Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1901-05-10
MAINE MASONS
Send $500 to the Fire Suffer-
crs at Jacksonville.
Grand Lodge Officers Installed by Past
Grand Master Drummond.
Clayton }. Harrington. Lewiston. Elected Grand
Commander Of Knights Temp!ar.

days session Of the Maine Grand
Lodge. +. &: a. NJ. held this forenoon.
ii IVES voted to scnd $500 to the Florida
Grand Lodge to be used IN relieving
the sufferers at Jacksonville.
Charters We're granted to NJ Abran
LcuGe Of KingtieiI. and Nollesen mic
Ledge 1t Miiiinocket. The petitioners
Tor new lodge at Rowland were
granted leave to withdraw. The new
new Grand Lodge Of western Austria
Ii 1 VgaS re, OgniZtd.
The grand officers We're installed By
Past Grand Master Josiah Drummond
Of Portland, the following appoint
meats being made: Corresponding
Grand secretary. Charles p. Smith.
Portland. District deputy grand mas
tens. fast. &C iGc 8. circuit, Ashland:
second N. Hard ID. Lawrence. Calais:
third, Csman A. Holmes, Addison
Point: fourth. Frank a. Gross. Deer
Isio: firth. Harold T.. Morrill,. Monson:
sixth. l.. Ernest Harvey, Keuduskeag:
s wealth. Willis ". Washhurn. China:
q ghth, Albert VI. Ames. Stockton
Springs; ninth. 6. Dudley Gould. War
rem; tenth. john II. Mayors, Drcslcn:
eleventh. Thomas II. Dodge. Augusta;
twelfth. John NJ. Wcbber. Watcrville;
thirteenth. George q. Weeks, Fairfield:
fourteenth. Harry T.. Plummer. Lisbon
Falls; fifteenth, Charles +. EoNc.l, WIZ
ton; sixteenth. Don y. Gates. Dixfield;
seventeenth, George II. owen, Port
land: eighteenth. Tobias l.. Eastman.
! =. ninpfa,nth Cha ,1p NJ
Sleeper. South Berwick: twentieth.
John +. Clark. Vim: twenty first, Ar
thur +. Hutchins. Orland: twcnl y-sec-
Ond, amos w. Knowlton. Newbergh
twcnty-thrd, Hardy H. Mckinney.
Limngton; twenty-fourth. Lionel O.
Bracket, Auburn: twenty fifth, George
i. Gorham, Jr., Iioulton. Grand chap
lains. Rev. Elmer +. Pember. Bangor:
Rev. John Gibson. Cape Elizabeth:
Rev. Joseph Il. Southland. Portland
Rev. George NJ Hood. Lewiston;
Rev. VIM. +. Brooks. South Paris.
Grand marshal. Bial F. Bradbury,
Norway; grand senior deacon. James
f. Kingsley. Augusta: grand junior
deacon. Francis l.. Talbot, East Ma
chias. Grand stewards. Curtis r. Fos-
ter, Ellsworth; Ralph II. Burbank.
Saco; Lorenzo s. Robinson. Rockland:
Convers +. Leach. Portland.- Grand
sword bearer. VIM. n. Howe, Portland
grand standard bearer, James II. With
crell. Oakland; grand pursuivant. Cs-
car II. Wish. Portland: grand pursuit.
want. Albert II. Burroughs. Westbrook:
grand lecturer. Frank Z. Sleeper. Sa
BATHS; grand organist. Walter f.
Smith. Portland: grand tyler. Warren
.. Carney. Portland.
The Grand Commandery OF Knights
Temnlar for Maine met at 2 o'clock p.
NJ today Grand Master Albert NJ.
Spear of Gardiner, presided. Seventeen
of TIE 10 Communicates We're represent
Cd and Is past grand commanders We're
present.
Henry w. Rugg. grand general of the
Grand Encampment of the United
States, was present to make his otii-
cial visit and inspection, and Freeman
c. Herscy, grand captain general of the
Grand Commandery of Massachusetts
and Rhode Island, was present as
visitor. and they We're received with
due honors and welcomed.
The address of the grand commander
showed a prosperous year. as did the
reports of other grand officers.
The following grand officers We're
elected: Grand commander. j. Earring
ton, Lewiston; deputy grand COM
mander. Frederick w. Plaisted, Au-
gusta: grand generalissimo. Frederick
c. Thayer, Waterville; grand captain
general. Ermond Eastman. Portland;
grand senior warden. George {. Pur-
ington, Pennington: grand Junior war
der. Frank Keller, Rockland; grand
prelate, Samuel Worcester. Portland;
grand treasurer. Leander w. Forbes.
Portland.
The report on returns showed 1890
members, a gain of los; $50 candidates,
Is deaths.
An intermissiOn was taken for sup
ner 1T which several excellent speeches.
We're made by distinguished TempiarS
upon the subject of this being the "oth
anniversary of the establishment OF the
Grand Commandery of Maine.
The officers We're installed by JOS "A.
Locke. junior grand warden OF the
Grand Encampment, United states
the following appointments beihg
made: Grand standard bearer. James
II. Howes. Belfast: grand sworn
bearer, Hugh +. Chaplin. Bangor
grand warder. Edwin F. Vose, port
land grand captain of the guaroS'
Warren @. Carney, Portland.
At 10 o'clock, the Grand Commah"ei
was closed.