The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-02-17
APPOINTMENTS IN
MASONIC LODGE
Grand Master at Columbus
Gives Names of Officers
HOME rs PROSPERING
Report of orphans' Home at Meridian Is
Very satisfactory and the En-
dowment Fund Is Large
and Growing
HOME rs PRoSPERING


Robert A. Carson. Columbus, deputy
sonville, senior grand warden J. Rice
Williams. Houston. junior grand war.
den; Joseph J. Brooks, Gunnison, grand
chaplain; Benjamin Y. White, Meridian
grand treasurer Frederic Speed Vicks-
burg, grand secretary; Nathan A. Gas
ton, Gulfport. senior grand deacon; w
NJ. Moore, Lula. junior grand deacon
Charles c. Buder, Columbus, grand
marshal: Jones L. Williams, Caledonia
grand sword bearer; Frederic Gordon
Speed. yicksburg. grand librarian
John w Hagenmeyer. Meridian. grand
pursuant; Julius Yaretzky, grand ty
| Ter.
The grand master announced the fol-
lowing committees:
Masonic Law-Emmett n. Thomas.
Greenville, chairman; William A.
Roane, oxford, and Henry C. Yawn,
Lumberton.
Complaints and Appeals-W. G.
sykes. Aberdeen, chairman, and Will
burn u Hampton, oxford.
Finance-Daniel L Ross, oxford.
chairman: A. Clarence Lowe, Aberdeen
and Walter P. Breach. Meridian.
State of Craft-James NJ. Dickely,
Corinth, chairman; William Kennel,
Aberdeen, and George V. Power, jack
son.
Subordinate Lodges-Anderson B.
aPtterson, Iuka, chairman, and Eu-
gene C. Dalrymple, Amory.
FOL PIr raft
Okolona, chairman.
F'raternal espondence-Harry T.
Howard. Biloxi. chairman.
Masonic Home Fund-Thomas U. Sis
son, Winona, chairman.
Three busy executive sessions and
a delightful programme of music, i'm
rromptu addresses and a general re-
ception at the chapel of the Industrial
Institute and Colleg this morning at
o'clock marked todays features of the
annual meeting.
The college exercises consumed about
an hour and at 1920 the morning ex-
eeutive session was called to order at
the courthouse. Again this afternoon at
2 o'clock the Masons assembled and at
7:30 they met again.
royal arch degree under direction of
the grand high priest, Edwin J. Mar
tin, and Grand Lecturer Edmund Sad
Ter was given at the Masonic temple.
Judge Frederic Speed of Vicksburg,
grand secretary, says there are about
700 Masons in Columbus. About AIS of
these are delegates, 81 are grand Off
GERS and the others visitors from yari-
Gus places In the state.
There are. ACCORDING caoro-
tary, 1927 Masons in the state of
Mississippi and last year they contrib
uted little in excess of $4,000.
The report Of the board of trustees of
the Masonic Orphans Home at Meridian
was adopted. This report is quite in
teresting, showing 80 children domicled
in the home at the present time. There
were IT In the home year ago, 80 have
been admitted this year and IA have with
drawn. The expenditures for the main
tenance of the home during the past year
amounted to $500, approximatng SO. 80
per month per capita.
A chapel most likely soon will be erect
ed at the home as the following ex-
tract from the report shows:
I'VE understand that the grand chap
ter Order of the Eastern Star oe Mis-
sissippi represented by it's splendid Ma
sonic Home committee, Mrs. Daisy Har-
rison, past grand matron, Meridian; Mrs
Matte G. Davis, past grand matron,
Okolona. and Mrs. Myra T. Eaton worthy
grand matron, Hattiesburg, are consid-
ering the proposition of the erection of
chapel on the grounds of the home,
and from the love and zeal displayed
by this noble band of women in the
cause of the home there can be no doubt
Of a successful fruition of the undertake
ing, should they decide favorably on the
proposition"
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ment the trustees submit the following:
| The home is under the active manage
| ment OF Mrs. Edna Richmond OF Can
| ton, and to her and to her splendid corps
of faithful assistants, Mrs. Elizabeth
Pully of Jackson, Pearl Green of Merid-
ian and Miss Nellie Parsons of Brook
haven. we feel under many obligations
for their splendid management of the
home and their watchful care and close
attention to the needs of the children
committed to our keeping.
| The home now has an endowment fund
of $S3,590. 40. An assessment of so cents
per capita will be made upon the lodges
as additional endowment fund. An as
sessment of % cents per capita will be
made upon the lodges as a maintainence
| fund for the home for the coming year.
The following resolution, copied from
the report in question, which was addi-
tional information:
| ReSoiVeu, mat the trustees or the
Masonic Home be authorized and direct
ed to pay out of the income of the
maintenance fund. to any lodge, a sum
not exceeding $50->in any one case, and
in any one year, for the support Of any
INDECENT aged brother master Mason or
widow or daughter of master Mason
provided. the said lodge shall contribute
an equal amount to that contributed by
the trustees for the support of said In
digent.
Resolved: That the trustees be au-
thorized and directed to build cottage
on the premises of such dimensions as