Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-10-20
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Washington Centennial Lodge. No. IA
F. A. A. NJ. will hold n memorial service
next Wednesday evening. The lodge has
recently lost three past masters and four
other members. The program OF exercises.
which provides for a report on each Of the
deceased. with musical selections Of an APP
propriate character. will be as follows
Lead, Kindly Light" quartet: prayer
Bro. J. H. Benton: Zone Sweetiy Solemn
Thought" quartet: report on Charles H
Smith. by H. F. Riley; report on William
H. Partridge. by Robert 8. Lyle; report
on Simon Goodman. by David Kahn; report
on William Fl. Baum. by ]. H. Small, jr.;
report on B. T. Trueworthy, jr, by J.
Frank Medbery; report on v. Baldwin
Johnson. by J. w. Witten; report on John
H. Hood, by John Speed Smith: Crossing
the Bar" quartet; address. Rev. J. j. Muir:
Nearer, My God, to Thee" by quartet
and audience: benediction by Rev. ]. ].
Muir. The memorial committee is COM
posed Of Past Grand Master J. Henry
Small. Past Masters H. F. Riley. David
Kahn, J. W. Witten and John Speed Smith.
Robert s. Lyle and J. Frank Medbery.
Federal Lodge. No. /. F. A. A. NJ, will
be visited by Grand Master Walter A.
Tuesday evening. October 81. The grand
master Is member Of Federal lodge. An
interesting program has been arranged.
The address will be delivered by Rev. Carl
The present officers Of Federal lodge are as
follows: Joseph r. Fague. master; H. D..
Easterbrook. senior warden: Percy G..
Smith. Junior warden; Goodwin Y. Atlee.
Rev. John c. Hawk. chaplain: Willard s.
Robbins. marshal; George H. Townsend.
senior deacon: A. Ralph Server, Junior
deacon; William A. Harries. senior steward:
Richard Riggles. tiler: o. A. Danzenbaker,
organist: Jacob Persinger. chairman pro-
fc!ency committee.
ferred the orders Of the Temple and Malta
at It's stated conclave last evening. The
following sir knights were assigned to as
sst the officers: Henry E. Ayler, Charles
s. Cole. John J. Crawford. Read Hanna.
Arthur E. Hess, ]. William Lucas. Thomas
T. Luckett, Tracy M. Payfair. Thad B.
Sergeant, Jacob Spliedt. Charles c. Van
Allen and Nelson r. Wood.
Eminent Commander John A. Meyer jol-
lies his drill team. saying: "Notwithstand-
Ing the annoying but necessary postpone
ments. we feel that we have not labored in
vain nor have We spent our strength for
naught; for, during the period of prepare
ton for that event, many new friendships
were formed and many pleasant relations
established. so that the commandery is in
better condition to do effective templar
work now than before The thanks of the
commandery are due and are hereby given
to those who made such thorough prepara-
ton to meet their knightly adversaries on
the templar field Of battle; also, to our
quartermaster and commssary and their
assistants"
Potomac Commandery, No. 3. K. T., con-
ferred the orders of the Temple and Malta
Wednesday evening. In his most recent
circular Eminent Commander Lem Towers,
jr puts in a modest claim that if there
really had been a field day Potomac would
have won the banner. He says: Your
commander desires to express his thanks
in the fullest possible manner to the men,
bers Of the commandery who were so
faithful in attendance on the drills pre-
paratory to the field day which never came,
and also to those who. while not able to
take part in the drills, had made arrange
ments to be present at the dress parade and
be counted in the grand roundup for the
flag
the inspection. our chances of obtaining
the flag was good-indeed, excellent. One
hundred and two trunks reported as sent
to the grounds from the asylum, in addi-
ton to those to be carried by their owners,
seemed a good many. No wonder that our
friends on the hill sent out an emergency
call. Disappointed as We and hundreds of
others were because of the indefinite post
ponement of the inspection. yet we feel that
the preparations for the event were not all
wasted effort. We enjoyed the exercise.
the ginger ale, rolls and sausage. 1t was
not a case of marching up hill and then
down again. / wonder If we were
first-class working material? Possibly we
might have brought back two prizes We
must not forget to give due credit to Sir
Knight Harper for his excellent lunches
and his good care of the baggage: How
much we depend on him at such timer
Grand Chancellor Jefferson Middleton Of
the knights of Pythias with his associate
officers, visited Amaranth Lodge, No. rs, at
Northeast temple, Monday evening, and
Hermione Lodge, No. 2. in Georgetown on
Wednesday evening Excelsior, No. IA, will
receive the grand officers on Wednesday
evening next.
The last official circular of Eminent Com
John A: Meyer OF Columbia Com
No. 2 Knights Templar, con-
tains a memorial card for the late Charles
g. Lange, who was knighted December H.
1891, and died October 6, 1905.
A large number of members of Almas
Temple and their ladies took in the Fred
erick fair Wednesday of this week. and III
report a very fine time on the occasion.
which was termed family excursion
The Frederick Fair Association were the
BY Almas Temple also did their part IN
making matters lively. B. F. Smith made
an efficient chairman Of the general c'm-
nittee, and there were several subcommit-
tees, the chairmen Of which were S. w.
Stfnemetz transportation; Harry j.
cramer. public comfort: Arthur D. Marks,
printing and publicity; VIM. Cliff Long,
ticket committee. The party went by spe-
,ial train over the Baltimore and Ohio,
eaving here at 7:45 am, reaching Fred
erick at $50 am. Returning, the party
reached Washington at 1:30 pm. large
building 5Ox1O0 was reserved In which
we're spread the family baskets. Tables,
chairs and barrels Of ice water with hot
,ofYee and cream were had in abundance
rec of charge. The weather was fine.
The knights of Pythias committee, which
conducted the recent successful fair, had
IN important meeting last evening. The
inal reports of the subcommittee were re-
.eived and demonstrated the fair to nave
been a good money-winner.
State Commander D. w. Gall of the