The daily banner. (Cambridge, Md.) 1897-2008, 1921-12-17


DRY. COmmandery Instituted.
| Masons from Baltimore by the
! hundred and from other sections OF
! the Eastern Sheer by the score jour
neyed to Cambridge yesterday to
participate in the dcdicatory eXer-
| cises in connection with the accept
ance of tho beautiful new Masonic
Temple which was completed several
| months ago and occupied temporar1-
| ly without having been accepted by
the Grand Lodge.
Immediately following the dedi-
cation services the Cambridge Com
mandery, No. IA, Knights of Temp
lars, for which a dispensatton was
granted last summer was instituted.
The members OF Cambridge Lodge
were called on about half past
eleven o'clock yesterday morning and
left the Lodge room a few minutes
after the hour OF noon for the pur-
pose of meeting the visitors from
Baltimore who came to Cambridge
on the steamer Susquehanna which
! had been chartered for the occasion.
Headed by the Rescue Fire Company
Ddiu jIit NlSiliIS anu 1ONStA
Templars, Blue Lodge and Grand
Lodge officials marched directly to
The Armory where dinner was served
by the Eastern Star and wives and
sisters of members of the local lodge.
About three hundred members of the
order were dined.
At the conclusion of the dinner
Worshipful Master Scott Meekins, OF
Cambridge Lodge, called those pres
ent to order and introduced His
Honor, Mayor Earle w. Orem, for
mer Master of the Lodge. who in
very happy and appropriate address
welcomed the visitors to Cam
bridge. The Most Worshipful Master,
Warren S. Seipp, of Baltimore, re-
sponded for the Grand Lodge; Chas.
T. MOrningStar, representing the
Grand High Priest for the Grand
Chaptes5 of Maryland; Grand Com
mander Robert NJ. Rother, of the
Grand Commandery, Knights Temp
lars of Maryland, for the knights
Templars and William Mohr, Most
nlustrious Grand Master of Royal
and Select Masters of Maryland for
the members of that branch of Ma
sonary.
Immediately after the speech MAX
ing was concluded the members
marched to the Lodge room where
the dedicatory services were held.
These services were conducted by
the Most WorShipful Master Warren
5. Seipp, assisted by the following
members of the Grand Lodge; Most
Worshipful Deputy Ora I'd Master,
George W. Livingstar. right Wor-
shipful Senior Grand Warden. John
H. Duncan; Right Worshipful Junior
Grand Warden A. a. Parker; Right
Worshipful Grand Secretary, George
Cook; Right Worshipful Grand
Treasurer, Peter E. Tome; Right
Norshipful Grand Chaplain, Henry
Branch, D. D.; Right Worshipful
Marshal, Irving 7. Zimmerman;
Grand Standard Bearer. l.. A. Kirk;
Irand Sword Bearer, Horace NJ:
Davis;@ Senior Grand Deacon, Henry
Jacob New; Senior Grand Steward,
=. II. Scherf; Junior Grand Steward,
Joseph S. Haas; Grand Pursuivant, ].
2. Pfeiffer; Grand Director of Cere-
monies. L. Dorsey Gassaway; Grand
Tyler, William Z. Geddes.
The Most Worshipful Grand Master
expressed himself as not only pleas
ed but astonished at the beauty of
the Lodge room; it surpassed his
fondest expectations and he hoped
that other lodges Throughout the
State would emulate the example set
by the members of Cambridge Lodge.
At the conclusion of the Grand
Masters address Cambridge Com
mandery No. IA, knights of Templar,
was constituted by Grand Command
er Robert NJ. Rother, of the Grand
,Commandery, knights Templar of
Maryland, assisted by the other Of
ficers of the Grand Commentary.
Following the constitution of this
Commandery the following officers
were installed:
Eminent Commander William H.
Willis; generalissimo, Fred R. Wad-
dell; captain general, w. Nicholas
Williams; senior warden. S. ]. T.
Smith; junior warden J. B. Rozelle;
recorder, Benjamin S. Insley;
treasurer, Robert H. Matthews; pre-
late, Russell Davis; warden, John G.
Evans; sentinel, William A. Stacker.
Members of the Knights Templar
here formerly belonged to the Chesa-
peake Commandery. Easton.
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