The Dickinson press., 1911-02-25
''OUR NEW NElGHBORS''-
THE gospel allows no such term as
Strander:

PrOf. Z. j. N. Nelson of the Beach
school responded 10 the above toast. In
this case Dickinson is the mother lodge.
A dispensation was granted the Beach
lodge in 1907 and the following year
charter was given. The speaker said
his lodge. Sunset No. 88. now had
membership of so. He had viewed with
e.eat deal of pleasure the Temple at
Dickinson and was happy in the thought
that it was their parental home.
The quartette, composed of ]. v.
Jessen, A. W. Ellickson. John and
Welland Orchard, sang Down on the
Farm. and were encored.
''OUR NEW HOME AND IT'S BUILDERS
They builded better than they knew"
George A. Senour gave brief history
of the work of the Dickinson Masonic
Building Association in building the
most handsome Temple in the state and
the most costly outside Of the Red River
Valley. The lodge was instituted
October ii, 1889. with seventeen men,
bers. Qonr within hearing of his voice.,
the present membership being little
less than 200. Columbian Chapter,
with half as many members, was
chartered June IS. 1894. The Eastern
Star was chartered year later and has
passed all the orders of the lodge in
point of members. Temple Commandery
was instituted February IA, 1905, and
has membership little less than one
hundred. Mr.. Senour referred to the
home of the order in the First National
bank building for over twenty years and
it's outgrowing the same. The credit for
starting the building move some two
years ago, he said, was due. to DR..
Stickney who had had much to do with
financing the project.
''NEIGHBORS FROM OVER THE LINE
S"Hand grasps hand, eye lights eye in
good friendship
And great hearts expand,
And grow one in the sense of this
worlds life
On behalf of Glendive lodge No. 81,
F. P. Fleming spoke briefly. He said
the order erected a temple there which,
at one time, was the best in Montana.
The investment had been good one for
the stockholders and he inferred that he
expected the Dickinson Temple to prove
equally as good, and it was very much
larger and finer. Mr.. Fleming said he
had travelled east quite little and he
had never at any place in the United
States seen Temple so we'll arranged
and so beautiful in architectural struc-
ture as the Dickinson home.
THE LADIES'
IF you would know exactly what is
seemly,
You only need ask the noble woman.
W. F. Burnett quoted beautiful lines
about the ladies and aroused the ad-
miration of the fairer sex present. He
declared that women had excelled in
every pursuit undertaken. and said the
American women of today were the
women Of the earth and should un-
questionably be Given the ballot.
THE GRAND LODGE
Hands clasped across the state"
W. l.. Williamson. deputy grand
master. responded by saying that Free
Masonry as an institution of power
and influence knows no bounds. 1t
was world wide. North Dakota, grow
ing out of the grand lodge of Iowa,
has ninety-six chartered lodges and three
working under dispensation. with a
membership of 7,700, covering all
portions of the state. MIR. Williamson
said that he esteemed it rare privi-
ledge to be present for the dedication of
such magnificent Temple.
"REMINISCENCES
Don't you remember7- upon a
time
F. A. Cousins of Bismarck regretted
that James W. Foley, state poet, was
OAoOSO " VIC pACSCul 4VI tll16 UCCASlOn as
had been planned. He said that he had
been one of the admiring visitors of the
Temple during the day and he was sure
that the people of Dickinson in years to
come would look back with special
interest upon the doings of February q,
1911.
At O'Clock a. m. the people went
above again, some to their homes and
others remaining for few more num-
bers on the dance program. music for
which was furnished by the W. W.
Davey orchestra.
FURNISHINGS
The rich, massive furniture which has
just been put into place. is all in oak
to correspond with the interior finish Of
the building. Some Of the pieces have
been donated by past masters and other