Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-10-10

colonel of the latter organization. He was
made master Mason in st. Johns Lodge.
no IL, in 1870. and is member of Column
bia Chapter, No. l. r. A. NJ. He was
knghted in Washington Commandery No
l.. ~. T., In 1871, and is the treasurer of
Almas Temple, A. \. o. n. NJ. s., and a
member of Lafayette Council, Royal and
Select Masters; Mithras Lodge of Perfection
Evangelist Chapter Rose Croix Robert de
Bruce Council kadosh and Albert Pike
Consistory. A. a. S. r. He has been treasurer
OF the Consistory for twenty years. He
was made an honorary member of the
supreme Council of Mexico eight years ago.
being the first foreign honorary member
made by that supreme council and was
decorated with the jewel of the order by
president DiaZ himself. He was afterward
appointed special deputy OF the late Grand
Commander Thos. II. Caswell of the Su-
preme Council, southern jurisdiction, TO
proceed to Mexico and in the name of the
Southern Supreme Council to decorate Pres
ident DiaZ and four other eminent 80 Ma
sons of the Supreme Council of Mexico
with the medal and diploma of honorary
membership. He performed this duty in
the castle of Chapultepec. in the presence
of number of Masonic dignitaries and
other celebrated men of the Mexican nation.
He is the permanent grand representative
OF the Supreme Council of Mexico before
the Supreme Council of the southern jur!s-
diction. Capt Nailor also belongs to the
Royal Order of Scotland; is one of its stew
ards and is also one of the very few elected
Scotland
Since the last convention of the Supreme
Lodge, Knights of Pythias a total of AS
new companies of the uniform rank have
been organized. Capt. w. II. G. Simmons
of this jurisdictions furnishes the following
list of new companies by grand domains:
Oregon, II; Missouri. 6; Maryland. /: Colo
RADIO. 6: West Virginia, H. Indiana. -:
California. II: Ohio, 10: Illinois, 6; Michi-
gan, 6: Pennsylvania, .: New York. 4;
Maine. l; Virginia. l: New Hampshire .:
Kentucky, l; Wisconsin, /; Tennessee, /
Washington, 6: Georgia, 3; MasSa chusetts
); Mississippi, l: Texas. .: Kansas. 4: Con
necticut. !; Montana, L. Indian territory ];
Utah. :; Minnesota, ,; New Jersey, l Ne
The annual grand visitation of the
Pythian grand officers to Calanthe Lodge
No. IL. X. of p. occurs Monday evening,
All transient knights, well as those of
tins domain, are cordially invited to be
present by the officers of the lodge
Grand Patriarch Edv ard c. GrumIev of
this city. on whom was conferred the grand
decoration of chivalry at the recent session
OF the Sovereign Grand Lodge,I. o. O. F.,
in Baltimore is native of Wisconsin,
When he was but boy his family emi-
grated to the territory of Kansas and To-
Gated in the town of White Cloud in the
northeastern part of the territory where he
served his apprenticeship at the printing
business. In 1853 he enlisted in the nth
Kansas Regiment and served to the close
of the war of the rebellion He came to
Washington in 1874. and has resided here
ever since He was made an Odd Fellow
in Columbia Lodge, No. 10. September Is.
1876; installed noble grand in July 1873,
entering the Grand Lodge in January 1878
He was admitted to Mt. Nebo Encampment,