The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1910-02-23
COL. OLIN SCOTT TO
GIVE $4,000 FOR
MASONIC HALL
CONTINUED from First Page

tute The absence OF Masonic Hall
is explained by the fact that Temple
Lodge had expired, and the petition
TO institute Tabernacle Lodge had |
been laid over" for a year to enable
the Grand Lodge to find out what had
become of its effects. The Grand |
Lodge committee reported the sue
ceeding October that the effects were !
in the possession OF a Mark Masters |
Lodge, and that the funds were not |
available. This report was adopted |
and there is no record OF further &C
ton.
The minutes consistently show that
all convocations were opened as lod-
ges OF Mark Masters, the chapter Of
ficers assuming the lodge stations;
closing subsequently and opening In
the Royal Arch degree as was and is
the English system. The degrees are
called in the records as "4th," and
nth" Convocations were regularly
held monthly and frequently there
were specials called. The ballots
we're spread while each body was in
session, and not according to modern
custom.
The constitution" of Temple NJ.
NJ. Lodge and r. A. Chapter occurred
February 3, 1910. the officers being
the same as in the Warrant or Dis
pensation. Two bodies and two
ceremonies appear to have been es-
sential. Unanimous consent" OF
the chapter is all that was necessary
of record to receive a petition, ballot
and confer degrees at single regu-
lar convocation. Two brethren were
so admitted on the date of "consti-
Tuition under the charter" AT the
cOnvocation of February 4, 1911, the
chapter subscribed for a copy of the
Freemasons Magazine, published in
Richmond. Virginia.
The bylaws, to which reference
is made In the title to these records,
were not transcribed at the time
the leaves having been left blank. On
June 81, 1917. an attempt was made
to fill the blank spaces; but, while
the committee,-Oliver Abel, David
Henry and Samuel b. Young.-report-
ed and were discharged, the result
today is few more blank leaves. Up
" ltNANAlDtAf loiAr II utlQ bt0A AllN
custom to meet quarterly or oftener
At this annual it was voted to meet
six times. yearly. beginning with the
first Wednesday in February. 1918, at
10 o'clock, a. NJ. The fees appear
to have been 81, for the Lodge of
Mark Masters, and sl2 for the Chap
ter.
At the convocation held July 90
1879, a visitor from the General
Royal Arch Chapter, Brother Jon
latham Nye, Grand Visitor, was receiv.
ed; and this official took the chair
and conferred the degrees. Follow
ing this. the style of the minutes
changes. especially in the terminol-
ogy of Past Master" and Most Ex-
cellent Master" The proper initials
for the officers also were prefixed for
the first time.
At the October conyocation, 1918
the subject of a grave stone for our
deceased brother Anthony Haswell
was considered A committee was
appointed to confer with a like com
mittee from Tabernacle Lodge. The
result is not stated, but the print
er's case and frame" in Bennington
Center Cemetery is an eloquent ties
J timonial to some one or more that his
place of sepulchre has not remain
IedBd lsHol euo GIolovJuem esq;
ed unmarked.
Monthly communications became
the rule on April 4, 1920, excepting
that St Johns Day in June and De
cember should be the regulars for
those months, as aforetime On Janu
airy o. A. l.. 1923 (1S23), it was
voted, that the chapter have nc
more spirits brought in for refresh
ment, except on the celebration Of
the festivals of st. John the Baptist
and St John the Evangelist"
In 1921 the convocations becoming
few, and the minutes irregular with
out any recorded notice, Temple
Chapter met at Arlington, September
I, A. L. 1922 (1S22). 1t is notable
that the names recorded as present
at Arlington were the same as those
of a prior date at Bennington. The
zeal thus exhibited puts to shame
many of our later and younger com
panions, and gives a key to that
unique convocation of fifty years sub
sequently at Bennington, in the
Seventies" above.
This continued up to the annual in
1925. From that date until the fnal
in 1882, eight conversations only were
held, as If the gathering cataclysm OF
antiMasonry had, even during those
years, sorely pressed the companions
who could for years travel seventeen
miles to attend chapter meeting.
Temple Chapter, No 4, contributed
from its ranks the third Grand High
Priest, NJ. Il. Companion Isaac Tiche
nor, also the third Governor of Yer
mont. Companion Tichenor served
I as Governor from 1897 to 1907 ant
! again in 1S0S-9;. six years Judge o
Vermont's Supreme Court and Cnie
Justice the last two years; was twice
a United States Senator; was a resi-
dent of the state throughout the en-
tire period of its INDEPENDENCE II,
was elected Grand High Priest of tn,
Grand Royal Arch Chapter of Yer
mont in 1909 A good story was cur
rent at the Center few years ago
told with gusto at the expense o
e Companion Tichenor. He was quite
sportsman, and once laid wage
9 with his friend NJ, with whom h,
went fishing, as to which would catcl
the most trout On weighing the fisl
at Landlord Dewey's the Governor
was found to have lost his bet which
he paid, although considerably chlg
rined II don't see, sad he how
a your trout should weigh the most
= my catch certainly looks the largest
: besides filled them with gravel