Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1912-10-24
0OR FELLOWS GO
 10 HOT SPRINGS Reconsider Action in Select ing Little Rock as Meeting
 Place For 1913. REED HEADS ORDER, Appointments Made By Grand Master and Monument Ordered Over
 Shirey's Gra:>.
REED HEADS ORDER,

The election of officers, an increase Tn the per capita assessment for 1 maintenance of the Orphans Home at Batesvllle and reconsideration of it's acton Tuesday of naming Little Rock as the next convention city and voting unanimously for the meeting to be held in Hot Springs in 1913. were the principal features of the closing ses- slOn of the slXty-third annual meeting or the grand lodge of I. 0. 0. IF. yes- terday.
 The officers elected at yesterdays session are: John w. Reed Heber Springs, grand master; John w. Meeks, Mammoth Springs, deputy grand master; o, C. Veach, GraSette, grand warden; John P. Paul (re-elect- ed) Newport, grand secretary; R. B. Kelly, Eureka Springs, grand treas urer. Immediately after the election the officers were installed
 The contest for grand warden was a spirited one. Festus o. Butt, of Eureka Springs, and Dr. H. E. Duff of Heber Springs, were also nominees but after several ballots Veach was elected. The office of grand warden is stepping stone to the highest of flee within the gift of the grans lodge, that of grand master.
 J. B. Baker, of Melbourne. opposed R. B. Kelly in the race for grand treasurer.
 Why City Was Changed.
 The fact that the sovereign grand lodge will be urged to hold it's 1914 sessions in Hot Springs was the in- centive for the reconsideration of the action taken Tuesday to hold the next session in Little Rock. Hot Springs extended cordial invitation for the next meeting when that order of busi- ness was reached Tuesday. Upon the reconsideration of the matter yester. day and after several Hot Springs champions had urged that the presence of the Arkansas grand lodge in thai city next year would add greatly te their claims before the sovereign body the delegates voted unanimously to go to Hot Springs.
 Several resolutions of minor i'm portance were passed, among then being one in which the grand lodge extended hearty thanks to the com mittee from Jefferson Lodge No. 224 of this city for the successful manner in which it had arranged for the meet ing.
 The report of the trustes of tht Shirey estate was interesting. l showed that the rental income fol lands of the estate amounted to $5,OO( annually and timber land has beel disposed of to the amount of $12,O00 A resolution calling for the erection of monument or marble shaft owe! the grave of A. w. Shirey was passed At the sessions of the Retekah Stat Assembly Tuesday a resolution wal passed urging the grand lodge to tax this action.
 Grand Master Reed announced tn following appointments: H. D. Ruff Heber Springs, grand marshal; Ro Milum, Harrison, grand conductor; E F. Bryant. Rogers, grand guardian R. G. Chandler, Heber Springs, gran herald.
 Following the usual custom Pas Grand Master Louis Joseph of Tex arkara. presented the retiring gran master, George w. Pardee, of Lt1l ROCK, with a Dedutilul 6oiu AA o
 The per capita assessment or O cents for the maintenancei of the or phans Home was found to be lnsul ficient to meet the expenditures O , that institution because Of the aadl tional number of residents receive at the institution during the past yea and the tax was raised to So cen's' I Orphans Home Board.
 The trustees of the Orphans Hom last Il ght completed their sesslo adjo 1rned from Tuesday and electe the following officers to serve for tn ensuing year: Louis Josephs' Texal kama, president; Mrs; Ida M. l Beloa, a Paul. Newport, secretary; Dr. R. ( Floyi, Eureka Springs, treasurer; D1 w Case. Batesville, physician 0