The Republican journal., 1902-01-30
SECRET SOCIETIES.

The Masonic sociables at Northport are
proving very popular and successful. They
are held in Masonic Hall, fortnightly, Satur
day evenings.
lvanhoe lodge, K of P, of Portland is the
largest and richest lodge in this State.
The cash assets of Ivanhoe lodge are about
$4,000. while the membership hangs just
over the 400 mark.
The Masonic Library Association elected
the following officers at it's annual meeting:
Pres, Isaac Hills; Vice Pres, John W.
Jones; Librarian and Secretary, Geo. W.
Chaples; Treasurer, D. T, Guptill.
The richest lodge of Odd Fellows except
one in the New England States is Unity
lodge of Portland. Its cash assets amount
to SOL ,536.95, while the richest lodge is
located at South Boston, having assets
amounting to $4,000.
Corinthian Royal Arch Chapter elected
the following officers Monday evening: H.
P, NJ. G. Black; K, Chas. O'Connell S,
II. J. Chaples &C. of H., NJ. f. Brown; P. S.,
+, r. Woodcock IT,, n. F. Houston Sec,
Geo. I. Keating
Members of Aleppo Temple Mobiles of the
Mystic Shrine of Boston came to Lewiston
last Thursday evening on special car and
were the guests of the Kora Temple of that
city. Members of Kora Temple were
present from all over Maine and an interest
ing and enjoyable session was held.
The officers of Enterprise Lodge, A. 0. Z.
W., were installed in Knights of Pythas
Hall last Thursday evening. 1t had been
decided to have the installation private, but
when the lodge was ready for the ceremony
goodly number of ladies who had been
invited to the supper was present, and they
were invited to witness the installation. The
installing officers were j. G. Aborn, District
Deputy G. N. W.; A. J. Mason, acting
Grand Guide; E. H. Haney, acting Past
Grand Master Workman. An excellent
oyster stew, made by H. W. Mariner, was
served, with coffee, doughnuts, pickles, etc.
Island Lodge, No. 12O, l. 0. 0. F., at Bar
Harbor. is just now the banner lodge of
Maine, having during the year 1901 made
the largest net gain in membership (23) of
it is interesting to note the wonderful
growth of the friendly order on the island
Of Mount Desert On the 4th of Septem
Der, 1889, Island lodge was instituted with
seven charter members (the editor of the
"Cottager" had the honor of being one of
the numberl. On the 1st of January, 1890,
the membership stood at "a, and there was
no other lodge on the island On January
l, 1902, Island Lodge had 271 members,
Pemetic, at Southwest harbor, 176, and
Ocean, at Northeast harbor, so; making a
total of 527 Odd Fellows on Mount Desert
iSland-Q & of in
Maine Coast Cottager.
Gen. Charles E. Weeks of Rockland,
commanding the department of Maine, |.
0. o. F., has issued general orders giving
the result of the election of field officers in
the department. The new officers are as
follows:
First regiment, Frank L. Mosely of Port
land, colonel; j. 0. McCorrison of North
Berwick, lieutenant colonel; &. II. Cloud
man of Portland, ma or of first battalion; !;
h. {. luques of Sdco, major of second
battalion.
Second regiment, James L. Merrick of
Watervlle, colonel; +. E. Scates of Fort
Fairfield, lieutenant colonel; Edwin O.
H cal of Rockland ma ior of first battalion ;
f. Gilpatrick of Watervile, major of second
! battalion
Mr.. Scates was elected major of the third
Ddlldiloll, Dub having Dten elected leuItn-
ant colonel of the regiment, the former
position is declared vacant.
The officers of Belfast Lodge, y. f. o. P,
were installed Monday evening, in Odd Eel
lows Hall, by Grand Warden Frank A.
Randell of Auburn assisted by A. X. Braley
and George E. White The installation
was private, after which a musical enter
tainment was given, to which a large num-
Der of guests were invited. The program
was as follows:
Music, Diatonic Club
Vocal solo, Miss Helen Dilworth
/ Piano solo, Miss Madge Sanborn
Address, Grand Warden Randell
! Vocal solo, Mrs. Jesse Webber
, Piano solo, Miss Florence Clough
| Music, Diatonic Club
A supper was served in the banquet hall
and the affair closed with a dance, with
music by the Datonc Club.
| The officers of Excelsior Lodge, F. anG A.
| NJ, ,Northport, were installed in Masonic Hall
Saturday evening. The installation was pub
| lie and about l4O guests were present, in
Guiding brethren from Lincolnville, Belfast
and Stockton Springs and many ladies from
these places and from Northport. The
ceremony was impressively performed by
Albert NJ Ames of Stockton Springs, Dis
trict Deputy Grand Master, assisted by
| Bro. West of the same town, acting Grand
Marshal. The officers installed were as
follows: W. NJ, Rodel A. Packard ; S. w.,
H. W. Chapman; J. W., C. O. Dickey Tr.,
G. G. Rose; Sec, F. B. Gidden; S. d., c. f.
Drink water; j. D., Elmer f. Gay; S. S :,
Isaac Hills; j. S., S. S. Chapman; Chap,
M. G. Black Tyler, H. W. Mitchell Mar,
c. A. Orcutt The visiting Masons from
Stockton Springs met with mishap when
starting for home Sunday morning. One
wheel of their carriage was wrecked and
they were obliged to get another carriage.
| A delegation from Silver Cross Lodge,
Knights of Pythias, went to Freedom Jan.
Oath to attend the installation of the officers
of Freedom Lodge. The affair was public
and there was large attendance The
installing officers were Francis II. Welch,
District Deputy Grand Chancellor; Past
Chancellors A. L. Smith as Grand Vice
| Chancellor, j. X. bennett as Grand Prelate
and F. J. Stephenson as Grand Master at
Arms Past Chancellor Sanford Howard
and knights j. A. Montefiore and c. B.