iu their midst. It was another manifestation of the same spirit which prompted the Legisla¬ ture of "Mas.saehusetts Bay Colony'' to appropriate money for founding Harvard College only sir years after Boston itself was settled. Apprecia¬ tion and desire for knowledge has remained a Coudersport character¬ istic.
One serious natural obstacle to the building up of the town existed in the swamp which covered one-half of the valley. Mrs. Ross says she and Mrs. Ives often gathered cow¬ slips—"marsh marigolds," on the site of the Crowell House, aud that the swamp was impassable from Owen Metzger's to the Larrabee place, except on fallen tree trunks. As late as the building of the house now occupied by Judge Olmsted's family, the cellar having been laid in the fall and left open during the winter, filled with w'ater and made an excellent skating park for the few young people who could afford the luxury of skates.
Miss Mary Knight had been mar¬ ried in 1827 to Capt. David Ross, who had come to Coudersport in that year as land agent and surveyor for the Bingham's. Her daughter, whom we know as Mrs. MaryR. Jones, was the first female child born in Cou¬ dersport. Mrs. Ross says that her lir.st cooking stove was brought from Dansville or Rochester in 1840, and was a marvel in the community. She says one of the inconveniences, not to call it a hardship, of her early days was that the best butter they could get WQ,s\\\v'AV\ixh\y flavored with leeks which grew so rankly in the woods where the cows must feed; but a friend counseled the family to place a leek by each plate on the ta¬ ble, take a bite with their other food aud they would not notice the flavor of the butter; the prescription was followed with satisfactory results. The fundamental principal of home¬ opathy recognized early here, you see. I think the family of John Peet were probably not troubled with leek-flavored butter, for Mr. Peet wrote of oue of their earlj'^j'ears in Coudersport: "The few .seeds that I was able toplant the first year yielded but little produce : we. how¬ ever, made out to live, without suf¬ fering, till the next spring at plant¬ ing time, when I planted all the seed that I liad left, and when I had fin¬ ished planting we had nothing to eat but leeks, cow-cabbage and milk." This was all for six weeks. But to return to the earlv "forties."
With the establishment of schools, a postoffice. two churches aud the Court House, Coudersport_ at once seems to touch our own times, and our interest in what was primitive and heroic wanes. From this time, its growth was somewhat slow, but normal. During the decade prior to the War, excitement over the slavery question ran very high; the strain of Quaker blood that had been added, manifesting itself in bitter opposition to the •¦southerninstitution," and as a strong impulse to patriotism and support of  the   war when the great
crisis came.
Another agitation culminated about
the same time, in 18t)0, in the pass¬ age of a special Act of Legislature pT-ohibiting the sale of liquor in Pot¬ ter county. The securing of this law was largely due to the efforts of the late Hon. John S. Maun.
No account of Coudersport, how¬ ever brief, could omit the great tire of May 18. 18S0, when the heart of the village—almost the entire busi¬ ness portion, was consumed within the space of three hours. All the dailies of the As,sociated Press con¬ tained next morning big head-lines,
"Coudersport in Ashes," and in¬ deed the oW Coudersport was largely a thing of the past; but a new town has risen from its ashes,—more ro¬ bust and aggressive in all its activ¬ ities. There is one fact I like par¬ ticularly to emphasize in closing this cursory sketch of Coudersport, that one of the two women who first set¬ tled in the town, still lives,—that she has known and taken keen in¬ terest in all the growth and improve¬ ment of the place,—has watched its development step by step, from the time she cooked and sat by her rude stone fire place and read by her pine- knot torch, till now, still an inde¬ pendent housekeeper, she is able to ]3lace a burning match in her modern aud artistic stoves, and an invisible and intangible fuel from the bowels of the earth springs to her service; the still more wonderful current of electricity has conquered the dark¬ ness of theonce lonesome forest, and from her doorway she watches the steam locomotive and railroad train gliding over the impassable swamp of her girlhood days.
riASONIC LODGES.
Coudersport Becoming the Mecca of the Ancient and Honorable Body.
