Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1916-10-08
~ ratern1t1es ~

a building in the center of the city with
interior arrangements for social purposes
including a good dancing floor, billiard
room. bowling alleys and reading room
| it is argued, is a much needed addition
! to the fraternal buildings already In
| existence.
| Builders and architects who belong
to both these organizations have
] pointed out that much money can De
! saved by the two organizations uniting
/ for one building.
\ Illustrious Potentate l.. Whiting
/ Estes. Past Imperial Potentate Harri-
son Dingman and Past Potentate Roe
I Fulkerson have been In Philadelphia
this week attending meeting of Lu
Lu Temple. The potentate says he
| has seen several new ways Of tortur-
! ing candidates while on the trip"
which will be introduced at the next
meeting of the Almas, the latter part
i of the present month.
| Past Potentates Gibbs and Smith
started to Baltimore Wedn esday even
| ing in a new car, owned by Noble
| lance from both cities. the car stopped
without seeming cause. After vast
| ing an hour and getting we'll smeared
! with grease. they telephoned to a
| Washington repair man. who soon sent a
| "red-headed mechanic" out to rescue
them. After a preliminary examina-
! ton Noble Gibbs demanded to know
what was the matter. Mister, these
are mighty peculiar cars" said the
| mechanic. They won't run without
| you put gasoline in 'em!" The tank
| was empty.
A get-together banquet for the mem
| bers of all the Masonic clubs Of the
| likely to be the outcome OF the meet
ing of the advisory board at the New
| Ehbitt Monday evening.
The Lambskin Club of Master Ma
sons is to have ladies' night to-
o'clock. The Ladies' Auxiliary will
furnish the entertainment and the
| Fraternity Band will be present.
No. Z, will have the P. M. and M. E. NJ.
/ degrees Tuesday evening, with five can
didates and Frank Kimmel and Lucien
G. Young, scribe of the chapter, re-
spectively, heading the official line in
the degrees. High Priest Dickey has
the following convocation. when he
expects to have three teams for serv-
ice.
of the Grand Commandery, Knights
., Templar, is quite positive, it is said,
| that there will be no knights Templar
field day October %, as has been err
roneously supposed.
Columbia Commandery, No. 2,
Knights Templar, will visit the Alex
andria Masonic bazaar for the George
Washington memorial Friday evening,
October 20, accompanied by it's drill
corps. Capt. Charles D. Shackelford
has announced drills of the corps for
every Saturday evening.
Capitol Royal Arch Chapter, No. IL,
will have the Royal Arch degree Fri
day evening, with two teams, and with
Charles S. Woodin, king of the chapter,
heading the official line in the absence
of High Priest Evans. who leaves for
Il trip to the west.
The Lambskin Club will meet to-
morrow evening at 1880 o'clock, in
Naval Lodge Hall. 4th street and Penn
sylvania avenue southeast. for busi-
ness, which will be followed at 8
special program has been prepared.
with refreshments. The Fraternity
Band will be presented and play sew
eral selections.
A social evening supplanted degree
work in Columbia Chapter, No. 1, Royal
Arch Masons, Wednesday. The large
crowd In attendance included Grand
High Priest Fowler, who was intro
duced to every one present; Grand
Scribe Carter and Grand Captain of the
Host Major and large number of Wis
itors from other chapters. The enter
tainment included quartet numbers by
Charles E. Meyers, Charles W. Moore,
Alexander B. Mosher and J. Henry
Kaiser. violin solo by Miss Elizabeth s.
Wilbur. bass solo by Charles W. Moore,
selected readings by Miss Mabel Evans,
tenor solo by Charles E. Meyers and
hy to 6,T
Miss Grace N. Adams and Oscar A.
DanZenbaker were the accompanies
Refreshments were served in the ban
quet hall.
October IS and November i. The con-
vocation of November Is will be de-
voted to the p NJ. and M. e. NJ degrees
and on November 20 a special Will be
held for the Royal Arch degree, with
several teams.
Benjamin B. French Lodge, No. Is,
held a reunion in connection with its
communication Monday evening. The
program was unique in the fact that
all the brethren participating, with
the exception of the choir nd one 9TH
er memb Der, were members of The lodge
The address of the evening on the
mbolism Of Masonry" was delivered
by the chaplain. the Rev. Dr. John C.
Palmer. Other numbers were readings
oy ME- lson, cello solos by Dore Wal
ten. with Oscar Franklin Comstock at
the organ. Members of the choir also
rendered several solos. novel num-
Der was H. o. French's dog Collie in
! a remarkable display of canine intel
ligence.
The e. A. degree is scheduled for oc-
to5er Is. A function to which the la
dies are to be invited is being arranged
by Worshipful Master James p. Schick
for October "a
The Masonic bazaar to be held in
Alexandria. Va, October 8 to. 20, for
the benefit of the fund for tho George
| Washington memorial. will be opened
tomorrow evening by Thomas G. Shry-
ock. grand master of Masons of Mary
tand, and sovereign grand inspector
general of the Scottish Rite for that
| George Washington Masonic National
Memorial Association. 1t has been an
, nounced that the evenings during the
period have been specially set apart
as follows
Tomorrow. blue lodges: Tuesday,
Red Men; Wednesday, Eastern Star:
Thursday. Odd Fellows; Friday, the
10, the Elks: October II. open night;
October IS. suffrage; October 10. fra
| ternal organizations: October 20, COM
| manderles Knights Templar, and Oc-
| tober q, the Mystic Shrine.
| The Fraternity Band of the Lambskin
| Club, forty pieces strong.'is expected
F. 10 attend on Eastern star night and
/ cial trains for the occasion. The
| ladies committee of the bazaar has
| extended an urgent invitation to the
| members of the order of the Eastern
| Star to make the evening set apart
! for that organization especially mem-