Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1900-08-09
MURPHY IS ELECTED
The Vinton Man Wins Out in the
Fight fer K. 2. Chan.
cellorship
First Ballot Decides the Contest
Which Has Been Feature
Of the Meeting
Reports Of the Grand Officers Read,
Showing the Order is
Flourishing.


Waterloo, Aug. 9.-The election of Of 4
ficers by the grand lodge Knights of
SPythias yesterday resulted in the selec-
ton of Bernard Murphy of Vinton as
grand chancellor on the first ballot. The
Vote stood:
Il. w. Smith of Davenport ..s..ai.. I09
Other officers were elected by the
grand lodge as follows:
Vice grand chancellor-charles A.
Higgins of Griswold #
TrusteesN. W. Beebe of Hampton
b. h. Van steenburg of Spirit Lake.
Prelate-T T. Swift OF State Center.
Grand master at arnls-I. ID. Corning
of Cedar Falls
Grand outer guard-c. A. Beinke of
Sunbury.
Grand inner guard. D. Tunes Of
Dubuque.
The fight over grand master Of the
exeheauer was deferred until today at
8 O'clock. Three candidates are making
a vigorous canvass. They are: F. j.
Cook of Marengo. Will II. O'Connell of
Audubon and Fred Harbach Of Dies
Moines.
The opening session of the grand
lodge of the knights of Pythiaa was
taken UP with political skirinisaing and
lreports, of grand officers. Grand Chan
cellors ID. i. sallinger of Carroll said:
Lodges have been instituted at Rudd.
lGrcaso. 9GiowFies and Calendar. and have
been organized or revived at Wall Lake,
Bayard Coon Rapids. Ute Persia, Fon-4
da, Reinbeck and Maynard. The af-
fairs of the following lodges have been
ioificially wound up: yellow Springs.
lMeaiapolis. Prairie City, lockwood,
|slselmend, Charity and Auburn. This
Hist by no means tells the real story, as
there are others ftechnicalty III existence
| that should be numberel .lnong the
lsdead. Thegrand chancellor ma kea4rec-
Communications which will change cont,i-
ltions in weak lodges if carried into eff
fleet Use the black ball freely. Don't
Invite applications freely. Guard
lagainst curiosity seekers, triflers and
|quarrelsome people. Convince first your
self and candidates that one Pythian
| lodge is not a mere circus and that its
sessions are worth attending when there
are no ranks to confer. Find some way.
to elect a good collector, who ia also
pleasant and POPULAR to act az master
| of finance. Join the endowment rank,
| and by this action induce others to do
50. You may not need it, too keep YOU
/ from lapsing. but your joining may be
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