Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1888-09-01
Kennebec District Lodge of Good Tenn
plars in Session.

By invitation, the quarterly session o
Kennebec District Lodge of Good Templar.
was held with Oakland Lodge No BOG O
Gardiner in Pilgrim Fathers Hall, Angus
30, 1888. The session was called to order a
11.l5 A. NJ. by the G. C. Templar A. II
Wilson in the chair. All the officers wer,
present The record of the last session wa
read by the G. w. Secretary l. A. Hodgdor
and approved.
The Committee on Credentials made thei
report Whole number of Lodges in tn,
District is &c. Most of the Lodges wer,
well represented by earnest delegates
Thirty Eight members took the Distric
Lodge Degree. After these thrty-eight new
members had enrolled their names the Con
vention took a recess until 80 A. NJ. A.
that hour the gavel fell. A. H. Hamilton, G.
c. Templar in the chair. The Committee OF
location for the next session of the Lodge
made their report. There was an invitation
from Pleasant Valley Lodge in the town o.
Litchfeld and one from Clinton: Lodge. 1
was voted to hold the next session in Novem
Der with Clinton Lodge, No. IS.
The chairman of the Committee on Reso
buttons made the following report:
Resolved: That Good Templars in Ken
nebec County have sustained a severe 10 ss in
the death of our Bro. Charles Diplock whose
answering fidelity to the cause of temperance
won for him the cordial support of all temper.
ance men and woman and the more honora.
BILE hearted of lawbreakers and their sympa.
thies.
Resolved That we deeply sympathise
with his family in their irreparabe loss. and
tender them our heartfelt coincidence i'm thi,
trying ordeal.
Resolved, That while we, as Good Tenn
plars, reiterate our belief in the sublime
principles of our order, we earnestly believe
that the distinctive work that should COM
mand our supreme efforts is the education
of the lodges, and through them the people.
in the thorough enforcement of the laws
against the saloon and all tipping agencies.
and that we demand of the executive of the
State, and all other officers, the fulilment of
their oaths of office, to wit: that all the laws
of the commonwealth are impartiaIy en-
forced, regardless of partisan cIamor, or in
dividual threats.
Resolved That all the lodges of this dis
trict be divided into eight sections, giving one
section to each member of the District Coun-
Gil TO have special care of, but nothing in this
resolution shall be construed as combining any
member of the Council to his or her own
section.
Appropriate remarks we're made by G.. W
Temple A. H Wilson, and others Bro Wilson
said there had been gain of 50 members in
Bangor in the past two quarters, although in
the most busy part of the year hot weather
and hot canvass. Very earnest and eloquent
remarks were made by S. S. knight, Grand
Counsellor of the order in the State. His
address was very instructive, eloquent and
full of good cheer
There was an evening session, when ten
minute remarks were made By j. II. Ham
ilton. Josie r. Pallard, A. II. Wilson. Emily
L. Cain. A. S. Bangs, and others. The
session was harmonious and interesting, all
manifesting an interest in the good work of
temperance. 1t was one of the best in all
respects that the District Lodge have held.
The G. w. Secretary. Mrs. /. A. Hodglon
having duties elsewhere, it was voted BY the
Lodge that G. L. Randall of Riverside Lodge.
No. 20, make the report for the press.
G. L. RANDALL
Reporter for the Session.