The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1909-04-15
Secret Societies.

Primrose Chapter No. 153, Order of the
Eastern Star, will hold it's meetings in the
Masonic Hall on the first and third Fridays of
each month
District Deputy Grand High Priest W. j.
Dorman and DIR. w. c. Libby, Grand Master of
the Second Veil, went to Newport Tuesday to
make an official inspection of Stevens Royal
Arch Chapter No. %.
The annual meeting of the Great Council of
the Red Men of Maine will open at 10 o'clock
this morning in Red Mems hall, Portland, with
Great Sachem H. R. Gillis of Calais presiding.
The reports of the officers are to be submitted
during the morning and early afternoon, and
late in the afternoon the great chiefs will be
elected for the ensuing year. Under the Gus
tom followed for years the senior sycamore
will be advanced to great sachem and this will
give the position to Ira C. Strout of West
brook, while the junior sycamore, Harvey C.
Blanchard of Cumberland Center, will be ad-
vanced to the position of great senior saga
more. For the Office of great junior sycamore
there is to be three-cornered fight Great
Sannap Orrin j. Dickey of Belfast is one of the
candidates and Fred A. Hobbs of South Ber-
wick and Arthur B. Cook of Lewiston are also
seeking the honor.
The annual pow WOW given by Tarratine
Tribe of this city to the Red Men of this
section of Maine held in this city last
Monday evening and was one of the most sue
cessful conventions held in Belfast in wears.
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very large delegations arrived on the boats
and trains. Twenty members of Pequoit Tribe
of Vinalhaven came up, and with their degree
team conferred the Adoption degree The con-
vention opened with supper at Memorial hall
at $50, given by the members of the Degree of
Pocahontas, and it was very pleasant affair.
There were many tables and they were well
filed with choice viands. Following the supper
the members of the convention adjourned to
the Pythian building, where the regular meet
ing was opened and the visiting Pequoit Tribe
of Vinalhaven conferred the Adoption degree
on seven candidates. At the close of the work
of the visiting team which was done in a very
satisfactory manner, the degree staff of
Tarratine Tribe conferred the work in the
Warriors degree, and at the close the members
adjourned to the Memorial hall, where thew
danced until the wee small hours. Music VIZ
furnished by Simpsons orchestra of this city
and the occasion was merry one. During the
evening Great Sannap Orrin J. Dickey, in be-
half of Tarratine T. ibe presented to the visit
ing tribe a beautiful tomahawk, with neat
decorations, which received by Sachem
Williams of Vinalhaven with appropriate re-
marks Other speeches made during the
evening and the occasion was one long to be
remembered in the annals of the local tribe
and its guests, who left loud in their praise of
the entertainment here. The degree team of
Pequoit Tribe was composed of the following:
L. E. Williams, Sachem; J. E. Ames Senior
Sycamore F. c. Toleman, Junior Sycamore; U.
B. Dyer, Prophet; W. F. Wyman and A. M Mil
Ter, First and Second Sannaps; Fred Healey,
James Webster, W. H. Ingerson and O. V.
Drew, Warriors; V. H. Mossman, W. L. Staples,
Fred Kay and E. W. Conroy Braves; E. T.
Hall and H. L. Walls, First and Second Scouts;
A. B. Lane, Guard of the Forest.