Kansas City journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, 1898-03-23

SCOTTISH RITE CONYOCATION
SPRING MEETING OF CONsIsTORY OF
WESTERN MISSOURI.
Began Yesterday and Will Close Next
Friday Night With . Banquet at
the Midland Hotel-Class of
About Twenty.

The spring c%onvocation of the Ancient
and Accepted Scottish Rite Masons. of the
consistory Of Western Missouri, began at
the Masonic cathedral In this city yes
terday. and will continue in session until
Friday afternoon, closing with a banquet
at the Midland hotel Friday night. The de-
grees from the fourth to the fourteenth, in
elusive. were conferred yesterday; to-day
the degrees from the fifteenth to eighteenth
will be conferred; tomorrow nineteenth to
thirtieth. and on Friday the thirtieth and
thirty-Hrst.
The class on which these degrees are
conferred numbers twenty-five. among them
being the following:
H. s. Tanner. Sedalia: L. T. Newcomb.
sedalia; R. E. Potter. Ottersville: Frank
Lilliger, st. Joseph; Fred Wolferman.
Kansas City; F. d. Crabs. Kansas City:
B. F. Wollman. Kansas City: Otto F; kais-
e: Kansas City; J. Z: Burbank, Kansas
St. Joseph: r. 8. Stone. Kansas City.
The following are the casts OF those who
conferred the various degrees:
Fourth degree. Secret Master-Kins Solomon, ". H.
Brown: Adoniram. ". H. Leavitt: master of ceremo-
Fifth degree. Perfect aster-Adoniram. F. W.
Ihaxter: King Solomon. W. H. Brown: King Hiram.
sixth degree. Intimate secretary-Kins Solomon. W.
H. Brown: King Hiram. W. II. Leayitt: master OF
ceremonies. T. H. Fletcher.
Seventh degree, Provost and Judge-Azarias, ".
Brown: Alihoregh. ". H. Learitt: Ahaihah. r w.
Thaxter.
Eighth degree. Intendent of the Buildins-Kins
Solomon. W. H. Brown: Tsadoe. ". H. Leavitt: All
shar. F. ". Thaxter-
Ninth degree. Flu OF the Nine-Kins Solomon. ".
H.. Brown: King Hiram, ". II. Leavitt; Adoniram.
F. W. Tha1ter; Stranger, o. P. Bioss; master OF cere-
Tenth degree. Flu Of the FifteenJw. H. Learitt.
Eleventh degree. Flu of the Twelve-F. ". Tha1-
Tenth degree. Flu of the Fifteen-w. H. Leavitt.
Thirteenth degree. Royal Arch of solomon-F. W.
Fourteenth degree. Perfect EIu-venerable master.
W. Il. Brown; senior warden. W. H. Leavitt: Junior
Fletcher.
the work. the programmes being elaborate
in the extreme. The choir was composed
of Mr.. and Mrs. Ben 7. Hollenbeck, Mrs.
S. A. VOORHEES, and Z. X. Chafee. The
following are the committees having the
matter in charge:
Executive-Thomas Robert Morrow. Hon. thirty
third degree. chairman: Roland Hughes. thirty-sec-
ond degree: Orlando Powers BIoss. h. c. c. H.: Jay
Holcomb Nen. thirty-second degree: Samuel Thomas
Roberts. thirty second degree: Archibald D: L. Ham
c. c. H: william Harrison Brown. X. c. C H:
Charles Potts Baldwin. X. c. c. H.: Charles H. V.
ReceptIon-wiIiam Harvey. Hon. thlrty-third de-
gree. chairman: Vincent Richardson Andrus. thirty
degree; Nell wes,Iake Bennett. thiry-second degree;
Abiather Chadwick, eighteenth degree; John Robinson
Cottinsham. thirty.seccnd degree; Hal Foster. thirty,
degree: John Rudolph Loosen. thirty-second degree:
Thomas Murray. thiny-second degree: stephen Lott
Mills. thirty-second degree: Arthur Newell. thirty.
second degree: Charles Ira Pettibone. thirty second
degree: Emmett Marcellus Powers. thirty-second de-
gree; Haywood Yancey Riddle. thirty-second degree:
Walter Scott. thirty-second degree; John Henry
rschudy. thirty-second degree: Alison Alexander
White. thirty-second degree: Robert George Weber.
thirty second degree; Joseph Wedeles. thirty-second
degree.
| third degree. chairman: Harry Herrick Allen, thirty
second degree: Archibald D. L. Hamilton. thirty
| second degree.
Musical director-cyrus Eugene Marsh. thirty-sec-
ond degree.