On 3t«nday, November 22. a large number of Masonic brothers visited Coudersport to attend the institution of Coudersport Lodge of Perfection. Ten degrees were conferred on nine applicants at this meeting: Jacob Weiss, G. W. Carlson, Ludlow; H. F. Marsh, Wellsboro; Wm. E. Moss, Bradford; Wm. F. Rice, West Branch; Dr. F. G. Reese, Couders¬ port; Carl F. Breunle, Coudersport; James O. Potter, Coudersport; Harry Scoville, Coudersport. The mem¬ bership of this lodge, now numbers 139.
On Tuesday, the 23d, Council Princes of Jerusalem, and Chapter of Roseeroix, wei'e instituted under a dispensation. Seventy-two mem¬ bers took the degrees from 15 to 18 inclusive.
The several masonic bodies of Coudersport are certainly in a mo.st flourishing condition, and this point is destined to become a prominent place in Masonic circles.
The Land of the 5weet By and By.
Written for the Journal.
We are told of a land in a far away clime,
Whose splendors we yet may behold ; And Its glories reveal the beauties divine
Of this far away homeof the soul. And the gladness of song In tbis home over there.
Where they know not a sorrow or sigh. Eternally floats on the ambient air
!n this land of the sweet By and By.
There the rest that the weary ones crave in their prayer
Is found in this beautiful land; And its measures of love that is free from all care
They receive from a bountiful hand.. The sinsof the world hath no place overthere.
Nor can sorrow or trouble draw nigh, To this beautiful home iu the regions so fair,
In the land of the sweet By and By.
But the way tliat leads to this beautiful land.
Is strewn with failure and tears, Of the lives that are wrecked on the glittering strand,
Of their world by its nrofitless years, Where idly they followed the stream of time
As flowing unceasingly by; With never a thought for the beautiful liome
In tlie land of the sweet By and By.
Abram Lkgkand Cotton.
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WASHINGTON LETTER.
KKOM OUR RKaCriiAR CORRBSPONDKNT.
Washington,Nov. 29.—Republican conferences are the order of the day, as Senators and Representatives ar
to cover everything is very unpopu-1 from which they could not extricate Iar."
Ex-Speaker Keifer, of Ohio, is re¬ newing old acquaintances in Wash¬ ington. He says he isn't in active politics, but tries to know what's going on. Of Ohio matters he says: "Senator Hanna will be elected, if he lives; no possible combination can be made to best him," and of the silver question: "It is a very efete question in my section. It is seldom that you hear any mention of the subject in Ohio,and out in Nebraska, where I visit my oldest sou occa¬ sionally, I observe that thei'e is real¬ ly but little interest taken in the 16 tol idea. It is true that the Repub¬ licans were beaten this year in Neb¬ raska, but it was merely a rebuke administered by the voters on ac¬ count of the conduct of former Re¬ publican state officials. Later, you will see Nebraska getting back into the Republican column and the same will be true of Kansas, where the furors over free silver, has, I think, permanently abated."
PRESS OPINIONS.
A DISGRACEFUL ENDING. Philadelphia Times, Ind.
The   two  bribery   cases
which reached the courts of this State have both ended in absolute disgrace to
rive in Washington.    President Mc-|a number of the parties  connected Kinley, having finished  his annual .^jth them; and that disgrace so at-
Communicated.
Editor Potter Journal:
Quit yourselves like men. The great need of the American pulpit today is men of moral courage and spiritual power. The latter is a sure guarantee of the former. While there is strong, positive, spiritual element in the church that relishes plain gospel preaching, there is at the same time, in many cases, a con- troling element, though not always in the majority, who are tinctured with the spirit of the age, and would fain bring their pulpit down to their level; there is where moral courage on the part of the preacher, is de¬ manded. He must not yield to this worldly element, but declare all the counsel of God, whether man will hear or forbear. In doing so he may expect to encounter opposition, but he will have a conscience void of offense before God and man.
If we had ten men like E. E. Mul¬ liner we could rout the pigs ears from Potter county and drive them back to the pit from whence they came. Bro. E. E. Mulliner, call a convention to talk this question over and I will be there.     E. D. Carr.
