Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1887-1890, 1890-01-01
CORDIAL WELCOME.
SUCH WAS EXTENDED BY THE F.
AND A. MAsONs TO THEIR GUESTS.
Officers Installed In Public--Ab1e Address
by Master Workman Carrier-A Large
Asssmblage - Remarks by Rev.
COomb and Mr.. willard.

"A large aSSemUldSe AtIenueu tuo Wstdl-
lation of the Masonic officers In Masonic
hall Friday eve. The visitors were cor
daily welcomed by the hospitable Ma
sons, whose hall was full of mystic en-
blems and was as cosy as parlor.
The brothers installed are as follows
James A. Carrier, W. M; w. B. Coombe,
s. w.; Behman H. Powers, treasurer; w.
P. Beachly, secretary; Charles W. Pome-
roy. s. D.; P. H. Hughes, s. s.; W. s.
Wetzel, j. s.; ]. G. Taylor, Tyler.
Fred W. Wright, J. w., and Howard
Criss, ]. d., were absent.
Mr.. Carrier made an excellent address,
which ELECTED hearty approval from the
assemblage, who appreciated greatly its
sentiments of brotherhood and local
pride. He spoke as follows
Ladies and gentlemen-We have met
here this evening for the purpose of in
stalling the officers of the Cascade Lodge
No. "a of Free and Accepted Masons.
This meeting also commentaries the
third anniversary of Cascade lodge and of
our order the 5689th. In making ar
rangements for this installation it was the
voice of the lodge that the members
should invite as many of their friends as
they choose to meet with us on the even
ing OF st. Johns dny; also that we have
refreshments served afterward and per-
haps some speaking and music so as to
have sociable time. All this l was in
favor of until I was notified that it be-
came necessary for me to make few re-
marks on the interest of the order.
Laughter.] Then it looked differently
to me not only because l am. no public
speaker but remarks under the head of
the good of the order was something in
connection with Masonic lodge that /
had never heard of. Masonry needs no
remarks made in her favor, we are taught
from our first entrance to the lodge that
silence and circumspection should char
acterise our actions and never to let our
zeal for the institution lead us into argu-
ment; also to be particularly cautious
when before the enemies of Free Ma
sonry.
None ever crosses the threshold of q
Masonic lodge except that he comes un-
biased by friends, uninfluenced by mer-
cenary motives and of his free will and
acct Il, but a few remarks in general
sort of a way will not, in my opinion, be
out of place. At this time l have not
had time or the facilities to complete
long list of statistics of what Masonry has
done in ages gone by or is now doing in
different parts of the world nor would l
wish to occupy your time by reading
such report at this meeting but will con-
fine my remarks to Montana as here is
where our interests lie and here Is where
we expect to gain health, happiness and
fortune. [Applause.]
MASONRY IN MONTANA.
Montana is one of the youngest and
largest of the states and already bids fair
to make some of the older states look
we'll to their laurels, not only in COM
mercial point of view, but speaking Ma
sonically. She starts out with 80 Masonic
lodges, with a membership of about $40
and entered apprentices and fellow-crafts
enough to swell the number to 100.
These with the Masons who still hold
their membership with their home lodges
would swell the number to 1900.
When we think of this beautiful cli-
mate, our untold resources, what may we
not expectl Japan alone has $1,000 900
people living on the same amount of ter
ritory. Our mineral land alone is much
larger than one of the New England
states and contains wealth enough to pay
the debt Of the whole world. Our area
BILE land alone is greater than second
New England state. Our grazing land
exceeds the area Of third Of the New
England six and the Jurisdiction of Cas-
cade lodge No. 81 is greater than one
more state in that historic portion of the
union.
Right here in this most favored spot
lies the foundation Of one of the hand
soonest and most prosperous Of the INLAND
cities. A vast country surrounds it, tina;
with proper cultivation will strew oul
path with flowers and our tables with