Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1906-08-10
GRAND lodge CLOSES
Official Action of Considerable
Moment to the Order in
Iowa Taken
PER CAPITA TAX is RAISED
Committee Appointed to Look Into the
Question of Building Home for Or
phans and INDECENT Knights - Grand
Lodge in Good Shape Financially
The General News.

Iowa City, Aug. 10.-The grand
lodge of Knights of Pythias adjourned
last night. The trustees made q re-
port showing the necessity for a raise
in the levy of the per capita tax next
year to be Soc instead of so cents. The
report showed an expenditure of $1S,-
243.60 during the year. leaving Sl4,-
67S.S3 in the hands Of the trustees. The
grand charity fund has s11,606.7O on
hand.
The Pythian, a paper published by
Ben Salinger, was made the official
paper.
A special roll call of representatives
to the grand lodge was held to deter
mine whether or not a special COM
mittee should be appointed to look in
to the matter OF a Pythian home. to
estimate the, cost Of construction ana
maintenance, and the probable num-
Der of orphan children who might be-
come beneticiaries Of such an instisu-
ton. The Pythian home is question
that has been attracting great deal
of attention and causing much discus
sion among the knights of Iowa
The resolution concerning the home
was adopted and following committee
appointed: Charles Atwood, Council
Bluffs, chairman; w. l.. Curtis, Hazel
ton, vice chairman, Or. f. p. Carey,
Clearfield w. G. Thomas, Cedar Rap
ids; H.. Mccartney, Sherman.
The committee on judiciary, which
had in charge the Pythian home propo-
sition, made a partial report yester-
day morning. This committee has IN
charge the revising of statutes. NO
important rulings were made, changes
in the wording of the laws making up
most of the proceedings
The mileage committee reported the
per diem Of members.
The committee of credentials made
it's report, showing that about forty
out of total of 375 lodges had report
ed no representatives to the grand
lodge.
The matter Of place of meeting
next year was not taken up. Thefs
were no invitations extended. altho the
Council Bluffs delegation would have
extended one had they had the formal
authorization from the lodge in that
city. The matter of location will be
taken up by the grand council. which
will meet in Des Moines soon after the
opening of the Legislature next win
ter. 1t is probable that Council Bluffs
will at that time extend an invitation.
Next years meeting will be much
larger than the present one, because
the uniform rank will be present, and
probably the D. o. K. K. will be rep
resented in the proceedings
Rathbone Sisters.
Miss Mary S. Horner, grandschief of
the Rathbones, made her regular re-
port, which is in part as follows:
Official visits have been made dur
ing the past year to many of the diff
terent temples of the state, and to-
tai of 204 installing officers appointed.
Five new temples have been added
during the past year. and those at
Boone and Washington have taken on
a new lease of life and are now in a
f1ourishing condition.
The finances of the grand temple
were very much depleted last year on
account of an additional one day per
diem which was paid all representa-
tives, but had this not been the case
the per capita tax could have been
lowered. When the semi-annual dues
had been RENTED there was little
over $1,000 in the treasury, and most
Of this is now out at interest. In view
of the disaster ON the Pacific coast the
order is in good financial condition.
The Rathbone Sisters elected officers
as follows: Grand chief, Mrs Frankie
Palmer, of Des Moines; grand senior,
Mrs Mary e. Johnson, of Boone; grand
Junior, Mrs. G. r. O'Brien, of Iowa
City; grand manager of records and
correspondence, Mrs. Effie Parsons, Of
Marion; grand mistress of finance,
Mrs. Mary j. Winter, of Cedar Rapids;
state organizer, Blanche e. Lichty, Of
Vinton.
Council Bluffs is favored for the next
meeting of the grand lodge of Rath-
bone Sisters. 1t can have the conven
ton if an invitation is extended at the
meeting of the grand council next
January.