The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1919-05-30
News Of City Lodges
Richmond Lodge of Elks will have
initiation next Thursday nights


Robert Hungerford, Ray Dening and
Guy Farlow received first degree work
at Whitewater Lodge Of Odd Fellows
last Friday night. Three candidates
will be initiated tonight.
Hokendauqua and Osceola tribes of
Red Men will give a banquet for the
members of the tribes and their fami-
lies at the Red Mems hall at $50
o'clock this evening The committee
in charge is expecting a large number
of persons.
o. R. King, the latest member of the
lodge to return from France. will be
present.
All three lodges of the Knights Of
Pythias in the city have voted to con-
solidate. The consolidation will take
place in two weeks with Occur de
Lion Lodge No. 8. The date of meet
ing will be determined later.
The lodges have twenty-one candi-
dates and a general meeting to mi
tiate these candidates is under consid-
Grafton.
Twenty-one candidates from Dublin,
Cambridge City, and Milton were given
third degrees at the /. o. o. F. hall
at Milton. More than $50 men were
present. Refreshments were served
following the work.
The Indiana great camp, Knights of
Tuesday, with an attendance of sew
eral hundred delegates. Members of
Maccabee lodges fro mall parts of In
diana attended. A get-together SEES
sion was held early in the day, after
which the business meeting began.
Milo R. Meredith, of Wabash, great
commander, presided at the conven-
ton, which is held annually.
The knights of the Maccabees+ of
Ohio are to conduct their annual con-
vention in Elyria, o., June IL and Is.
| This will be the largest convention
ever called for the city, there being
531 lodges and 81 900 members in the
| state.
Indiana Odd Fellows, in the final
meeting Thursday of their two-day
i convention. in the grand lodge room
at the Odd Fellows building in Indi-
annapolis. nominated candidates to be
voted on for office at the next-semi-
annual meeting of the order in No
vember Will Ehrhardt, Grensburg
deputy grand master, was nominated
! for grand master; Otto A. Boyer, South
Bend, grand warden. was named for
! deputy grand master; w. II. Leedy
grand secretary, and w. H. Lands,
bot hof Indianapolis. were nominated
for grand secretary: George T. Zim.
norman, Crown Point, and H. F.
| Clements, Mt. Vernon, were named for
grand warden. W. A. Morris. Frank.
fort, was named for grand treasurer
and George Shirts, of Indianapolis
for grand trustee. H. A. Winterrowd
OF Indianapolis, grand master, was
nominated for grand representative
A meeting of the District Deputies
association opened the forenoon SEES
sion of the convention Thursday. The
| seventy-three district deputies of the
state were present.
Following the meeting of the dis.
trict deputies, reports of committees
appointed at the preceding convention
of the order were heard by the gen
eral assembly. The convention closed
at noon, following the nomination OF
officers.
The hundredth anniversary of the
founding of the Order in America was
observed in a public meeting at Tom.
linson hall Wednesday night John
B. Cockrum, of Indianapolis, presided
an dtalks on the growth of the lodge
were made by Lucian ]. Eastin. of ST
Joseph, NO.. and Alfred S. Pinkerton
| past grand sire, OF Worcester. Mass
L
The taxi from here to yonder,'
! gratis to Shriners visiting Indianapo
lis during the session of the Imperial
Council, the week of June. 9, will be
one of the features offered by the
! committee having charge of the auto