Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1882-06-23
VERMONT NEWS.


MASONIC.
The Grand Lodge in session at BurlnR-
ton last week installed the following officers
Lucius c. Butler of Essex, Master; OEro Meacham
warden; Alfred A. Hail. st. Adams, Junior warden
John A. Butler, Jamaica, treasurer; VIM. II. Root,
Tor deacon Henry W Hutehins Bellows Falls. Junior
deacon. Appointed: Chas II. Holbrook, Brandon,
lain; Rev. FredE Fisher, ST. Johnsbury, asst chap
lain; Theo s. Peck, Burlington, marshal; Frank H.
Bascom, Montpelier, pursuiyant; Ethan Dlmen, Ely,
sword bearer; Daniel @. Barber and Geo f. Morse OF
Burlington, stewards; Joseph II. Walton, Burlington,
tler District deputy for sth district, Ktredge Has
kins, Bratleboro.
The Grand Chapter held it's annual meeting
on Friday, when the following officers were
installed:
Homer NJ. Phelps, Burlington, high priest; Darius
j. SAnord, Worthwhile, deputy; Lafayette Soper st.
yohnsbury, king; VIM. BrinsmAid, Burlington, scribe;
John A. Butler, Jamaica, treasurer; W. II. s. Whit
comb, Burlington secretary; l. X Allen, Brattleboro,
captain OF the host Appointments: Rev. 7. F. Stu
art, Burlington, chaplain Rev F. s. Fisher, st Johns
bury, assistant; Thos 8. Miller, St. Adams principal
sojourner; +. II. Baker Newport, captain NJ B. Nor
gan, Burlington, master Of 81 vail; Samuel Terril Of
Rutland, master Of I'd vail; Ethan Dimond Ely mas
ter OF LIST vail; Frank A. Goss, Yergennes, lecturer
Cyrus ?. Currier, Burlington, steward; Duncan Nc
Dougal Barton, sentinel; Emory Town, Waterbury,
ter.
At the annual assembly Of the Order of
High Priesthood, Friday, the following Off
GERS were elected
Edward 8. Dana, New Haven, president; Albert C.
Hubbell Bennington vice president; D. J. Stafford OF
Worthwhile, conductor; Charles II. Smith, ST. Johns
bury, recorder Ethan Dlmond, Ely, steward; Emory
Town, Waterbury, sentinel.
Willie Bronson, aged IL, was drowned at
Middlebury on Saturday evening.
The Vermont domestic service associa-
ton, intended to be branch of the interna-
tional society," has been formed at Burlington.
1t undertakes to bring first class servants from
the old country.
The state fair will be held at Burlington
Sept. IL, 10, II and 10, under the auspices of
the Champlain valley association for the pro-
motion of agriculture and the mechanic arts.
The annual meeting of the state teachers
association will be held at Castleton, August
! Oil.
WIN. Hackett Of Morgan, who had suffer
| ed from heart disease for some months, went
10 his barn the other day, and, remaining long
err than was expected, was sent for, and was
found dead.
james Herman OF Morotown, whose
wife lately presented him with four children
in one day, is a poor man and an old soldier,
and got notice the same day the babies came
that he was to receive 1920 in pension and
arrears He thinks that day brought him So
920 the three boy babies being reokoned at
| $1,000 each and the girl at $500. His family
now consists of two children 16 months old
and four 10 days old. Showmen are after the
family, but in vain, and admiring neighbors
flock in daily with presents, over 800
and a COW having already been given to the
kicking bankruptcies. The mother is 80 years
old. Both her mother and grandmother, still
| living, have had large families.
The steam lumber mill at Richford, own
ed by White, Clarkson & Co. of Hartford,
Ct, is being rebuilt.
| Herbert Haskins of Woodford while re-
Gently walking in the woods, shot what he
took to be young hedgehog, but which prov
cd to be bear cub. Finding he had wound
ed it, but not fatally, he took it in his arms
and started for home. Its cries soon brought
Madame Bruin in hot pursuit, but Haskins
held on to the cub till he had lost a coat-tai
and good share of his pantaloons, when he
deemed it advisable to drop the cub and take
a seat in the fork of tree. After long cur
tain lecture from Mrs. b., he was left to wend
his meditative homeward way.
Josiah Q. Hawkins, a well-kuown Bran.
don lawyer, died suddenly at his home last
Sunday afternoon.
Post William b. Reynolds, G.. A. r., at
Milton, was recognized May nth with 20
members and now has a membership of 32.