Weekly Arizona journal-miner., 1904-12-07
ELKS' MEMORIAL
 EXERCISES IN
Honor of Their Depart
 ed Brothers.
Most Impressive Services, Attend ed by Large Audience Eloquent
 and Touching EulOgy.

The wisdom or the ElkS Tn securing the Odd Fellows hall for holding their Memorial services in on Sunday was amply demonstrated by the large audience present, the hall being filled.
 These annual services held by this noble order are becoming more popu- lar each year and none more impress sive have ever been held.
 The members had made no special | effort to decorate the hall for the oc- casion further than to place amassive bank of flowers on the front of the stage interspersed with growing palms.
 The members of the order met in their lodge room and each one had a beautiful bouquet in the lapel of his coat and, wearing white gloves they marched in a body to Odd Fellows hall, front section of the seats being reserved for them.
 The services were solemn and i'm pressive in perfect keeping with the occasion, that of revering the memory of their departed brothers.
 The beautiful opening ritual cere- monies of the order were conducted by Exalted Ruler J. c. Forest assisted by the other officers of the lodge, after voluntary was played on the piano by Mrs. B. H. Smith. A feature of the opening exercises was the calling of the roll of the deceased brothers.
 This was followed by the singing of that old familiar and ever impressive hymn: ''Nearer My God To Thee by a quartette composed of M. H. Thom- as, w. R. Poole, J. Mason Ross and Fred Kessler.
 An invocation was then pronounced by Rev. E. B. Taft of the Baptist church, after which Miss Chilson sang "Ave Maria" very sweetly. Broth CTS of Mercy was the title of read ing by Mrs. J. E. Morrison and Mrs. Reese M. Ling and Miss Mary Wright played "The Palms" on the piano.
 Mrs. A. W. McCash never sang more sweetly and tenderly than on Sunday in her rendering of ''Nearer My God to Thee' arranged as a soprano solo.
 The eulogy was pronoucned by Reese NJ. Ling and was a most master ful effort clothed in beautiful and eloquent language and was delivered in a clear and ringing voice and was touching tribute to the brothers who have gone before. It occupied about twenty minutes in its delivery and breatheless silence pervaded the hall during this period and the most rapt attention was given the speaker.
 He referred briefly to the recently deceased, Past Grant Exalted Ruler Meade D. Detwiler, and to the noble work which he had accomplished for the order, bringing it out of confusion and dissension into glorious harmony.
 He also referred in brief terms to the nineteen deceased members of Prescott lodge, six of whom passed away during the present year, after the lodge had safely passed through the year 1903 without death.
 The departed brothers of the lodge are John l.. Fisher, William Ashton, whose deaths occurred in 1897; Mack McCulloch, William Y. Burce, in 1898; T. G. Barlow Massicks, Dan B. Gil lett, in 1899; Joseph c. Scarborough in 1901; Herbert w. Pentland Charles L. Martin, Alexander Cordiner, Geo. R. Sutherland, Hugh Matherson, Will liam E. Dewees, in 1902; Henry J. AL len, John J. Quinn, Joseph P. Tier nan, Bradford NJ. Crawford, William E. Wicks and John H. Bagby, in 1904.
 As Mir. Ling in his address had nov ed many of the audience to tears with his pathos and with his reference to the recently deceased members, the following number on the program, "Oh Dry Those Tears'' a contralto solo by Miss Carpenter, was quite apropos and was most beautifully ren- dered.
 The quartette then rendered, I've Shall Meet, But We Shall Miss Him, which was followed by piano solo, "Wanda, by Ms. B. H. Smith.
 The closing ceremonies of the order | were then gone through and Miss Chil- | son rendered solo, "Fear Not, Ye O l Israel" when Rev. Taft pronounced the benediction.
 At the conclusion of the exercises handsome bouquets were presented to the ladies taking part in the program and to the wives of the members of . the order.
 ADE EIOOKING