The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1891-12-25

urer, j. Silverthorne; worthy messenger,
E. Jarvis; trustees, H. F. Clark, E. |
Sleeves and j. Scoheld.
The lodge is in good condition, the mem
bers jealous and united, and the prospects
very encouraging.
Richard Coeur de Lion lodge No. 331 was
instituted at Ogden September 2, 1890, by
Grand President Williams, of California,
and Is at present in splendid condition.
The membership is seventy, and meetings
are hello regularly in K. of P. hall, with P.
A. Cook, past president; P. j. Barratt,
president and assistant L. S. OF jurisdic-
ton; DR.. Allen, vice president; Charles
HUMPHREYS, secretary; Jesse J. Driver,
treasurer. The officers now in power are;
Z. j. Barratt, past president; DR.. Allen,
president; Jesse j. Driver, vice-president;
E. baltimore, treasurer and w. L. Nor
gan, secretary.
THE STAR OF BETHLEHEM.
This is the newest order in this territory.
The only lodge in Utah was organized in
Salt Lake city on November 80, 1891, by
Grand Commander John l.. L. Chauncey.
1t has membership of about forty and is
growing. L. P. Robinson is the worthy
commander, S. j. Bodger, worthy scribe,
and Mrs. Coon, worthy vice-commander.
1t possesses unique feature in that it a1-
mits ladies on equal footing with gentle
men, and they are eligible to hold any Office
in the order.
1t claims very ancient origin, having
been started during the first century of the
Christian era. 1t is believed to have been
society growing out of one of the
churches founded by the Apostles. In the
thirteenth century 1t was an order of
monks generally called Bethlehemites.
| They were closely identified with the
Church of the Nativity built by the En-
press Helena in the year $50, in the center
OF which is the cave or grotto of the Ma
tivity, where star is inlaid in marble
floor in commemoration of the star that
shone over Bethlehem at the nativity of
the Savior
The order was introduced into England
IN 1857. 1t gradually grew into fraternal
and benevolent order and finally became
known as the Knights of the Star of Beth
lehem. Women were admitted to full
membership in l4O8. 1t was introduced
into America in 1851 ''by Giles Cory of We
city OF London but it seems fenaticism soon
drove the order out Of the colonies, for in
September, 1854, the grand commander was
cruelty put to death for ''holdlng meetings
with certaine others, in ye dead hours of
/ ye night" The order was not perma-
nently established in America until intro
duced in New York by a. Gross, of New
castle on the Tyne, England, in 1869. The
Grand Commandery of Pennsylvania was
organized in 1870. From 1873 to 1884 the
order was in very conservative hands and
was allowed to fall numerically behind
other orders inferior to it, but at the ses-
sion of 1884 an almost entire change of Of
fcers was made, and it was decided to use
every honorable endeavor to put the order
in the front rank in numbers, as it now is
in objects, work and historical associations.
At this meeting it was decided to drop the
title of knights. The original title Order
of the Star of Bethlehem" was again as
sumed and the organization has been rein
corporated under the original name.
TEMPLE OF HONOR AND TEMPERANCE.
This order was organized on December 5,
1915. There are at present lodges in the
principal cities all over the United States,
being strongest in Rhode Island and Mas
sachusetts. A requisite of membership is
that applicants shall be of good moral
character, and of fair repute in the COM
munity. They must acknowledge their &C
countability to God, and are pledged to
total abstinence from all that can intoxi-
cate through life, and to oppose by all honor
able means, the manufacture and sale OF
intoXicants. There is one lodge only in
Utah. 1t was instituted at Salt Lake city
December 5, 1877, and is under the iurisdic.
ton of the Grand lodge of Utah and Wyo-
ming. The lodge is named Salt Lake
Temple No. l. 1t has membership OF
about fifty and holds regular meetings
every Thursday evening n the Temple Of
Honor hall. The officers are James Pea
cock, worthy chief templar; Joseph Moss
worthy recorder; H. Folsom, worthy
treasurer. In the grand lodge G. H
Knowlden is grand worthy templar, anC
w. B. Wood grand worthy recorder.
The order is doing good and much
needed work in the cause of temperance.
PATRIOTIC ORDER SONS OF AMERICA.
This order was organized in Philadelphia
in 1847 II progressed until the civil wa
in 1861 caused it to suspend operations
After the war it was re-organized and soo1
acquired position Of power and infuenc
in the country which has continued to in
crease until now its camps are found il
every important city in the land and it
t membership numbers oyer 100000. TIL
aims and objects of the order ar
the teaching of American principles
reverence for American institutions an
| the installation of patriotism into the
hearts and minds of all true American citi
zens. Its watchWord is Americans fol
, America in contr adistinction to 'Amer
t lea for Americans" Any white male per
son who is of good moral character, no
under sixteen years of age and born on tn