El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1916-04-14
SCOTTISH RITE
REUNION Path
Plans Being Made For Big
Reunion Glass; Ceremony
of Lights Thursday.


Of the bodies OF the Scottish Rite Of
Freemasonry in the valley OF FL Paso,
which will be held April "a to % in
elusive. Applications for the degrees
from the fourth to the 32d are coming
in and it is expected that there win be
a good sized class for the degrees.
The degree work Will begin at : D. m.
of the cath, and during that evening
fourth. fifth, sixth and seventh degrees
will be conferred. on the 25th the
eighth to the 18th inclusive will be
nut on The historical degrees, en-
hracing the 18th, 18th, 18th and 18th
degrees will be conferred Wednesday,
the 26th on the evening of that day
the chivalric and philosOphio degrees
will begin. and the 18th, goth and 21st
degrees will be put on. On the 27th
the degrees from the 21st to the 29th
inclusive will be conferred, followed
with a banquet On the morning Of
the 2sth the 30th degree will be con-
ferred on the afternoon and evening
of that day the 31st and 32d degrees,
completing the degree work. will be
conferred.
Many Degrees.
The fourth to 14th degrees will be
conferred by degree teams OF Mt.
Franklin Lodge Of Perfection No. S;
the 14th to 18th inclusive by Oasis
chapter knights Rose Croix No. g. the
18th to sOth inclusive, by Rio Grande
council Knights Kadosh No. g; and the
s1st and S2d, by Ell Paso Consistory /
No. 8.
distinguishing Lights.
The ceremony of eXtinguishing the |
lights, a Maundy Thursday observance, /
will occur at the Scottish Rite cathed- |
raj next Thursday at 1;45 ,. m. The /
ceremony of relighting will occur at 10 /
a. m. April 90 The ceremony will be /
conducted by the Rose Croix chapter /
Easter Service.
Plans for the Easter service to be :
conducted by FL PasO commandery.
Knights Templar. are being perfected. J
The service will be held at p. m. /
April %, at st. Clements Episcopal I
church The service will be ritualistic 4
with set music including the process
be sung by the St Clements choir.
Rev. Henry Easter. rector of St
Clements, win deliver the address. The
ushers will be knights in full uniform
The committee in charge of arrange
ments is composed Of V. r Stiles, B. NJ
G. Williams and John Temple Rice I
The regular session of the cOmmandery
was held Thursday night when the
order Of the temple was conferred upon
W. G. Bansemer.
To Initiate.
Mt. Franklin lodge of Perfection met /
Monday night for business. Several
candidates were elected to the reunion
class. The higher bodies of the Scot
fish Rite will meet in business session
next Monday night.
The regular meeting of FL PasO chap (
ter. Royal Arch Masons. was held We'd
nesday night. Tonight there Will be
a. called convocatiOn for comforting the
mark and past master degrees.
First Degree.
FL PasO lodge No. $50, Ancient, Free
Accented ]
first degree upon several candidates
Monday night Tonight the second
degree viii be conferred. Work for
the remainder Of the month includes
third degree work on April H. stated
on the 18th, and work
In the third degree on the 21st
New Lodge To Meet.
Fraternity lodge No. iii, Ancient, |
Free and Accepted AIasons. will hold
D called communication next Tuesday
night for work in the third degree.
There will be three candidates.
I'll PasO lodge No. 2S4, Independent
order of Odd Fellows, will celebrate
the 9th anniversary Of the founding
IF the order in America on April 26.
The regular rituaIistic service will be
held, after which there will be n pro-
gram and refreshments. The lodge will
meet next Monday for routine business.
At the meeting last Monday night
Arthur Borcherding announced that he
3 III present the lOQEe Win 4 piano. I
Special Drill.
Mt Franklin encampment viii meet
onight for special drill work under the
direction Of c. a. Davis.
Western Rebekah lodge will meet
'ext Tuesday night for degree work
The Triangle club of the Rebekahs is
lrranging for an entertainment and
lance for May 9.
Torniuo camp No ~, Woodmen Of
he World. held a business session
Monday night A committee IS now
working on an outing to be held soon.
Bees To Keep Open House.
Beginning at some date in May, the
hub rooms Of the Benevolent order Of
Bees, at 105 San Antonio street. will be |
pen to women one afternoon in each
week The lodge initiated two cand- 1
lates at the meeting Sunday afternoon.
The next meeting will be held April % |
EIkS' Minstrel.
Plans are now being made for the
lnnual minstrel show to be given !
within the next few weeks by Ell Paso
odge, Benevolent Protective Order Of
Ilks. It is promised that there viii /
hat the event will be larger than ever
before.
Moose To install.
The FL Paso lodge. Loyal Order OF /
Ioose, will install officers at the club
ooms on Texas street this evening. !
There will be a dance following the
installation which will begin at .
o'clock. ID. L Bowen is the dictator OF
he lodge and Henry a. Graves is sec
etary.
40 Members.
The Knights and Ladies Of Security |
ave just closed a successful member
hip campaign in which 100 new mem
'ers were secured for this order. The !
ampaign lasted from March 1 to
larch 81 and was one of the most sue
essful membership campaigns that has
zen conducted in FL PasO.
me red team, Of which Mrs. NJ. u. (
toWe was captain, won the member
nip contest from the blue" team OF
hich Mrs. Lucille Archer was captain.
ne losing team is planning to give the
inning team a banquet soon. Next
tuesday, night 20 will be initiated into
he order after which a banquet viii
e given.
Maccabee Women Initiate.
a class of ten were given the first
esree in the Woman's Benefit assoCia
ION OF the Maccabees, review No A..
hu elght new names were proposed for
membership at the last meeting. This
makes total of IS new members.
mrs Laura Culver, record keeper FOR
ms association, has been named as a
elegate to the state Maccabee conven-
ion on April II.
II. c. Anniversary.
thursday was the 18th anniversary
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