The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1882-12-18
THE MYSTIC FRATERNIT1Es,

THE MYSTIC FRATERNITIEs
Iowa has 392 lodges /. o. O.. F., with
90, 364 members.
|. Nebraska reports ninety Masonic lodges,
with a membership Of 4, ZOO.
The Masons of st. Johns, Newfound-
land, are completing $50, 900 temple.
Sixteen lodges of Knights of Pythias
have been instituted in Ohio within a
year.
The list of Masonic lodges in New York
city has now reached thirty one in mum
Der
St. Johns lodge, No. 6, A. F. and A. NJ,
of Norwalk, Conn, points with pride to its
charter granted in 1865.
New Hampshire reports sixty-seven
lodges 1. o. O. F.. with a membership of
s, 1882. a gain of 225 over last year.
The last branch of Odd Fellowship TO
have its secret work revised-the Rebekah
degrees now at work with new rit-
ual
The special committee of the Supreme
Lodge of the World, Knights of Pythias,
have completed the revision of the rit-
ual.
The committee on revision of the consti-
tuition. appointed by the Supreme Council,
American Legion of Honor, recommend a
thorough Overhauling of the laws of the
order
Arkansas, Colorado. Dominica, Illinois,
Indiana, Liberia Mississippi. Missouri,
New Jersey, New York, North Carolina,
Ontario Pennsylvania and South Carolina
have colored Masonic Grand Lodges.
Twenty-seven Grand Lodges, 1913 sub
ordinate lodges, 40. 903 members, and a
cash balance on hand in grand and subor-
dinate bodies of 81 ,235, 951, indicate the
present condition of the Knights of Pythias
in the United States.
Missouri Lodge has contributed $3.50,
St. Louis Lodge $500, and Mound City
Lodge $50 to the fund fer erecting mon
ument on the Odd Fellows lot in Bellefon-
tame Cemetery, St. Louis. Of the $500
required, 81 800 have been paid in.
A $1,000 building, with spacious ante
rooms, banquet halls, and lodge room, be
longing to Fellowship Lodge, No. 345, A. |
f. and A NJ, was dedicated at Joplin,
Mo-, Nov Is. The lodge room is consid-
cred the finest in the state outside of ST.
Louis.
The Supreme Commandery, knights of |
Universal Brotherhood, will hold its next |
annual session at Danville, Ill. At the |
late session in Cincinnati, III. Myers was |
elected Supreme Commander, and E. J. |
Mcbride Supreme Captain General
The Hon. Seymour Dexter, of Elmira, is |
Grand President of the Grand Lodge En- |
pire Order Mutual Aid of New York. |
There are now 40 lodges in this new or
der. representing membership of nearly |
J, 900, and $150,000 have been paid out to |
the families of deceased members.
The directors of the Masonic Temple |
company of London, Ontario. have organ
led gift enterprise for the purpose of |
clearing off the debt upon the Temple and /
the benevolent fund. There |
s question as to the legality of the craft |
lottery for any purpose
The Order of knights of Labor is now
he strongest colored order in America.
although as yet having foothold in
welve states only. Since it was founded
over $500, 900 have been paid to the heirs
If deceased members. Moses Dickson, of
Rock Island, is the present Chief Grand
Master.
]. Ross Robertson has presented the
Masonic Benevolent Board of Toronto with
circular plot of ground in Mount
Pleasant cemetery to be used exclusively
or Masonic burials. The plot measures
ixty-five feet in diameter, and is perfect |
Ircle, decorated with thousand plans,
rranged in the form of Masonic symbols.
In New York state there are 81 com
nanderies Knights Templar, with $500
Members of which New York city has 8.
With 1 1851 members; Brooklyn A, with $50
nembers; the river towns 10, with 1,032
nembers northern New York 5, with 800
nembers; central New York II, with
!, 100 members, and the southern tier 9,
With 1, 100.
No travelling brother need feel lonely in
topping at Mansfield, Ohio. If he is a
Jason, he may visit Mansfield Lodge, No. Il
5, instituted in 1915 Mansfield Chapter,
TO- %, and Mansfield Council, No. IL. /
9th instituted in 1913; Venus Lodge, in
tituted in 1947, OF Mansfield Commandery /
{. T., instituted in 1869. If he is an Odd
elbow, MansfeldLodge, No. 10, Richland,
70. 161, and Mohican Eneampment, No. |
8, will be open to him. Knights of ,
'ythias to the number of 124 and divi-
ion of the uniform rank will receive a
raveling Knight while Pearl Lodge, No.