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The Second Masonic district.


The Second Masonic District.
To Masons comprising the Second Yer
mont Masonic District the annual meet
ing is always looked forward to with
much interest and pleasure Owing to
several causes the last two meetings
have been held here, the one TO, 1895 be-
ing held Tuesday afternoon and evening
OF this week. There was q good attend
ance from the five lodges comprising the
! District, of which G. D. Phillips of Tuck
er Lodge of North Bennington, is Dis
trict DeNuty Grand Master. The lodges
are as follows: Mount Anthony, No. 13,
chartered October 18th, 1924; AdoniTam,
No. AZ, chartered January 14th, 1856;
Tucker, No. As, chartered January 18th,
1860; Red Mountain, No. G3, chartered
January 18th, 1868; POwnal, No. 1903,
chartered June 18th, 1884. Mt. Anthony
| Lodge opened the communication in
regular form. The programme published
last Friday was carried out. Following
| the comforting of the Second degree by
the officers of Red Mountain Lodge, W.
VIM. Coping, Master, the Grand Lee.
turer, exempliied the new floor work,
which was one of the most interesting
events of the convention. This closed
the afternoons exercises. The follow
ing Grand Officers were present: NJ.
w. John IL. Whipple, Grand Master;
W.. Eugene S. Weston, Grand Lecturer;
W.. Emmett e. futile, Grand Tyler
The banquet followed, spread by Mt.
Anthony Chapter, O. L. S., and served
by the ladies of that order. One hun
dred sat down to the feast, which was
served in the manner for which the
women of the Eastern Star are famous,
under the direction of Mrs. John II.
Norton, Worthy Matron.
At 7.3O the brethren were again called
to order, and other Grand Officers were
received with the honors their due, Past
Master Il. d. Bennett in the chair W..
John NJ. Burt, Master of Mt. Anthony
Lodge, then took the East and conferred
the Third degree. During the confer
ring of the degree music was furnished
by quartette composed of NJ. B. Nor
gan, j. NJ Burt, F. G. Mattison, and T.
A. Hutchins, who rendered Remember
Now Thy Creator" A. j. Cooper was
! organist
The work was admirably performed,
and Mason who has seen 1t worked in
several different States, as well as by other
lodges in Vermont, said that he had
never seen better work done than here
at both the afternoon and evening ses.
sions. The compliments of Dr. Weston
on the floor work, by the local Lodge,
was quite gratifying. The more so be-
cause with this Lodge it originated in
the years lSSG.S7, and, that this form,
with slighJ variations, should have been
adopted by the Grand Lodge, is quite
complimentary to the officers of Mt. An
thOny Lodge.
AT the conclusion of the work came
an hour which was spent in listening to
remarks and suggestions from the Grand
Lecturer, who expressed himself as well
pleased with the way the work in the
different degr, es had been performed,
There were also speeches from the
Grand Master, who is a member of Ado
hiram Lodge, the Grand Tyler, the Grand
Lecturer, and others. Several !, tiers of
regret from MasOns who were unable to
be present were read, among them being
one from Grand Junior Warden w. S.
Nay, Grand Treasurer Whitcomb, Geo.
H. Kinsley, and others. The Grand
Chaplain, the Rev. Edwin Wheelock,
wrote:
Nothing could be more agreeable to
me than to be with you on that occasion
| if it were possible. The place of historic
memories, of heroic deeds, the venera-
BILE Lodge of Mt. Anthony, and the good
| " fellowship and hand arasp of the true
and faithful brothers of your district,
would give me the highest qualification.
| Accept my best wishes for the success of
your meeting, and for the most delight
| full enjoyment and inspiration for every
true word and work, to every individual
brother who wears the high and signif-
cant name of Mason"
Among those present at the sessions
from lodges outside the District were
brothers from Lee Lodge, No. 80, Castle
ton: Centre, 81, Rutland; Aurora, %,
Montpelier; Jerusalem, $50, Lansing
burgh. n. Y; Washington, No ,, Bur
lington; Mckinley, 3lS, Allegheny, Pa;
Cambridge, Valley, AIS, Cambridge, n.
| Y; Corner Stone, 80, Rogers Falls, Mass.
1t was late hour before the conven-
ton closed, after one of the most inter.
esting meetings ever held in the District.
Deafness Cannot Be Cured
by local application, as they cannot reach
the diseased portion of the ear. There
is only one way to cure Deafness and
that is by constitutional remedies. Deaf
ness. is caused by an intlamed condition
of the EustaChian Tube. When this
tube gets inflamed you have rumbling
sound or imperfect hearing and when it
is entirely clos d Deafness is the result,
and unless the inflammation can be taken
out and this tube restored to its normal
condition, hearing will be destroyed for
ever: nine cases out of ten are caused by
catarrh, which is nothing but an intlamed
condition of the mucous surfaces.
We will give One Hundred Dollars for