The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-06-13

contribute TO the Colfax monument fund. Let
Ove1y representative fulfill his promise to the
drsand Lodge.
Cantons Of Patriarchs Militant win soon be
mustered at Seymour and Sullivan.
Massachusetts leads in membership in Re
bekah Lodges. with 4, 975; Ohio, 4,947; New
York, 4,626, and Indiana. 1924.
The school of instruction will commence at La
Porte on the 21st inst, and continue four days,
with an exhibition on the fifth day.
The first term of 1886 will close June 80.
There is every indication that IL will prove the
most prosperous term for some years.
Capital Lodge conferred the first and third
degrees On Friday night and elected one mem
Der, who win be initiated next Friday night
There is but one Rebekah Lodge in the United
States with larger membership than Olive
Branch Lodge, of this city. Beulah Lodge, of
Lynn, Mass, has four hundred members. while
Olive Branch has three hundred and thirty-fv
The appointment Of colonel of the Second
Regiment Of Patr1archs Militant has been ten
dered Judge d. FL. Chase, of Logansport, and
| that of lieutenant colonel to Captain Henly, of
Wabash. This secures TO the Second Regiment
two accomplished officers.
Indianapolis Lodge conferred the second de-
gree on two candidates Friday night, received an
application, with two others pending, and &C.
cepted an invitation from Center Lodge to con-
fer the first and second degrees, next Tuesday
night, in Grand Lodge building Next Friday
night the lodge will work the third degree.
The grand instructor has received o request
from tie encampment at Decatur, Ill, TO pre-
pare an exhibition of the encampment degrees,
that a committee may be present and witness
1t, with view of introducing 1t in that encamp-
ment Doubtless Metropolitan Encampmens
will accept the invitation, and prepare the work
The picnic on the 23d inst. for the benefit of
the Golfax monument, at Grays Grove, near
Noblesville, given by Olive Branch Lodge, ID. OF
r., should be attended by all the lodges In the
city and their friends Speak Of it in the lodges,
and let all have an opportunity to contribute
personally to the fund and at the same time en-
joy day in the woods with their children.
The committee on arrangem It's of the Grand
Lodge OF Massachusetts, are busy pcrfecting their
arrangements for the meeting of the Sovereign
Grand Lodge in Boston, in September. The pro-
cession. which takes place on the 21st. will be
the largest seen in this country Of the char
acter, being composed largely of cantons of Pa
triarchs Militant. The lieutenant general has
sixty members on his staff, all OF whom are ex-
pected to be present
The decoration of the graves of deceased mem
bers on Friday was observed by not less than
one hundred lodges in the State. The custom is
growing, as compared with last year. and will be
hereafter observed every year. AT Arcadia be-
tween three and four hundred persons were
present The address was delivered at the
amphitheater at the fair grounds and from there
the company adjourned to the cemetery where
the ceremonies we're performed. At Spartans
burg, Boonville and Logansport similar eere-
monies were held, Grand Secretary Foster deiv-
ering the address at the former and Z. q. Be-
harel at Boonville, all of which were largely at
tended.