Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1894-07-06
THE MASONIC GRAND LODGE.

Thirteenth Annual Meeting to be Held In
Burlington July 1O--A Brief History of
the Organization.
The grand lodge of A. f. & A. NJ. was
first organized in the year 1881. John
Page was the first most worshipful
grand master. There were not very
many Masons in Iowa at that time.
The grand lodge consisted of five
odges all told. What was lacking in
lmbers was made up in enthusiasm
4#r the order which has stood so well
the tests of time and the attacks of en-
emies. 1t has come through the centu-
ries from King Solomon to the present
without change and grows stronger
with age. The five lodges of colored
Masons laid good and substantial
foundation and to-day they can count
twenty-one warranted lodges in this
jurisdiction. 1t had small beginning.
Some of the strongest and best men in
the state are counted among its mem.
bership.
The grand lodge officers at present
are as follows:
M w. G. M.-John D. Reeler, Des
Moines, Ia.
D. G. Mas. lyoodfork, st. Paul,
Mimi.
R. w. G. Sen. W.-N. b. Nailen, Ce-
dar Rapids, la.
R. W. &. Jun. VIC. W, Baptist,
Sioux City. Ia
r. w. G. Treas. w. H. Milligan, Ce-
dar Rapids, Ia.
R. W. G. sec'y-G. H. cleggett, Des
Moines, la.
The jurisdiction of the grand lodge
covers a very small territory The
grand lodge meets in Burlington, Ia,
on July 10, and a very large attendance
is expected. The lodges are in excel
lent condition and are earnest in their
work. The membership is increasing
in a very encouraging and substantial
manner. The rate to Burlington for
the round trip is one and one-third
fare.
Messrs. Shepard, Banks, Cleggett,
hCClCls AAdAo SO1lSOA 1nA OG1Clo w LII
go as a delegation from here.
MONEY FOR EDUCATION.
The census bulletin dealing with
school expenditures, state and local,
shows that out of S139, 900, 900 spent for
public schools in the United States the
slave states contributed but $17,OOO,-
900. or less than one-eighth. Ala
bama pays only 81 cents per head of
population, the lowest in the union,
and Arkansas, Texas. Louisiana and
Tennessee, in 1880, so cents per head or
less. All those seven states aver age 81
cents per inhabitant for education;
equal to less thin 2 cents deposited
each Sunday in the preachers collec-
ton. South Carolina pays Al cents per
inhabitant, and from Delaware to
Florida, in nine Atlantic states, the
school tax psr census inhabitant is only
made SO cents by the district of Colum-
bia paying nearly SIS per head. more
than double the rate of Maryland and
Delaware. On one side of Washington
the state of Virginia sacrifices for edu-
cation 95 cents, and on the other side
pennsylvania spends $2. "A per head.
The rate devoted to education from
Maine to Mason and Dixon's line is
S2.74 per head. but the young western
states and territories, eleven id num-
Der, pay even more, or SO. 25. while the
twelve older western states pay $2.s1.
Education cost, per enrolled pupil. in
Arkansas less team S., in Alabama less
than So, in no southern state but West
Virginia more than $5 But the aver
gge per pupil enrolled in the east is Sill,
in the west $13, in the far west $50.
One scholar in Colorado costs as much
as twelve actual scholars in North Car
olina.