Fergus County Democrat. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1904-1919, 1912-12-10
.SHR|NERS BACK
FROM CAPITAL
ABOUT FIFTY ENJOY PILGRIMAGE
TO HELENA FOR THE AN
NUAL GATHERING,
WAS A GREAT SUCCESS
Novices Cross the Burning Sands
Lewistown Members Of the Order
Are Honored-Aigeria Temple Buys
Helena Theater for Permanent
Home-Laree Attendance.

Home-large Attendance.
The Lewistown Shriners and nov
ices left here Wednesday night,
bound for Helena, and were joined ut
Harlowton by few others, bringing
the total up to about fifty. The party
made the journey in two Pullmans,
which were sidetracked at Helena and
furnished home for the visitors dur
ing their brief stay, for with some
five hundred Masons gathered at the
capital city hotel accommodations
were at premium.
The annual gathering was the most
successful and largely attended in the
history Of Algeria temple. The bust
ness meeting was held at the old Ma
sonic temple Thursday afternoon and
the arrangements for making the
initiation all that 1t should be were
completed. At that meeting o. r.
Wasmansdorff, Of Lewistown, was
elected one of the delegates to the
imperial council; A. B. Lehman, said
to have been the most imposing Orien-
tai guide in the world, was advanced
to the position Of illustrious assistant
rabban, the complete list of officers
of the temple being:
\ DR.. O. M. Lanstrum, Helena, illus
trious potentate; II. r. Cunningham.
Helena. illustrious chief rabban; J.
H. Hall, Helena, illustrious assistant
rabban; Alex. Lehman, Lewistown, H.
lustriOus high priest and prophet: p.
B. Moss. Billings. illustrious Oriental
guide; III. G. Pickett, Helena, first
ceremonial master; w. =. Chamber
lain. Great Falls, illustrious second
ceremonial master; George Cooker,
illustrious recorder; Fl. M. Parchen,
illustrious treasurer; delegates to the
imperial council. Dr. O. M. Lanstrum,
A. w. Manon, Glasgow, and Otto F.
Wasmansdorff, Lewistown.
At this meeting the purchase of the
Helena theater by Algeria temple and
the Scottish right Masons was ratified
The present owners will have pos.
session until some time next year
when It will be turned over to Algeria
temple for permanent home. The
next initiation will take place in this
new temple.
! While the mobiles were thus en-
gagged in the business meeting the nov
ices scattered over the city and al
p. m. all assembled at the temple
where the novices, clad in white
were hooked onto the big rope-al
but few. Upon Acting Governor AL
len was bestowed the high honor oi
being made keeper of the sacred goat
and he drove the animal over the en-
tire city. Three Lewistown novices
because of their beauty of form anC
feature, were placed in the big cage
to prevent any attempts at kidnapping
one of these victims bearing re
markable resemblance to Frank Goss
while another looked like Georgt
Finch.
Lewistown Shriners figured very
conspicuously in this pageant, the cit,
being represented on the official divan
in the ranks of the various division.
of the Shriners and conspicuously II
the novice section. To the latter 4
seemed as though a whole lot of Lew
istoWn people were among the thou
sands of spectators who lined thu
streets. John B. Ritch was found a
every street corner and seemed to en-
potentate himself.
uc I1clCud AnoCPCAuCAI soy % VI SAA'
parade:
The trek to the shrine over the Sa
hara, or in other words. Main street
Sixth avenue and Warren street, be
gan at 7:3O in the evening, and con
tinued indefinitely. Inc clans Of thu
desert gathered in Broadway In from
of the Masonic temple and formed II
line. The work of arranging the lines
by the snieks took up Is minutes
When all was in readiness, Sol Hep
ner was detailed to lead forth thu
sacred camel of the Temple of Kala
mazoo and the pilgrimage was on.
First came the sacred musicians o.
the temple of Killemalloff. Otter
termed by the vulgar the COWBOY
Band. They were followed by the OF
fetal Divan, bearing the dynasty ane
a few more. The Shrine Brigade, lee
by Johnzuk Bairazook, was next II
order and was followed by the Orien
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