The Wadsworth dispatch. [volume] (Wadsworth, Nev.) 1892-1899, 1894-01-31
WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 81, 1894.
<. OF P. GREETING.
OFFICE OF THE SUPREME CHANCELLOR.
HENDERSON. Ky. Dec. %. 1893.


To the Order Universal: A time hon-
ored custom, grown of our growth and
strengthened with our strength, has
decreed that some suitable recognition
commemorative OF the birth of our be-
loved Order shall be made in each year
on the 10th day of February; and, at
occasional professionally the passing
of a decade, our twenty-6rst birthday
and the quarter century anniversary
that some special effort shall be made
in the way of festive gathering or pub
lie entertainment, in evidence of our
desire to impress upon the uninitiated
our profound appreciation of our natal
day.
The 10th day OF February, 1894 marks
the passing of the third decade or thir-
tieth period of our existence as a frater-
nifty; and, in Difference to this COM
mendable custom above mentioned, it is
hereby urged and requested that the
Subordinate Lodge throughout the en-
tire Supreme Jurisdiction take such
steps as they may deem commensurate,
looking to a suitable and liberal celebra-
ton of this important epoch.
From a nucleus OF five members thirty
years ago, We now have nearly six
thousand Subordinate : Lodges, with
more than 450 900 active and loyal ad-
herents; over twelve hundred divisions
OF the Uniform Rank, with $4,000 un-
formed followers and about eighteen
hnndred sections of the Endowment
Rank, carrying over $40, 200, 900 of in
surance, within our ranks-all of which
tends to show that we, as an Order,
have passed the doubtful or experiment
tai period in our history, and are now
standing upon a most enviable eleva-
ton, recognized as a fixed and perman-
ent institution, and a most important
factor in the Republic OF Fraternity.
These annual celebrations afford us q
glorious opportunity to meet and mix
and to deepen that holy bond of brother
hood which should bind us soul to soul,
They enable us to exchange. renew and
keep alive our high regard for pure and
lofty sentiment, and, above all, to prac-
tice what We preach, as We present our
precepts, tenets, claims and prospects to
the outer populace, while we invite
them to come and participate with us in
that glorious work of fraternizing the
world.
Notwithstanding the financial string.
ency ~permeating commercial centres
during the past nine months, our career
has been steadily onward and upward
gathering into our fold the young and
active, the honorable and upright, the
good and the true of every portion Of
the continent of North America, each
and every section wing to show a deeper
appreciation, if possible, of our beauti-
full lessons as inculcated in the minds
and hearts Of those who assemble
around our affairs weeks after week. Nc
fraternal band on earth can have greater
cause for mutual congratulation than
has the order of Knights OF Pythias ovei
the phenomenal record made the past
few years. 1t is therefore meet and
proper that our paeans of Thanksgiving
and praise be rendered in an appropriate
manner and the 10th day of February,
1894, is hereby designated as the APP
pointed time, and Grand Chancellors
and Deputy Supreme Chancellors will
see that their respective Lodges are
properly and properly apprised thereof,
W. w. BLACKWELL,
Supreme Chancellor.
r. L. c. WHITE, S. X. r. S.