Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1910-10-16
PREPARATIONS FOR LARGEST
MEETING EVER HELD HAVE
BEEN COMPLETED.
coNvENEs MONDAY AND LAsTe
UNTIL FRIDAY EVENING
Herbert c. Ring to Be installed as
Grand Naturalization Of Old Poo
pies Home One Of tho Big Cues
lions 20 as considsrsd-sioux City
Wants Next Meeting.

are practically completed for the open
ing OF the sixty-third annual meeting
of the Iowa grand lodge, the grand en-
campment and the Rebekah assembly
which convene in this city next week.
Grand lodge officers began to arrive
today, and by Monday morning every
Grand lodge officer will be here. The
meetings promise to be the greatest IN
the history Of the grand lodge. The
attendance will be very large, and the
hotel and boarding house capacity will
be so severely taxed that the enter
4 ainment committee Is already listing
scores OF homes where guests can be
The official program
which has Just been issued for the
convention is as follows:
Monday, Oct. II.
to p. M, at American Auditorium
to grand officers and
members; Charles D. Huston, presiding.
to 10 p. m.-Selection, Girls Or
chestra Of orphans home.
Address Of we1come-Mac J. Ran
dali, representative.
Response for the Grand Lodge 1. O..
o. Ed. B. Gum. grand master.
Response for the Grand Encampment
Silberstein. grand patriarch.
Solo-Elizabeth Pease.
Greetings to the Rebekahs-Mrs.
Kate ]. Fordyce.
Response - Mrs. Hattie Barquist,
president Of the Rebekah assembly.
Solo-Elizabeth Pease.
Music-Girls' Orchestra
Tuesday, Oct. 10.
a. m. at Randolph Hall-Opening
exercises Of grand encampment.
At Masonic Temple lodge rooms
Opening exercises of state assembly.
1880 p. m. at Auditorium-Exemp
hcation Of encampment degrees by
Stuart Encampment No. 81.
At American Auditorium-1nstalla-
ton Of officers, Marion lodge, No. 70,
Exemplifcation of Rebekah degree by
Leech lodge No. rs, Des Mofnes.
Wednesday, Oct. 10.
a. m. at Rudolph hall-Opening ex-
At Masonic Temp1e-Session Rebe-
kah state assembly.
1880 p. m.-Grand parade, forming on
First avenue and Third street.
D.. M at Audltoriun-J. D. Wardle,
presiding.
Address Of Welcome-Mayor Matt
Niles.
Address on behalf Of Cedar Rapids
LODGE. A. Talbot.
Responses by d. b. Gum. grand
master: L. Silberstein, grand patriarch,
and Hattie BarQuist, president Rebekah
assembly.
p. m. at Auditorium-Exem
ton Of subordinate degree work. Ini-
ttatory degree, SigoMney lodge No. 50:
first degree. Sherman lodge No. SIG,
Des Moines: second degree. Main
lodge. Cedar Rapids.
1880 p. m. at American Auditorium
of Rebekah degree,
Queen Lodge. No. 106, Mason City,.
memorial work, exemplified by Miriam
lodge No. 81, Muscatine.
s p. m.-Club room. Montrose Hotel
OF Past Grand Officers Assoc
citation.
Thursday, Oct. 20.
800 a. m. at Rudolph hall-Session
Of the grand lodge.
800 a. m. at Masonic Temple-Ses-
sion OF the Rebekah state assembly.
300 p. Enclosing session Of the
Rebekah state assembly.
300 p. Naturalization of state as
sembly officers by past presidents.
1880 p. m.-At Westminster church.
program.
Rebekah memorial address Mrs.
Lena T. Ring.
Eulogy-J. J. Mc1ntire, P. G. NJ, p.
g. r., N. Jasper Jones.
Eulogy-Charles OF, grand guardian,
Bro. r. L. Tilton.
Eulogy-Josie v. Hukil, P. G. P,
Sister Helen R. Griffith.
Address. Rank and File" Hon.
Jerry S. Green.
Friday, Oct. Fl.
900 a. NAT Rudolph hall, sessions
Of grand lodge.
$500 p. Enclosing session Of grand
lodge.
At this session Of the grand lodge,
Herbert c. Ring, OF Cedar Rapids. will
be installed as grand master. Mr..
Ring ia the present deputy grand mas
ter.
One Of the principal matters to be
by the grand lodge is the
Of the old felix's home. The
aged members Of the order, and cared
for by the order. are now housed in the
home at Mason City. This Is
not satisfactory. and the erection Of a
oCP0A0S0 AAOLAS 40 uAANCE NOA1oAuSA dkoDAA'
A committee appointed at a former
grand lodge will undoubtedly recon-
mend that q home be erected on the
same land on which the orphans home
at Mason City stands. The tract con-
slsts of 240 acres, and the committee
feels 1t would be unwise to spend
for another location. But the
grand master Is understood to be In
r. vOr ~ SelecfipQe another cifv for the
old folks home. A contest in grand
lodge will undoubtedly develop.
Sioux City is an active candidate for
A Nnfro narnn I.advse Annea1