The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-09-14
MEET IN MEMORY
OF THE DEPARTED
A. o. U. w. and Degree of
Honor Join In Impressive
Memorial Services.

In memory Of their departed mem
bers, the ST. Paul lodges of the A. o.
U. w. and auxiliary order, the Degree
OF Honor, assembled yesterday at the
Peoples church and participated in
appropriate exercises. Nineteen lodges
OF the A. o. U. w. and an equal num-
per OF the Degree of Honor attended
the ceremonial, and a large number of
individual members of the order from
Minneapolis were in attendance, al
though none of the lodges of that city
came as organized bodies.
The main auditorium of the Peoples
church and the spacious gallery were
crowded to their capacity and hun
dreds of people were compelled to
stand in the rear and the side aisles.
The interior was richly and appro-
pr1ately decorated for this occasion
with floral emblems and bouquets and
flags and banners of the different
lodges were tastefully draped at either
side of the platform and in the organ
loft behind.
Lodges March to the Church.
Preceding the exercises at the church
there was parade of all the ST. Paul
lodges Of the A 0. u. W. The parade
formed at Rice park at o'clock, and,
AFTER traversing the principal down.
town streets, reached the Peoples
church at o'clock, the hour set for the
memorial exercises Upon their ar
rival at the church those who had par
t1cipated in the parade took the seats
reserved for them and the programme
was at once begun
The exercises were in most respects
simple and directly impressive. S. L.
lSham, chairman of the general COM
mittee for this occasion, presided, and
with him on the platform sat J. J. Nc
nd
DR.. V. j. Hawkins. grand medical eX-
aminer of the A. o. U. W.; Mrs. Ida
Wilson, Mortified, past grand chief;
Mrs. Anna Nelson, Morris, Mimi,
grand chief of honor. and Mrs. Frances
Buell. Olsen, grand recorder Of the De-
gree of Honor.
After an organ voluntary by Prof. G.
G. Titcomb the congregation united in
singing the opening ode of the A. O. u.
w. Rev. T. E. Archer, of Minneapolis,
offered prayer appropriate to this
occasion, and the church choir sang
1.-The Lord Is My Shepherd"
Then followed the roll call of the de-
ceased members of the A. 0. u W.
and the Degree of Honor, and this most
impressive reminder of the departed
ones was made the more striking by
an observance introduced into the ex-
ercises this year for the first time by
the ladies Of the Degree of Honor.
When the roll call was announced
twenty-seven little girls, clothed in
white and carrying bouquets stepped
forward to the platform where had
been placed the symbol of a bier, and
as each name was read a bouquet was
gently dropped upon the black draped
casket. The names of the departed
members Of the Degree of Honor were
presented by Mrs. Frances Buell. OIL
son, grand recorder, who prefaced the
reading of the list with short ad-
Roll Call of the Dead.
The members of the Degree of Hon
or who have died in the course of the
past year were as follows:
Charles Merkert, Star of the Union
lodge.
Adelia Koehler, Nobility lodge.
Gathering WEIGH. Nobility lodge.
Bertha Topel. Columbia lodge.
Mary Zauner, Hope lodge.
Clara Bundle, Esther lodge.
Barbara Misek Freheit lodge
Margarine Hug, Freheit lodge
Nancy Reese, Independent lodge
Matilda KOmarek, Teutonia lodge
Josephine Smith, Minnehaha lodge.
Mr.. Isham, before reading the roll of
deceased members of the A o. U. W.,
reverted to the beginning of the custom
of holding annual memorial services.
He said that five years ago the st.
Paul lodges of the A. o. u. w. held
their first memorial service, and the
idea was then so heartily approved by
the members of the order generally
that arrangements were made for an
annual observance. He said he wished
he could as he read the list tell some
thing of each Of the members whose
names appeared there, and of the high
regard in which they were held by all
who knew them, but as the list was a
long one, that would be impossible The
roll which he presented was as fol-
lows:
Charles w. Nitterauer. William Ohnick,
Charles w. Hackett, R. S. Underwood,
Edwin HUSKY, John ]. Connolly. Noble
Franklin lodge.
Isaac B. Seixas. Banner lodge.
Phillip c. scheig, Thomas Ihfe. Con-,
cOrdia lodge.
William R. Tostevin. Nicholas Horn,
Frank " Vondra Samuel Clark Charles
R. Marelius, Eureka lodge.
John G. Aleman, William Weenand, Jo-
seph Prohofsky Harmonic lodge.
Edgar T. Schmidt, Patrick Mcdonnell,
William Il. Griffin. St Anthony lodge
Charles wack. West Side lodge.
William Strommer William E. Knob
lock, Fred Bouer. Charles G. Lauer,
Rodney 6. Gooding, Hiawatha lodge.
Carl S. Howe, University lodge.
John Bossard, Frederick G. Strehlein,
Vorwaerts lodge.
Albert Haas, Alois Trumm, Teutonia
lodge.
John Purcell, William J. Francois, Ber-
ger Holmquist, Frederick Nelson North
ern lodge.
Peter McErlane. Union Star lodge
Charles r. Masterman. Martin A. Arm
stad. Herbert D. Hart, Capital City
lodge.
A. E. Keller, Northern lodge.
Mrs. Anna Nelson, grand chief of
honor Of the Degree of Honor, delivered
a brief address, and in the course Of
her remarks impressively reminded her
hearers that their friends were not lost
to them, but had merely gone before;
that while they could not return, those
who had remained could go to them.
The Workman Dies, But His Work En-
dures.
The sermon of the occasion was de-
livered by Rev. T. E. Archer, Of Mime
apolis, who is member of the order
In the course Of his discourse he said:
'"The Workman dies, but the work
goes on forever And the work he has
accomplished lives after him as a mon
ument greater and more enduring than
could be raised to his memory by the
hands Of others. Raphael, who painted
that marvellous picture Of the Christ |
has long since passed away. and his
earthly remains have crumbled to
ashes, but his work remains to perpet-
uate his name. So it is with the man
who wrote some wonderful oratorio, he |
is gone from US. and of his mortal |
presence there remains only dust, but |