The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1921-04-07
HOOD RIVER
FERTILE OASIS
SHRINE RECEPTION is ELABORATE
Visitors From AL Kader Compliment LO-
cal Mobiles MaSOnS Are Honor
Guests Of Evening

j On smaller scale of course, HOOD
| River, turned into a fertile oasis fol
the faithful, was last Saturday night
as was the great oasis of Portland last
summer, when the Imperial Council ot
the Mystic Shrine was held there.
Saturday night members of the Hooc
River Shrine Club were hosts to Illus
trious Potentate Grant, of Al KadeI
Temple. the diyan and chanters of the
Rose City temple and great conclave
of Mobiles, who made the pilgrimage tc
the local mecca by automobile over the
Highway. More than 150 Shriners, ac.
companied by wives and sweethearts,
were here to participate in the festiv-
| ity, the most elaborate social function
ever staged in the mid Columbia.
Joining members of the Hood River
Shrine Club and their wives at six
O'Clock at the Lotus Grille. the visiting
| faithful and their ladies' were seated at
banquet. Plates were laid for 450.
The Shrine Club had chartered the
entire lower floor of the hostelry and
the adjoining Lotus Grille for the fes-
tive affair, and lavish decorations
turned lobby, dining room, corridors
and the grille into veritable fairy
idlus lASh anu HGilOW WGIG
lnterminged with the green of fir and
Oregon grape. Walls bore great BAN
ners. emblazoning the emblems of the
mystic order. Dancing was begun at 9
o'clock in the big grille, with the larg-
est floor space of any similar cabaret
in Oregon. and with music furnished
by the augmented Kolstad's orchestra
those of the faithful and infidels, all
Columbia members of Hood River
Blue Lodge, made merry throughout
tire evening. The dance was pleasantly
interrupted by concerts of the chant
ers, whose sweet songs brought forth
cries of more" and the great throng
applauded for encores. Calling for
quiet. President McMullin, of the
Shrine Club, introduced Potentate
Grant. In his introduction Mr.. Nc
Mullin declared that the local Masonic
Lodge members were honor guests of
the evening. Mr.. Grant expressed the
hope that he would soon see many of
the Blue Lodge membere wearing the
fez of Al Kader. A. F. Howes, Mas
ter of the local lodge, responded with
short talk, and Judge Geo. w. Sta
pleton, of Portland. addressed the Ma
sons, urging them to hasten in COM
pletingstheir quota to the Oregon Ma
sonic Home, now under construction at
Forest Grove.
No Oregon function has ever had
larger attendance. More than 800 par
ticipated in the evenings festivities.
Following the banquet the hotel dining
room was turned into a smoking and
card room, and these not caring for
dancing found diversion there. Stores
of the city were handsomely decorated
in honor of the visitors, and CHEEKY
signs of greeting were displayed from
show windows. Memory of the pleas
ant evening will remain long with the
participants.
So great was the crowd of visitors
that hotels were unable to accommo-
date them, and 80 rooms were secured
in private families. Most of the Wis
iting Shriners remained over for tours
of the orchard districts Sunday. While
showers Saturday caused a number of
Portlanders to cancel their highway
trips here, Sunday broke clear, al
though cold, and the visitors were able
to secure fine views of mountain seen
cry.
Illustrious Potentate Grant and the
other visitors complimented the local
Shriners highly on the entertainment.
They declared that it was one of the
most pleasant fraternal functions in
which they had ever participated.
Hood River, it was declared, acts on
lines in such affairs.
Other officers of AL Kader, who spoke
feelingly of the pleasure of their visit
were: Past Potentate Geo. w. Staple
ton. Hugh j. Boyd, Harvey Wells and
H. l.. Hutchinson.
Just as the Mobiles and their ladies
were seated at the banquet Saturday
night, President McMullin announced
that the following three members of
the Hood River Shrine had passed into
the great beyond: John Often, +. l..
Smith and G. X. Marshall. A few
were spent in impressive
tribute. The orchestra played
LEAD Kindly Light" and Noble Dav-
idson, director of the Chanters. sang
cat the End of Perfect Day." Mr..
Davidson sang Sunday morning at
Riverside church.
A number of members of "The
Daughters of the Nile," composed of
wives of Shriners, were here for the
event.
At IL o'clock a buffet supper was
served to all the many guests. The
party lasted until the wee small hours.
President McMullin, wro has received
the hearty congratulations from all
who attended the party on the success
with which he handled it, declares the
credit is due to all the members of the
Shrine Club.
elf ! had not had all of the boys
back of me-" he says. 1--WE never
could have done it, but everybody coop
Grated fully and did the work assigned
him. Everything moved smoothly.
lust tender your congratulations TO