The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1901-08-16
THE KNIGHTS OF HONOR
Annual Meeting of the Grand LODGE
at wri9htsville Beach Yesterday.
The Grand Dictator's Annual AID.
dress Makes q Fine Showing.

The tenth biennial and fourteenth
session of the Grand lodge, knights of
Honor OF North Carolina, convened at
the Seashore hotel at wrightsville
Beach. yesterday morning at 10 O'Clock,
with the following grand officers in at
tendance: j. B.. Whitaker, Jr., of Wins
ton, grand dictator: X. r. Jones. of
New Bern, grand vice dictator; n. D..
Fetzger. Of Concord: grand assistant
dictator: p. c. Carlton, of ~StatesvilIe.
grand reporter: S. C. Scofeld. of DAY.
idson, grand treasurer: L. A. Bike. of
Kings Mountain, grand chaplain; F.
Boyette, of Goldsboro, grand sentinel:
n. l.. Shaw, past grand dictator: T.
F. Klutz, of Salisbury. supreme repre-
sentative: U. S. Hassell, Of GAINESVILLE.
n w. F. Rountree, of New Bern,
grand trustees.
The grand dictator appointed F. Boy
cite, grand guide: A. J. Stokeley, grand
GUARDIAN, and I. B.. Drouthit, grand
sentinel.
The grand dictator presented his re-
port, from which we are permitted to
make the following extract:
"Brothers-At the threshold OF the
tenth biennial and fourteenth session
OF this grand lodge, it affords me great
pleasure to greet o with the following
cheering words from Supreme Dictator
B1ggs' salutation to the order at large:
Brenthren, we have closed the
tWenty-Severth year of our orders eX-
lstence with a record of which every
member may well feel proud. We have
paid to the bcneficiaries of 81, 1851 de-
ceased members S73, ABS, 500. 81. and we
| have Maid pNTprv i1Ct claim fha+ l,e
ever been presented. The roubles con-
sequent upon our change of plan have
vanished, confidence has been renewed
and we enter u twenty eighth year
with hopes elated and with a belief that
1t Will prove the most prosperous year
our grand old order has ever expert
enced. / will confidently look for the
assistance of not only grand and sub
ordinate lodge officers, but Of eyerY
membe of the order, in putting forth
the claims of the knights of Honor.
We unquestiCnably have the most
equitable and Just plan of providing
protection for the loved ones of those
who join our ranks. hat of taking from
each one, each year, the exact cost OF
his protection and no more, and we
have demonstrated the certainty that
our order, viii I furnishes protection
for the people, by the people, shall ex-
list for all time The Knights or Honor
is safe, sound and reliable. 1t is worthy
of every effort that can be put forth IN
its behalf. Let us set our mark at one
hundred thousand for June, 1902, and
then let us labor in it's behalf so hat
the wave of prosperity will dash high
above the mark We AVE set
"These wore from our highest Off
cial are refreshing. They are at once a
signal that the clouds have vanished
and a clariCn call to enewed effort.
Let them prove an inspiration to the
Knights Of Honor of North Carolina.
1.-THE condition of the order in North
Carolina was here presented by the
grand dictator.]
LIE us turn cur faces towards the
future with faith and hope, backed by
zeal and determination and practical
plans for the extension within our state
of an order which has bestowed bless
ings upon thousands and will live to
bless thousands more. Let there be
cessation everywhere in our ranks OF
complaint at paying for protection at
actual cost, and at about half the rates
that are charged by regular insurance
companies. Take the comfort which
should come from the reflection, when
an assessment is paid, that we are not
only providing for our own dear ones
after we are gone, but that We have a
part in every blessing which follows the
payment of a benefit certificate in ev-
cry home of a deceased brother.
Death, the ~tireless worker, has been
busy in our ranks since the last meet
ing Of this body, not less than fifty
seven knights of Honor in North Car
olina having been called TO the beyond
Among this number are six members
of this grand lodge-Past Grand Dicta-
tors j. N. S%pragins and r. z. Lewis.
Past Grand Chaplain w. P. Williams,
and Brothers H. c. Wall, T. B. Haskit'
and j. G.. Wright. Two OF these
Brothers Spragins and Williams. II VIII
be remembered, were among our CO.
workers at the last session of this body
In his connection 1 note with deep re-
gret. also, the great loss to the order
at large since our last session by the
deaths of Past Supreme Dictator ]. w
Goheen. Supreme Dictator John p
Shannon and Supreme Reporter z. +
Nelson.
81 recommend the employment o
frst-class -carvassers to extend the or
der in the state, and the
of as large a sum as may be available
for this purpose to be expended By
certain grand officers, to be designated
by you, and under such direction a!
you may give. 1 further recommend
, that special efforts be made TO organic.
, new lodges, both where there are u
lodges at present and where there ar
inactive lodges. believing that better
? results. as a rule. will accrue from en-
/ ergy and money expended In efforts 4
!. organize new lodges han in workin.
I'D old lodges, composed largely OF OLE
= men who have ceased to take interes
in the work. I further recommend tina
? the cost 10 charter members of new
? lodges and to initiates of old lodges b
reduced TO the minimum"
The report of the grand reporte
: shows 80 lodges in the state with
membership OF SS4: receipts for pas
/ two years, s1-91s.53: on hand last re
: port, ss55.0S: disbursements for tw'
years. 81, 401.7 IS: on hand at this time
: S972-S3.
Z The report OF the grand t~reasur
was in accord with the report OF tn
{ grand reporter
e The grand dictator appointed the fol
lowing committees:
: l. Committee on credentials-A. n
Walker, o. K. Eaton. I. B. Douthit-
Committee on distribution-F. c
j ) HaYlSy, c. G. Lyon. - McLachlir