Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1897-01-21
PUBLIC INSTALLATION
Of the Officers Elect of the Lady Macca-
bees at Music Hall.

bees at Music Hall.
There was a large attendance al
Music hall Wednesday night to wit,
ness the public installation of the
officers elect of the Lady Maccabees.
Past Lady Commander Epstein
obligated the various officers in a
most appropriate aud impressive
manner. She was able assisted in the
work of installation by coterie of
guards in full uniform and an eff
Gent corps of assistants, and the
entire ceremony was Individually
the prettiest and unquestionably one
of the most impressive in the history
of Rrenham lodge work.
2 officers elect were presented
by Grand Mistress at Arms Laura
Gehrman to Past Lady Commander
Matilda Epstein and obligated
in the following order: Past
Lady Commander Sarah Evers-
burg, Lady Commander Ma
tilda Epstein, Lady Lieutenent
Commander Hattie Tecklenburg
Lady Record Keeper Alkaline Peter
son, Lady Finance Keeper Nora,
Ball, Lady Chaplain Alice Hender-
son, Lady Sergeant Laura Kane,
Lady MISTRESS at Arms Flora Cass.
Lady Sentinel Carrie Rankin, Lady
Picket Brazoria Davis, Banner
Bearers Lizzie Murphy, Hattie
Simon, Lillian Thomas.
The installation ceremonies ended,
Miss Kate Estes favored the
assembly with an instrumental solo,
Valse, Chopin, which was greatly
enjoyed by the music loving portion
of the audience contingent, by the
way, which always largely predomi>
mates in Brenham audience,
The solo was followed by a drill
By the Lady Maccabees, the closing
figures of which represented the
initials of the Hive, IL. o. T. NJ"
Ladies of the Maccahees. A
gentleman il the audience said the
initials-'L. 0. T. NJ" might also
stand for Leave out the men"
At the conclusion of the drill,
Mrs. W. D. Ball recited "St. Peter
at the Gate, to the great edifcation
of the married gentlemen in the
audience. The recitation depicted
the manner in which the celestial
janitor disposed of ''hen pecked'
husband and his worst half" by
letting the husband into heaven and
sending the wife in the opposite
direction.
Mr.. j. NJ. Crawford followed with
a short address, in which with
sketched the work of the Lady
Maccabees from the organization of
the first hive of 10 members in
Michigan eight years ago, to the
present time, showing how, from
this humble beginning, the work
bad progressed till at present the
membership had increased to 1871
600. The members at present are
carrying S50,000,000 worth of life
insurance policies, and distributed
over 100000 in death claims last
year. Women were specially adapted
to carrying forward the humane and
charitable features of all lodges, and
nearly all fraternal orders had
adopted lady auxiliaries into their
organizations. The greatest thing
in the success of all life insurance
companies was to keep on hand q
young membership and the fact of
the ladies being adopts in remain
ing youthful made them peculiarly
eligible to Reinsurance department.
''Marys Singing Lesson" recited
by Mrs. Maddox, in which she sue
cessfully initiated the songs of
various birds, produced well-earned
applause, as did a vocal solo, Gar
nival of Venice by Mrs. S. Epstein,
which concluded the program.
The evening concluded with the
serving of delicious refreshments,
which abundaatly evidenced the
fact that Brennan Hive, No. l, con-
tains no drones.
Mrs. Jack Halter, Lady Com
mander of the Temple Hive, was the
only visitor from distance.