The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1922-05-19

The LeFloce Chapter DeAiolaysy
located at Greenwood, sent its ofTici9,
~ to Grenada last Friday night to
organize d DeMolay Chapter. Ar
arrangements had been made for the
coming OF the visitors and great
deal Of interest had been worked up
; for a DeM0lay organization in Gre
NADIA with the result that the Masonic
. temple had perhaps the largest gath
erlng OF Masons that has been seen
here for years. There were 81 of
| Grenada's youths on hand to be made
DeMolays. The fathers, brothers and
close friends of the boy candidates
were on hand to witness the ceremon-
les and to show how very keenly they
are interested in everything that con-
Germs the welfare of young man.
hood. The ceremonies were all that
were expected and even more. The
fathers and the friends were graft
fled almost beyond expression. They
felt that the Order meant a volume
Of good sermons and that all the pre-
cepts and the teachings OF DeMolay
meant restraining as well as an en-
nobling influence on its members.
At the conclusion of the installa-
tiOn ceremonies which, witnessed only
by Master Masons, several were called
on for short talks as to what they
hought of what they had seen and
heard. Those who made talks were
Ex-MayOr DOty, Prof. John Rumble,
Judge Will A. Roane, DR.. j. W.
Young, w. d. Salmon and o. F. Law
renee. Those speakers all expressed
qualification that what was sought to
be inculcated was Biblical doctrine,
and was such that if the boys would
square their lives by its teachings
that they could not fail to be useful,
true and upright men.
The members of the LeFlore Chap
ter won the plaudits of all present by
the orderly, dignified and almost per-
feet manner in which they conducted
the ceremonies. They showed them
selves to have recognized fully the
Importance of the solemn and i'm
portant obligation they were discharg-
ing. They had their work so well in
hand that many of the older MasOns
felt that they should start and learn
over much of the work in Masonry.
The following is the list of the young
men from the LeFlore Chapter pres
ent, together with their positions:
Master Inquisitor, Newton Fox. Sem
ior Inquisitor, Clyde Bunch; Junior
Inquisitor, Charles Peel; Jacques De-
Molay, Irving Stein; Conductor of
the Accused, Fred Hill; Guards, Ber-
nard Dawson, Geo. A. Spivey, Cand-
le Bearers, Thomas Holman and
John Quinn; Master Councillor, An
drew Boswell; Senior Councillor, Ber-
nard Dawson; Junior Councillor, New
ton Fox; Senior Deacon, Charles
Tuhpin; Junior Deacon, John Quinn;
Steward, Geo. A. Spivey; Scribe,
Charles Peel; Chaplain, Irving Stein;
Standard Bearer, John Young; Mar
shall, Harold Kantor; Sentinel, j. w.
Hamrick; Property Man, Robert How
ell; Preceptors, Tom Holman, Charles
Peel, Fred Hill, Clyde Bunch, Edward
Cooley, Lonnie McGrew and Leonard
Campbell.
Mr.. Sumpter Gillespie of the Green
wood Commonwealth, who was i'm
mediately in charge of the LeFlore
Chapter, made short talk in which
he specially emphasized that the
splendid work done by the LeFlore
Chapter was due to the very excellent
young men OF the Order who had been
under the immediate training of Mr..
Donald S. Wright, young man of
the bar at Greenwood and former
Grenadian. Mr.. Wright responded to
the demand to make a short talk on
"a Clean Life" which was heartily
appreciated. The night of May IL,
1922. will long be remembered in the
history of Grenada and the prophecy
was made that night, that in the years
to come, those who review and study
tine history of the community will re-
gard that occasion as an epoch-mak-
ing one for this historic little city.
The following is the list of the boys
who were made DeMolays:
Sam Futney, Jim Provine, ]. D.
Bell, Loui Honeycutt, j. L. Kemzie,
Robert Pepper, John Countiss, Harry
Lee Pope, Fred Licfold, Conrad
Beasley, Burns Tatum, Kenneth
Wood, Joe Walter Schultz, Jr. VIM. n.
Crowder, Jr. Maurice Bull Robert B.
Jones, Willie C.. Martin, Alius
Sweeney, Verd Slaughter Robert