The San Francisco call., 1898-04-17
FRATERNAL NEWS

as to their inclination and willingness to devote time to the duties required of them.
 As soon as delivered at the office of the grand recorder the proceedings of the last held grand lodge session will be sent each lodge and representative.
 Last Saturday night Golden West Lodge gave its fourth annual entertain ment and ball, and the attendance was large. The programme was an entertain ing one and the dancing was enjoyable.
 The entertainment that was to have @ been given Tf by Franklin Lodge on the Sth
 Past Grand Master William Henry Barnes will address a public reunion of lodges of Hanford and Visalia on the 5th of May.
 Crocker Lodge will give its April en- tertainment and social in Masonic Social Hall on Monday, the 25th inst.
 DEGREE OF HONOR.
 At the meeting prior to the session of the grand lodge Miss A. Littlefeld on be- half of Ivy Lodge presented to Past Chief of Honor, Mrs. Emma Sturrock, a beau tiful pin, emblematic and of her rank in the ordre. in recognition of her services and interest in adding to the membership. Last Wednesday evening the members of this lodge gave vent to their exuberance over the fact that the grand chief of honor had been selected from the mem oerShip of the lodge a s also had the grand recorder, by giving three cheers for Mrs l.. F. Mayo, the new head of the order. and for Mrs Kate M. Poland, the grand recorder. And then they gave three times three for the drill team of Ivy, that in it's new costumes, exemplified the work be- fore the grand body On the first Wednes- day in May the lodge will tender a recep- ton to the grand chief of honor, the grand recorder and to the grand recorder and the n E grand medical examiner of the A o.
 The reception that was rendered by the members of Silver Spray Lodge to the delegates to the Grand Lodge was a de- Igntful- affair at which the true prin- ciples of fraternity were exemplified.
 THE NATIONAL UNION.
 $. B. Doane, secretary of the Pacific Council, died March II, and on the 7th inst. the widow was paid the amount of the benefit certificate. s30O0. This pay ment, twenty-seven days after death. was the promptest ever made on California claim, and the first of the nine benefits the widow is entitled to that was paid.
 Last Tuesday night Golden Gate Coun- ell had good attendance to witness the initiation of two candidates in the ampli- lied form. The work was performed in an impressive manner by the officers During the evening Financial Secretary theodore Frolich read some interesting fgures as to the amount of money that has passed through his hands since 1892 when he took the. office. Received for the general fund s6498 50: for the bene- ficiary fund, $23,737 40, making a total of $30, ,235 90. Of this amount paid on ac- count of beneficiary, there has been re- paid to beneficiaries of members S21 O0O which is within S2373 40 of the sum paid into the beneficiary fund. This council has been moving along at healthy pace in the past two years, and it's growth under the present president, N R. Arter. has been remarkable
 Fl Dorado Council at it's meeting last Friday night, had number of candidates initiated for 1t by the officers of the Cabi- net under the direction of President Has tings, the work being done in a very effective manner. After the work there was a banquet to the members of the Cabinet, visitors ana members of the council.