St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1889-12-05
AMONG THE FRATERNITIES
A Grand Lodge Instituted.

| NnaIlcellOr zen. W1ll1am ward OF
Newark, N. J.. was present and insti-
tuted the lodge. Two other supreme
lodge officers were present, E. c.
O'Brien of ST. Albans, deputy SUI
preme chancellor for Province of
| Quebec and O. W. Farrar of Dover,
n. H., deputy supreme chancellor for
Vermont. Other guests were F. w.
Mckinley, colonel on the staff of
Maj-Gen. Carnahan of the uniform
rank; E. H. Raynes, past chancellor
Ivanhoe lodge, Charlestown, Mass;
F. r. Hayden, Worcester, Mass;
John P. Young, Manchester, N. H.,
suprs sne representative; c. B. Spot
ford, grand keeper of record and seal
for New Hampshire. The four subor-
dinate lodges in the state at Rutland,
st. Albans, Barton Landing and Nc
Indoes Falls sent delegates. Tues
day night the exemplifca ton of the
work in the first and second rank
was given by Apollo lodge. We'd
nesday the grand lodge was institut-
ed and these officers elected and in
stalled:
&C, Dr.C.F.O. Tinker, st. Johns
bury.
G. o. c., w. A. Bailey, Rutland.
p. G. c., N. c. Hyde, st. Adams.
G. K. of r. and S., w. H. Gilchrist
McIndoes Falls.
G. p, c. H. Hale, st. Adams.
G. M. of E., c. L. Duncan, McIn-
does Falls.
G. M. at A, H. w Buchanan, Bar
ton Landing.
G.I. G., L. W. Hildreth, Barton
Landing.
G. O. G., J. B. Needham, Rutland.
Supreme representative for two
years, N. P. Bowman, ST. Johnsbury.
For four years, S. T. Bradley, Rut-
land
The election of Dr. Tinker as grand
chancellor is worthy recognition of
forts to advance the interests of the
order
The exercises closed Wednesday
night with a fine banquet at the
Avenue house where about 100 COW
ers were laid. Excellent music was
furnished by the Mahogany quartet
with banjo and guitar playing by
g. H. Frost and A. Nj. Goodrich.
Grand Chancellor Tinker made a
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were given by Gen. Ward, Col. Nc
kinley and Messrs. Farrar, O'Brien,
Spofford, Young, Hayden, Hyde of
st. Albans, Bailey of Rutland, Past
Chancellor Harmon of Jackson, N.
H., and c. M. Spencer of st. Johns
bury. The festivities broke up at
midnight after a profitable and
memorable occasion.
LETTER FROM FORMER CITIZEN.
The Caledonian has received the
following from our former citizen and
merchant, c. A. Norton, who is now
assistant secretary of the Tallapoosa,
Ga, Land, Mining & Mfg. Co.
''St. .Johnsbury should have more
enterprise and less grumbling, more
of the first would cause less of the
latter about eastern capital going
south and west. Come to our city,
which three years ago was nothing
but wilderness, and we will show
you how to do it. Within the past
thirty days we have located in our
city cotton factory (45O feet front
age, cigar factory, a hosiery, a
foundry, machine shop and an over
all factory. An electric light COM
pany has also been organized within
the past week, and the poles are now
in their places, and the light will be
running as soon as the plant can be
put in. We have good reason for be-
lieving that we shall locate three
more industries before the close of
the week, and we are negotia ting
with twelve or fifteen more, all of
which we hope to locate here in the
near future. st. Johnsbury is a good
place to read about, but too slow to
live in. | presume that the boys are
already skating, and that you are
shivering around your fire thinking
about worse things to come between
now and the first of April, while here
the ladies still dress in white, and we
are picking roses and green peas from
our garden. Come down and see us
and all of these things will we show
you. If you should forget the name
of our city just buy your ticket for
the Garden of Eden and you will
get here all right
THEY SAW THE FIRE.
The first news of the Boston fire