The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1915-06-18

From Saturdays Daily.
Honots Were Conferred On General
Wideil by Masons.
Yesterday was a great day in Ma
sonic circles i'm this city. large mum
Der of out -of-town guests. including
grand officers of the Masonic lodge,
being present, and uniting with Man
kato lodge No. IL, A. +. and A. NJ,
i'm thesgiving of degree work and the
general festivities. The large hall
was beautifully decorated with palms
and cut flowers, used I'm profusion and
artistically arranged. and the meet
| ing opened at p. m, with the con-
| ferring OF the master mason degree
upon three candidates. The work con-
tinued until six o'clock. when the
meeting adjourned to partake OF the
sumptuous six o'clock dinner which
was served by the ladies of the East
ern Star. about $50 people being pres
ent at the tables. The grand Off
GERS and visitors were seated at the
first table, and after dinner were
taken on an automobile sightseeing
! trip about the city, returning TO the
hall about 1880 p. m. in time for the
evening program. The evening ses-
sion was very largely attended, 1t be-
/ ing estimated that about $50 were
present After the comforting OF the
remainder of the degree work all i'm
portant part of the program took place
when Gustaf Widell of this city, past
nra
sented with past grand master
jewel, by r. NJ. John Fishel OF St.
, Paul, grand secretary, who gave n
very good address. Mr.. Widell ac-
cepted the jewel with a graceful and
appropriate speech, after which a
group of pleasing songs was given by
the Masonic quartet, consisting OF
Evan Hughes. +. D. Sleight, !. n.
Griffith and w. p. SCherer. Among
the grand officers In the city to at
tend the meeting were John Fishel,
grand secretary, of st. Paul: Harry
NJ. Burnham, grand master, Jackson;
Alfred C. Pinkham, deputy grand
master. ST. Paul: Albert Berg. SEN
ior grand warden. Spooner: Freder-
ick L. jenkins. grand marshal, Fari-
bault: Herman Held. grand sword
bearer. New Ulm; Henry Nj. Tusier,
past grand master and member OF
board OF custodians. st. Paul: also a
number of other past masters oil the
order from neighboring lodges. Dur
ing the evening interesting talks on
Masonry were given by the officers,
and Captain Clark Keysor, an old end
honored Mason, who was master OF
local lodge No. II at the time GUSTAV
1 Widell. upon whom the past grand
masters jewel was bestowed. became
member of the lodge. J. A. Flittie,
as chairman OF the building commit
tee. made brief report showing that
the committee was busy on plans Tor
the new Masonic hall, and more
complete report would be given at
lodge meeting in the near future.
A. o. Eberhart, a past master Ma
son of the local lodge. sent letter oil
regret that he could not be present
at the meeting owing to speaking en-
yagements outside Of the state. ana
the letter was read as a greeting to
the members. The meeting vas very
successful, and one of the most en-
joyabie held b. the lodge in recent
years.
An Attraetiv Magazine.
bethany Echo" an attractive mag
azine published monthly during the
school year by the students OF Beth
any Ladies' college, is filled with
school happenings. cleverly written
articles. and nice illustrations, and
magazine any college might well
| fell proud of. The May issue is es-
pecially well gotten up, with an ar
tistic cover page. complete program
of commencement week, cartoons by
the students and pictures OF the
, graduates. The volume is dedicated to
Miss Emma l.. Zeisler, faculty ad-
visor. Among the interesting features
are the class will. written by Misses
Martha Gagelmann and Grace Knorr.
the ValedictOry. by Grace knorr, the
class prophecy by Misses Erna Gut
iknecht and Rose Mayer and many
well written sketches by students.
Good Counsel Academy Commence
ment.
Good Counsel academy will have it's
commencement week, beginning next
Monday. On Monday evening at 6:i5
the class play, Our Girl in Camp,
will be given. II will be staged by
! the junior and senior members OF the
classical and commercial courses.
Tuesday afternoon at three o'clock
the junior reception will take place.
Thursday afternoon at three o'clock
the alumni meeting will be held.
There will be an election OF officers,
a reception of new members and a
luncheon. High mass will be cele-
brated Friday morning at eight O'Clock
Friday evening at 1880 o'clock COM
mencement exercises will take place
in the chapel with baccalaureate
sermon
The graduates are as follows: Clas-
steal course, Miss Florentine Lapm.
Commercial course. Misses Laura BIZ
enennann. sAnna Borgmeier. Mary Os-
doba. Helen Masberg, and Agnes
Kurkowski.
Hostess to PRESBYTERIAN Ladies'.
Mrs. j. AZ Smith was hostess vas-