The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-08-09
FRATERNITY NOTES.
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Herndon Lodge, at Edinburg, is doing con-
siderable work.
The initiatory degree was conferred by Indian
apois Lodge Friday night.
Miss Alice Coval. of Olive Branch Lodge, D.
of r., is lying very low with consumption.
Miss Morgan, vice grand of the Rebekah De-
gree Lodge at Knightstown, is in the city visit
ing friends.
There are eighty five lodges in Germany, To-
Gated IN forty nine different Cities and seven en-
campments.
Palestine Encampment, of Lynn, Mass, con-
template "a Western tour this fall They come
as far west as Cleveland.
Grand Patriarch Porter has gone to Connecti-
cut to visit his father. He will not return before
the latter part OF September.
Many friends will regret the serious illness of
Mrs. H. Mccoy, wife of H. Mccoy p g. NJ
She is reported better, with hopes of fual re
cOvery.
Mr.. Muldoon, the contractor for the Ridgely
monument expects to complete the structure by
Sept l. The unI eiling will! take place on the
22d inst
VIM. Whitrdge, who was killed at Seymour
Wednesday, member of Capital Lodge of
this city. He has been member of the grand
lodge for fortythree years.
The officers of Fidelity Lodge meet every
wednesday dIIefHOOu IOr reDedfSal. Inc cos
tunes are in course Of making, and at an early
date the "beautifed work" will be introduced
in the lodge.
Hon. w. ". Curry, OF Phioxenian Lodge, de-
livered the address at the Grant memorial
services at Greensburg yesterday. He will leave
for trip through Kansas on Sunday, accom-
panied by Major l. B. Glover, recently of Havre
France.
A brother lacking interest or negIecting to at
tend his lodge meetings is living condemnation
of the order in the eyes of the uninitlated They
conclude that the order is of little value or no
use to that member and hence would be of no
value to them, and they decline to unite them
selves with it.
1t is claimed that Mrs. Sarah F. Meader, of
Lynn, Mass. the first lady elected Noble
Grand OF Re6ekah lodge. As all lodges elected
noble grands, and some of them ladies, on the
last meeting in December after the law was
passed, 1T is questionable whether the claim Can
be maintained.
The convention of Rebekah Lodges of Wis
cOnsn recently met at Appleton, and organized
permanently. They asked to be admitted to the
Grand Lodge (which was in session. during the
exemplitication of the secret work of that
degree. The Grand Lodge could not comply
with the request, but sent tho representatives to
Sovereign Grand Lodge to the convention to
instruct in that work
All advancement in this world is the result of
well directed energy and industry. This applies
with equal force to lodges. All individuals who
try to better their condition generally succeed
SO it is with lodges 1t would be we'll to under
stand that an effort is necessary to the advance
ment of any cause, and if the effort is made by
all interested, at the same time aud in har-
mony, the greater will be the result
Some of the fraternal papers are speaking in
high terms of the authors of the revised ritual
and some credit the composition to Nicholson
and some TO Carey, entirely forgetting Shaffner
But he is dead. The facts are, Nicholson revised
the initiatory. Carey wrote the first and second
and Shaifner wrote the third. But it was Henry
Denver, of De Soto lodge, Springfield Mass
who discovered and brought out the dramatic in
them, and it is mainly through the efforts of De
Soto lodge, led by Denver, that the degrees have
become popular.