Gold, Pa., Nov. 27, 1897.
KAUFFriAN ~CANDIDATE
State Senator Kaufi'man,.of Lancas- caster, is not permitting the grass to grow under his feet. He has al¬ ready announced himself a candi¬ date. He has written a letter in which he invites attention to his record and asks for support, In this he sayS; among other things: "T believe that the State government should be administered honestly and economically; that useless offices should be abolished, aud no new ones created. I believe that the public institutions should be man¬ aged on business principles, and that the State should be au example of economy and integrity to its peo¬ ple. I believe that the expenses of the State should be kept within the annual revenues, and that taxes should be reduced rather than in¬ creased. I believe that he "who serves his country best serves his party best.' I am not a candidate of any faction. My purpose is to promcVe the welfare of the whole people, and thus accomplish the greatest good for the greatest num¬ ber. "—Inquirer.
message to Congress and got it into the hands of the printers, is devot¬ ing a considerable portion of his time conferring with prominent members of the party as to the legis¬ lation of the session. He is particu¬ larly anxious that whatever party measures are brought before Con¬ gress shall have the united support of Republicans, and he is losing no opportunity to impress that idea up¬ on those with whom he talks. While not expecting that all his recom¬ mendations, financial or otherwise, will be favorably acted upon by Congress, he believes that by good management, some of them can be put through. There are reasons for the belief that a sufficient number of Senators will under certain circum¬ stances vote with tbe Republicans in the Senate to pass several bills that will greatly strengthen the ad¬ ministration and benefit the country. It is not deemed expedient tospeoify | these measures at this time, but just wait and see if the President does not justify his reputation as a har- raonizer.
It is refreshing after reading the numerous jingo schemes advanced just now to find the following sensi¬ ble language in the annual report of the Secretary of the Navy: "Addi¬ tions to our fleet may be hereafter necessary to bring it up, in case of an emergency, to an extent commen¬ surate with the growing necessities of the country, especially in view of the development of Alaska, which is a continent in itself, and of the pos¬ sible annexation of islands in the Pacific. On the other hand, it is a mistake not to recognize that our Naval power has more than doubled within the last few years; that the case of any emergency beyond our present resources is the very rare case; that uutil it comes ships will be gradually taken out of commission and put into reserve in order to re¬ duce running expenses; and that a due regard is necessary to the rela¬ tion of the National expenditures to the National revenues. The depart¬ ment therefore recommends that the authorization of new ships by the coming Congress, be limited to one battleship for the Pacific coast, where, after the five now under con¬ struction, are completed, there will be only two, while on the Atlantic there will be seven; and also to a few torpedo boats and torpedo boat destroyers, both of which are com¬ paratively little cost, and more of which are desirable in order to bring this swift, mobile, and handily effective arm of the service up to its place in the general scheme for coast defense."
Senator Pritchard, of North Caro¬ lina, Chairman of the Committee, that is. under a Senate resolution, inves¬ tigating the workings of the civil .service law, says the Committee will resume work during the first week of the session of Congress, paying particular attention to the internal revenue service, and that its report will probably be submitted to the Senate early iu January. Senator Pritchard will uot attempt to say what the report of the Committee will be, further than that he thinks
it will probably recommend raodifi-
Annual December Sale by the Ladies | cation of existing rules, but his per-
of the Presbyterian Churcli. j sonal opinions, which he freely gives,
The annual sale held by the ladies i are believed to be about  what are
of the Presbyterian church, will be-1 held by a majority of the Committee,
irin on   next"^ Wednesday afternoon, i and probably are in  line  with the
December 8. at 2 o'clock in the par¬ lor of the church. A choice line of goods, suitable for gifts for the holi¬ day season will be on sale—hand- embroidered doilies, hand-painted China, tray covers, lunch-cloths, and other articles both useful and ornamental. The regular ten cent supper will be served from 5 to 7:30 o'clock. In addition baked goods and choice confections for table use will be sold. The public is cordial¬ ly invited to the sale and supper.
taches to some of the guilty parties that they cannot escape it.
