St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1894-02-09
THE FIRST GRAND LODGE.
DECREE or HONOR A. o. H. W. OR
CANNED YES TE8DAX !.
\ rLATrERrNG START ouE..

Thirteen Subordinate Lodges
Scattered Over the State Rep
resented by Delegation-Grand
Officers Installed - Constitu,
ton to Be Adopted Today
Grand Lodge Work. :
The first grand lodge of the Degree
of Honor, A. o. u. w, was organized al
10 o'clock yesterday at A. o. u. w.
hall by Grand Master Workman Porter,
of the A. o. u. W., acting as deputy SUI.
preme master workman. Olof Olson,
grand recorder. acted as his assistant III
the opening of credentials and organic!
ing the lodge. Thirteen lodges were
represented, ana their delegates seated
as fellows:
May1ower No. 1, of st. Anthony Park,
Mrs. q. l.. Chamberlain.
Upchurch No. 2, of Winona, Mrs. M.
j. Rowley.
Superior No. 5. of Mankato, Charles
Progress No. 6, of Duluth, Mrs. Pau
line Magill.
Tracy No. s, of Tracy, Mrs. Lucinda
Craig.
Star of the Union No. IL, of st. Paul,
Miss Bessie Rowan.
Germania No. IL, of Winona. Mrs. E,
Kirchner.
Nobility No. Is. st. Paul. Mrs. Helen
SlOggy.
Columbia No. IA. st. Paul, Mrs. Mary
Daily.
West Side No. Is. st. Paul. Mrs.
Louise Blanth.
Minneapolis No. 16, Minneapolis. DIR.
julia Nj. jacobson.
Evergreen No. II, Adrian, Mrs. n. B.
Ellsworth.
Akabena No-1S. Worthington. R. W.
MOberly.
The first business transacted was the
election of officers. which resulted as
follows: Past grand chief of honor,
Mrs. l.. a. Craig; grand chief of honor,
MRS. Mary Daily; grand lady OF honor,
Mrs. Pauline Magill; grand chief of
circle, Miss Bessie Rowan; grand re-
corder, Mrs. q. l.. Chamberlain; grand
receiver, Mrs. E. Kirchner; grand usher,
Mrs. NJ. }. Rowley; grand inside watch
man., Mrs. Helen Sloggy; grand outside
Waterman. r. w. Moberly.
After a recess until 2 o'clock the grand
officers were duly Installed in Office and
entered upon their official duties. After
the grand lodge was fairly at work the
subject of a constitution was taken UP,
and the usual difficulty in making it fit
all minds. When the lodge adjourned
the constitutional questions were still
before 1t. The second DAYS session will
begin at 9 O'Clock this morning at the
same place.
Ihe Degree of Honor is a branch Oh
subordinate degree of the Ancient Order
or United WOfkmeu. and Is cOmDuSed
OF the wives, widows, mothers, daugh-
tiers, sisters, brothers and sons of the
members of that order. Qualifications
Tor membership are the requisite degree
or consanguinity, and in the case of
sons and brothers of youth. Members
or the parent order can also belong 10
the lower branch. p.
There are in this state seventeen
lodges with an aggregate membership
of about 600. about two-thirds of whom
are ladies. A beneficiary, or insurance,
department is added by the organization
of the grand lodge, and at the death of
Its members the duly constituted bene-
ficlaries will receive $1,000.
Fraternal insurance societies to which
ladies are admitted are of comparatively
recent origin. and the Ancient Order Of
United WOrkmen. which is the pioneer
OF ASSOCIATIONS for insurance. was slow
to recognize tthe a~dvisability of admit
ling HWomenSto Its ranks. Having be-
gun, it has gone at it in earnest, and in
two years nine grand lodges are the re-
suit. These are in as many different
states. The order promises to grow
rapidly, and the officers confidently eX-
pect to have forty lodges and 1900 MEM
DerS before the year is out.