Omaha daily bee., 1902-05-17
WORKMEN COMPLETE TASK
Grand Lodge Only Holds One Session to
Finish Up its Business,
VOTE DOWN BIENNIAL PROPOSITION
Recommendation that Subordinate
Omcers Be Elected for One Year
Carries, Effective Janu-
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One session Thursday morning sualced
for the grand lodge Of the Ancient order
Of United workmen to wind up its bust
ness and by evening the officers and
delegates had left for their homes through
out the state. Before adjourning the
grand lodge adopted resolutions thanking
the members OF the local lodge and the
citizens Of Council Bluffs for the manner
in which It had been entertained during its
session here. .
The recommendation Of Grand Master
Workman Narvis that the grand lodge hold
biennial instead of annual sessions was not
adopted. The opposition proved so strong
that the committee to which the recon-
mendation had been referred declined to
even make a report to the lodge and the
question was permitted to die a natural
death. The other recommendation Of the
grand master workman that the subordinate
lodges elect their officers annually in place
Of every six months was adopted, to lake
effect January 1, 1908.
Considerable discussion ensued over the
recommendation of the grand recorder that
members of subordinate lodges not paying
their quarterly dues before the twenty
eighth day of the first month Of each
quarter should stand suspended. Lodge
dues are payable on January 1, April /,
July 1 and October 1, and 1t has been the
custom for most lodges to carry delin-
quent members for six months before sus-
pending them. The general opinion was
that the suggestion Of the grand recorder
would prove a hardship on the members
and a compromise was effected, the consti-
tuition being amended so as to provide that
members failing to pay the quarterly dues
by the twenty-eighth day of the first
month of the succeeding quarter should
stand suspended.
Resolutions on HaverstOck.
These resolutions on the death Of Will
liam E. Haverstock, who at the time of
his death was a member OF the grand
lodge, we're adopted:
Resolved, That the following minute be
spread upon the records of the grand lodge:
Death to the survivors, never is well
us that it is better for the one departing,
and that to such a one 1t is gain; never
theless, the presence Of the messenger is
visit of the grim messenger that has
brought mourning to the grand lodge at
to our order, of which the departed brother
was so useful a member and in which he
was SO Justly and highly esteemed; 80,
was born in Northboro, Mass, December
e. 1s4s; and passed to the after life Mon;
Bluffs. Most of Brother Haverstock's USE
ful life was spent in western Iowa and for
more than twenty years he had been en-
gagged In active business pursuits In the
city, which was his last earthly home. on
Wednesday. May Il, 1902, the remains OF
lodge availing itself Of the mournful priv
ilege of conducting the ceremonies at his
grave.
In the departure of Brother Haverstock
the grand lodge of Iowa feels that it and
our order have suffered an irreparable
IDLE companionship With whom it was a
pleasure to be associated, who gave prom
Use OF continued and growing usefulness
c%uleate and illustrate:
The grand lodge. while thus expressing
It's own high sense of the loss 1t has sus-
tained, yet realizes that, while II is thus
so much, the loser, much more so must be
and helpful society of the departed one,
ana that now suffers the keennes of sep
s sTa1n9n IoIdiSoem t 9bHs6and and nhr father; The
that 1t can only enter the margin of the
valley OF woe into which they have been
ones its coincidence and deepest sympathy.
II Is hereby directed that this minute be
published n the Loyal Workman; that a
attested under the seal OF the grand lodge,
be communicated to the bereaved family.
to the memory of our departed brother.
Tribute to Foreman Berry.
Grand Master Workman Narvis paid a
graceful tribute to Grand Foreman Berry
OF Indianola. Mr.. Berry has the record
OF having attended more consecutive meet
ings OF the grand lodge than any member
of the order and his friends we're DESTROYS
Il that he ghAVIl AN- al
the Iowa grand lodge in the supreme lodge
next year. To make this possible Mr.. Mar
Wis yesterday morning resigned as grand
master workman for the few remaining
hours of his term for the year and Grand
Foreman Berry then became grand master
workman until the newly elected officers
were installed. This made MT. Berry a
past grand master workman and eligible
for election next year as supreme repre-
sentative.
The officers elected Wednesday we're in
stalled yesterday morning by Supreme
Foreman Webb McNall of Gaylord, Kan.
The local committee invited the members
Of the grand lodge to take a motor ride
yesterday afternoon to Lake Manawa and
Fairmount, but the invitation was declined
with thanks, as the members were anxious
to get home as speedily as possible.
Following the adjournment OF the grand
lodge the officers and delegates were pho
tographed in a group on the steps of the
Sixth street entrance to the postofice. The
new officers Of the grand lodge are all big
men. They had their weights taken and
the average showed 2Os pounds. Grand
Foreman Berry carried of the honors In
this respect, tipping the scales at 267
pounds.
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