Nearly a year ago E.   A.   VanVal- kenburg, of Tioga county, who  was an active leader in the late Senatorial contest, was arrested and  indicted in Schuylkill county on the charge of having attempted to bribe a mem¬ ber of the Legislature.     The com¬ plainant in the case was admittedly disreputable, but it was understood that prominent parties were  behind him,  and VanValkenburg,   the de¬ fendant, was  publicly and  circum¬ stantially charged in the newspapers with having corruptly attempted to influence  votes   for   United   States Senator.     The case was called at several sessions of the court, but in no instance did the  defendant' de¬ mand trial, and it finally became ob¬ vious that his responsible prosecu¬ tors were ho more anxious to force the trial than was VanValkenburg. It is now evident that the vQcent arrest of General Reeder, Represen¬ tative Weiss and  Mr.   Luckenbach, in Northampton county, on the com¬ plaint of h prosecutor who did  not know the parties and did  not know that he was making complaint against them, was entirely an after-thought and designated to force the adjust¬ ment of the Schuylkill county case against E. A, VanValkenburg. Fred A. VanValkenburg, a brother of the defendant in the  Schuylkill  county case was finally compelled to accept the position of prosecutor in North¬ ampton;   and he thus stood   before the public and in the court at Easton as accusing General Reeder and  his associates   with   having   conspired to debauch members of the Legisla¬ ture in the recent Senatorial issue. General Reeder, unlike E. A. Van Valkenburg, in Pottsvlile, promptly demanded  trial.      He   persisted  in the demand  at every  opportunity, and publicly proclaimed that there could be no settlementoradjustment of the case except by a verdict of the jury.      He forced   his   prosecutor, Fred A. VanValkenburg, to face the issue in the court; but the prosecutor did not dare present his  witnesses, although   his testimony   had   been published to the world, and he  was compelled to submit to the grand jury ignoring the bill and  imposing the costs upon him.     In addition to this he was called before the court for sentence and severely and justly reprimanded by the Court for his at¬ tempt to juggle  with justice in  its own sanctuary.
The sequel to the Northampton ease comes in the report that was re¬ ceived from Pottsvlile yesterda3^ tbat the E. A. VanValkenburg case was settled by the parties out of court. In the Easton case the dis¬ grace fell only upon the prosecutor, and General Reeder and his associ¬ ates were fairly and fully acquitted; but in the Pottsvlile case E. A. Van¬ Valkenburg, the defendant, by sub¬ mitting to an ajustment onany terras publicly confesses his inability to vindicate his innocence. The real prosecutors, whoever they may be. are not given to the world, or they would share the disgrace of the set¬ tlement of so grave a criminal charge i with the defendant. They have , saved themselves, however, by be- 'ing unknown to the public, while VanValkenburg stands self-con¬ fessed as unable to challenge his ac¬ cusers to a trial for his vindication before a judicial tribunal.
Thus have ended two bribery cases in the courts, and excepting General Reeder and his associates, who have a clean record of vindica¬ tion, public shame attaches to all connected with the two transactions. It is practically a confession of guilt on both sides, but the individual dishonor falls upon the two Van- Valkeuburgs, who, while probably not more guilty than others,  have
themselves with credit.
DEFEATED  THE ENDS  OF JUSTICE. Scranton  Truth, Ind.
The sudden "settlement," at Potts¬ vlile yesterday, of the bribery case against E. A. VanValkenburg, Wana- maker's financial agent in the recent boodle campaign for United States Senator, suggests that a serious crime has been compounded in the courts of Schuylkill county. Owing to the local political entanglements connected with this case—and politi¬ cal entanglements in Schuylkill are always as complicated as a sj^ider's web, and spun with equal cunning— Judge'Archbald, of this city, was called to preside at the hearing, but before he arrived at Pottsvlile the case, which had been continued from time to time, was dropped.
