Evening star., 1917-10-07
Masonic.

'lave sent in announcements OF their ue-
ree work that the usual calendar is dis
pensed with. Dawson Lodge. No l6. will
nave the T.. 4. degree tomorrow evening:
Federal. No l. the NJ. NJ. degree: Acacia.
No. IS a social meeting. and Takoma. No.
20, its annual grand visitation, all Tues
day evening. Mount Pleasant Chapter.
No. l3, will have the mark degree Fri
lay evening.
This evening. at o'clock. services are
o be held at Ryland VI. T. Church. 10th
md u streets southwest, which. by IN
sitation from the pastor. Rev John n.
Tenries. the members OF both BenJafnih
g. French Lodge. No 10, and OF Ayron
II Parker Lodge No. 81. will attend. as
,embling first in the lecture room OF the
church at 80 pm.
Stansbury Lodge. No. q. will have
charge of the religious services at the
Masonic and Eastern Star Home next
Sunday afternoon at o'clock Rev. Eo-
gar CordclI Powers will ofiiciate- II is
proposed to have automobiles meet the
cars at Georgia avenue and lsittenhouse
street to convey visitors to the home
According to reports. some friction is
said to have been caused by the order OF
the Secretary of War, published In part
n The star last sunday. in relation TO ac-
eivitiss of outsiders in the military can
tonments \ prominent Mason. who is
said TO he in a position to know. stated
yesterday that the trouble is due TO a
misunderstanding of the policy OF sec
retary Baker. He added: Il trust that
our fraternity at least. will he patient and
await further enlightenment. for l feel
certain that when the Secretary's policy
Is clearly understood. il will prove salts
factory TO all the fraternitieS."
At the last conclave of Washington
CommanGery. No !. Knights Templar.
the sum of S3.5u0 was appropriated by
A unanimous vote with which TO pur-
chase liberty bonds. This was done be-
fore subscriptions to the new loan had
been opened.
Notwithstanding its busy week last
week in impartine the degrees to mem
bers of the liberty class" which Henry
Lansburgh and his associates of the
membership committee had enrolled,
the local Scottish Rite bodies have
found il necessary to begin work for
the winter class November 6. with the
fourth degree in MithraS Lodge of Per-
fection. following with the fifth de-
gree November IL. the sixth November
20. the ninth November %, the tenth
December 4 and the fourteenth Decem-
ber IL. Evangelist Chapter. knights
Rose Croix. will take up its work. the
fifteenth degree. December IS. conclud-
ing with the eighteenth degree Janu-
ary 9. These will be followed by work
in Robert de Bruce Council. knights
Kadosh. beginning with the twentieth
degree January 16, and finishing with
the thirtieth degree February IA. AL
bert Pike ConsiStory will present the
thirty-frst and thirty-second degrees
February 90 and %. respectively.
Mithras Lodge of Perfection will hold
its annual election of officers February
s, and Albert Pike Consistory, NJ. r. s..
December %.
General Secretary Elmer f. Simpson,
X. C. c. H. of the local bodies. has noti-
Vah he vNnCr fat n at ,ty1
to relieve from the payment of dues
during the war of '.the country's de-
lenders, well as those engaged in
Red Cross work in foreign land, and
has asked those entitled thereto to fur
nish him with the necessary particu-
lars. including their photographs. for
the preparation of the certificates to be
issued to them.
The grand visitations for the year
will open Tuesday evening with that
to Takoma Lodge. No. %. at Takoma
Park, which will be the only one sched-
uled for the week. Beginning October
IS. with that to Mount Pleasant Lodge
No 33. they will continue with an al
most uninterrupted degree of regu-
larity each week, closing with that to
Harmony Lodge, No. II. November 2S.
Master Percy I. Balch of Acacia Lodge
No is. states that while the lodge is not
usually given over to such things vet on
Tuesday evening it is going to have
social evening and that those who attend
will be repaid.
Master Frederick E Hodge states that
October is to be busy month in Dawson
Lodge. No. 16. two specials being neces-
sary TO minister to candidates who are
soon to be Somewhere in France" The
E. A. degree will be presented tomorrow
evening. His bowling team also is to be
busy with games October 9 with Colum-
VI aoia nrto A
with George G. Whiting and October 80
with La Fayefte. Dawon Lodge has quite
q roll Of honor itself OF men who have
responded to their country'S call includ-
ing Paul Anderson and Samuel Goodacre
heutenants in the ordnance department !:
William c. Broolser. Lawrence " Wilson
James A lngraham, Everett H. Pierson
and George V. Lowering. in training
comps; Champe c. McCulloch, a colonel
b the Medical Corps. William L. Nodell
captain in the Signal Corps; Richard K
1hompson and George X. Weston. heuten-
ants in the Medical Corps and in France ::
Edward NJ Nevils and Theodore p Heap
captains in the National Guard Regiment
Of the District; Merle c. Leonard a cap
Boove. Signal Corps; Fred NJ Began, an
officer in the Navy, and De Forest l..
Ormes. in the Signal Corps. And these
are said to be not all of them.
Mount Pleasant Royal Arch Chapter.
No. 13. holds its stated convocation Fri
oay evening. The mark degree will be pre-
eented on class of candidates High
Priest Sydney r. Jacobs is particularly
happy in having recently received six ap-
plications. and Indications are it is said,
that his will be the banner year of No.
13, whose membership has been more than
doubled since it was instituted Nine of
NO 13's companions are doing their Bit
in the war George Post the scribe. is
now lieutenant in the National Army
and is located at Camp Sewer. Green
Vile s. c. He writes that he is busy get
ting the new Army in shape E H. Rob-
nett lieutenant of engineers writes that
he is busy at one of the cantonments. and
MAI Mercer is at the Army and Navy
GeneraI hospital at Fort Bayard. y. NJ
MAI b. Whiting Estes who is doir,- serv-
Ice with the staff of the Home Defense
RlHes; and President John G. Hodges of
the Masters Association will be guests of
The chapter Friday evening
Washington Centennial Lodge, No. "A,
wednesday evening unanimously voted to
invest $1,000 in the new liberty bond is
sne- This is the second time an action of
this kind has been taken by the lodge as
$500 worth of the original issue was sub
scribed for some time ago.
The special communication of Wash
fngton Centennial Saturday evening a
week ago was followed by a notable
entertainment. The NJ. NJ. degree was
presented by members of the lodge
howling league and degree team, under
the direction of Past Master Leonard
r. Steuart. The lodge convened at s
pm. to enable those present to get
down to the banquet hall at an early
hour. where an oyster feast, prepared
by the captain of the degree team. was
served, and also an entertainment