Evening star., 1916-10-01

| The fall visitations of Grand Chan
cellor John B. Dickman and the Grand
| Lodge officers to the subordinate lodges
| Will begin tomorrow night with a visit
| to Amaranth Lodge, No. %, the home
| lodge of Grand Trustee Carver, at the
Northeast Masonic Temple, Sth and F
/ streets northeast. Interesting talks and
| entertainment features are always pre-
sented by the lodge on these occasions.
The second grand visitation of the week
will be made to Equal Lodge. No. II.
Wednesday night at the Pythian Temple.
| This lodge is the home lodge Of Grand
Trustee John R. Haskins.
The funeral of Past Chancellor John
| M1nnis, who died Tuesday, was held Fri
day afternoon with Equal Lodge, of which
| ne had been member for many years,
oiuclatlng. lnterment was in Congress
sional cemetery.
Century Lodge. No. 30, tomorrow night
| mas scheduled work in the page and
esquire ranks. with a Homecoming meet
| ing. The lodge has issued a circular ure-
| ing every member to be present or send
letter, and the active members have
| peen given the names of ten others, each
| committee and asked to be present. The
Inauguration of the fall class tomorrow
night, with the other features announced,
is said to be the beginning of a lodge re-
| vival.
Ihe coalition Of Calanthe and Harmony
lodges is said to have solved the prob
| lem OF how to get the membership out
a the meetings, as the attendance at
the convention Of Calanthe Lodge Nom
gay night included many visitors and
Iorty-nVe members Of the consolidated
lodges The rank of page was conferred.
one apphcat1on for reinstatement was re-
celVsd. Past Grand Chancellor Hamlin
NJ Vandervort and Supreme Representa-
! tive Albert Kahlert were present and
made addresses. The rank Of ESQUIRE is
scheduied for October and the master
OF work Is arranging to present the third
RANK with double team Monday night
nouneed the Loags 0ags ,sO N0 L. H. has an
nIght and possibly the esquire rank
also. At the last meeting the ESQUIRE
pnnnas~a. rank was GO. conferred; Past Supreme
preme Representative Mark Stearman.
Past Chancellor E. j. Newcomb Of
Equal Lodge, Vice Chancellor David
Wiener of Capital Lodge and the Rev.
ratrick Murphy assisted in the work.
Grand Chancellor John B. Dickman,
Grand Gran cy Vice Chancellor F. H. Melick.
East las t.. Chancellor F.. D. Wallace Of
bers Of the order. paid Hermione Lodge,
No II, a fraternal visit Wednesday
night. Short talks were made by the
social hour followed. Among the
visitors present was John F.. Linkins Of
La Fayette Lodge. No. 81. who was
knighted in Hermione Lodge in 1882.
until he left for Ohio twenty-seven
years ago to become a resident of that
state.
Syracusians Lodge. No. 10. held a
homecoming meeting Friday night and
devoted the evening to good fellowship
and the inauguration of a fall campaign
for membership and initiatory work
The committee on arrangements was
composed of Virgil E. Fookes, Samuel
Wolfsheimer. Will. Williams, f. A.
Meininger, Adam Cokinos and Thomas
Stathes.
At the. convention of Webster Lodge,
NO. Z, Tuesday night Rev Patrick Murphy
gave talk on his experiences as Py-
The committee to arrange for the fiftieth
anniversary Of Webster Lodge met Sun
day night at the residence OF Mai. R. T.
Whiting, the chairman, The celebration
Will be held coincident with the grand
visitation to Webster Lodge Tuesday
night. November 2s. for which suitable
program Is being arranged.
Rathbone-Superior Lodge, No s9, con-
ferred the esquire rank at its last con-
vention on son of Past Chancellor VIII
liam y. owen. Past Supreme Representa-
tive J. b. Conner acted as chancellor COM
nlander. The work was under the direc-
ton of Master of Work Z. W. Heiss The
proposed celebration in honor Of the
lodges pioneer member Of the order, Dr.
p. 8 kimball, will be arranged for at the
first convention in November, when it is
proposed also to take action on amend
, ments to the bylaws. The knights rank
Is also scheduled for that convention At
the last convention talks were made by. J.
g. Sprugle, Linden Lodge, No. Az, Day
| ton: Ohio: H. W. Hartung. Panama Canal
Lodge, No 1, Canal Zone; L. D. Gregg.
Rolla Lodge, No. II, Columbus Ind and
seorge w; Wynant, Old Dominion Lodge,
no, !. Richmond. Va; and others Thomas
A Bynum, f. W. Heiss and Harry W.
Chesley were appointed committee on
entertainment for the grand visitation.
which occurs Friday night October 13
The following lodges are said to be the
largest in the supreme domain: Red Star,
San Diego, Cal. 1927; Hobah. south
Bethlehem, Pa, 1.013; Wayne, Detroit,
Mich. s56: Kalamazoo, Kalamazoo,
M Men. so4 Helmet. Waterloo. Iowa. 1853 !:
Milwaukee, Wis III; lola, Dayton, Ohio.
7o6; Queen City. Meridian, Miss, 6s3'
and Indianapolis. No. Sc, $40.
Ensley, Ala. reports the establishment
OF number of temples by the woman's
| organization affiliated with the Dra matic
Order, knights Of Khorassan in Alabama
| Pythian Sisters.
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