Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1912-12-28
WANTS TREASURERSHIP
 OF ALL ELKD0M
ROGERS, ARKANSAS, CAPITALiSF HAS STRONG ENDORSEMENTS
 FOR NATIONAL HONOR.
Arkansas Has Never Been lIonOred By EIks Wa.h An Elective Grand
 Lodge Oif.ce.

Little Rock. Dec. 27-Geo"ge D.. Locke. who $ president of the Kan sas City and Memphis Railway Con- panv, the Ozark Land and Lumber Company, the Rogers Light and Wa fer Company and the Fayetteville G2s and Electric Company, is a the Hctel Marion today, for the purpose of pro- curing 2 charter for the Fayetteville Gas and Electric Company, recently purchased by Il mself and associates from Kansas City capitalists.
 TEe Faye teville Gas and Electro Comgany has been incorporated Wlth S20O 900 paid up capital, and the lh- corporatC,s are George D. Locke Col. w. R. Felker, J E. Felker and w. B. Felker, Rogers bankers ana Senator F. F. Freeman of Rogers and Dick ,R ce of Bentonville, Ark. The Feiker-Locke syndicate controls the transportation facilities, the pub lie utility plants, the hardwood tim Der lands, and banking interests o1 Northwest Arkansas, and has done more for the development of this part of the state than anyone else. MT. Locke was asked if he was not can didate for the office of grand treasnr- CT of tne Benevolsnt and ProtectlVf Ordc. of Erls, to which he replied that he was snd had a hope of be-ne elected at the grand lodge session, to be Meld at Rochester ill July neXt MT. Locke has been member of the ordar for II years, and has been charter member of four lodges, Alton [ll.. Lodge No. TAG: Jerseyv He, Ill. Ledge No. 954 Mang1m, Okla, Lodge No. 1169, and Rogers, Ark, Lodge NO ,1223. end he was the first eXa!tet ruler of he last two named lodges
 The State of Arkansas has neve been honored with an elective gfan( lodge office. and MT. Locke will haV' he undivided support of the 23 lodge 1 in this state. MT. Locke is a thorous l husiness man, and the eXecutlV head of four corporations, having
 combined capital of over twelve mil lion dollars, and his friends thin
 
 that in a measure qual fies him | perform the important duties of gran treasurer. Among Mr. Locke strong supporters are John K. Tene'
 governor of Pennsylvania, and pas I grand exalted ruler; Hon. Robert W
 Brown. managing editor of LouisVlll
 Times, chief justice of the grand to1
 um and a past grand exalted ruler Alfred T. Holly, cha rman of tn board of grand trustees; John j Faulkner, grand trustee; James A
 Finlen. chairman of credentials con mittee; John c. Cutrall, chairman the ritual committee; Senator F.
 Freeman, and pr. F. G. Stover, dl'
 trict deputies of Arkansss; pr. | E. Kirkpatr ok, district deputy
 Oklahoma: c. A. Blakeny, dis'rl , deputy of Missouri; and Al G. t1el
 the minstrel man, past exalted rul' of Columbus, O., lodge, and the TO lowing past disuict deput es: w. f Batter of Texas. George D. Key
 Oklahoma, pr. H. w. Rich and r A. Shsp ard of Illinois, F. B. Bun gardner of Arkansas, Caryl Co!ema
 of New York, and pr. c. H. Broug of Arkansas.
 [ Mr. Locke left the city this ev' II ne for New York to confer with II Eastern banker.
 p. J. Brennan of Dennison. IeI
 w. A. Evans of St. Joseph. MO-, al ! Charles A. White of Chicago, are so candidates for grand treasurer the order. The incumbent, EdWal . leach of Lodge No. 1, New York WI l have no opposition in his cand da( :, for grand exalted wuler.