Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-02-04

IAN Neei, D2n fproQlnent husnts ol
lodge room ofSthes order. Hot words fol-
lowed. and both drew pistols and began
firing to kill. Both were dangerously
wounded The trouble is said to have
which was owned jointly by Odd Fellows
and Knights of Pythias.
will confer the NJ. Nj degree on Monday,
February 6.
At the last convention of the Supreme
Lodge, X. of p, proposition was present.
ed looking to the lowering of the age limit
at which applicants for the rank OF knight
hood can be accepted, from twenty-one 10
eighteen years. The same idea has long
been In the mind Of the Sovereign Grand
Lodge of Odd Fellows. The Supreme Lodge
referred the subject to the several grano
lodges.
The ladies of Columbia Commandery. NO.
2, X. T., gave an entertainment and eucnfe
party at Pythan Hall Tuesday evening.
Music was furnished by the Columbia IoHi-
mandery Quartet, composed OF Messrs.
Mosher, Turpin, Kaiser and Hancock with
Mr.. Danzenbaker, accompanist. Among
those who won prizes at euclrre were Mes
DANES Simmons, Cox, Baker Hall. Black
istone, Schneider Palmer. Hichew, Wrenn,
O'Brien, Tune, Constant, knight and Burt.
and Messrs Barteman Baldwin, Z. a.
Stewart, Schreiner, Cheesman and Adams.
The Grand Lodge. T. o. o. F., has inaug-
urated for the first time in this jurisdiction
series of contests, as an encouragement
to the several subordinate and Rebekah
lodges, for greater proficiency in degree
work. The prize offered is emDematlc
prize banner" to be awarded TO each of
the subordinate and Rebekah lodges exhib-
iting the greatest degree of accuracy in the
written and unwritten work, as well as the
best dramatic presentation of the degree in
each of the two branches.
The first of the complications for the
banner in the Rebekah class took place in
Northeast Temple Friday night before
large gathering of local and visiting Re-
bekah lodge members, among the visitors
being Gen. NJ. A. Raney of Iowa, com
manding the Patrarchs Militant, l. o. o.
F., of the United States.
The degree was conferred by DorcaS Re
bekah Lodge, No. 4, and the work through
out was excellent. The dramatic effect, the
r1tualisuc and secret instructions, the pre-
clSlon OF the tioor movements and the spien-
dld appearance of the personnel and para
phernalia of the cast are spoken of as of a
character seldom seen in this city before.
The board of judges consisted of w. II.
MCNEIL, grand master; E. w. Bradford,
deputy grand master, and Philip Walker,
grand warden. The cast was: Mrs Mary
Dement,, past noble grand; Mrs. Ella V.
Mallory, noble grand; Miss Mabel Gates,
wee grand; Mrs. w. H. McNiel, chaplain:
Miss Mamie Rattle, Miss Lille I.usby, Mrs.
Ella y. Russ and Miss Myrtle Rattle, ban
ner bearers; Mrs. Mary Miller, inside guar
dian; Miss Nettie Cole, warden; Mrs. Ida
/. Arnold, conductor; Mrs Ida Baber. r.;
Mrs. Bette Adams, NJ. of s.; Mrs. ]. New
man, H.; Mrs. Abbie Gates, D.; Mrs. ]. II.
Wood, e; Mrs. Leona Dalrymple o. Miss
Lucille Fehl, r.; Mrs. P. L. Paylor. N:
Mrs. Dora j. B. Hendrix, s.: Miss Leons
1.ohmar, NJ; Mrs. Katharine Dunn. Fl. w;
Mrs. Charles Garrels. A; Dr. T. j. Gates
t.; Mr. Alonzo Adams, E.. Mr.. S. N Nal
Tory, custodian, and Miss Nellie Smith, mu-
slclan AT the close of the exercises Mrs
Hendrix and Mrs McNiel presented to De-
gree Director G. b. Russ and the musician
MISS Smith, respectively, on behalf of the
degree staff, handsome and appropriate
tokens OF their appreciation of the duties so
well performed.
At the meeting of Washington Camp No.
il464. Modern Woodmen of America held
last Thursday evening, James w. Crooks
was unanimously elected the delegate to
the head camp convention to be held at
Milwaukee, Wis, the latter part of June.
1900. MI Crooks has been a delegate to
the head camp several times from his
home camp in Illinois, having been a
Woodman about seventeen years j. w
Tull was elected alternate.
This will be the first head camp meeting
al which delegate from the capital city
will be present
Head Consul A r. Talbot was in this
city Tuesday and had a brief conference
with the officers of the camp and State
Woodcraft in the District of Columbia
New York Lodge, No. /, b. P. o. E.. has
arranged5 for q banquet in honor of Grand
Exalted Ruler William ]. O Brien of Balti-
more at the Wal0orf-AStoria February Is.
Several members of Washington Lodge No
l, are expected to attend The arrange
ments are on an elaborate scale and the
banquet WILDE away up in G." New York
Lodge recently gave ella bora tie social ses-
sion conducted by Past Exalted Rulers A.
G. Moreland and Edward Smith and a com
mlttee OF arrangements, which was a dis
tinct winner, and of the old fashioned sort.
The exalted ruler of New York. No. 1, de-
livered the address of the occasion at the
dedication of Charlevoi Lodge No. 494 of
Pennsylvania. Grand Exalted Ruler
O'Brien was also in attendance on this oc-
casion. New York Lodge netted S3.5151G
the last quarter of 1904. Good work.
Philadelphia Lodge of Elks is also at the
front and its officers and members are Sc
curing many congratulations on innovations
introduced recently. The most interesting
was at its memorial service. The next
grand exalted ruler of the B. p. o. E. Rob-
ert w. O'Brien of Kentucky delivered the
grafton, which is pronounced by the Inter
state Elk 1.-The greatest memorial address
ever delivered in the history of the order.
The seats at the sale were sold and the
same journal says: Every seat in the
opera house was bought and paid for, the
sixteen boxes being sold at auction. The
money was given to the poor children's
Christmas tree fund. The opera house was
packed with men, women and children, rep
resenting the best families of the city,.
Philadelphia Lodge has 1890 members
The initiation fee is $780, and lately there
was acquired "a piece of property in the
heart of the city valued at S25OOOO Its
present home will shortly be abandoned to
a boulevard project engineered by the city.
Warren S. Evans, an aged inmate of The
Michigan Masonic Home has been removed
to an insane asylum He formerly was
complete master of the lumber business,
drawing fine salary. He slipped one day
and fell from a lumber pile sustaining in
juries from which his mind became unbal-
anced. Since that time he has been cared
for by the Masons. The lodge of which he
was a member sent him to the home, but
his condition became such that he could
no longer be cared for by the attendants.
His lodge removed him to the asylum, and
will maintain him there.
Tho visifa fionS of Grand High Priest a