The Chicago whip. (Chicago, Ill.) 1919-19??, 1920-07-03
MOSAIC TEMPLARS OF. AMERICA
HOLD SECOND GRAND SESSION
IN ILLINOIS JURISDICTION.
B. C. Clanton Reelected Grand Mas
ter for the Next Two Years.

Salem Baptist Church, 5000 La
Sale Street was the scene of the
opening of the second Grand Lodge
Meeting of the Mosaic Templars of
America for Illinois and jurisdiction;
The assembled delegates were called
20 order by Grand Master Clanton,
after the opening prayer by Rev
BrcWnlec Of Arkansas, the gavel was
then turned over to National Grand
Master s. !. Elliott who then made
short address reviewing the work
and growth of the Order in Illinois,
The Lodge then went into its regular
order Of business. National Grand
Chief Deputy Wash Jordan addressed
the delegates and conferred the
Priesthood Degree on thirty candl-
dates, it being one of the highest
degrees in the Order In the evening
Alderman Louis B. Anderson dellV-
cred an excellent welcome address on
behalf Of the citizens of the City oil
Chicago to which he was responded
by Honorable J. J. II. McConico, the
National Auditor Of the Mosaic
Templars Of America. Other speakers
Of the evening were DIR. Elliott, Mrs
Jennie Johnson, Rev. A. B. Collins,
of st. Louis, solo by E. J. Myers
and an instrumental by Mrs. Blanche
Logan. Tuesday morning the Grand
Lodge committees made their reports
and the officers for the ensuing
period were elected, which included
the following, Benjamin G. Clanton,
Grand Master, S. J. Justice Arronic
Grand Master, Susie Myers, Grand
Scribe, William J. Morsell, Treasurer
of the Burial Board, b. Montgomery,
State Grand Treasurer, Joseph E.
Snowden, Grand State Attorney,
Devine Brooks, Chief Grand Deputy,
Rev. a. b. Collins of East st. Louis,
Grand Chaplain, Mrs. Lille Brown
Of East st. Louis, Grand Warden,
Helen Greer, Grand Guardian, Mary
Hill of Loveioy, Asst. Guardian, Hen
retta l.. Perkins, Mrs. Powell John
son, Virginia. Body, l.. J. Jones,
Board of Management, Jennie John
son, Sec'y. of Burial Board. Tuesday
evening Mrs. Joanna Snowden Porter
rendered the report of the coincidence
committee Wednesday evening ev-
eryone enjoyed themselves at a
large reception rendered after the
installation Of the newly elected of
ficers. Mr.. George L. Brown, Asst.
Grand Auditor, made the installation
address.
The Mosaic Templars of America
has only been established in Illinois
about seven months and has grown
from seven lodges in the City of Chi
cago to uore than thirty lodges scat
tered ovei2 the State, and under the
guidance of the State Grand Master,
3. G. Clanton, seems destined to be
the largest fraternal order in Hi
nois. The Mosaic Templars is the
richest colored fraternal organization
in the United States, its last finan-
cial report showing it to have over
five hundred thousand dollars in as
sets for the protection of its policy
holders. 1t has a membership of over
one hundred and thirty thousand,
six thousand subordinate lodges in
thirty-one states, the West Indies,
Central and South America and AT
RIGA. 1t is the one aim of the Mosaic
that the sun shall never set on the
order. Its headquarters is in Little
Rock, Ark, where it was established
81 years ago by ]. E. Bush, the
father Of the present National Scribe
and treasurer. Mr. Bush employs in
his offices more than thirty colored
girls and stenographers and clerks,
all the Mosaic Templars furnish en-
ployment in Little Rock to more than
seventy-fiVe young men and women.
l. is the desire of the National
Grand Master that every Mosaic in
the City of Chicago or State of Hi
nos should communicate with State
Grand Master Clanton and help build
up the Order in Illinois.