How such a flagrant case as this could be settled, dropped or com¬ promised by the mere payment of costs is to the mind of the average man au enigmatical proceeding, and strongly suggestive of "compound¬ ing a felony." The dispatch says: '•'Counsel for both cases met last night and after a conference decided upon a settlement by which the costs amounting to about $1,500, were to be forthcoming and the prosecution dropped. District Attorney Beehtel was satisfied with this conclusion, and said he would so inform the Court." One would think from this statement that all that was necessary in the case was to ".satisfy" District Attorney Beehtel and pay the costs, and with this end in view 'counsel for both sides'' met and negotiated the matter.
It would appear from this arrange¬ ment "counsel for both sides'" are the only persons concerned. Justice does not seem to be considered at all, and the rights of the Commonwealth or of the people appear to be wholly ignored. It is a notorious fact that the case has been in the public eye for mouths, and equally notorious that Wanamaker's agents, among whom the defendant was the chief, used money corruptly tor the promo¬ tion of his Senatorial interests. Flagrant instances of this were nu¬ merous throughout the State, and the case trumped up against General Reeder and others was purposely in¬ stituted as an offset to the Schuylkill proceeal.nirs which have ended soiu- ^lorvously and disgracefully after several postponements based on one pretext or another.
The disposition of the Vau Valken¬ burg case has all the appearance of a palpable juggle with justice, and encourages the belief that the great¬ er the political rascality the more immunity there is for it in the Courts of Pennsylvania. This view is strengthened by the percipitancy of the so-called •\settlement" which was effected before Judge Archibald, who was called in specially to try the case, could reach the scene.
It is to be regi etted that this case did not go "unsettled" long enough to come before Judge Archibald, If it had done so the corruptionists would not have been able to dodge their just deserts simply by satisfy¬ ing District Attorney Beehtel that "the costs of the prosecution had been guaranteed," ata meeting of "counsel for both sides" held on Suuday for the purpose of defeating the ends of justice.
report that will be made. He said: ¦•A too broad extension of the civil service law is calculated to weight it down and render it unpopular, thereby endangering its continuance. A good principal to adopt would be that a scholastic examination is pro¬ per to determine the fitness of per¬ sons for clerical positions, but such a test is not suitable to determine the fitness ot a man to till a position where the duties are executive. The idea that the law is a sort of blanket! happened to be placed in positions
Sullivan's "Lost Chord."
The first correct copy of Sir Arth¬ ur Sullivan's great song, "The Lost Chord," ever printed in America, direct from the composer s own hand, will appear in the Christmas number of The Home Journal. Over his signature Sir Arthur Sullivan states that of the millions of copies of "The Lost Chord" sold in Amer¬ ica, all are incorrect, and that this is the first accurate copy oi the song ever prepared by him, or for whicli he ever received apenny of payment. The complete music and words of Sir Arthur's copy of the song, ex¬ pressly prepared for The Ladies' Home .lournal, will be given.
The Wages of Sin.
A fire in a house of ill-fame in Jamestown, N. Y., resulted in the loss of three lives, two visitors and au inmate. One of the victims was Walter L. Sessions, a son of ex- Congressman Sessions, prominent in political, busiuess and social circles. The tragic death dishonorable of the two men carries its own lesson.
Resolutions.
Resolutions of respect and condol- ' ence on the death of our Lieutenant Commander, Orrinda Beebe:
At the regular Review ol Summit Hive, No. 8:3, held November 11,1897, the lollowin;; reso¬ lutions vere unanimously adoptud:
Whereas, In view of the loss we hii\o sus¬ tained i>y the decease of our t-isler, Ornuda Beebe, and of the still heavier loss sustained by those who were nearest and deare.st to her; Therefore, be it
Resolved, That it is but»»-jHsl tribute to tho memory of the departed, to say that, in re¬ gretting her removal from our midst, we mourn for one wlio was iu every way worthy of our respect and regard.
Resolved, That we sincerely condole with the family of the deceased on the disposition with which it has pleased Divine Providence to atUict them, and commend theni for conso¬ lation to him, who orders all things for the best, and whose chastisements are meant iu mercy.
Resolved, Tliat this heartfelt teKtimonial o.*" our sympathy and sorrow bo presented to the family of our departed sister; and copies sent to \\ie Review, and county papers for publi¬ cation.