The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-05-19
.PYTH|ANS ID BUILD MONTGOMERY HOME Bond Issue of S40,OO0 Will
 Be Necessary SESSION ADJOURNS Thirty-ninth Convention of the Grand Lodge Was the Most Harmon
 ious in Many Yers
 Past
 

| The thirty-ninth session of the grand
 lodge of Alabama Knights of Pythias
 came to close Thursday afternoon after
 a successful two-day meeting.
 | The feature of Thursdays meeting was | the adoption of the report of the ways and means committee to erect Pythian
 temple at Montgomery to cost $50, 600 as a permanent meeting place for the grand lodge. The proposition to erect the tenn pie has been before the grand lodge for 1 several years past, and the fact that the grand lodge owns a suitable lot located | in Montgomery, and that being centrally located in the state. had much to do with the adoption of the committees report. There was some objection to the propo- sition principally on the grounds that the | meetings of the grand lodge in various parts of the state increased interest in the
 order The discussion for and against the temple was spirited and was participated
 in by J. M. Dannelly Robert Margum. | T. D. Sanford, Jacob D. Block, and other prominent members of the order. On a vote being taken the rseasure was car red by vote of 142 to 7.
 bond issue for $4o,00o was authorized,
 as the building committee has already
 some funds on hand, and other measures
 passed to ensure the speedy erection and
 completion of the temple.
 The plans for the new edifice have all
 ready been drawn by Messrs OlSel and
 Cooper, architects, of Montgomery. The
 building committee is compnsed of James B. Ellis, Selma; J. Rivers Carter, Bir-
 mingham; Ben A. Taylor. Montgomery; Jacob D. Block Mobile; T. D. Sanford of Opelika.
 J. Lee Holloway, the newly elected chancellor commander. is attorney for
 the committee. It is understood arrange ments have been made to place the bonds. and as the grand lodge has ap-
 proved the plans the erection of the tenn ple will be commenced at once and it Is expected to be completed in time for the
 next meeting of the grand lodge. The recommendation of Past Grand Chancellor Lull that paid field workers be employed to assist the grand chancel-
 Tor in the organization of new lodges and
 give instruction in the work brought
 about much discussion and was finally passed to the new grand chancellor for further action. Quite number of reso- lutions were disposed of and with the adoption of the budget and the installa- ton of the new grand officers the session of the grand lodge came to close. The session was the most harmonious
 in many years past. There was a total
 absence of friction, even the customary fight for the position of grand outer
 guard, which, as the stepping stone lead
 ing to the much coveted grand chancel-
 lor's chair did not materialize. The place was handed on a silver platter to Ben
 Taylor of Montgomery, Pythian who, 1t is believed, is fully qualified to fill that
 or any other position in the grand lodge with credit to himself and to the honor
 of the order. So 1t was. with the other positions of trust and honor, which were
 all filled by unanimous vote, with the ex-
 ception of that of supreme representa-
 lives, Beck and Sanford, who were elect
 ed over their opponents on the first ballot
 by handsome majority.
 However, the time usually spent in
 lengthy discussions was applied to need ed legislation and the session will go
 down in the archives of the lodge as one
 of the most successful in the history of the order.