El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1920-04-24
SHRINERS TAKE
IN LARGE GLASS

The spring ceremonial OF 81 MAZDA
temple, Fl Paso Oasis Of the Mystic
Shrine win conclude with a banquet
tonight at 8 o'clock at the Paso del
Norte hotel Friday witnessed the
close OF the 29th semi-annual reunion
of the FL Paso lodge Of Scottish Rite
1Iasons. when the 3lst and 32d de-
grees were conferred on the Samuel
Allison Thompson class Of 200 can
didates.
A feature OF Saturdays activities
was the Shrine parade through the
downtown streets. when the $50
Shrine candidates made the first pOr-
tion OF the scorching journey across
the hot sands OF the desert TO Mecca
FL MaiC band led the parade which
included all the usual features Of this
semi-annual event a Z. RoWlands
was grand marshal
c. II. Leavell. iilustrious p0tentats,
was in charge OF the entire cere-
monial, which began at noon with q
business session at the Masonic
temple. Candidates for the shrine
were elected at this session. which
was followed by the procession at 2
o'clock.
From : o'clock until the neophytes
struggled through the remainder Of
the journey prepared for them at the
Masonic temple as a preliminary to
being accepted as full fledged Shrin-
ers.
Committees in Charge.
The following committees and
divan have charge OF the ceremonial:
Illustrius potentate, c. H Leavell
Chief rabban. c. l. Sirmans.
Assistant rabban, r z. Thomson.
High priest and prophet, r. W..
Page.
Oriental guide. z. P. Lerner.
, Treasurer. E ". Kayser.
Recorder, ". II. Mccullough.
First raTnurnNrN -nnEFar Hn1
second ceremonial master. W. ".
Captain Of the guard. Ed S. Heller.
Outer guard, Albert Mercer.
Director, c. E McNemar.
Assistant director, W. II. johnson.
Oriental orator, Rev. Fuller Swift
Director OF the Arabs, John D.
Marshal. A E. Rowlands.
Representative to imperial coun-
eli. c. h Leavell. John NJ Wyatt,
John D. Mason, ". ". Evans.
Honorary members Of imperial
council, John n Wyatt.
"On 10 Portland" COMMITTEES, c. H.
Leaven. general chairman; J. II.
Wyatt, W ". Evans, J D. Mason, J..
b Brady, S J. Prudential
Band committee, ". ". Evans. H
z. Christie. ". II. Mccullough.
Patrol committee; c. L Sirmans, Z.
p. Lerner, =. n Johnson.
Raiahs or sheiks, special rep
resentatives Of the potentate. Alpine,
H. T. Fletcher; Amarillo, A Reese;
Maria. ". 3. Mitchell; Fort Davis. S.
A. Thompson Pecos, h T. Woods.
Dalhart, a s Herzers Marathon,
". Y. Mcintyre; Sanderson. W II.
Chastain; Sierra Blanca, T. D Love;
Valentine, S. w Draper; Toyah, J. Q.
Adams: Van Horn. R Il. Espy; Fort
Stockton. Z 7. Pryor, f.. Big Springs,
s Alderman
Visiting mobiles reception commit
tee. P. II. Brown chairman.
Ladies' reception committee, :. ".
Lorentzen, chairman.
Decoration COMMITTEES Maurice
Schwartz. chairman
Music committee. n II. Bourland.
Press and publicity committee. P
". Page, S. L Davis
Parade committee, A y. RoWlands
chairman H. NJ Smith, Wm- Wat
kins, E F. Maxwell, Z. II. Whitaker.
Medical directors, DR.. J. H Gam
brell. diagnostician; DR.. z. D. Strong.
investigator: Dr.. J. D. Love, cardinal
Observer DR.. T. J. McCamant, sur
gical supervisor; DR.. Z. P Miller
hospital Inspector; DR.. J. II. Rich
mond, clinic chief DR.. h E. Steven