Weekly Caledonian. (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1919-1920, 1919-08-27
800 AT OLD HOME
DAY AT McINDOES
The Academy Hold a Re-
union at the Same
Time

Threatening skies may have kept
some away from the festivities in the
village of Mc!ndoe5 Wednesday at
ternoon, but over 300 people gather
ed on the Academy green 10 join in
the double celebration of "Old Home
Day and the reunion of the alumni Of
Mclndoes Academy.
On one side of the academy was
the barnet service flag with G5 stars
five in geld, and over the speaker;
stand on the other eide OF the green
was the academy service flag. TIE
latter had s :,tars, includin" two cold
ones. The five Barnet boys who
made the supreme sacrifice were A"
eu5tu, McCaitey, Harry Btowncll,
Samuel Darling, Merl Kendall AMI
Neil Morgan.
Dinner was served ut noon in The
vcstly of the Congregational chrrcn
to about 100 who had come from out
of the village to attend the attc.-
Moons exercises. At 9 o'clock all were
seated on the Academy green and
the president of the occasion, Rev.
G. B. Bliss, announced that the pro-
gram would open with prayer by
Rev. A. V. Fisher. This was follow
cd by a vocal selection from the
school quintcttc consisting of Violet
Guthrie, Beryl Stevens, Beatrice
Parker and John Gibson.
Don c. Stiles of St. Johnsburv was
the speaker Of the occasion and gave
IN inspiring address on optimism,
choosing as hi; theme "Absorbng
Sunshine" He said the problem in
America was the same one as OF old
the forces of evil arrayed against
the forces OF righteousness. And
throughout all the pcrplcXitica of
this struggle we must keep sweet.
Sometimes we think that all the sun
shine is in the day, but l saw enough
Of London by night to know that
there are bright spots even in the
darkest nights.
Mr.. Stiles then briefly touched up
on London's housing problem, her
drink problem, her problems of deal
my with poverty, etc, submitting
some startling statistics. Six hun
bred men in London receive 81 per
cent of all the income of that great
city while the other GO per cent l.,
divided among the other 4,00O,0O0
people. There are 100000 living in
| Drtxy
only OF their weeks pay, while II
per cent of the people of London are
supported by charity.
Mr. Stiles then briefly described
the awful condition of the English
people during the war, paying 4 high
tribute to their sacrificial spir... He
said that America must look out for
an untainted name and paid no.
able tribute to the christian officer;
who were the leaders on the Amcri
can side. The soldiers over there
knew God as they never knew him.
before. The problems of the United
States will be solved by harl work
and by the continual practice of the
Golden Rule. We must practice char
ity and use our brains in thinking
these serious problems through.
After another selection by the
school quintette Arthur F. Stone of
st. Johnsbury, member Of the cdi-
toral staff of the Evening Calcdo-
Man was called on for al
short address. Mr.. Stone empha
sized the value of the community
spirit, as evidenced by this gather
ing; spoke Of what the boys from our
schools and colleges in this country
and England hadd one in the war,
and in closing urged the people not
to get pessimistic over the future of
the United States, but to take cour
age by thinking OF the Arab provcrb,
"The dogs may bark, but the caravan
moves on"
Roger Crane, for the business
committee, reported concerning the
proposed endowment. When the
Academy was established in 1853 it |
started with an endowment of $4,000. |
In 1916 $1,000 more was raised and |
the fund is now $685.. 1t is pro-
posed to raise this endowment to
100000. ID. M. Crane has pledged
ST. 900 provided $4,000 more can be
raised in the village of McIndocs.
Two subscriptions have already been
received of $50 each from Crane
Brothers and j. Ii. Goodrich. Mr..
Crane announced that the committee
would start at once to increase this
fund.
Following these exercises came the
annual meeting of the Alumni asso-
citation at which these officers were
President, Horace Gleason;
vice-pres., Alaric Crane; sec.-trcas.,
Miss Alice Phelps; ex CON-, A. l..
Guthrie, Roger Crane, Mrs. Robert
A. Kendall. The association also
voted to add their heartiest support
towards increasing the embodiment.
After the meeting there was a hot
|y contested ball game between the
mines from Bradford and Monroe.
Following is the line up of the two
jeans: Bradford, L. Haskins, pitch
,r; Metcalf, catcher; Lennis, lib; C.
2b; Fl. Haskins, 3b; Mann
IS; Murray, IF; Fowle, f; Prescott
f.
The Monroe lineup was as fol
ows: P. Emery, pitcher; c. Emery
L. d.