The Calumet news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 1907-1938, 1912-02-08
SUMMER HOME
FOR SHRINERS
CONF ITTEE APPOINTED TO
BRING PROPOSED lNsTITU.
TON TO SOME UPPER
PENINSULA SITE.

A concerted effort to secure for IN,
upper peninsula. the proposed summer
homo and general meeting place foi
the Mobiles of the Mystic shrine wa,
taken at the meeting OF the Uppei
Peninsula Development Bureau al
Marquette, when a committee of five
members OF Ahmed Temple Mobiles ol
the Mystic Shrine of Marquette. was
named to confer with the committee
named by the Imperial council of the
order, and set forth the advantages
which the Michigan north country
holds out for an ideal summer home
and meeting place for that branch OF
Masonry.
Al the last meeting of the Imperial
council of the Shriners. a decision was
reached TO have a summer home erect
ed where all of the subsequent an
nual gatherings of the Shrine could
be held. A committee was named to
decide on a suitable site. and it is this
committee that the upper peninsula
committee will now get after. The Inn
perial council committee recently
spent some time in southern Michigan
as guests of the Pere Marquette rail
road, which provided a special train
to convey the members to various
points of advantage. where a summer
home might be erected.
1t is contended that the upper pen
insula, along the shore of Lake Su-
perior offers advantages which can
not be rivalled by any other place i'm
the country. To this end the Develop
ment Bureau has decided to get after
the project and when the Imperial
council meets in Los Angeles next
June the claims of this section of the
country will be strongly advanced.
J. T. Fisher on Committee.
The committee named at yester-
days meeting consist Of II. T. Emerson
OF Menominee, potentate of Ahmed
temple, as chairman, T. w. MacPher-
ran of Marquette. James 4. Fisher of
Calumet, w. j. Richards Of Crystal
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Ste. Marie. The committee is made up
entirely of Shriners, the idea being
that in order to obtain entrance into
the meetings of the Shrine the COM
mittee of members could accomplish
better results than a committee of
non Shriners. Messrs. Emerson and
Richards are delegates of Ahmed Tenn.
pie TO the Imperial council and in this
way the matter can be taken right on
the floor of the big meeting next
summer.
The upper peninsula offers an I'M
rivalled climate in the summer II is
pointed out that It is the most central
suitable location i'm the United States.
1t affords opportunity for hunting,
fishing, boating and all outdoor recre-
alton and the water from Lake Su-
perior is unequalled for drinking pur-
poses. These are only few of the
reasons TO be set forth by the local
committee why the proposed summer
home should come to the peninsula.
AS prospective sites, number are In
view. chief of which are near NUNS
ing opposite the Grand Island game
preserve and close TO the Pictured
Rocks. and on the south shore of Ke-
weonaw Bay. between Pequaming and
LAnse. Either one of these sites, II
is declared, would be most suitable
and ideal.
While the present plan of the I'm
perial council of the shrine is to erect
large general building for a sum-
mer home, and which could he used as
practical summer resort. there is no
question but that raGst Of the states
would build their individual homes. 81
that very large Shrine colony would
result. II is estimated that about 5000
acres would be required. this, of
course, TO be donated To the Shrine,
hut the expenditure for buildings is
expected to total more than 100000.