Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1910-06-16

ALLSESSIONS WELLATTENDED
Grand Council of Royal and Sc.
leCt Masters in Annual AS
sembly Completed Sec
day.

| commandery of tho knights Templar
| and Appendant Orders Of the State of
Vermont occupied nearly all of Tues
day. The grand council of Royal and Sc
| lect Masters of the State of Vermont
met in the evening at 1880 and their ses-
sion completed the proceedings of the
second day Of Masonic week.
The parade of the knights Templars,
which Is sometimes held. was omitted
TUESDAY. the knights simply forming at
the Van Ness House and marching to tho
| temple in uniform The line was headed
by Grand Commander Frank -. Dewey.
Of Montpelier. The sword and uniform
which he wore were presented to him by
the Mount Zion Commandery of MTontpol-
Ter.
During the morning Grand Commander
Dewey delivered his annual address in
which he gave resume of tho work OF
'Ae year. His address was in part as
follows:
The grand cOmmandery has been espec-
tally favored during the year as 10 one
has been called TO lay down the sword
and ioin that great army who have gone
before but our subordinate commentaries
and sister Jurisdictions have been called
upon many times to surrender loved ones
TO that grim destroyer, fun account Of
which will he found in the report of the
committee on neurology. -Four Command
cries acted as escort on Memorial day to
the Grand Army OF the Republic
From observations at burlington Of the
ease i'm which the several commentaries
can he assembled I would again call your
ott"nt'un to the matter Of 4 field day,
ana the benefits that would arise IRON,
bringing the comuanderv Together .,
least once a wear and II wa cou,d h,in,,
this about and nave n good rara1e a
prize driu ana a good nrizo for tho Sow
eral drilI teams to comnete for # would
certainly in nv opinion craata n rev in
terest in the order. also wish tha, each
year the comnandery nassing the hest
inspection might exclrplify the work dur
ing our annual conclave. 1t would be Of
great benefit TO all sir knights. esneciallv
the officers and would tend to stimulate
each commanderv to doing hot,er work
Nine Communicates with approximately
400 swords marched in the para le at Bur
lington tercentenary week
Mr. Dewey warmly commended the new
system Of inspection and stated that there
had been great Improvement IN the
rltual ana asylum tactics of some OF the
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." 'i'n W. paIeF OF White River
junction; grand Junior warden, Sir
FdWard }" Bates or bennington; grand
pre!ate' SIR AIRED j. Tough of Mont
peler' grand treasurer. SIR Charles W.
hltcoiHo or Iroctorsville, grand re-
corder, SIR Henry II. Ross of Burling-
ton: grand standard bearer, Sir Frank
i. Putnam Of Brattleboro; grand
sword bearer. Sir Elroy b, Whitaker
Of Barre; grand warder, Sir Fred
crick H. Rabbit of Bellows Falls
grand captain OF thu guard, Sir Will
liam II. Ridley Of Burlington.
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