The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-06-27

Thamaston.
 George H. Waters, Asa c. Peck and
 George F. Hungerford, Harmony, No. ?. ! Waterbury.
 Of the above Joshua WelIes was tn 1 oldest in Masonic connection, and Gay-s lord Alcott the oldest in years.
 Several matters of business were con-
 sidered and remarks were made by va
 rious members of the association.
 The venerable secretary-treasurer, 1 the Rev. Alonza N. Lewis, of Montpe-
 Her, Vt, made his annual financial re- port. showing a good balance on hand.
 The Rev. Alonzo Norton Lewis. M. i A, the secretary-treasurer, since 1877, was born in New Britain September 3,
 1881. He is a graduate of Yale, class or | 1852 He was for sixteen years teach 1 CT in Connecticut and North Carolina. l He was principal of the Litchfield acad-
 emy, the Naugatuck, New Hartford and
 Waterbury high schools, of the blind l department of the North Carolina In-
 stitution for the Deaf, Dumb and Blind
 and of the Parker CWoodbury) acade- ! my. He was admitted to the bar in
 this state in 1857. He entered the min ! istry of the Protestant Episcopal church in 1866. He served as rector at
 Bethlehem, this state, Dexter Me, and
 New Haven. He was rector of Holy
 Trinity church, Westport, lS75-1SS9. and 1 of Christ church, Montpelier, Vt, since l 1891 He has been frequent contribu- tor to newspapers and magazines and l has published several books.
 i He was made a Mason in St. Paul's ! lodge, No. Il, F. 6 A. NJ, of Litchfield, 1 in 1852. He is now member of Aurora
 Lodge, F. & A.. M, King solomon's
 chapter, R. A., M, Montpelier council,
 R. & S. M, and Mount Zion comman-
 dery. Knights Templar, all of Montpe- l fer. He is the prelate of Mount Zion
 commandery. He is the grand chap lain of the grand council, R. & S. M, of vermant, and grand prelate of the
 grand commandery, Knights Templar
 of Vermont. . i MT Lewis is president of the Univer-
 sity club of Montpelier, secretary of the i Yale Alumni association of Fairfield
 county, this state, and secretary of the
 Yale class of 1852 He is the president
 of the standing committee of the dio-
 cese of Vermont. He is the chaplain i and historian of the Connecticut state society of the Cincinnati.
 Those present were as follows: Fred
 eick E. Colburn, Ansonia; William W. Foote. Danbury; Wallace F. Beach,
 Bankhamsted; Charles c. Taylor, Hart ford; Henry J. Smith, Ansonia; H. F. Scott, Watertown; Basil H. PilIard, 1 New Britain; George c. Pritchard, Wa tertown; William B. Townsend, Middle town; Isaac Strant, Waterbury; R. R. i Cathander, Waterbury; Eli Deming
 Weeks, Litchfield; Charles H. Krach, Waterbury; Hosea L. Strutch, Win
 sted; Chauncey M Hall, Waterbury;
 Reuben H. Tucker, Ansonia; Albert L. Futile, Tirrington; James P. Carter,
 Derby; Robert c. Barlow, Waterbury;
 Lorenzo R. King, Waterbury; Alfred s.
 Finch, New Britain; John D. Bishop, 1 Torrington; L. B. Hoadley and $. F.
 Pease of Naugatuck; F. J. Kilborn, Washington Depot; John "A. Phelps,
 Guilford; Hart Landon, Guilford; J. P.
 Ryder, PIainville; Benjamin Jones, Willimantic; M. s. Baldwin, Nauga- tuck; H. W. King, Willimantic; E. c.
 Humphrey, Danbury; ". H. Case, West simsbury; w. T. Platt, New
 Hartford; F. G. Clark, Washington; S.
 L. Gilbert, Hartford; Andrew Metzger, Willimantic; J. s. Jones, Westport; A. B. Ladd, Willimantlc: J. c. Mcclure,
 Hartford; Bennett French, Shelton; Frank F. Fowler, Meriden; c. B. Pome- roy, Willimantic; w. H. Raynsford,
 Lakeville; l.. R. Bailey, New Britain; Roswell Atkins, BristoK Thomas H. Talcott, Glastonbury; A. H. Dresser, Plainville; c. S. Billings, Willimantic; J. W. Cuhtiss, Unionville; J. R. Clarke, Milford; Ezekiel Phillips, Willimantic; Giles H. Afford Willimantic Kosky Hodge, New Hartford; Thomas Grant, Windham; John c. Humphrey, Sims bury: Warren Drake. Pine Meadow; George H. Grant, Bristol; F. E. Lan- don, Waterbury; Captain T. B. Robin son, Bristol; A. J. Goodrich, Water bury; A. W. Keeney, Manchester; J. H. Barlow, Hartford; Seth Barnes, Bris- tol; Henry N. Goddard, Simsbury; Car los Welton Thomaston; T. W. Kill bourne, Meriden; Benjamin Page, Meri- den; E. Tolhurst, Hartford; John G. Bill, Willimantic; J, F. Ladd, Bristol; D. W. Thompson, Bridgeport; William Greenwood, Stamford John Lindsey, Stamford; William Welch Nelson Hinckley Elizur Doolittle, Bridgeport; E. A. Holley, E. s. Holley, Theodore Leeds and E. F. Morris, Stomford; J. R. Gillette, Ira Schof1eld, New London; S. N. Pettibone, Bakerville; c. o. Hol- comb, New Britain; H. E. Phelps, Windsor; M H. Tyler, Plainville; J. c. Graham. Kensington; H. E. Cleveland, Winsted; H. W. Wilcox, Winsted; W.