The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1890-04-24
MAINE GOOD TEMPLARs.
Proceedings of Their Convention at
the State Capital.

AUGUSTA, April 22. The annual session of the
Grand Lodge of Maine Good Templars began
here today with large attendance, many arriv-
ing on the morning trains
Grand Secretary George E. Bracket made lhis
report this morning. Sixty-fve lodges have been
instituted since the last session and four reorgan-
lied. Fifty-nine have surrendered or forfeited
thelf charters. The present number of lodges is
334, with membership at the last session OF Il :
900; 1896 have since been initiated making a
total of 25S96.
Thirty-three lodges have 100 or more members
each, and seven have 150 or more. The largest
lodge IN the state Is Mystic NO. OF Portland
266 m members. m The next largest Is No Surrender
age membership OF lodges is about 55.
The secretary reports that the district lodge
IS being done in the Juvenile Temples. The grand
superintendent reports 100 temples with 6,400
members.
The sum of S4,775 was appropriated at the last
session Of the Grand Lodge for various expenses,
and of this $4, ,445 have been expended.
The sum OF $50 was appropriated for the en-
forcement OF the pr0hbit0ry law and S133 so
were expended. The va ue of supplies, etc. now
in the hands of the Grand Secretary is S323.72.
There is now district lodge in every county, full
ly ofiicered. and the system continues to prove
very satisfactory.
The decrease in receipts arose from various
on membership, levied by the the R. W. q. L., Lodge, t
which may oblge the curtailing of the field work
the coming year. The raising of the Grand Lodge
EFT. This tax is now lower in Maine than In any
other state II ranging from IL to 20 cents in most
OF them. The Grand Secretary has asked the ex-
ecutive committee of the II. w. G. Lodge to al
low the Grand Lodge to use the special tax for
1890 in missionary work, and its decision is now
pending.
The officers were then chosen the installation
taking place In the evening. The following are
changes in the old list of officers:
Grand Chief emplar-S. S. Knight, Deering.
Grand CounSellOr-A. S. Bangs, Augusta.
Marshal-A. ID. Cole, East Lvermore.
Deputy Marshal-Miss Lillian Robbins, Belfast.
Past Chief TEMPLATE. II. Hamilton, Matt
wamkeag.
The committee ON enforcement of the prOhibito-
ry law reported this afternoon that copies of the
internal revenue collectors list Of parties in
Maine paying retail liquor dealers special tax,
numbering 943, have been procured and sent to
each county attorney in the state. In "a out of
78 liquor cases sent up to the law court the lower
courts were sustained.
At the evening session, the report of the COM
mlttee on the enforcement of the prohibit0ry law
was discussed. The committee say the inStruc-
tions given Collector Page by the Commissioner
the former. The work of the county attorneys of
Knox and York receives favorable mention. OF
the enforcement in Bangor and Penobscot county
the committee have not the details. The chair
man OF the committee, Mr. s. G. Stewart, thinks
the line of work should be chanred and in clos
ing says: "The coming contest between prohibi-
ton and license In our state demands that all tem-
peTance organizations, and also all organizations
of temperance people, should be united for a COM
mon purpose, and your committee would advise
Should be devoted IN that direction.' '"