The advocate. [volume] (Charleston, W. Va.) 1901-1913, 1907-04-04
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Supreme Chancellor >>Starks
Institutes . grand lodge at
Harrisburg after much.
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Harrisburg, Pa. March 27.--Har-
risburg,' the capital city OF Pennsyl-
yanfa. has been the mecca Of the
great order OF Knights OF Pythias of
the State ePennsylvania for the last
three days. Tho occasion being the
organization OF a Grand Lodge Tor
the entire State. Heretofore the State
has had two Grand Lodges. one In the
Eastern and one in western part
With Harrishnrg the dividing. line,
. ,Fhe Supreme Lodge at is session In
Pittsburg, In August, 1908 gave
the* Supreme Chancellor authority
to merge the two, into one Grand
Lodge for. the entire State. IN
response tor the proclamation issued
bySuprsne Chancellor Starks in
structing each lodge to send two
Representative to meet in Harris
burg on Tuesday, ? March : 26th,
for the purpose 8 or organizing
the Grand Lodge; thirty-five out OF
the thirty-eight lodges in the State
responded, sand their, Representatives,
were present. They began to arrive
Monday afternoon, and by Tuesday
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ground. The representatives assem-
bled Tuesday morning at Odd Eel
lows Hall which by the way is q
handsome building owned by the
.sgxOdd FELLOWS Of Harrisburg and
formed q Tprocession to the Penn
sylvania Railroad depot to meet
Supreme Chancellor s. w Starks,
who was due =, to arrive from
Charleston, w. Va, at 1850 a. m.
Just before the time. for starting
that the Supreme Chancellor had
missed connection at Baltimore, and
would not arrive until 2:50 p. m.
The Meeting then resolved itself into
:. q sort: of "Pythian Camp Fire" in
which theart to heart" talks were In
dulged in, and the members from
the two sections OF the State made
=. themselves better a acquainted with
: eath other. Each speaker expressed
" himself as being heartiiy$in fayor fof
one Grand Lodge for the. .ea tire State.
35 S5 Atsf the appf2s~ tsfA SE ID Ao.az
seistatiYes UAocead "a fo the saesSf to
meet Supreme chancellor Starks
HS&waa egcortad to the residence OF
Mrs. jackson where he was enter
taihed william the city. 1t was four
O'Clock wheH the hall was. reached,
and the meeting was called to order.
Invocation was offered by Rev. w. L.
Green, Of Finleyville. The Supreme
Chancellor then stated the object of
the meeting, and also took pains to
have each member thoroughly un-
derstand the intricate e., workings
which it had required at times to
bring the two Grand Lodges together
in one harmonious body. He spoke
highly of the good work which had
been done by leading Pythians In
each section of the State to bring
about the desired end. 1t was easily
Been that the task of merging two
Grand Lodges into Ione and at, the
same time do justice to all concerned,
and promote harmony was not an
easy one and. all present were out
spoken in approval Of the skillful
manner in which the Supreme Chan
-cel1or had brought the work to the
desired elimination. = =: z.T- =
-, A committee <pf which Rev. J. G.
TaultonJ Jzof Homestead, was chair
man was appointed on credentials
and returns. A recesss Of an hour
was then taken TO give the Represen-
tatfves Of the Subordinate lodges an
opportunity to qualify and be enroll
ed During the recess a committee
from Pythias Lodge No. 81, Of :Har-
risburg, escorted the Supreme Chan
cellor to some Of the points Of inter-
est in the city. Among other places
visited was~ Pennsylyanias now IA
NOUS State House where the legisla-
tt1re was In session atthe time. The
governors office and many others In
the State house were visited. ,sEach
official thanked the Supreme Chancel-
1or and the 81, committee for having
called, and all Of them said they
were glad to see the man at the head
OF an organization which was SO
strong and doing 80 much for the ele-
walton Of the people. The welcome
extended tGthe Supreme Chancellor
every where was cordial, but that ex-
tended by. the State Librarian, Hon.
Mr.. Montgomery, was extremely SO
when he was told that the Supreme
Chana Tor was also the State Librar-
ian of the State of West Virginia. He
showed every courtesy OF his ONCE
insisted upon, the Supreme Chan
/eellor spending some time With nm
before leaving the city.
Upon returning to the hall the
meeting was. called to order. The
Committee on Credentials and Re-
ttirns announced that 1t was ready to
report. The report which showed
that accredited and qualified Repre-
sentatiyes from thirty-five lodges
y. we're present, was read and accepted.
@4t was then decided to appoint q
committee to draft constitution and
by laws for the government OF the
Grand Lodge when formed. The
COMMITTEE, consisting Of W. II. Stan
ton, Csairman, Or. J. D. Phillips,
M. G. Brown, A. P. Mcclure and W.
y. Garmes, was appointed. A recess
was Shen taken until Wednesday
morning, at 10 O'Clock. Upon, reas-
sembling the committee through It's
chairman announced that after work
ing nearly all night it was prepared
noT,oYf Tho rpuOTf Was