The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1910-05-25
TIE CEREMONIAL
SHRINE SESSION
ANNOUNCEMENT PAMPHLET is
MEMORIAL FOR FRANK J.
THOMPSON = GIVEN IN GUS
ToMARY EASTERN STYLE OF
THE sHRINERs.

The notices for the ceremonial ses-
sion of FL zagal Shrine were sent out
today. The booklet was complied by
Alfred q. Arvold, recorder pro tenn.
1t might be said to be a memorial of
Ell Zagals past potentate and recorder
| Frank Jared Thompson. who passed
away last February. 1t contains among
other features the announcements
made by Mr.. Thompson from 1893 to
| 1910, much of the poetry that was
! written by him, as well as his SER
mons and witticisms, and will be kept
| by the thousands of the fraternity who
| knew and loved him.
Some of the poems of Mr.. Thompson
were published all over the United
States and found their way into some
of the English Masonic publications
Those who read it will remember many
of the sayings of the dead man, and
they will bring back many pleasant
memories. 1t is a nicely compiled
work and will be valuable to Masons
In general and to Shriners of the state
in particular.
Following is the announcement for |
the ceremonial session, which has been |
made in true eastern style;
Announcement.
"Forty sons of Arabic birth and Al |
tah's faith, loose-legged, Jaunty- faced, |
laughing-lipped, in for a good time |
fellows from Ell Zagaland, who re-
Gently hummed over the rails through
The land of Dixie, made the sacred |
pilgrimage to the Oasis of New
Orleans, crossed the burning sands of |
En
thirst with the far famed efferyescent |
gin fiz, washed their copper-lined gut
teral passages with the good old Sag
erac cocktails, bathed their smelling,
swelling feet in the soft, salt sea foam
Of Mexico's gulf Cts waters are no
longer briny) have come back to their
mother temple filled with a desire to
work off the superabundant, irrepress-
ible, explosive, pent-up. enthusiasm,
and have prayed to have the Summer
Ceremonial Friday evening, June TO-,
1910, at o'clock sharp.
Allah has granted their prayer. A
word to the wise Is sufficient BE a
Shriner-an active one--you are a
long time dead. Columbus said this
tour hundred and eighteen years ago,
but who cares. Get some good fell
lows petition. Explain to him the
vicissitudes the beatitudes. the de-
lusive shams, the unseen realities of
the country from whose bourne no
traveller returns-the mighty enigma
of just one ceremonial existence. I'm
ravel the hidden mysteries of the
darkening, glittering shades of black
est night and lightest day that will
penetrate the piercing ball shaped Wis
ual organs, the hideous roaring,
tempestuous sounds that will strike
his auditory nerves, as his ankle pro-
jectors tread pass the ingenious, ex-
quisite tableaux of the alchemist's den
IN the caravans swing around the
circle. Wax eloquent on the galaxy
of fabulous freaks-the ass, the goat,
the officers, the menagerie that he
will see and meet on the sands of the
hot Sahara as he sips and sucks the
camels milk and allows the lace cur
tain on his upper lip to brush off the
filthy microbes from the sacred
Black Stond Tell him about the
German Village with it's Cheshire
cheese and geometrically square meals
at microscopically low prices.
ooh, you Shriner! use some of
that reserve you have stored a.way
for the last forty years. It will rot
if you don't. Come to the next cere-
monial with an overflow of that exhil-
arating, What the hell do I care
spirit Be a live wire a dead one
always rusts. An enthusiastic no
BILE is the only type OF a shriner. En-
thusiasm is the generating power that |
moves the world. 1t is the dynamics
Of constructive thinking. It originates,
promulgates and creates fun, frolic |
and llowship-Ithree Attributes of |
Shrinedom. Enuf said.
Dispel the sour-visaged 'counte- |
nance, be of good cheer. uncork your
enthusiasm, and be with us.
Yours in the faith
Mvron A. Baldwin,