Evening star., 1916-10-15

of the banquet Thursday night Grand
| Commander Moore and Secretary Gen
| eral Cowles took the train to Wheel
| ing. w. Va, to participate in the re-
union banquet of the rite in that city.
| Tuesday night, November IA, the local
Scottish Rite bodies will begin work
| with a winter class. From that time
! through the winter there will be de-
grees conferred every Tuesday night.
! Saturday night will inaugurate the
Scottish Rite dances for the winter.
! The floor of the hall has been polished,
/ the chairs busted and the evening
| pressed in anticipation. In addition to
(! the cards distributed by the committee
| it is the intention to invite one par
| ticular blue lodge to each of the
dances. These dances are open to all
master Masons and their ladies, and
| cards may be secured of Sterling Kerr,
! jr.. district deputy; E. E. Simpson, gen.
| eral secretary of the local bodies or
| of any member of the committee, which
consists of Roe Fulkerson, John Wine-
! man, Henry LanSburgh and Archie En-
! gel.
| At the annual visitation of the
| Grand Lodge to Takoma Lodge, No. 90,
Tuesday evening. Acting Grand Master
Lem Towers. jr.. paid a compliment to
the lodge on its excellent condition
and the harmony which prevails. Dur
ing, the past year the lodge was Wis
tied five times by Grand Master w.
w. Jermane. The grand secretary and
the grand treasurer made favorable re-
ports on the work of the. lodge Of
sas rendepsd Rqsnf bv W IS so9s
master of New Jerusalem Lodge. and
Herbert d. Lawson. Junior deacon of
Takoma Lodge. The membership
joined in singing a number of old
Sa1a
masters present were W. G. Platt.
Orlando d. Sunny. George w. Lewton.
George l.. Tarbell. William E. Dyre,
Joseph b Simpson. Howard Tv,sd s. Fisk Fisk
No. %; James l.. Wilmeth. Lafayette
Lodge. No. 10. and Worshipful Masters
Smion Bube of Anacostia, No. 81;
Frank \. Tuck of National Lodge, No.
Jerusalem Lodge, No. 8, and Frank NJ.
Scott of Hiram Lodge. No. 10.
The Lambskin Club Monday evening
held it's monthly meeting, which was
followed by ladies night" The pro-
gram, arranged by the ladies, auxiliary,
was as follows: Overture, Fraternity
Band: address, E. G. Ford: sketch, Sis
ter Masons." members of ladies' auxil-
iary; violin solo, Miss LIE Hayne; tenor
solo. Taylor Cheroning. accompanied
by Miss Ballinger. monologue. Miss
Eidnar Mack, accompanied by MISS
Esther Mack; contralto solo. Miss
koontz, accompanied by Miss Bal
linger: soprano solo, Mrs. Diehl; selec-
ton, Fraternity Band; bass solo, L. L.
Jones; comic sketch, Miss Edna and
Master Ralph Whitman; whistling Sc
lections, Z. Clark and Miss Stanley, ac-
companied by Miss Cowling. and selec-
tion, Fraternity Band.
Every number on the program called
forth an encore. The club voted to ac-
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Lodge the evening of November 6,
which has been designated as Lamb
skin night
A number of Rockville Masons mo-
tored to Indian Head, Md, early in the
week and assisted in the NJ. NJ. degree
in the lodge at that place. In the party
were DR.. Barrett Z. Wilson, Edgar and
Hugh Thompson William F. Pretty
man, Wilson S. Ward, Chris Ramey,
Harry Buck. Lewis and Rex Barnesiy.
liams, w. Russell Brewer and Philip
Reed.
Potentate L. Whiting Estes. who
changed the market price of "voodoo"
commodities and caused graveyard sand
to be quoted at So a "hecatomb," tur-
key wshbones at 81 and prices for
four-leaf clovers, rabbits feet. horse
shoes. luck pennies. black-chicken
feathers and catfish ribs to rise In pro-
portion. by announcing the next Shrine
meeting for November 13. has made a
''fuke." There isn't going to be any
Shrine ceremonial November 13, be-
cause every hall in the District of Co
lumbia that would dare house such an
event has been leased, hired. bargained
and sold, bought or rented for the oc-
casion.
The real Almas Temple Shrine cere-
monial is going to happen almost two
weeks later. namely, on Friday, No
| bar hxyf hot tvna Lol anrl
will have robbed the 'voodoo" and
spook features of their novelty. But
the potentate is said to be wise young
man. and accordingly he has called a
sheiks of his divan and the whirling
dervish brigade for new date. a new
program and new horrors to terrify the
fourteen uncertain novices thus far Sc
cured for treatment. and the new edict
has gone forth as above stated.
Still however, and also. Henry Lans-
burgh's bear outfit" will have that
much longer to scour the rotten logs in
Potentate James T. Gibbs and his bel
lowing bulls" may root and snort more
deeply into the suburbs in search of
material to satisfy their maws.
Three times during the present week
the committee of three which has in
charge the building of the new temple
has been in session, and it is said there
is little doubt they will report three
Things at the next meeting Oh lHe teI-
pie. First, the ways and means of
raising the additional funds for con-
struction; second. the general form and
plans of the structure, and third, the
probable location of the building.
The potentate and several prominent
members of local Shrinedom have re-
ceived handsomely engraved invita-
tions to the dedication of the new
mosque of Syria Temple at Pittsburgh
October 26. A party of half dozen or
more of local Shriners will attend.
Noble Henry J. Keefer. friend of
Illustrious Potentate l.. Whiting Estes.
who has been in the city during the
present week, has made an offer in
reference to the new local Shrine
building that is of special interest to
Shrinedom. Noble Keefer, who is
w. Va. owns a marble quarry in the
mountains near there. which Is one OF
the few in the United States that pro-
duces pure black marble. Recently
there was taken from ii one large
piece of marble out Of which can be
cut solid cube of five feet in each di-
mension, and this is promised to the
new temple to be placed within Its
inner court as reproduction of the
ALA at Mecca. 1t was to kiss this
sacred stone, it is said. that the faith
full Mohammedans made their danger
Gus trips across the hot sands of the
desert to the sacred city"
! Saturday. October 81. Almas Temple
| Patrol. with its oriental band, Poten-
tate Estes and his divan will make q
pilgrimage to the ancient city of Alex
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