Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1871-01-05

10. OF o. F.-The following named
officers of Killington Lodge No, 30, l. o.
of o. f, were installed on Monday even
ing by John Fl. Simmons Of Middlebury,
Grand Master:
Isaac Gibson, n. G.
Charles Kiusman, V. u.
L. W. Brigham, Secretary.
c. L. Babcock, P. Secretary.
Thomas d. Marley, Treasurer.
Charles Woodhouse, W.
H Ward, Con.
H. R. Dyer, r. S. of N. G.
B. W. Marshall, L. S. Of n. G.
Il. G. Clark, +. r. S.
George Crawford, L. S. s.
S. G. Putnam, o. G..
@. Townsend, L G.
The following committees were ap-
pointed:
Comnaittee on Vl@tation.-IsaacG Gibson,
Charles Kinsman, c. L. Babcock, II. R
Dyer, Lorin Atwood, T. W. Fisher.
CommHte8 on Finance. - Newman
Weeks, S. G. Putnam, H. r. Dyer.
After the installation exercises a brief
and pertinent address was delivered by
Grand Master Simmons.
PREsENTATIoNs.-Th customary rou-
tine of business at the HERALD Office was
very happily interrupted last Saturday
afternoon, the occasion being the presen-
tation of two beautiful chromos to the
junior me mbers of the firm, Messrs. A. H.
and H C. futile, as New Years gift,
by the workmen in their employ. By q
pre-conoerted arrangement, the secrecy of
which had been 50 well observed that the
recipients of the gifts are convinced that
others than the heather Chinese" can
have "ways that are dark" nearly all the
employees of the establishment assembled
at the editorial rooms, where the oere-
mony of presentation took place. Mr..
Henry Clark gave expression to the
cordial sentiments of respect and esteem
which prompted the gifts and rendered
them in the following words, which are
published at the request Of those present.
ing the gifts:
GENTLEMEN, Among the most agree
able associations Of lifetime are the re-
lations of employer and employe. In this
connection there is the same universal
law that binds the family relation, bring
ing us into daily and constant intercourse,
our interests being reciprocal and mutual
in many respects. Hence valued friend
ships and pleasant memories are cult
waited between those thus associated. In
this spirit [ am commissioned by those in
your employ, amid the closing hours of
the year, sacred to all hearts in tender
memories of the past and hopeful expect
ations of the future, to greet you with
Happy New Year, and with the kind re-
CARDS of one and all, | am directed to pre-
sent you these memorials of their esteem,
trusting that our relations may be as
pleasant in the future as they have been
in the past and when our labors on earth
shall have been finished, and we enter
upon the Great New Year of eternity, may
we all greet each other with the kindly
"reminiscences of earthly scenes.
The occasion was such perfect sur
prise to the recipients, that words almost
failed in which to make a response But
in brief and appropriate manner they
each returned their grateful acknowledge
ments for the gifts, and their cordial ap-
probation Of the sentiments which accom-
panied them. The reciprocation of kindly
feelings, and the interchange of express
sions of regard and esteem which marked
this occasion, will make it green spot in
the life of each one participating, to
which memory will fondly turn and
gladly inger in coming years.