The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-10-21

The convention of the Degree of
! Pocohontas ended yesterday with u
morning and an afternoon session be-
| hind closed doors and an evening en-
tertainment at which the visiting dele
gates were entertained by Nay Aug
tribe, Independent Order of Red Men,
in Matters hall, on the South Side.
Business matters of importance oc-
! Cupied the whole of the day. Much
time was consumed in the disposition
of legislative questions and a spirited
election. The retiring great Pocohon-
| tas, Emma \. Diener, of Pottsville,
| presided.
The following officers were elected:
Great rtphctess-Emma A. Dener,
! Pottsvi4le.
Great Pocohontas-Emma Kcck, Allen
! town.
Great Wononah-Ada Tyler, Hallstead.
Great Mnnehaha- Mary Keeney, OLD
| Forge.
! Great Keeper of Records-Pauline De
! Baufrc, Philadelphia.
Great Keeper of Wampum-Mary Hite,
| Steelton.
The great strife was for the office of
! great Minnehaha, an election to which
means yearly graduation up the scale
! of offices to that of great prophecies,
| the most exalted of all. Mary Keeney,
the successful candidate, was opposed
! by Rachel Tong, of Philadelphia. Mary
! HitChins, of Plymouth, was a defeated
aspirant for the office of great keeper
of wampum.
GREAT CHIEFS INSTALLED.
| The newly elected great chiefs were
raised up by Past Great Incohonne
| Thomas X. Donnelly, of Philadelphia,
assisted by Past Great Sachem John f.
| POore, of Philadelphia, and Sophia
! Rogers, of EastOn.
Philadelphia was unanimously chosen
for the next place of meeting.
The committee on monument to PO-
cohontas was continued and instructed
| to ask permission of the great council
| of the United States, Improved order
of Red Men, to solicit funds from the
| tribes and councils throughout the
| United States. 1t had been intended
to erect the monument near the burial
| place of the historic Indian maiden at
! Gravesend, England, but sentiment was
against it and it has been decided to
! place the memorial on American soil,
probably in Virginia, the scene of Cap
tain John Smiths exploits.
The great chiefs of the council were
| directed to send blanks to local coun-
| ellis throughout the state soliciting a
vote on the proposition to establish a
| great council of the Degree of POGO
| hontas. If this is accomplished the
| PocohontaS order in the state would
! be independent of the Red Men TO
which it is now allied and would do
its own legislation. The proposition
was yesterday approved by a large
majority, but it is necessary, in order
to carry out the plan, to secure petit
tions from at least five councils.
Past Great Sachem Poore, of Phila-
delpha, presented the report Of the
committee on legislation. The report
was adverse to the plan for admitting
to the Great Suns council Red Men
who are not past chiefs. Al present a
candidate must have passed three de-
grees, Warrior, Hunter and Chief.
Gertrude Dardorff, of Mechanics
burg, presented the report of the COM
mittee on finance. and Anna f. Full
mere Of EastOn, the report of the
committee on the state of the order.
| The latter contained resolutions pre-
senting the councils thanks to the
local councils and arrangements COM
iAA''NN, lHC 6ltdl blilttlS, lllt press,
Proprietor T. c. Melvin, of the St.
Charles Hotel; the working team of
Mtnnehaha council, of Easton, and the
| citizens of the city.
There was an average attendance of
two hundred persons during the day,
NAY AUG'S CELEBRATION
A fitting close to the convention was
| the evening celebration of the tWen-
ty-seventh anniversary of Nay Aug
tribe, No. l4O, in Matters hall, on Al
der street, South Side. The place was
thronged with great officers, members
of the Pocohontas council and menu
bers of local tribes who participated in
an early programme of music, recita-
| tions and speech-making and later in a
| period devoted to dancing and the con-
| VITALITY that goes with such doings
managed by Germans, of which nation
ality Nay Aug tribe is exclusively COM
posed.
The evenings pleasure began with an
overture by the Germania band and
singing by the Scranton Saengerrunde.
Past Great lncohonne Donnelly fitting
ly presented a resume of the twenty
seven years of the tribes history There
was second selection by the Ger
mania band and singing by the Junger
| Manner-ChOir
The retiring great Pocohontas, Emma
X. Diener, of Pottsville, made an ad-
dress and Bertha Kimble, of Harris
burg, recited, The South Side Either
club played a selection and q long
talk as the Red Men term It, was
made by Senior Sagamore Jerome Hite,
Of Steelton. The programme concluded
with another long talk" by c. l.. King,
| of Binghamton.
Charles Scheusch, chairman of the
committee which arranged the celebra-
| tiOn, presided. With him on the plat
form or in the audience We're all the
| PocOhontas great chiefs, Past Great
Sachem Poore, of Philadelphia; Past
Great Sachem Harrison Nesbitt, Of
| Harrisburg; Deputy Great Sachems
John 7. Howe, of this city, and Edward
| Allen, Of Taylor, and \. A. Ayres, of
| Peckville, representative of the Great
council. The following tribes from this
city and vicinity were represented:
Nos, 229, 247, 1902, 1O5, 141, 14O, 347, 1856,
l0I, ~ and 119.
The COMMITTEES who arranged the cell
ebration were Charles Scheusch,
chairman; Charles Moltr, Philip Graft,
Peter Neu, John Meis, c. Fred Schwen-
ker, Charles Wirth, George Keib, Adam
WEIGH ], Jacob Becher, Richard Gull
eyer, Charles Heir, William Zang, Chas.
Rose and William Hammer.
THE TRIBES HISTORY.
Nay Aug tribe possesses an interest
ing history. 1t was instituted in the
| central city twenty-seVen years ago