Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1886-09-30

| gentlemen. We are here to discharge duty
/ wisely for the order
| When you welcome us as Christians and
Knights, as Christians and Knights we say to
/ Us was hospitality.
Our Christian teaching is to love our
| Selves
| We prove our love for God by our love for
| man While we accept the hand of extend
ed welcome, We say do not tempt US too far,
| as we may forget our duty, and our constit-
| uents say to us that St. Louis is too hospita-
tle for even a Christian to go to. Again we
| thank you for your welcome.
| Grand Commander Browne, represent
| Ing the State OF Missouri, then delivered
the following address:
BEERS OF THE GRAND ENCAMPMESr-In Sep
TENDER, 1865, the Seventeenth Triennlal Con.
ated states held Ia pm ctv O. Of
Louis. The city of st. Louis and the Grand
| Commandery OF Missouri extended a hearty
invitation to the Templar5 of the Union to
participate in the festivities they had pre-
pared. At that time the Grant Conmandery
| of Missouri was but eight years old with nine
| subordinate Communicates, and a total State
membership of ALI. small in number, the
| spirit of TempIar Masonry pervaded the re-
ceiving fraters and the Grand Encampment
and visiting Knights were greeted with the
| open hearted chivalry and hospitality char
From 1868 the trienniaI gatherings have
grown and increased in size and interest
Baltimore, New Orleans, Cleveland, Chicago
and San Francisco, each striving to increase
the attraction and interest of their Triennial
Conclave over the previous one.
During the eighteen years that have elapS-
ed since the first grand welcome greeted
large TEN plar gathering, the child of eight
years has grown to manhood, having in May
last held its twenty fifth annual conclave,
and from youth to manhood has remained
loyal and true to the Grand Encampment
Since 1858 the Grand Commandery of:Missourf
has grown rapidly, until to day she numbers
forty eight suborninates with total MEM
bership of nearly three thousand. With
and consequent greater ability to
respond to the requirements of the age, she
would signally fail in her greeting to the
fraters of the Twenty third Trennial were it
not for the fact that her welcome consists
not only In umnations excursions, enter
tainments and receptions, but that from the
innermost depths of the hearts of the Temp
heartfelt welcome. As fraters we do not Of
fer you trough habit, coarse diet and severe
We welcome you with true knightly courtesy
to our hearts and our homes. That your stay
with us may be pleasant in every respect
and that your recollectionS of the Twenty
third Triennial may be as green spots in the
memories of your Templar life. AS repre-
sentative of and in behalf OF the Templars
of Missouri, bid you welcome, thrice well
come.
TO the Grand Master, in his illness, we ex-
ri, with our sincere prayer for his speedy re-
covery, that his sojourn here may be
pleasant one, and that with renewed :health
and vigor he may soon again rejoin the loved
ones at home.
In response Deputy Grand Master
Roome thanked the Missouri Templars
for their expressions of friendship and
esteem and congratulated them on the
growth and vigor of their commandery.
Following the addresses of welcome
the hall was cleared of all save members
of the Grand Encampment, and the en-
campment proceeded to business.
The report of Grand Master Withers,
Acting Grand Master Roome, Grand Re.
corder Parson, and Grand Treasurer
Simons, the Acting Grand Master, an
nounces the appointment of the follow
ing committees:
Committee on Unfinished Business
III. c. Cook, Kansas, Chairman; D. S.
Gliddey, Dakota; Fred H. Waldron, Con-
necticut; c. c. Isaacs, Maryland; Jos.
S. Browne, Missouri.
Committee on the Doings of Grand
Officers-H. L.. Palmer, Wisconsin,
chairman; Joseph P. Horner, Louisiana;
f. w. Patrick, Indiana; - Danforth,
New Hampshire; George Scott, New Jer-
sey.
Committee on Finance-James Sorley,
Texas, chairman; II. T. Graves, Califor.
ma; George o. Tyler, Vermont; Henry
Birkett, Minnesota; B. F. Halter, Ten
nessee.
Committee on Dispensations and New
mmanderes-George II. Benzenberg,
Chairman; w. Lawrence,
Michigan; Charles f. Stanley, Ohio; G.
Ii. Durham, Massachusetts and Rhode
Island; j. c. Baird, Wyoming.
Committee on Credentials-John L.
White, Illinois, Chairman; Peyton S.
Coles, Virginia; G. w. Walgrove, New |
York.
Committee on Grievances and Appeals |
w. p. Innes, Michigan, chairman; c. |
E. Meyer, Pennsylvania; w. B. Isaacs, |
Virginia; J. o. Shaw, Maine; N. L. Gaz-
zette, Illinois.
Committee on Templar Jurisprudence |
james H. Hopkins, Pennsylvania, |
chairman; A. T. c. Pierson, Minnesota; |
]. d. Adams, Arkansas; Enoch T. Car
son, Ohio; H. w. Rothert, Iowa.
Committee to Designate Place OF Next
G. Moore, District of Co.
Iumbia, chairman: Peter Forester, N ew
York; G. c. Hutchinson, Massachusetts
and Rhode Island; George Davis, West
Virginia; Thomas Ballantyne, Georgia.
Committee on Necrology-Hugh Nc
Curdy, Michigan, chairman; - South.
Tate.