Cayton's weekly. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1916-1921, 1920-02-07
THE PASSING THRONG

The one-day session of the grand lodge
Of the Masons Of Washington and juris-
dction was held last Tuesday and was
attended by j. G.. Logan, Edward Ruther-
ford and Mae Oliver, Portland Henry j.
Asberry, j.. A. Nelson Clarence Rounds and
j. Lumpkins, Tacoma; j. E. Shepperson
and w. j. Morrison, Roslyn; John Golden
and Rev. j. A. Duncan, Ellensburg; A. j.
Bragg and W. L. Perkins, Yakima; r. E.
Crump, Spokane; Thomas Jefferson, Newton
Solomon, M. E. Bird E. H. Williams and
j. E. Norton Everett; j. B. White and
William Ellis, Bellingham Edie Gardner
and Howard Brown Of Seattle. The SEES
sion was presided over by b. H. Holmes,
grand master AT the conclusion of the
session Of the grand lodge banquet was
served in honor of the recently made lodge
of Seattle.
"Why there is Henry Gregg" said a
friend to me as we were walking down the
street, and l invountarily said, 'come here
Don," and gave distress whistle for my
dog. OF course my Don is dead and [ am
dogless, but for twenty -one years, [ had
been keeping an eye peeled for that darn
dog catcher, lest he get my dog and [
would have the measley sum Of one dollar
to pay for dog license for that canine.
Thuogh Gregg is no longer connected with
the dog pond the unexpected mention OF
his name so startled me that | found my
self trying to protect imaginative dog.
Henry grinned when l whistled for my dog
and tried to locate it to keep the dog
catcher from it and said: ooh, g'wan, your
dog is dead, and UNI no dog catcher any
way, but all of this reminds me that [ was
dog catcher so long and chased so many
dogs that | forgot myself and one day |
was walking through the sage brush near
my orchard down in the Yakima Valley,
when jack rabbit began to hot foot it in
front Of me and in the twinSing OF an eye
| was up and after the bugger and believe
me, | had it for dinner the next day.
Now Henry is giant both in strength and
stature, but | looked him straight in the
eye and told him the following story: My
twelve year old kid boy asked me Of some
thing about which [ did not care to talk
and | replied, 81 do not know" when he
looked at me and cody replied to my evasive
answer, "Papa, you know that [ know Won
are lying.' No l did not skin that little
skamp and all because his mother convinced
me that the boy was only joking. Henry
did not laugh heartily over the joke and I
suspect that he had a sneaking idea that it
was no joke with me-
Whoever wrote, Zone half Of the world
does not know what the other half is do
ing said whole mouthful, but did not
know it. In the past [ had listened to so
much pickering among the members of the
various uplift organizations among the col
ored citizens of this community that | had
about reached the conclusion that in Seattle
the spirit of rivalry and jealousy among
ourselves had about swamped us and that
we had all reached the conclusion, every
fellow for himself and the devil take the
hindermost one However, l selfshly de-
cided to visit the monthly meeting Of the
Sojourner Truth Club last Tuesday evening
and sat myself down in critical mood, ex-
pecting all the time to witness the usual
pull dick, pull devil sceance, that [ have so