Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1898-07-21
CONVENTION CLOSED.
OFFICERS ELECTED BY THE SONS
OF TEMPERANCE.
Reports of Various Committees Present.
cd. Routine business Transacted, OH
GERS Installed and an Adjournment
Taken, to Meet In Niagara
Falls Next Year.

Thursdays mornings session of the
Sons of Temperance was devoted to hear
ing the reports of the committees and to
regular business. The officers elected for
the ensuing two years are:
Most Worthy Prclatc-Rev. Albert o.
Lawson of Camden, ~ j.
Most Worthy AssoCiatc-Mrs. Annie NJ
Nixon of Boston, Mass
Most Worthy Scrihe-Bcnjamin II. jew
ell of Stoucham, Mass.
Most Worthy Tr,asurer-Jamcs II. Rob-
erts of Cambridge, Mass.
Most Worthy thaplain-Rev. George W.
Fisher OF st. John, y. II.
Most Worthy CONDUCTOR. NJ Walton
OF kettleby, ont.
Most Worthy Scntinel-J c. Clark Of
Prince Edward Island.
Most Worthy Superintendent of Young
Peoples Work.. NJ. Bradley of WASH
ington, ID. G.
The next meeting of the society will be
held in Niagara Falls, n. y, beginning
the second Wednesday In July, 1879.
AFTERNOON SESSION.
The afternoon session was mainly TAX
en- up with the reports of committees.
among which were those on the state of
the order, district divisions, propagation
committee, and obituaries.
The proposition to admit supcrinten-
dents of young peoples work TO the sos
siors was discussed at considerable length
md it was decided that the :. Y. =. w.
from grand divisions could be admitted
to the national divisions, but not from
subordinate divisions.
After some other routine business the
session adjourned at p. m.
EVENING SESSION.
The question of wearing the badge in
stead of the rcsalia, as proposed in the
and rcgalia was discussed at great length
and an amendment was presented by j. Is.
Stewart that the matter be referred TO
the grand divisions The amendment was
carried.
The clauses in tho report in regard to
the chaplains charge in the ritual and
the design for regatta for j.. G. W. y. s
were postponed to the next session of the
national division. The last clause of the
report, providing for suitable emblem
Tor tn" grand superintendent of Y. i. w.
was adopted.
The committee on absent members re-
ported, giving the list of letters received
from several of those who could not at
tend. The report Of the membership
committee and finance committee were
presented and adopted. The report of tho
committee on young peoples work was
then adopted A committee was appoint
90 to prepare. suitable resolutions on the
death of Neal Dow and Frances +. vii
lard. The finance committee made Il sup
Elementary report concerning the print
ins OF rituals, etc, and giving cost Of the
same. The report Of the committee on
publications was discussed, especially
with reference to the matter of sending
the Record to Nova Scotia, and was
adopted. y resolution was passed author
izing grand divisions to procure and dis
pose of the property of defunct divisions
Tor their benefit. The officers of the ma
IsN.t 11.I
which the roll was called, ana the ses-
sion closed.
NOTES or THE CONVENTION.
Z he order Of the Sons of Temperance,
which has Just closed its annual session
in this city, was organized in the city OF
New FORK. September -, 1S42. by 10 per-
sons. ana has enrolled nearly two millions
OF persons in the United States and Brit
iSn provinces, and is steadily advancing
with increasing force ana swelling ranks.
il Is composed of a national forty grand,
and about 1000 subordinate divisions Its
fundamental principle is total abstinence
from all that can mtoXicate, and it aims
70 present a social and fratcrnal cumhna-
ton to meet and overcome the social al
mrcmentS OF ntemperance and the COM
bnod influence of the liquor traffic. Its
plain and simple constitution, practical
code of laws, sound financial basis, free
dom from machinery. and increasing CO.
operation, sympathy and union with the
moral and Christian elements of the coun-
try, are making it one of the most power
full agencies against incompetence and the
liquor traffic in the world.
The order Is a combination of great NOR
a. numerical and pecuniary strength and
aims by uniting the forces working fuI
temperance to overcome the liquor traffic
Its divisions are temperance schools. by
this means the order reaches the younq
people and eduCateS them in the WAYS OF
temperance and brings home to them the
lessons taught by long experience.
The motto of the order is Love Purity
and Fidelity" the words of which appeal
on IA triangle on the badge of the dele.
gates.