News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1893-05-18

Rev. William BOgart Walker, rector of st.
Peters church, Bennington, will be absent in
New York from the 18th to the Goth of this
month, attending the examinations of candi-
dates for the ministry at the general theOlOgi-
cal seminary Mr.. walker has recently been
chosen examiner. He has recently been
prominently mentioned to fill the position of
Assistant Bishop, the election of which Bishop
/ Bissel will request at the approaching con-
vention of the diocese of Aermont.
In the death of the venerable centenarian,
Hon. Amos A, Parker of Fitzwillam, N. H.,
the University of Vermont loses its Oldest liv.
ing graduate. He retained his powers in
remarkable degree, and he was able to attend
the commencement exercises of his Alma
Mater in 1891, coming alone from his home
in FitZwilliam and making one of the after
dinner speeches at the corporation dinner.
So far as known he was at the time of his
death the oldest living college graduate in
the United States.
The growth of Odd Fellowship in Vermont
during the past twenty years has been promi-
nent. In 1853 there were four lodges in the
State with total of 141 members Now
there are 40 lodges tn a mbership of
1855. The first lodge in Vermont was Green
Mountain lodge of Burlington, instituted
Jan. IA, 1915 The Grand Lodge of the
State was instituted at Montpelier, Dec. 26,
iS47, nearly three years later. The gain in
membership during the past year has been
43S, making this the most profitable in its
history.
William Bly,, one of the burglars who was
brought before Judge Putnam at Saratoga
last week on haheas corpus proceedings, es-
capped from Salem, Washington County jail
Sunday. He was being held there to await
Tequisition papers from the Governor of Yer
mont. There were four indictments against
him and he was arrested two weeks ago, with
John Wilson, by Special Officer Z. A. Andrus,
of Delaware and Hudson company. He is
25 years old, has a cut on the bridge of his
rose and is five feet nine inches in height and
very slim.
The annual convention of the Episcopal
church in the diocese of Vermont which will be
held in ST. Paul's church in Burlington the
first Wednesday in June, will be ofunusual in
terest to all churchmen in the state. 1t will
be the twenty-ffth anniversary of the CON
secration of the present bishop, Rt. Rev.
W. H. A. Bissell, and every parish and mis-
sionary station in the diocese has been asked
to make an Offering on the first Sunday in
June, to be sept to the treasurer of the do
eese for such objects as the bishop shall desig
nate as a memorial of his conservation. On
the same Sunday each clergyman is expected
to preach a sermon in his parish on the work
of the church in the state. The bishop has
designated a suitable memorial of the
twenty-ffth anniversary of his conservation
the formation of a permanent fund to aid the
education of the children Of the clergy of the
diocese. The Offering mentioned will proba-
bly, form the beginning of such a fund. 1t is
possible that the clerical and lay deputies to
the approaching convention may elect
assistant bishop on account of the age and
infrmity of Bishop Bissell. If this is done,
it will be at his request.