The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1915-12-31
EXCELLENT BANQUET
OF FOREIGN MASONS
About $50 Persons Sat Down to Excel
lent Repast After Listening to
Toasts and Then Engaged
in Dancing.

In celebration of the festival OF St
John, the brethren OF Operative lodge
No. $50, +. and A. NJ, held their 26tl
annual supper and dance in Clan Gordol
hall last evening, when the attendance
filed the hall to capacity. The hall wal
prettily decorated in honor Of the occa
sion with streamers, pictures and ever
green, the stage being draped with the
Stars and Stripes the Union Jack OF
England and the Rampant Lion of Scot
land.
| Seated around the tables on the plat.
form were the president, Hugh Christie
w. M. Mahlon Il. White, s. w. Frank T.
Beard and p NJ. W. Il. Catto with their
ladies. The tables set in four rows in
the hall had seats for $50 guests and
when the exercises of the evening com
menced not vacant seat was to be
found
President Christie, as chairman of the
assembly, extended, in a few words, a
hearty welcome in the name of and in
behalf of the brethren of the Foreign
lodges and introduced as the toastmaster
w. Il. Cato, who acted most acceptably
in the presentation Of the different per-
sons participating in the lengthy pro-
gram. The first toast OF the evening was
to the president and the craft, the next
to the grand lodge of Scotland and the
grand lodge of Vermont.
The POSTMASTER then introduced An
gus Mcdonald, who responded with a
song rendered in his well known style.
Frank X. Beard, in a happy manner, re-
counted the many virtues of ancient
craft Masonry and told of the many
beautiful edifices and monuments which
have been erected throughout the world
by Operative Masons since the time of
Solomon, king of Israel, and he deplored
the deeds of atrocity that have been
through the ignorance of the
people and the devastation Of wars,
where these buildings have been ruined
after having taken so many years to
build. Mr.. Beard proposed a toast to
Operative lodge, No. $50, of Aberdeen
to which Thomas Marr replied
in giving the history Of the lodge since
its institution and recounted the many
trials that they had to pass through un-
til they finally succeeded in owning the |
building in which they now hold their
Mrs. Gilbert Wood next delighted the |
with her rendition OF the song,
@The Island Of Dreams
James $. Milne, in proposing a toast
o Granite lodge, No. 80. of Barre, spoke
eelingly of the many kind expressions
# that brotherly feeling which always
las existed between the members of
iranite lodge and the members of the
foreign lodges. AIahlon +. White, in re-
ponse 10 the above toast, firmly assured
he company that these feelings were
and extended the welcome 20
II visiting brethren to make Granite
Ddge their Masonic home while in Barre.
The toastmaster then called on George
'roup, one of the originators of these
anne gatherings 26 years ago, and he
ang in his happy strain, wait for the !
urn of the Tide" There followed a
cries of cong and story until $3.50, when
he committee having in charge the ban
net announced all was in readiness TO /;
roceed with the same. :
The banquet being over, the floor was /,
cared for dancing, which commenced at +,
o'clock, music being supplied by an
-chestra under the leadership of +. w. :
ruee. Singing, story telling and dane .
Y were intermiXed during the remain A
,r of the celebration. Deserving OF !,
ention was the beautiful step dancing q
7 Miss Thompson and Mr.. Mcdonald, 4
so the singing Of +. Tobin and George 4
roup. la
The following committee had charge OF 4
arrangements: Hugh Christie, Robert i
ltterson, Charles Leslie. Alfred Milne. !,
illism Thorn, George Anderson. James a
line. William Deans, John Spence viii u
I'M Grant, Alex. McCatlie, Robert Frost n
'orge G. Walker and Henry Taylor ot
cretary. OF