News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1883-09-27
STATE sTEMS.

secretary
A Spiritualist convention will be
held at the Univer5alist church IN
West Burke, Friday, Saturday ana
S unday, September rs, 20 and 81.
Able and talented speakers are en-
gagged. Return checks over the st.
and Lake Champlain and
other railroads will be issued to all
who pay full fare to attend the con-
ventioE.
The annual meeting Of the Yer
mont Bible Society will be held at
Barre October 18th.
st. Adams is to have hospital, to
be opened October /, with a dozen
beds. DIR. Dunsmore will be Super
Thirteen indictments have been
found by the Windham county grand
jury.
At recent reunion of the q. y. H.,
held in St. Johnsbury during the mus
ter, the following resolution was
adopted: that we reorganize the Or
ganization of the Sons of Veterans as
an important auxiliary of the Grand
Army, and cordially recommend to
the posts in this department that they
encourage the formation of camps OF
the Sons of Veterans in their several
localities.
The eleventh annual meeting of the
Vermont branch of the Woman
Board of Missions will be held at
BrattIeboro, Wednesday, October 24,
with the Centre Congregational church,
commencing at 10 q. IN. and contlnu-
inc through the day and evening. A
cordial invitation is extended to other
auxiliary societies in the State, and to
all ladies interested in Foreign Mission
work. Entertainment will be furnish
/ ed for all who attend. 1t is very de-
sirable that those intending TO be
present send their names to the secre-
tarv, Mrs. c. f. Thompson, as early
as October 9th.
The large stock of timber put into
the mills of Vermont last winter, Is
pretty well worked up except IN the
! largest mills. Lumber in large guam
titles is being held back for higher
prices.
The twentieth annual reunion Of
Vermont officers will be held at Rut-
land, Thursday, October 18th. The
members of the society and all Yer
mont officers and non-commissiOned
officers Of the army and navy are cor
diallv invited TO attend. The usual
business meeting will be held at the
Opera House at / o'clock P. NJ. The
grafton by Col. w. G. HolbroOk, Of
New York, will be delivered at the
Opera House at o'clock P. NJ. All
railroads in Vermont will furnish re-
turn tickets.
/ The State teachers association will
meet at Montpelier, October "a, p,
26 and y. and there is every lndlca-
ton that this meeting will be one Of
unusual interest. Wednesday and
/ Thursday evenings will be given to
the high school and academic work.
Thursday evening Prof. Ell. Russell,
of Worcester, Mass, one of the
brightest and most original educa-
tional men in New England, will give
an address upon the subject 'English
Literature and Element in Education" "
Friday evening there will be general
discussion upon the topic, 1.-The Re
lation of the State to Education,
opened by Superintendent II. o..
BickneH, Ii. D., editor of the Nelc
Eugland Journal Of Education.
Among the educational men who live
out of the State and whose names ap-
pear on the programme are G. {.
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| School, Plymouth, \. H.; L. L.
| Whittier, A. NJ, Hanover, n. H. ;
f. c. Heath, A. NJ, firm CHM, Heath
& Co., Boston; Prof. j. X. Lord,
Dartmouth College; +. II. Barlow,
Principal TiIden Seminary, West Leb-
anon, n. II. The usual railroad cour-
tesies will be extended to the mem
bers of the association. Board can
be obtained at reduced prices at the
hotels and in private families.
The pleasant village of West Ran
dolph was the scene last week of the
ninth annua convention of the WO-
mans Christian Temperance Union of
Vermont. The preliminary exercises
were happily opened by reception
at the house of Mrs. Willard Gay.
About 40 delegates were present and
enjoyed the kind inequalities of the
estimable lady, and all speak of the
reception as a delightful occasion.
The convention began at 8 o'clock
Thursday morning with q consecra-
| ton meeting which lasted one hour,
1t which were present large number
/ Of delegates. At 10 o'clock A. II. the
business meeting was called to order
by the President, Mrs. f. G. Green,
Of St. Adams. The usual appoint
ment Of committees preceded the
address of welcome, which was by
Mrs. V. n. Hardy, and was SO
hearty and cordial that it found its
way to the hearts of the delegates
1t was responded to by Miss Nina II.
Morgan in a felicitous manner. The
President then introduced Miss
Frances Z. Willard to the convention
and she spoke in her usual earnest,
happy way. The reports of the de-
partment Superintendent on Com
munion Wine" by Miss Anna c.
Park, on ~. w. c. 7. L. work" by
Miss Ellie Walbridge, on ''Union
Signal by Mrs. \. L. I. Hidden
closed the forenoon session. The af.
ternoon meeting began by a bible
reading, after which the unions not
heretofore reported were given places
on committees and the reports of the
Secretary and Treasury followed.
These papers show the State or
ganizatiOn to be in a fOurishing con-
dition and doing large work all over
the State. In the evening came the
| Presidents address and a paper by
Mrs. NJ. +. Hamlin, Of MiddIeburv.
| Fred Douglass says he regards the
mission OF the cOlOred convention chiefly
moral, and, as far as its utterances are
! concerned, a means towards securing A
better understanding between the col
| Ored people and their fellow citizens gen
orally. He thinks the convention will be
| thoroughly representative. Its objects,
| he says, are to take into consideration
the general condition Of the colored peo-
pie, especially the condition of labor in
the south and the compensation it re-
ceiyes, the educational interests of the
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