The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1916-05-13

deed a melancholy beginning of our
advent into that delightful section of
Cooper county which had been set up
for nothing but our pleasure.
The mayor of the city delivered a
most cordial address of welcome and
was, answered by Brother ]. Milton
Turner, who was at one time a citizen
of Boonville and for that reason, as
well as others, could perform the task
to the satisfaction of all concerned.
The first annual address of Grand
Master Williams was a most excellent
account of his stewardship and was
encouched in delightful form. His
style, while not SO Brilliant as that of
Pelham, was more concise than that
of Chinn and possessed an individual
ity at times quite charming. He had
made a good beginning and everybody
joined with Uncle Tom," his admiring
father, in feeling quite proud of him.
Two masons of prominence had died
during the year. The first reported
was Brother Charles Prentice, At the
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lar. He was a man of striking appear
ance, devoted craftship and was more
than any other man credited with the
fine status which Templarhood had
attained in the jurisdiction.
Brother James Madison, too, a vet
eran minister, one of the oldest and
bestowed masons, had ended his
earthly labors. To him was due much
in the blazing out of the work of ma
sonry, as well as the church, both of
which he dearly loved and equally hon
Ored. He was not a great preacher,
far fran it, but his life and character
made up for all these deficiencies and
his taking away left a deep void in the
hearts of all who knew him.
That walker Faction" of the o. E.
S. always took on new life with each
change of administration just to see
how far it could go, perhaps, without
hitting anything. 1t fairly broke out
anew in Kansas City and st. Louis dur
ing the year and Grand Master Will
Jams had to get out his riot gun the
first thing. The Grand Lodge had al
ready settled this matter by ordering
all it's adherents to cut loose and stay
loose from Walker, but he must have
possessed a charm of responsiveness
or a spirit of conviction which car
ried great weight, being sufficient to
lead men to defy their Grand Lodge,
Then, too, these men were weakly
pushed on by some very determined
women, as has been the case ever
since the days of Eden, and in their
headstrong frenzy they kept them
selves and everyone else in hot water
constantly. Grand Master Williams
went straight after this bunch of in
surgents and suffragets and soon had
them all on the run, The men prom
ised to be good forever and the WON
en- went so far as to quit talking
remarkable achievement.
Grand Master Williams found the
jurisdiction in first class shape and
each department in excellent working
order. He soon looked around fol-
more worlds to conquer and adopted
as his ambition the establishment o.
a home for INDECENT members of the
masonic family. In this he had the
enthusiastic support of a majority o.
the members of the fraternity and his
own success as a man of business gave
him additional confidence in the new
scheme. True, there were some who
opposed the idea altogether, but il
looked big and seemed necessary, So
it was readily taken up. The mex
session was voted to Kansas City.