St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1893-01-12
A NOTABLE REUNION.
Graduates Ofthe ReeIey Institute Have
Banquet at the 81. JOhnsbury House.

n. H., met at the St. Johnsbury T
House Tuesday evening, to attend a 8
banquet given by w. t
E. Gould, manager of the North c
Conway Institute. 1t wasa notable
gathering and in the assembly were
all the St. Johnsbury graduates, a
goodly number from different places {
in this vicinity, several from New
Hampshire and two from Maine.
Quite a number brought their wives
with them to grace the occasion.
Landlord Krogman served one of
the finest banquets ever given in St.
Johnsbury. Twelve courses COM
prised the menu and the guests did
ample justice to the feast.
At 10 O'Clock Hon. Samuel B. Page
OF Woodsville, who was POSTMASTER
for the occasion, extended cordial
greetings to the guests and intro
duced Rev. w. T. Stowe as the first
speaker.
Mr.. Stowe said he was amused at
the different ideas people entertained
about the Keeley cure. A year ago
he looked at it from the standpoint |
of critic; after graduating from the
institution at North Conway he was
firm believer in the Keeley cure. A
writer in the January Arena admits
that 50 per cent of all the Keeley
graduates are cured, but says the
remedy is an unconscious mind cure.
+ The boys who have been at the insti-
tute know that they are the victims
OF disease, and they know that
when they are graduated they are
cured. Considering the wonderful
discoveries made in medical science
in the last few years, is it any won
der that an eminent physician should
have made the important discovery
OF the simple fact that intemperance
is disease, and can be cured by
proper medical treatment. ! have
not yet met a graduate who was not
standing as firm as the hills and
enthusiastic about the merits of the
cure. l have noticed in my own case
and in Others, when one ceases drink
ing of his own free will, he has an
anxious and remorseful feeling of the
past, and also gloomy view of the
future. But the Keeley gradual sSuiaa
not hare eany morbid feelings
the past, and are enthusiastic q
the future. -
Mr.. Page then read cordial letter
of greeting from DR.. James J. Mooney
the resident physician at the North
Conway Institute.
Burns Gamnell of East Barnet was
next introduced, and said he was al
ways glad to stand up and praise
the merits of the Keeley cure. He
knew what it had done for him and
his friends. He had lost his appetite
for strong drink, and he was glad to
be here tonight.
A letter was next read from those
about to graduate at the North Con-
way Institute, sending kind words
to those present at the reunion at
st. Johnsbury.
Rev. c. w. Bradlee, pastor of the
Methodist church, said that as far as
he knew he believed in the Kelley
cure. He had seen what it had done
r for his friends, and had also visited
f the institute. The work had his
heartiest sympathy.
A letter was then read from a
prominent Vermonter heartily en-.
: dorsing the Kelley cure, and sending
his compliments to the graduates.
Rev. w. A. Pinkerton, pastor OF
the Presbyterian church, said he was
brought up in Iowa, and was there
when the temperance amendment
, was adopted in the constitution.
His interest in temperance work had
always been very great, and he be-
; lieved in the Kelley cure because he
had watched its workings upon two
cases that had come under his OBJ
servation.
Rev. Costello Weston, pastor of
the Universalist church, said he
sympathized with the great number
who rejoiced in that which restored
to man his strength, his virtue and
his integrity. Every innovation has
had to resist the opposition of the
times. Harvey was laughed to scorn
for his discovery of the circua ton OF
the blood. The movement had his
hearty endorsement because 1t re-
moved the appetite for strong drink,
Mr.. Gould was heartily cheered
when he arose, and, after greeting
the graduates, said that the Keeley
cure had been adopted by the gov
ernment in the soldiers and sailors
homes where the soldiers desired the
treatment. The government had
contract with DR.. Keeley to use the
remedy at the soldiers home; at
Togus, Me-; there were % soldiers
that had taken the treatment. The
government had therefore endorsed
the Keeley cure, but did not make
its use compulsory.
Mr.. Page was the last speaker and
made an eloquent address. He
urged the formation of league,
He said where there were failures to
cure it was not the fault OF the
treatment, but because they were
incurnble, Where individual fail
urcS are cited there ought to be an
organized effort to investigate the
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