The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-06-20
I. O. q. r.


Capital Lodge initiated a member on Friday
night.
Canton Muncie, No. H. acted as escort on Dec
Grafton Day at Muncie
The officers of Newark Lodge will be publicly
installed on the Sd of July.
There are over six thousand members in the
Rebekah Degree lodges in Ohio.
The degree staff of Johnson Lodge are re-
ported as doing some good work with their new
outfit
J. W. McQuiddy, P. G. NJ, has accepted an
invitation to dedicate the hall of Terrill Lodge
on the Sd of July.
The team of Indianapolis Lodge conferred the
first and second degrees for Center Lodge, last
Tuesday night. in good style
Canton Logansport has got the Boston fever,
and will probably make the journey to the Hub
with over thirty swords.
The degree staff of Terre Haute recently Wis
tied Rockville and conferred the degrees on
number of candidates in Howard Lodge.
Corinthian Lodge will hold an old-fashioned
conference meeting, on the first Friday night in
July, to which all the city lodges will be invited
A committee of ladies' members of Fidelity
Lodge. ID. of R., are preparing some new work
for the establishment of the initiating cere-
mony.
William Ellingham, of Wheeling, w. Va,
and grand master of that State, has been spend
for home on Friday.
Yorktown Lodge is on boom. Three candi-
dates are ready, or will be ready at the next
meeting. and to come The grand in
structor will assist at their initiation.
Frank Ellis, of Ohio, has had another star
added to his insignia, and now ranks as major
general in command of the middle division
Patriachs Militant of which Indiana is COM
ponent.
Indianapolis Lodge conferred the third degree
on two candidates on Friday night, and will con-
fer the intiatory next Friday night. This lodge
will have public installation of officers the first
Friday in July.
The grand instructor will go to LaPorte to-
morrow morning, to drill the team of LaPorte
Lodge in the degree work. On Friday night an
exhibition of the result will be given by the team
under his direction
Metropolitan Encampment will meet TO- NOR
row night, and the Royal Purple degree will be
conferred The encampment at Decatur, H.,
has requested the grand instructor to get the
Metropolitan to exemplify the three degrees for
the benefit of a committee they propose to send
over here to witness it.
The Colfax monument fund committee have
sent out circulars to the lodges and encamp-
ments of this State, and to the Rebekah lodges
OF Ohio, asking for contributions to the fund. It
is to be hoped that our Indiana lodges will re-
spond promptly and literally. If they do, the
committee will have the design of the monument
ready by November and the monument ready to
unvel next May
On Wednesday, Olive Branch Lodge, No. TO-
D. of r., will picnic at Gray's grove. near Mobiles
ville The lodges at Atlanta, Arcadia and No
blesville will meet with them. The train on the
Wabash road will leave Union Depot at 715 A.
NJ. and Massachusetts, avenue at 725 A. NJ This
is splendid opportunity to spend day in the
woods, ami friends, whether members of the
order not, are invited to participate The
profits of the picnic will be given to the Colfax
monument fund.