Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1912-11-28
" MORNING, SILAS "
SalutatiOn Adopted by HelIa Temple
for Use at the Imperial Coun-
Gil Next May.


lea for 1913. This salutation
for the thousands who will
assemble in Dallas next May for
the Imperial Council meeting has
been formally adopted by the execu-
tive committee of Hella Temple.
Members of the committees in charge
of arrangements for the entertain
ment OF the Masonic visitors are pro-
gressive, far-seeing and intelligent
men, men of high order of execu-
tive ability, who were picked on ac-
count Of their recognized prominence,
their knowledge of Texas as we'll as
the great order they represent.
Fourteen years ago Dallas, then a
city OF less than 10000 inhabitants,
entertained the Imperial Council
meeting. That meeting made mem-
orable by lavish entertainment, ad-
vertised Texas from ocean to ocean
and from Canada to Mexico. Texas
Shriners are now known from ocean
to ocean and Texas has a reputation
for doing things on a large scale.
Expecting an even larger attendance
than that recorded at Los Angeles
this year, local Shriners promise to
make this coming meeting next May
red letter event in the history of
their order.
H. b. Robertson, chairman of the
committee on entertainment of pa
trolls and bands, declares some of the
best drilled men in America will pass
in review before the imperial poten-
tate in the grand parade which will
feature the Imperial Council meet
ing. He is expecting to entertain at
least 80 patrols, the very cream of
the worlds Shrinedom, and 25 to 80
Shrine bands, Band music, he says,
will be one of the big features this
year Hella Temple has organized a
band and this body of musicians will
be kept constantly practicing from
now until next May splendid
round of entertainments is being ar
ranged for the patrols and bands.
Dallas is expecting not less than
100 de luxe Shrine specials next May.
Information from the various rail
road linac indicota tbot ~ Io,ct A. T.,
number of special trains will arrive
the three days just prior to the I'M
perial Council meeting. The matter
of parking these specials is a big
problem and this duty falls upon the
transportation committee of which
G. S. Maxwell is chairman. Details
of the arrangements will be sent to
the Shriners of the country months
ahead SO that Immediately upon ar
rival the special trains can be parked
in accordance with the plans pre-
pared before hand
1t is expected that several of these
de luxe specials will be used in the
side trips over the state following
the sessions of the Imperial Council
This Promises to be crowning fea
ture of a splendid program now un
der preparation. These trips will bC
made in order that visitors from
other states may be given an oppor
tunity of viewing for themselves the
magnificent area of Texas, its great
cities, its points of historic interest
its wonderful strides along industrial
lines and its undeveloped resources
Chairman Maxwell said relative to
these trips:
Every citizen of North America is
interested in Texas and the south
west, for they know Texas has his
tory as brilliant with achievement as
any commonwealth of the republic
or any nation under the sun. 1t has
its Goliad, the Alamo and San Jacin-
to, which will live in history while
the art of printing survives. 1t
achieved its own independence and
became republic, and there are sur
viving today citizens of this state who
fought at San Jacinto. Under six
flags it's history has been written and
it is destined to become the first
state in the sisterhood in population,
wealth and scope of territory"