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|PYTHlANS INITIATE
VERY LARGE CLASS
| Membership Drive Oh Cambridge
Lodge OF Knights OF fythias Larg-
| est Ever Secured On Peninsula.

With the initiation last Thursday
evening of one hundred and twenty
| five new members Cambridge Lodge
No. 81, knights of Pythias, complet-
III the most successful drive Tor new
members that has ever been made on
the peninsula. Officers and mem
bers of the local lodge recently de-
clded that the membership was not
nearly SO large as it ought to be, that
there was plenty OF good material
mere and in the surrounding county
to not only double but treble the
membership and that it was up to
them to make all effort to secure
more members. Plans were immedi-
ately made and time set for drive
Tor new members and within the ten
days set aside for the membership
drive total of one hundred and
twenty-five new members were Sc
lured.
Last Thursday night was the time
set for the initiation of this large
class and members oil the Grand
Lodge of the State and Rank Team
from Wilmington were invited to be
present. But it was realized that the
Pythian Castle was entirely too small
to accommodate the crowd that
would be present SO II was arranged
TO open the exercises with banquet
at the Armory to DE followed by the
leam work. The Ladies Aid Society
Of Zion Church was engaged to serve
the banquet and it would be almost
Impossible to imagine more beauti-
Jul sight than that which greeted the
eyes OF the banqueters when they
were invited to the basement of the
Armory to partake OF the good things
which had been prepared for them.
there We're all kinds OF good things
to eat including chicken salad, oys-
lers, ham, potato salad. Maryland
biscuits. finger rolls, celery, jelly,
pickles, sailed nuts. minis, coffee,
cocoa, ice cream, homemade cake,
etc. and it was delightfully."- served.
visiting members asking where on
earth so many beautiful girls and
handsome women came from.
After the banquet there were short
addresses by DIR, Herbert Blake. of
Grand Chancellor of Mary
land: J. Edward Richardson, Su-
preme Representative of the Grand
Lodge Of MARYLAND; Theodore Simp-
son, of The Wilmington Trust Co., Of
Del, Past Supreme Re
Delaware. Mayor Broening, of Bal
limore and Reno S. Harp, of Freder-
lex, got as far as Easton but were
unable to get to Cambridge in time
for the exercises. P. Watson Webb
was toastmaster for the occasion.
Following the banquet the Calan-
the Rank Team of Wilmington, con-
ferred the Rank OF Page on the new
members SO impressively that the les
sons of the rank will never be for
gotten. After the secret work had
been completed the doors were
thrown open to the members and
wives and the Ladies Aid
Society Of Zion Church was admitted
to witness the explanation of the
work of the degree.
During the drill in connection
with the degree Mr.. Simpson, upon
behalf of the members of Calanthe
Lodge No. % of Wilmington, Del,
presented Mr.. Charles H. Mckinney,
of the Arcade Theatre, who
was a member of the team with a
beautiful sterling silver pencil upon
which had been engraved knights
IF Pythias monogram
Following this DR.. E. E. Wolff. a
of Cambridge Lodge made a
Jew remarks and called for rising
7ote of thanks for the chairmen who
supervised the drive so successfully.
Visiting members were present
rom Wilmington, Del; Easton, Girls
ield and Baltimore, Md.