The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1920-10-22
.REBEkAHS HONOR
MRS. D|MOND
She Was First President of the As
sembly and Was Received With
Cordial Greetings Yes
terday.
OFFICERS INSTALLED
Miss S. Elizabeth Matheney OF keo-
kuk is Secretary, and Reports
Show Big Gains for,
Order.
INSTALLED

and routine business.
Olive Branch Circle of Marion Re
bekah lodge, Ames, Ial, raised and 90.
mated over $32S.74 as a medical fund
to provide special treatment for Grip
pied or afflicted reSiSents of the !. ".
o. F. homes. The funds are to be
disbursed On order of the advisory
board
Paradise Rebekah lodge of Sioux
City and Star of hope Rebekah Ken
sin gton Of Clinton, each pledged to
furnish room in the boys dormitory
at Mason City as soon as the building
lis completed Junietta Rebekah lodge
of Eagle Grove and Temple Rebekah
lodge Of Waterloo have each started
a fund for the same purpose.
Grand Lodge OFFICERS Eject Visit As
sembIy.
John P. Price of Abba, grand mas
ter elect, Lynn Irwin, deputy grand
master elect and L. j. Neff of Wal
nut, grand warden elect, visited the
assembly and extended greetings
from the grand lodge, each in turn
pledging his interest and co-opera-
ton in the work of assembly as he
advanced in the o.>Ier.
In speaking of his relations with
the assembly and associations with
the Rebekahs during the coming year
the grand master elect said there may
not at all times be harmony OF opinion
but there can and will be harmony OF
motive and intention.
! A form for the draping of the char
ter by Rebekah lodges was adoFed
by the assembly as presented by Past
Presidents Effle Graham, Ida Tutford
and Allie Scott, committee appoint
! ed at the session last year at Ames
to draft and present the same. The
ceremony was prepared by Past Presi-
dent Ida Tufford of Clinton and fol-
lowing the report of the memorial
committee was used in draping the
charter of the assembly in memory 81
the deceased of the past year.
Mamie Buckley, warden OF the as
sembly reported that during this SEES
sion the assembly degree had been
given to forty-six past noble grands,
/ thirty-three past grands and thirty
mine delegates, making a total OF llS
who had received the degree.
| Thursday Afternoon.
Preceding the afternoon session a
| short entertainment by the Cotton
Blossom singers, company of young
| people from the student body Of Piney
woods school of Braxton, Miss, was
| Furnished as a complimeDst no the
president of the assembly. Their lead
Ter, Lawrence Jones, who is at the
head of the school, was former fell
low citizen of Mrs. Schecklens IN
,Marshalltown.
Following the opening of the after
noon session the grand representa-
| tives to the sovereign grand lodge,
10 e. Alexander and w. S. Right were
introduced and briefly addressed the
ASSEMBLY, telling of the entertainment
features Of the sovereign grand lodge
i and other items Of interest which had
mot been covered by their report.
FIRST President Honored.
| Carrie T. Dimond of this city, elect
ed president of the Rebekah assembly
| at the time of it's institution in Des
lMoines in 1888 was presented at this
afternoons session. She was intro
duced by Past President Laura l.
Kent, who in comparing the order OF
that time, less than 5000 members,
with the order of today said that Presi-
dent Schechter with $4,000 Rebekahs
lunder her leadership was today reap
ing the harvest from the seed sown
Inv Past President Dimond.
President Schlechter warmly well
coined Past President Dimond and in
turn presented Past President Kent
as the first secretary of the assem-
| bly. having served under Mrs. Df-
mond.
Past President Agnes Mercer, on
behalf Of the assembly, presented to
| Past President Dimond a gift of sill
yer as a token in remembrance of
her thirty-third anniversary. 'The
dearest word to all of US is mother y
said Past President Mercer in pre-
| senting the gift, land to the Rebekah
| assembly of Iowa you stand to the
54OO members as the meaning of
| that word"
It was Past President Mercer who
presided as president when the as
sembly met in this city twenty years
ago.
Past Presidents Dimond and Kent
| were each presented with pink roses,
a gift from the Past Presidents as
sociation.
The installation of officers for the
ensuing year concluded the afternoon
session.
The installation staff was com
posed of the nineteen past presidents
present at this session and was very
beautifully and impressively given.
Following the installation, both
| the incoming and outgoing officers
| were the recipients of many beautiful
gifts and flowers.
The love and esteem in which Miss
S. E. Matheney, Of this city, is held
| by the members OF the order, fol
whom she has so faithfully and eff
GENTLY served. was shown in the
many beautiful gifts which she re