The Washington herald., 1919-03-16


J Monday-Amaranth, No. ss esquire rank; Cen-
tury-D-catur. No. 80 knight rank
TIesdsy-Webstsr, No. 7. ESQUIRE and knight
| ranks; Excelsior. No IL, Capital. No. a. knight
rank; Myrtle. No. S.
wedns=dsy-Mount Vernon. No. 5. Equal. No.
! II.
/ Thur,day-FrankIin, No. s. pas, and esquire
ranks
Fndsy-syracudans. No. 10. knight rank.
PYTHIAN SISTERS.
wednesday-Friendship Temple, No. .
Friday-Rathbone Temple. No. g.
Amaranth Lodge. No. %, will con-
fer the esquire rank on two candi-
dates at the convention OF the lodge
tomorrow night. and on the same
evening Century Lodge, No. 80, will
confer the knight rank on three can
didates. L. z. Hoffman and E. A.
Roberts, members of Century
tur Lodge. have been mustered out
Of the military service.
Webster Lodge, No. I, has the es-
quire and knight ranks scheduled for
meeting Tuesday night. J. F. Nc
Grew has been elected master at
arms and Mr.. Nicholson inner guard
of Webster Lodge.
Capital Lodge, No. "a, announces
the knight rank of its meeting Tues
day evening. The lodge at Its last
convention conferred the esquire rank
on four OF its own candidates and one
from Excelsior Lodge and elected H.
A. Mackey master at arms.
Franklin Lodge. No ?, Thursday
night will confer the page and es-
quire ranks on four candidates. The
work will be done by the degree team
Of Syracusians Lodge, No. 10. Frank
lin Lodge being the home lodge OF
Grand Chancellor Berry d. Patrick.
expects to give him the longest menu
bership numerical gain of all the local
lodges during his term as head of
the grand domain OF the District
OF Columbia. All members of the
order of this and other jurisdictions
are invited to attend this meeting
Past Supreme Chancellor Dunn will
make an address on Pythian history.
Syracusians Lodge, No. 10, will con-
fer the knight rank on a class of ten
OF its own candidates Friday night
and four from Franklin Lodge. The
page and esquire ranks were confer
red at the last meeting OF the lodge.
Grand ChancelIor Perry P. Patrick
at the last meeting of the ways and
means committee made an eloquent
appeal to the members to be pre-
pared for the great work OF recon-
struction. At this meeting the offer
OF the drill team of Rathbone Temple,
No. S. to give an exhibition drill for
the members was accepted and April
Is was selected as the date for the
exhibition. The team is composed of
sixteen members of Rathbone Tenn
pie Pythian Sisters with Harvey
Smith as dr5H master end Israel
Sommers assistant
Calanthe Lodge, No. II, at it's meet
ing last Tuesday night was addressed
by George H. Hadley, of Texas. Su-
preme Representative-elect John Dick
erman was also present with a dele
cation from Home Lodge, No. 81.
Washington Company, No. l, Uni
form Rank. at its meeting Wednesday
night extended a royal welcome to
four members who have been in the
service of our country-Capt. r. d.
Glading, Lieut.. Roberts, Lieut.. Ian
dy and SeTEt. Stansbury. The re-
port Of the recorder showed the COM
pany to be in an excellent financial
condition, s1;sis.27 being In the treas
ury. Many applications for member
ship are being received and It is stat
ed that CoIdwell Company, No. =.
may consolidate with washington
Company.
Friendship Temple. No. ., Pythian
Sisters. celebrated its seventh ami
versary Wednesday evening. Among
the speakers were Past Grand Chan
cellor W. A. Rimmel, C. Kennicutt
and Grand Prelate C. W. Henderson.
A banquet was served.
At the meeting of the ways and
means committee held last Satur-
day the question of refunding the
debt on the Temple, as reported by
the board of directors, was favor
ably considered and endorsed. Ar
rangements were also completed
for an excursion to Chesapeake
Beach on July 16 next. The offer
of the drill team of RAthbone Tenn
pie No. 9, Pythian Sisters, to give
an exhibition drill for the edifica-
tion of the members was accepted,
and the date fixed at April u. This
team is composed of sixteen women
and Drill Master Smith and assist
ant Israel Sommers. The team is
said to be the best drilled Of any
In the Supreme Domain.
The ways and means committee
also appropriated to pay for deco
rating the Grand Lodge headquar-
ters, so that by Easter it will be
in spring array.
The grand chancellor, Perry p. |
Patrick. made an eloquent appeal
to the members ito be prepared for !!
the great work our order has to do |
in the way of reconstruction" he I;
said. "to grow with the world and |
make 1t better is the, function of
our great order inspired by the
sublime truth of our ritual, which |
teaches men to know the value of
the greater service; to meet all con-
ditions and to give unreservedly for
the good of all is the avocation of \
knighthood."
Calanthe Lodge No. IL.
Calanthe Lodge held one of its in
teresting conventions Monday even
ing, in addition Ito receiving sew
eral petitions and making provision
for the sick, the good of the orderv
kept the members until near tho T
wee small hour. Mr.. George HI