The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1915-02-02
MYSTIC SHRINE To
INVADE GATE CITY
Oasis Temple VIII Make Sac
rifice of Spring Victims Ii
Patriot Town
Especial 10 The News and Observe 3

Especial 10 The News and obsene-1
Charlotte. Jan. 3O.-NIr. John
Dabbs, Illustrious Potentate Of Oaes
Temple, Ancient Arabic Order MOBILES
Of the Mystic Shrine, announced here
today that Greensboro has been Sc
lected as the place FOR the spring
Ceremonial Session OF Oasis Te1p1.
and that May % has been selected
as the date. h announcement IS
accompanied by the statement that
Mr.. Julian Price, of Greensboro. SEC
Ond Ceremonial Master of Oasis TEN
pie, has been appointed by the Pc
tentate to be chairman of the COM
mittee at Greensboro which Will have
the plans for h Ceremonial in hand.
This appointment of Mr.. Price carries
with it the power and authority .
appoint the remaining members Z
the committee, which Will work in
conjunction with Mr.. L. d. Suther-
land, Of Charlotte, who is director II
the work. Mr.. Sutherland, with 9th
ers Of the local Shriners, will soon
visit Greensboro and confer with Mr..
Price and his associates and line the
arrangements up far enough ahead
of time SO as to preclude any posi-
bility Of misunderstanding.
This is h first meeting Oasis Ten.
pie has Yer scheduled for Green's
bOrO. The winter session of the Tenn
pie is always held in the city OF Char.
lOtte and the unlnle or spring ses-
sions alternate, as a rule, between the
sea one year and the mountains the
next. But soon after the election Of
Mr.. Dabbs to be POtentate last De-
cember the Greensboro contingent u
Oasis began to lay siege to his office
IN an effort TO secure the Spring
Ceremonial. Mr.. Price went into al
the details Of the matter with the Po-
tentate n the question was threShed
out by the committee into whose
hands it was placed, with the result
that Greensboro gets the meeting.
The Temple left the matter in The
hands Of the Potentate and Mr.. 5. H.
Green, Of Monroe, and Mr.. ]. f. Cam
eron, of Goldsboro.
Victims Await Sacrifice.
The POtentate will within a snort
time send out an invitation to the
Mobiles Of this Temple to gather at
Greensboro on May 26 for the pur-
pose of administering to the wants q
those unregenerate sons Of the desert
whose cries fill his ears and whose
pains will not be eased otherwise than
by a trip across the hot sands 70
Mecca. This invitation goes, pr
marily to the mobiles Of this Temple.
but the announcement Will also be q
interest to the Master Masons who
have attained the thirty-second de-
gree or the rank Of knight Templar:
VINO now desire to enter the order o.
l the Nobility.
The outlook is for a large number
OF Mobiles to attend the Greensboro
meeting. Plans are now in the mar
ing to operate a special train iron
. charlotte on the morning of MAJ -
y arriving in Greensboro about eleFeI
: o'clock and leaving after the clos+
. or the festivities soon after mldnlgh
: of the same day.
y But another plan is being discusse(
o whereby this special train Will d
operated to Greensboro the Afternoon
: Of May %, arriving there about night
Z fall and spending the night in tina
I city, SO that all Will be IN readines
= for the execution Ct the victims WI
will be present early on the morntn|
n of May 26.
s Information zones from Greens
! boro that there is a possibility OF
{ reception or dance or something q
q this sort on the night OF May 25 70
Shriners and their wives and that Il
r Master Masons and their wives, g
n Greensboro, may be invited. II tn
e arrangement is consumnlated the spe
:e cial will run the day before the "a
of the Ceremonial.
'e Oasis Temple now has a memoe
e ship of 1,A86 and the Patrol, which
III the working organization Of II
Shrine, is in fine shape for the a.
gree work. The Patrol IS dril!in
20 steadily every week under the con
Ee nand Of Captain E. B. Graham az
e SO that against the Ceremonial IT.
10 will be able 20 surpass their form
a most excellent records IN public
L well as in the receSSos OF -ha TeTI.