Albuquerque weekly citizen. (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1891-19??, 1903-10-24


sonic grand lodge OF New Mexico nd.
journed yesterday afternoon ana the
sixth session Of the Grand Royal Arcn
chapter began this morning.
The present officers OF this grand
body were given in The Citizen of last
evening.
Grand Royal Arch Chapter.
There are forty.eight Grand Royal
Arch chapters in the United States,
and one each In New Brunswick. New
Zealand. New South Wales, Nova SEQ
tia, England, Ireland. Scotland, Aus.
tralia and the province of Quebec.
Canada.
There are ten subordinate chapters
under the grand chapter now in SEES.
sion in this city. They are
Santa Fe, No. /. Marcus Eldodt.
nigh priest Arthur Seligman. secre.
tary; ~ members.
Silver City, No. 2. Cornelius Ben.
nett, high priest; II. Abraham, secre-
tary; 81 members.
Las Vegas, No. 3; b. Frank Nc.
CURE, high priest; G. II. Sporleder.
secretary; 62 members.
Rio Grande, No. 4. Albuquerque;
John w Elder, high priest; l.. Il.
Chamberlin. secretary; 90 members.
Deming, No. 5; u. r. Dun. high
priest; H. Pennington, secretary; Ga
members.
Ration. No. o. Frank Henning. high
priest; c. ID. Stevens. secretary; So
members.
Columbia No. Z, Roswell. Ralph NJ.
Parsons, h..sh priest G. NJ. Bird, sec
Rotary. ~ members.
Socorro, No s; H. NJ. Dougherty,
high priest c. G.. duncan. secretary:
80 members.
Signet, No. 3, CARLSBAD; a. n. Pratt,
h,gh priest; ~. Hutchins, secretary;
10 members
Washington. No. TO- Clayton J. G.
Slack. high priest H. c. Thompson,
secretary; 23 members.
Total members SOL.
These statistics have been gathered
from the last report of the grand
secretary, made In 1909, and are not
perfectly accurate at this time, but
Grand Secretary Keen has not made,
as yet, his report for 1908.
Il. A. Cahoon. Roswell, grand high
priest; A. c. Price, Roswell, deputy
grand high priest A. H. harillee. Sill.
yer City, grand king; A. n. Pratt,
Carlsbad, grand scribe; II. J.
Maloy, Albuquerque, grand treas
urer; A. A. Keen Albuquerque,
grand secretary Rev. w. A. Cooper,
Santa Fe, grand chaplain; J. J. Kelly.
Silver City, grand lecturer; Arthur
Everitt, Albuquerque, granu captain
of host, G. ID. Stevens, katon, grand
principal soujonrner; j. G. Fitch. So
zorro. grand royal arch captain; J.
b. Matthews, Roswell. grand master
Of third veil; DIR. Grove. Albuquerque,
grand master of second veil; ]. b. Boil
ton, Carlsbad, grand master of first
veil; A. NJ. Whitcomb. Albuquerque,
grand sentinel
Grand commsrdery.
Tomorrow the New Mexico Grand
Commandery of Knights 1emplar will
be in session. This Is the youngest OF
the New Mexico Masonic grand bodies
and its present conclave will be the
fourth held The present officers are
G. N. Blackwell, Ration, right eminent
grand commander; Alex Stevens. Al
buquerque, very eminent deputy grand
commander; A. II. harllee, Silver City,
eminent grand generalissimo; Il. A.
Cahoon, Roswell, eminent grand cap
tain general; Arthur Everitt, Albu-
querque, eminent grand senior war.
cen: George w. knaebel, Santa Fe,
eminent grand junior warden Rev. w.
a. Cooper, Santa he. eminent grand
prelate; A. j. Maloy, Albuquerque
eminent grand treasurer; A. A. Keen
Albuquerque, eminent grand recorder;
7. f. Farnsworth, Jr., Silver City. en-
inent grand standard bearer; J. w.
Donovan. Ration, eminent grand
sword bearer; Fred Muller, Santa Fe,
eminent grand warder, A. NJ. Whit
comb, eminent grand captain of the
guard. Their successors in office will
be elected tomorrow.
CommaHdery Statistics.
There are forty-five grand comman-
dries OF Knights Templar in the Unit.
ed States, and one each in Canada,
England and Wales. Ireland, Scotland
and Australia.
There are seven subordinate com
mandries in New Mexico, working
under the grand eommandery which
assemblies here tomorrow. They are:
Santa Fe. No. /; Geo. w Knaebel,
eminent commander; Frank S. Davis,
recorder; 33 members.
Las Vegas, No. 2; j. ID. Clark, emf
nent commander; Charles Tamme,
recorder; 80 members.
Pilgrim, No. 3, albuquerque; John
Borradaile, eminent commander; l..
Chamberlin, recorder; "a members.
McGrorty, No. 4, Deming; Seaman
rteld. eminent commander; Edward
tennington, recorder IS members.
Aztec No. s, Haton; Jas. w. Dona-
van. eminent comman Ter; X. II. Ay-
ers. recorders 35 members.
Rio Hondo, No. 6. Roswell; VIM. M.
Atkinson. eminent commander; Ralph
NJ. Parsons, recorder; SO members.