Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1920-10-28
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TWO DISTRICT MEETINGS
Odd Fellows and Knin]ts of pythias
Con,e tn Burlington

the snnual meeting OF district n1trn-
Der three. ]. Q. Q T.. was held In this
city Thursdav WITH banquet at $50
o'clock In tho lodge rooms. served by the
ladies of tho two Rebekah lodges of he
city and followed by an interesting pl o.
gram. There was an attendance of abo ut
1870. coming from all of the encampments
of the districts. including Columbia. NJ,
j, of st. Adams; Green Mountain. No. :,
of Burlington: Champain. No. %, o.
Highgate: Addison. No. q, of Middle.
bury: and WardweIl. No. 81 Of Bristol.
1t was one of the largest If not the larg-
est district meeting of the order ever
held in the city.
The following program was carried out
Opening exercises. Green Mountain En-
campment, No. 3: reception of grand Of
ficers. including II. L. Russell, grand
patriarch, Rutland: r. f. Campbell.
grand high priest. Waterbury; r. II.
Palmer, Grand senior warden Bristol !;
Gerry~F. Walker, grand scribe. Bellows
Falls: c. W. Steele, grand inside sentinel,
Highgate o. f. Chilson, past grand rep
resentative. Burlington; f. P Morton,
past grand representative, St Adams H.
r. Kimball. past grand representative,
st. Adams; w. d. Wilson. past grand
representative. ST. Adams. r. A. Spear
! lieut.. Col. on staff of general command
ing patriarchs militant, Burlington: w.
Il. Craven, major first battalion of Yer
mont patriarchs militant Burlington; c.
@. McGaffey. grand herald Burlington
c. F. Rich, district deputy grand master.
Middlebury: Ralph a. Lyon. district
deputy grand patriarch. Burlington.
Address of welcome. George r. Cole.
n. p; response for the district r. r.
Palmer. G s.. W: response for grand Of
i IT
campments in the district: unwritten
work. Gerry F. Walker, G. s.: eNemp,ifca-
ton Of Royal Purple degree Columbia
Encampment. No. !, st. Adams; remarks
by grand officers; closing exercises. Green
Mountain Encampment. No. 3.
! The report of encampments showed all
of them to be in a tlourshlng condition.
financially and every other way, with
exceptionally good prospects for the
future
The general committee IN charge Of the
meeting was made up Of: George p. Cole
H. P; George H. Tabor, -5th w; c. r.
Leach. LIST W.. w, b. Craven, 2 c., p.
! n. B. Masters, treasurer; and D. Fraser
I c.. P.
The gentlemen wish to thank the
Rebekah ladies', especially, for the en-
cellent supper served.
| KNIGHTS OF P1 IftJAS
/ A meeting Of Districts / and Of the
/ Knights OF Pythias was hold Thurs
day in Castle hall of the Champain
| Lodge of the order at 40 Church street.
At $50 o'clock about $40 members Of the
! district sat down to a beefsteak supper.
The meeting afterwards was opened in
due form by Mt. Mansfield Lodge. Then
came the reception to the grand officers,
who are as follows James n. Gall,
I G. c., of Barre, NJ. G. Morris. G.. V. c.,
I of Hardwick. Charles p. Friend, G. p,
| of ST. Johnsbury and Fred A. Whit
taker. G.. K of r. and s.. of Bellows
Falls. and Frank w. Hardy. G. NJ. OF e,
! OF Orleans.
After the reception Cabana's orches-
ira gave a short musical program fol-
lowed by an address of welcome by Guy
w. Bailey. P. G. c. The response was
made by Charles Levin of Lodge No. =
of Bethel. The exempihcation of the
rank If Grand knight was next carried
out by Champlain Lodse. No. !. The
Grand Lodee officers all made sho-r al
dresses, as did Guy w. Bailey and r. ".
Parish both past grand chancellors of
the order The meeting was closed b.
Bethel Lodge, No. %. w. H Turper
| n. ID. G. C., of Burlington supervised
, the meeting.
Tho various reports of the officers of
tho lodges IN the district were shown 70
be In sound cond,tion financially and TO
have made a fine sein In membership
during the past ysar, over $50 new mem
bers having been admitted.
Delegates from the following lodges
were present at the meeting; Mount
Mansfield Lodge, Essex Junction: Minerva
Lodge, Underhn! Richford Ledge, Rich
ford: Unity Lodge. ST. Adams; Bethel
and Champlair Lodges, Burlington.