The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1912-06-13
Grand Lodge of Pythian
Sisters Name Mrs. Thomp-
son Grand Chief
GATHER ABOUT FESTAL BOARD.
Delegates to Convention Leave for
Their Homes Today With Praises for
Entertainment Afforded to Them by
Members of the Kenosha Temple.

The sessions Of the Grand Lodge Of
Wisconsin Of the Pythian Sisters came
to an end at noon today following the
installation of officers for the new
year and most of the delegates are
leaving this afternoon for their homes.
The Grand Lodge session is declared
to have been the most successful in
the history Of the Wisconsin jurisdic-
tion of the order and the members of
the Kenosha Temple received high
praise from the Grand Lodge officials
and the visiting delegates for the
manner in which the annual gathering
was entertained,
The social events attending the
Grand Lodge session closed in a blaze
Of glory on Tuesday night when more
than two hundred of the members of
the order together with their husbands
were the guests Of the Kenosha temple
at banquet held in tire dining rooms
at Castle Hall. The long tables com
pletely filed the hall and they were
richly decorated with ferns and flow
ers, A course dinner was served after
which the members Of the Kenosha
temple presented retiring Grand Chief
Mrs. Sylvia Colony and the new Grand
Chief Mrs. Arvilla Thompson with
handsome punches of pink roses. There
was no long windeds speech making at
the banquet. Mrs. Colony gave a very
interesting talk on the work of the
order during the past year and Judge
Clarkson, the youngest member Of the
Kenosha temple, responded for Keno
sha. Following the banquet there was
an informal reception which proved
one Of the most interesting features
of the convention.
At the sessions on Tuesday fafter-
noon the work Of the convention was
pretty~-Hell disposed of and when the
delegates left at FIVE O'Clock for the
automobile ride about the city there
was little left to be done, but the in
stallation Of the new officers and the
closing up Of the routine work of the
convention. The question of the city
for the next Grand Lodge session was
not decided, the matter to be left with
the Grand Lodge officers for decision
later
On Tuesday evening the annual
memorial service was held and it was
in charge of the Grand Lodge officials.
Following this pretty service the rit-
ualistic work of the order was ex-
emplifed by the team of the Kenosha
temple. the two candidates being Mrs.
w. H. Robinson and Judge Joseph r.
Clarkson.
The annual election of the officers
of the Grand Lodge took place on
Tuesday afternoon and the following
officers were selected.
Past Grand Chief - Mrs. Sylvia
Colony of Evansville.
Grand Chief-Mrs. Arvilla Thomp-
son, Reedsburg.
Grand senior-Mrs. Florence Brown,
Lake Geneva.
Grand Junior-Mrs. staeia Wright,
Kenosha.
Grand Manager-Mrs. Blanche Bur-
rowbridge, Madison.
Grand Mistress of Records and Cor
respondence Miss Clara Grindell,
Milwaukee.
Grand Mistress Of Finanee-Mrs. FL
sic Pratt, Appleton.
Grand Portector of Temples-Mrs.
Myra Graham, Linden.
Grand Outer Guard-Mrs. Mile
Cosford, Mondovi.
Trustee-Mrs. Mary Taft, Tomah
Supreme Representatiye-Mrs. H. G.
Baker, Racine.
The local committee in charge of
the session of the Grand Lodge to
whom great credit is due for the sue
ces Of the Kenosha meeting was COM
posed of Mrs. R. E. Kniskern, Mrs.
C. w. Jensen and Mrs, Dwight House.