The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-10-21
SCOTTISH RITE
MASONS At WORK
Many Nominations Are Made
For Thirty-Third Degree
ALABAMA HAS THREE MEN
Charles T. Huck of Louisiana Is Pre-.
scented With a Handsome En-
blem by the Members of
Louisiana Lodge.

Washington, October 20-The ffty-fourth
biennial session of the supreme council
of Scottish Rite Masons for the south
ern jurisdiction resumed Its labors today.
AT the afternoon session, which was ex-
ecutive the active members gave consid-
Grafton to the report of the commission on
nominations for honorary thirty-third de-
gree Masons.
The following knights commander of the
court of honor were among those elected
to the thirty-third degree:
Maj. Charles Henry Barth, United
States army.
Alabama-William harrington Aldrich.
Aldrich James Bowron, Birmingham;
Thomas Murphy Mcmillan, Mobile.
Arkansas and District of Columbia-El-
mer Leroy Biggs. Hot Springs; Samuel
Posey Ceilings, Hot Springs; Francis AS
bury Sebring, Washington; George Guy
Wood, Little Rock; Stirling Albert Jerr,
Jr., Washington James Edward Shop
herd, Washington
Florida-George Pierce Sullivan, Tampa.
Georgia-Charles Hall Strong, Savan-
nah.
Louisiana-Ocative Jean Garsaur, New
Orleans; Abraham Louis Metz, New Or
leans.
Mississippi Benjamin Virginius White,
Meridian.
North Caroina-FranlS Tryon Meri-
wether, Asheville.
Oklahoma and New Mexico-Elva C.
Barrows, Tulsa; Louis Warren Baxter,
Guthrie; Louis Berlowitz, McAlester; Ed
ward Augustus Cahonn, Roswell, N. M;
Frank Alvin Derr, Guthrie; John will
lams Duke, Kuthrie; James Gordon
Fitch, Socorro, N. M. William Hayes
Fuller, McAlester; James Franklin Heath
erington. Oklahoma City; Almont Clark
Hixon, Guthrie; Roy Victor Hoffman,
Chandler Lendon Fuller Leach, Jr,
Guthrie; Charles Hoyt Alvin Martindale,
Guthrie; Henry Lowndes Muldrow, Tish-
mingo; Harmon Theodore Swearingen,
Guthrie; Willis Lee Sullivan, Paul's VAL
ley; Abraham Ulysses Thomas, McAles-
ter; Charles Augustus Wade. McAlester.
Tennessee-Benjamin Bentley Allen,
Nashville; George Elliot Dosion, Mem
phis; John Winston Eastman, Nashville;
Joseph Horton Fall, Nashville; Walter
Landstreet Gray, Memphis; Charles Sew
ard Lippincott. Memphis; Israel Hyman
Peres. Memphis.
Texas-Charles Leslie Alderman Big
Springs; George Zimmerman Dealey, Dali
las; John William Howerth, Dallas; Will
liam Brown Lockhart, Galveston; Donald
John McGregor, Galveston; James jack
son Ormsbee, Ell Paso; Joseph Sensheim-
er, Galveston; Charles Elijah Walden,
Beaumont; Louis Blaylock, Dallas.
The following charters were granted:
Atlanta consistory No. e. Atlanta, Ca;
Carolina consistory No. l, Charlotte, N.
G.; Joseph Mentford, Lodge of Perfection,
No. 3, Enfield, N. c.; Albermarle Lodge
of Perfection, No. 4, Elizabeth City, N.
c.; John Blakely Lodge of Perfection,
No. 8, Wilmington, N. c.; Aztlan chapter
Rose Croix No. l, Santa Fe, n. NJ; Coro-
nado Council Kadosh No. /, Santa Fe,
N. M; New Mexico consistory No. /,
Santa Fe, N. M. Bethlehem Council
Kadosh No. l, Charleston, s. c.; Nc
Daniel Lodge of Perfection No. l, Wheel
ing. w. Va; Charity chapter, Rose Croix
No. l, Wheeling, w. Va; Albert Pike
Preceptory Knights of Kadosh No. 1,
Wheeling, W. Va; West Virginia con-
sistry No. l, Wheeling, w. Va; o. S.
Long Lodge of Perfection No. 3, Charles
ton, w. Va.
Grand Commander Richardson an
nounced that the thirty-third honorary
degree would be conferred upon those
selected at today's session on Friday
evening.
This evening Charles F. Huck, SOW
erign grand inspector general of the
order in Louisiana and a former member
OF Congress, was presented with a hand
some emblem by the members of the
Louisiana lodge. Gus d Lew grand
master of Kadosh, Grand Consistory of
Louisiana, made the presentation speech
and Immediately on concluding was pre-
scented with similar emblem. Richard
Lambert of the grand lodge of that state
officiated.