The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-12-31
FRATERNAL SOCIETIES
OF CITY AND STATE
Growth of the Various Orders
During the Year.

Increased prosperity and a steady
growth has been generally manifest in
secret and fraternal society circles dur
ing the past year. This applies to the
societies of the state in general, and
those of Salt Lake in particular. While
the local branches of the diffrent or
ders have not had any single event of
overshadowing Importance to create
an undue interest in their work, their
course during the year 1899 has been
marked by increased membership and
more extended charitable, fraternal
and benevolent accomplishments. The
latter features of the work have been
made possible by an increased and
more extensive liberality as to contri-
buttons on the part of the local mem
bers, showing conclusively that frater-
nifty is the spirit of the times.
At the present time there are about
dozen different secret and fraternal or
ders with branches in Utah, all of
which have subordinate organizations
in Salt Lake.
Masonic
AT the present time there are ten
Masonic lodges in the state, with an
aggregate membership of about 800.
Three of these lodges are in Salt Lake.
They are: Mt. Moriah lodge No. 2,
Charles ]. Higson, master, and Christie
y
ship of 200, an increase of 10 per cent
during the year.
Wasatch lodge No. 1, W. o. Bridge
man, master, and A. j. Lowe, secretary,
with a membership of 125, an increase
of nearly 10 per cent during 1899.
Argenta lodge No. 3, w. T. Shelton,
master, and NJ. G. Phillips, secretary,
with a membership of 125, gain Of
about per cent during the past year.
All branches of the order in Salt
Lake from the blue lodges. up are on
sound basis, with strengthened finances
and a years record of good deeds TO
their credit
Throughout the state the blue lodges
have been very fortunate during 1899.
The members of the Mt Pleasant and
Park City lodges, whose lodge rooms
were both destroyed by fire during the
preceding year, have been able to re-
pair their losses and once more have
beautifully furnished headquarters. A
new lodge of twenty-four members, the
Rocky Mountain lodge, was instituted
at Mercur during the year.
The present officers OF the 81 and lodge
are: NJ. W., James d. Murdoch, grand
master. Salt Lake City; r. W., George
w. Schramm, deputy grand master
Ogden; R. W., Charles w. Morse, senior
grand master, Salt Lake City; r. W.,
William j. Lynch. junior grand warden,
Salt Lake City; NJ W., J. Shaw Scott,
grand treasurer Salt Lake City; r. w,
Christopher Diehl, grand secretary,
Salt Lake City; W., Albert c. Stanten,
grand chaplain, Murray; W., Herman
S. Martin, grand orator, Provo; w,
Fred c. Schramm, grand Ecturer, Salt
Lake City; W., HARDWOOD NJ. Cushing,
grand marshal, Salt Lake CITY; W.,
Dudley L. Cook, grand pursuivant.
Provo: W., William, ]. Shealy, grand
standard bearer. Ogden; W., George D.
Aiken, grand sword bearer, Salt Lake
City; W.. Samuel lie Page Radon,
senior grand deacon, Park City; W.,
Willis o. Bridgeman, junior grand
deacon, Salt Lake City; W., Balthazar
Christensen, senior grand steward.
Eureka; W., George o. Bradley, junior
grand steward Salt Lake City; W.,
John F. Corker, grand tyler. Salt Lake
City
The twenty ninth annual communica-
ton of the grand lodge OF Utah will be
held at Ogden on Tuesday, Jan. &c. 1900.
While not a recognized branch of the
Masonic order the Mystic Shrine draws
its membership from the former, only
Masons being eligible to become
Shriners. During the past year quite
a number of thirty-second degree Ma
sons have also affiliated with the other
order. As result the Mystic Shrine
now enjoys a total membership OF about
200, while the prospects for the COM
ing year are unusually bright
10. o. F.
The efforts of the Odd Fellows to ex-
tend their order in Utah during the