Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1910-02-17
GRAND OFFICERS
ARE ELECTED.
Virginia Grand Lodge Of MaSOnS Choose
Them for Ensuing YeaT-TazeweII Man
Chosen District Deputy Grand Master
What the Masonic Home Is.

-Whdl lAe mdSOnlc nome Is.
The one hundred and thirty-second
communication of the Grand Lodge of
Masons of Virginia, which opened in
the City of Richmond on Tuesday of
last week concluded it's labors on Thurs
day afternoon, after which the many
hundred delegates returned to their va
rious homes throughout the State, feel
ing amply repaid for having been there.
Tazewell Lodge No. 81, was represent
ed by Messrs. John S. Bottimore, ]. B.
Boyer and ]. 7. Heldreth; and as e
mark of distinction for the zeal he has
displayed in promoting the principles of
the Order, Mr.. Bottimore was appoint
ed District Deputy Grand Master for
the Forty-fourth district by Grand Mas
ter William B. McChesney. Mr.. Botti-
more was not an aspirant for the posi-
tion, and the appointment came only in
recognition of his Masonic proficiency
and his long and useful services as a
member of the Craft; and the members
of Tazewell Lodge feel that they have
been signally honored by his appoint
m snt to this responsible position.
Following is the list of Grand Officers
elected for the ensuing year:
Most Worshipful Grand Master, Will
liam B. McChesney, of Staunton; Dep
uty Grand Master, William L. Andrews,
of Staunton; Grand Senior Warden,
Philip K. Bauman, Essex county; Grand
Junior Warden, James B. Wood, of
Charlottesville; Grand Treasurer, Fred
erick Peasants, of Richmond; Grand
Secretary, DR.. Geo. w. Darlington, of
Richmond; Grand Senior Deacon, ]. AL
ston Csbell, of Richmond; Grand Junior
Deacon, H. Knox Field, Alexandria.
We CLEAN the following from dele
gate to the meeting of the Grand Lodge
of Virginia, which we think may be of
interest to some of our readers, especi-
ally the members of the Masonic Fra
ternity:
Outside of Masonic circles it is not
generally known that the Masonic order
of Virginia maintain and support a
Home in Richmond, for the care, edu-
cation and fitting for usefulness in life
of children of Masons, whose parents,
by reason of death, or their Inability TO
support or educate, will be received and
given the same loving care, mental and
moral training, they would get in the
most christian homes.
There is, perhaps, no other order
which so scrupulously obeys that Di-
vine command: DO not your aims be-
fore men, ETC., as ours, but as the
Home is in no sense an 'orphanage, ,
nor its maintenance Charity" but one
of the most sacred obligations and low
ing privileges of our order, do not feel
that am violating any of its sacred
tenets by saying a word about it. The
Home is under the immediate direction
direction of the Grand Lodge of Vir-
ginia, and is in charge of a superinten-
dent and several matrons appointed by
it. The supreme object sought to be
attained is, that it shall be home in
every sense of the word to the children
received into it. Every effort is made
to impress them with the fact that they
are in the house of their fathers and
are our children, and, as such, are en-
titled to our love, care and protection.
cat present there are about sixty
children in the Home-seven from this
county, two of them. Georgia and Ralph
Emschwiller. being from this town.
During the recent session of the
Grand Lodge of Virginia the children of
the Home gave very creditable enter
tainment, consisting of songs, music,
recitations, ETC., which showed the re-
suit of the loving care and the mental
and moral training they had received.
One bright little fellow had written a
charming little childish, of
course-but the delegates, like all good
fathers, bought the entire edition.
"a voluntary subscription was taken
for the purpose of buying two or three
typewriters for the use of the larger
children-some of whom are about ready
to enter upon a practical business ca.
reer. l do not know what amount was
collected, but l do know that many Of
the delegates left the lodge-room with
full hearts and empty pockets. In al
that immense throng there was not 6
dry eye when good bye" was said
They were our children, by the ties o1
brotherly love and legal adoption. Yor
must be Mason to understand"