Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1893-06-15
ROYAL ARCH MASONS.
Joint Entertainment of Grand
Chapter and Grand Com
mandery.
First Market Day Successful
Variety Produce Offered
For Sale.
Railway Employees Prefer to
Hold Annual Picnic At
Valley City.

aOlQ Annual FlCnlC Al
Valley City.
Thursday Wihaha Commandery No.
4 knights Templars and Jamestown
Lodge No. 6, r. A. NJ, gave joint ban
quet and ball in honor of their guests,
the Grand Commandery and Grand
Chapter of North Dakota. The affair
was complete success IN every respect.
The evenings entertainment, which was
purely social in character, as no speeches
or toasts we're allowed, closed with
ball. The elegant rooms of the order
were filed with guests, over half Of
whom were from all parts of the state.
Wednesday afternoon the Grand Chap
ter convened, holding two sessions that
afternoon and evening and Thursday
morning, during which the officers for
the ensuing year we're elected. The in.
stallstion ceremony occurred Thursday.
The officers elected are as follows:
GRAND CHAPTER, r. A. NJ
David NJ. Holmes, Grand Forks, Most
Eminent Grand High Priest; Sylvester
J. Hill, Fargo, r. E. Deputy Grand High
Priest; Theodore F. Branch, jamestown,
r. E. Grand King; DR.. Albert B. Her
rick, Lisbon, R. E. Grand Scribe; Wm
Craswell, Valley City, R. E. Grand
Treasurer; Thomas J. Wilder
L4 >H
Ger reelected, r. E. Grand Secretary;
81. J. Rowe, Casselton, f. Grand Chap
lin; David E. Morgan, Devils Lake, E.
G. Captain of Host; Geo. Phelps,
Fargo, E. G. P.S.; Geo. L. McGregor,
jamestown, E. G. Royal Arch Captain;
Jas. NJ. Marshall, Bismarck, E. G..
Master First Veil; Fred Aplin, Lisbon,
E. G. Master Second Veil; Jas. Nc
Donald, Grafton, E. G.. Master Third
Veil, and Thos. Ricthie, Valley City,
Sentinel.
The Grand Chapter was reported in a
prosperous condition. One hundred
twenty-seven additions were made dur
ing the past year and but three deaths
occurred, one of which waa that OF Jno
Davidson at Bismarck. The total mem.
bership Of the ten chapters in the state
is 623 or an average of g. members to
each chapter. The smallest chapter is
that of Msndan which has @ members
Fargo has the largest-l23 members, and
jamestown comes fourth with 65. A
charter has been applied for at this
session by Dickinson and chapter will
in all probability be soon instituted
there.
The report of the treasurer showed a
balance of s759.59 on hand. An appro-
priation of $3.50 was made for the ex.
penses for the ensuing year up to and ln-
cluding the next session of the Grand
Chapter.
Thirty five officers and members repre-.
senting the different chapters of the
state we're in attendance. The number
would have been larger except for the
Fargo fire, which called some home anG
prevented others from coming. At this
session revised code of bylaws was
adopted.
L. W. Gammons, the retiring Crane
High Priest, was presented yesterday
afternoon with handsome Past Crane
High Priests jewel. With the exception
Of the engraving on the back it wal
similar to the jewel which but recentl!
was presented to Companion Frank In
gals Of this city.
| The companions one and all have ex
pressed their appreciation of the courte
sizes and attentions which have beer
shown by the members of the Chapter il
this city and will long remember the oc
casion.
Secretary Wilder states that the losi
OF the Grand Chapter and Grand Com
mandery library in Fargo by fire was {
serious one to the orders The library
consisted OF about 1900 volumes, many
of which will be difficult OF duplication
The library has been accumulated in {
comparatively short time and woulc
have done credit to a much larger anG
older state organization. One volume
Mr.. Wilder stated he would not have
taken 800 for.
Editor George Winship OF the Crane
Forks Herald, arrived today to attend
the annual Masonic conclave. Mr.. Win
ship has been in st. Paul as visitor tc
the reciprocity convention and the Hill
celebration. He states that the affair
was one of the most interesting ano
elaborately prepared of any public event
ever held in the northwest. The crowd
in attendance was not ss large from out
side points as has been seen on other
occasions, but the people of the Twin
cities turned out en- masse. Speaking oi