The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-05-13
PREPARE REPORTS
 FOR GRAND LODGE
Knights of Pythias Will Meet
 at AnniSton
GROWTH OF THE ORDER
The Supreme Court Will Devote To- morrow to Memorial Session In Honor of the Late Chief
 Justice Mcclellan.

Montgomery, May 12.-(Special.) )-Thom- as E. Knight, grand chancellor of the order of Knights of Pythias in Alabama, is in the city to confer with George G. Miles, grand keeper of records and seal, concerning the reports to be made at tine meeting of the grand lodge to be held May 14 and 10 at Anniston This meeting will show wonderful gains for the past year and for the past several years. At present the grand lodge has fund of ST ,0l0. GA without a dollar of liability against it. The present membership is d gain of 66S over last year, with ten new lodges for the time.
 There are now in the grand domain of Alabama 1s2 lodges. which gives that many representatives in the grand lodge, with the addition of grand officers, which will bring the total attendance up to about 250. Since the last grand lodge meet ing 1347 have been initiated; received by card, 39S and reinstated 223 The losses of the year were: Suspensions. 73l; with drawals, 349, and deaths, 91. The gain as noted, was 665, as compared to DOS last year and 598 the year before
 The cash account is one that gives the officers of the grand lodge much pleas ure. There was on hand at the last meet ing s5423. 50, and the receipts were s12,OO0 making total of s17,42S.5o. Disburse- ments were s1s,OSS.74. This leaves a bal ance of s4,334 76 on the face of the ac- count. However. sl2, ,4s0 of this outgo is in bonds that are drawing interest and form part of the property of the grand lodge, making the lodge possessed of cash over and above all liabilities s17010. GA. The net gain of the year in cash capital without liability against it is s272s 57. Net gain year before, s26oS.OS.
 Many New Lodges. There were ten new lodges added dur ing the year as follows: No. 2i5 at Cas- tleberry, 246 at Napoleon, PAT at Platau, PAS at Pyreton, 249 at Globe. 250 at Cordova, 251 at Empire 252 at Lamar, 253 at Au- taugaville 254 at Magnolia Springs. The plan of districting the state has proven a success. Of the ten districts six have held meetings and organized, and 1t has been a great thing for the order. Grand Keeper of Records and Seal Miles | is very happy over the results obtained. 1 Especially have the district metings of | the Birmingham and Montgomery terri tories been helpful. The committee with ] this work in charge is made up of J. B. | Ellis, chairman: J. H. Disque. A. Stein- hart and A. M. Garber, all past grand | chancellors.
 Hot Race On.
 It is anticipated that there will be two | pretty contests in the Grand Lodge next, | one for the position of grand chancellor | and the other for grand outer guard. i The well known aspirants for the head l of the state organization of the order are the present grand vice chancellor, Judge B. J. Jones of Bessemer and Eli P. | Smith of Birmingham. at present and | for some years the entire committee on i fraternal correspondence. The candidacy | of Mr Smith is beyond question a dan gerous thing for the ambitions for fur | ther promotion of Judges Jones While not seeking honor of a distinctive ma 1 ture before, MT. Smith has been ono of | the right hand men of the order for I some years and he will be hard to beat. | Leading men of the order express the belief that there is no man in the ranks who can defeat him for the highest po- sition if he makes q request for 1t. How | ever, Judge Jones has come up from | the lowest place in the lodge and his | friends say that the precedent of send | ing a man up the line to the top as a rule. after once starting him, will be hard | to break.
 Outer Guard Fight.
 The candidates for the position of grand outer guard are J. Lee Holloway of Montgomery; l.. K. Benson of Hayne- vile. and Joseph Balfour of Gadsden. MT. Holloway Is one of the best known men in the order. He is a lawyer and 1 leader in Pythian circles. He is mem Der of the judiciary committee of the | Grand Lodge and chairman of the Ninth | Pythian district
 MT. Benson is a teacher at Haynevine l and Mir Balfour a leading Etowah county business man.
 It seems foregone conclusion that ! G. G. Miles of Montgomery will be re- l elected as grand keeper of records and | seal He is rounding out his fourth year | and has seen the membership grow more i than one thousand, with twentyodd new lodges, and the cash account from ss,315.4- to ST 7010.64.
 Complete Examination.
 The state examiners have made re. | port on the office of state auditor cover. ! ing the time of w. S. White in charge from October 1, 1Ss. to December l. 1900 and the incumbency of Thomas L. Sowel | from December 1. 1900, to September 30 1906 when he resigned to become judg, of the law and equity court of Walkel county. The books were carefully gone over for the whole time and the thre, examiners were busy several weeks
 The supreme court on the call of thu eighth division next week. will devot, Monday to a memorial session in mem ory of the late Chief Justice Thoma! ] N. Mcclellan. Several gentlemen of th' bar in different sections of the stat will make addresses, to which Chief Jus tice Wealxley will respond. The eightl division includes Limestone. the hom, county of the late chief justice along with Colbert, Franklin Jackson
 Lauderdale, Lawrence, Madison, Mar
 shall and Morgan.
 The governor has paroled Will Young a negro convict. with an eighteen months
 sentence for burglary. He is in tn
 last stages of consumption. the doctor | assert