Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-09-22

Friday evening" December T. 1t is the in
| tention Of the committee to present the
| work In an elaborate manner. in which
representatives from the various lodges
and uniform rank companies are expected
| to take part. The details will be looked
after by committee on ritualstic work
among the opportunities named by Grand
Chancellor Middleton is that of the COM
mittee on membership, with the view of
increasing interest in the Jubilee and the
committee. of which Grand Vice Chancellor
q. Frank Day Is chairman. will visit the
subordinate lodges and cooperate with
them to secure members for the jubilee
class. Efforts will be put forth to secure
100 members or more for the Jubilee. Appli-
cants for membership In the order of
knights of Pythias who have been accept
ed by their lodges between now and the
date of the jubilee will be assembled in a
page rank class. and with ceremony appro-
pirate TO the occasion the rank will be
conferred In the Pythian Temple on the
evening of December Z. Various suhcom
mlttees OF the general committee will have
charge of the details. and If the nlans NJ
the committee are successful the j,1h,,ee
Will be one of the most important events In
local Pythianism. A meeting of the Jubilee
committee VIII be held at the Pythian Tenn
pie next Friday evening. when reports will
pc made by the subcommittee that have
been appointed. ~
Al the regular meeting of Martha Chan
ter, No. 4, O.. E. s., the degrees were con-
ferred on four candidates Refreshments
were served. This chapter win entertain
Its friends at Odd Fellows Hall the 26th
instant. -''A
Boston has again been selected as the
meeting place for the annual session of the
supreme Council OF the Northern Jurisdic-
ton OF the Ancient Accepted Scottish Rite
BY the regulations Of the council 1t must
meet In Boston at least once in three wears
1t met there in 1908 and 1904 and 1905
Much time was consumed at this session
In the reading of memorials to deceased
members In the thirty-third degree the
committee on memorials prepares a me-
mortal for every member who dies during
the year. This year there had been a large
number OF deaths, including some very
prominent active and honorary members
The full list Of officers elected is as follows:
Sovereign grand commander, Henry L.
Palmer Of Milwaukee; grand lieutenant
commander. Samuel c. Lawrence of Med
ford; grand minister Of state, John c.
Smith Of Chicago. Deputies-For Maine,
VIM. c. Mason Of Bangor; New Hampshire.
Marsh o. Perkins of Windsor; Massachu-
sets. Charles C. Hutchinson Of Lowell:
Rhode Island, George H. Kenyon of Provi-
dence; Connecticut, Charles L. Hubbard Of
Norwich; New York. William Holman Of
New York city; New Jersey, Robert A.
shirrefs Of Elizabeth; Pennsylvania, James
l. Buchanan of Pittsburg: Ohio, Barton
Smith of Toledo; Michigan. Hugh McCurdy
of Corunna; Indiana, William Geake Of
Fort Wayne; Illinois, Amos Pettibone Of
Milwaukee, Grand treasurer general. New
ton D. Arnold Of Providence; grand secre-
tary general, James H. Codding of New
York; grand keeper Of archives, Charles G.
Hutchinson of Lowell; grand master gen.
eral of ceremonies, Thomas E. Balding Of
Milwaukee,; grand marshal general Robert
A. Shirrefs of Elizabeth. N. j.; grand stand
ard bearer, William Geake of Fort Wayne,