St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1886-07-22
THE VERMONT PRESS AssOCIA-
TION.
Their 18th Annual Meeting and Excur-
sion to the Thousand Islands.

with some invited friends, took their
annual excursion this year to the
Thousand islands of the st. Lawrence
river, near the outlet of Lake Ontario.
The party to the number of 20, includ-
ing ladies, rendezvOused at the Weldon
house, st. Adams, on Tuesday evening
of last week. Here they were cordial
ly welcomed by Messrs. Gibbs and
Sault of the Messenger, and after snp-
per the party gathered in the spacious
glee club sang several selections. This
club consists of IL young men whose
fine voices gave the guests great pleas
ure. Afterwards by invitation, the
company visited the rooms of the Owl
club, which they found spacious, ele-
gantly fitted up, with every conve-
nience for reading and social games.
Early Wednesday morning, the excur-
sionists left by train for Ogdensburg.
They occupied two special cars attach
ed to the regular train. These cars
were neatly trimmed with evergreen
inside and out, and bore on the out
side large cards with the words, OYER
mont Press Association" The follow
lowing is a list of the party:
Who Composed the "Fourth Estate"
Warren Gibbs of the st. Adams
Messenger, wife and son G.. G.. Bene-
dict of the Burlington Free Press, and
son, and Joseph Aud and wife, Bur-
lington Albert Clarke of the Rutland
Herald, wife and daughter; A. N.
Swain of the Bellows Falls Times, and
wife /; Luther o. Greene of the Wood
stock Standard, wife and daughter;
George E. CrOwell of the Brattleboro
Household, and wife L. H. Lewis of
the Lamoille Newsdealer w. d. Nc
Masters of the Woodstock Age. wife
and son; w. F. Scott of the Barre En-
terprise and wife j. E. Harris of the
Burlington Clipper; F. III. HOush of
the WOman's Journal, BrattlebOrO !;
G. M. Stone of the CaledOnian, and
wife Charles S. Forbes of the Boston
Journal, and E. B. Whiting, founder
of the st. Adams Messenger, and his
daughter, Mrs. Bowers, and Miss Bow
ers F. H. Brown, wife and mother,
Bellows Falls.
The job offices in the state we're also
represented: r. S. Styles, Burlington,
wife and son d. Leonard, Brattle-
boro, wife and daughter Egbert c.
futile, Rutland, Mrs. Geo. A. Tuttle );
R. M. Chandler, st. Johnsbury; Frank
S. LivermOre and wife, Bellows Falls.
Honored by Their Presence.
Below is list of invited friends ::
Ex-Gov. John L. BarstOw and son,
Shelburn G. w. Brownell and wife,
Frank Brown, Burlington Joel B.
Harris and wife, F. G.. SwiningtOn,
Mrs. M. j. Francisco, Rutland w. II.
Dubois and wife, West Randolph
| Misses Minnie Baker and Anna Gran
ger, Brattleboro; w. A. Perry and
wife, Barre Edward M. Smith, Misses
Howe, Truman and Carrie Foster, st.
Adams; Miss Hattie Harris, Rutland.
During the three hours stay at Og
densburg there was time for a good
dinner at the Seymour house and also
opportunity to see some of the places
of interest in this thrifty city, prOmi-
nent among which is the new and very
fine city building in which are the Of
fees for the city government and a
model opera house. The building is
made of stone and cost Sis, 900.
At three o'clock the party boarded
the little steamer "Lotus" and started
up the magnificent river st. Lawrence.
After delightful trip of four hours-a
three hours rain being a part of the
delight, under the delusiOn that the
rain reached VermOnt-the party reach
ed the Thousand Island house on Alex
andria bay, where for two nights and
a day they quartered. This is large
and fine hotel, on the rivers bank,
looking out upon the many islands
which stud this father of waters, at
this point fully six or eight miles wide.
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| IutiOns, Etc.
The eighteenth annual meeting,
was held Thursday, July Is. In the alb
sence of President Tuttle, First Vice
| President Benedict took the chair and
G.. S. Forbes was appointed secretary.
Treasurer G. NJ. Stone presented his
annual report, showing a balance of
1921 in the treasury.
L. o. Greene of the Woodstock Stand
ard from the committee on revision of
the constitution reported a revised
taken up by articles and sections and
adopted with slight changes. Under
the new constitution the name of the
association is changed to "The Yer
mont Press Association" and member
ship is confined to editors, publishers
and proprietors of job printing estab
lishments, the term editor being taken
to include only those who are perma-
nently connected with the editorial
management of a newspaper and whose
time is chiefly devoted thereto. The
committee reported a revised list of
honorary members, consisting of the
following names E. P. Walton, JO-
seph Poland, H. d. Hopkins, E. B.
Whiting, B. d. Harris.
The following were elected as mem
bers of the association F. E. HOush,