Bisbee daily review., 1912-08-07
PYTH|ANS HOLD
 SUPREME LODGE
 MEET IN DENVER
General Election Scheduled for Thursday Excites ln- terest: Many Import
 ant Matters Up

OE4lN r4fl, 1oiO., Aug. o.-OudI beO with the duty of legislating for the fra;ernal interests of nearly three quarters of a million members. the Supreme Lodge of the Knights of Py- thias. assembled for its biennial meeting here and will continue in sesabn about ten days.
 The meeting promises to be the most important ever held by the gov ernfSg body of the order. Much in tereA eenters around the general election Thursday. It is conceded that the present supreme yice-chancellor, Thomas J. Carling of Macon, Ga. will be elevated to the ofiee of su- preme chahcellor in Succession to George RI. Hanson of Maine. The principal contest will be for the office of supreme yice-chancellor. for which there are five candidates: Benjamin l Salinger of Iowa. B. S. Young of Ohio. William Ladew of New York. Charles s. Davis of Colorado and John J. Brown of Illinois.
 A number of important legislative matters will come before the Supreme Lodge for consideration and action. Some minor changes in the ritual probably will be made and action will be taken on proposals to reduce the age limit for members from l years to IS and to extend the order into foreign lands. The grand lodges of Ontario. Manitoba and British Colum bia have asked that the order be ex- tended to the mother country" and 1t is probable that the request will be granted
 Another topic that will engage the attention of the Supreme Lodge will be 'Pythian Education" the extension of the knowledge of Pythian knight hood and its work. Supreme Chan celior Hanson will speak at length on this subject and it is expected that the body will give much thoughtful consideration to the planes proposed.
 The meeting will discuss prelimi- nary plans for the proper observance of the golden jubilee of the order two years hence. 1t is proposed that the anniversary shall be celebrated with great meeting of the membership in Washington, D. C., where the first lodge of the order was instituted Feb. 19, 1864, by Justus H. Rathbone and about a dozen associates. From this modest beginning the Knights of Pythias has increased its membership 10 a total Of 7l1,o00. distributed among 1900 local lodges in all parts of the United States and Canada and in Mexico. China, Cuba. Hawaii, Pan anna and the Philippines
 A unique feature iof the weeks programme will be a meeting at which representatives of three oG-the great fraternities, representing an az. gregate of more than 3,000,0O0 mem hers, will emphasize the place and power Of fraternity in individual and national life. The speakers will be John B. Corkum of Indianapolis Grand Sire of the 1,5O0.OOO Odd Eel lows and Rebekahs; George B. Griggs of Houston, Texas. Great Iueohonee of the 35O.000 Red Men. and Judge Hanson, representing the 7I1,00O Py thians. An are members of the Py thian order and each man belongs .tG the other orders represented.
 During the sessions of the suprem, lodge the regular biennial meeting, will be held by the several organiza tions affiliated with the Knights O Pythias. These will include the su preme temple of the Pythian Sisters representing nearly 2000, 900 members of which Mrs Sarah I. Cotton 0 westherford, Texas, is supreme chief the association of grand keepers c records and seals, of which W. I Hollowell Of Goldsboro, N C. i association, of which H. NJ. Quir speaker of the Mississippi house ( representatives Is president.