Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1922-08-25
LOCAL SHRINERS
TO SUPERIOR
Join With Thousands In Merry
making.-Maggie Has
Her Fun
LADYSMITH COMEDIANS
ADVERTISE OUR CITY
Explanation of Who Shriners Are
and Something About Mystic Or
der.-CIean Fun


of them accompanied by~their wives,
helped to make up the host of more
than five thousand Shriners who Wis
tied Superior last Saturday from all
over the Northwest.
The visitors were feter, taken about
the city in an automobile tour, given
boat ride on the bay and the st.
Louis river, and entertained at the
theaters and in many other ways.
The principal ceremony was the cere-
mony of initiation, and two of the
Rusk county party were initiated into
the Mystic Shrine-Harry A. Drake, of
Ladysmith, and Parcher Ellingson, Of
Hawkins
The personnel of the Ladysmith par
ty included Judge G. H. Williams and
Worden and wife, DR.. L. M. Lund-
mark and wife, DR.. e. w. Day and
wife, E. G. Macdonald and wife, VIM.
Luell and wife, III. A. Drake and wife,
w. S. Manning, DR.. HI. r. T. Ross, j.
p. Peterson, w. G. Thompson, G. G.
Kile, Harry Ballou, R. B. Macdonald,
AL Neely.
Advertise LadysTnith
W. G. Thompson, as "Uncle JOSH"
was one of the entertainers who helped
TO put Ladysmit hon the Shrine map.
AL Neely, dressed to represent an
Italian with a bear,' was there with
Maggie" brakes black yearling bear,
and was one of the hits of the meet.
When Thompson registered at hotel
he had the bear with him, but the
clerk, behind a high desk did not see
Maggie until she arose and took
the ''pen in hand'' to register. When
the hotel clerk saw the bear he literal
ly went into the air and let out
squawk that was heard at police head
quarters Maggie made herself at
home in the hotel dining room, seated
herself at table and Immediately
cleaned up all the butter on the table,
much to the amusement of the guests
at other tables, when they saw that
she was a tame bear and not danger
Gus.
Who Are the Shriners
Who are the Mystic Shriners-the
men who invaded Superior Saturday
an dmade it ring with cheers and
laughter?
They are all MasOns of high degree,
who have travelled upward from the
Blue Lodge to the rank of knights
1,n tho
thirty-second degree in the Scottish
rite.
The York rite consists of the Blue
lodge, wherein a man becomes Mas
ter Mason, then the Chapter, wherein
a Master Mason is made a Royal Arch
Mason, and then the Commandery
wherein a Royal Arch Mason is made
knight Templar.
The Scottish rite consists of unified
bodies which confer the degrees from
the fourth to the thirty-second. A
Scottish rite group is known as con-
sstory. In Wisconsin there is but one
consistory, and it accepts for member
shin only Masons who have reached
the rank of Knight Templar.
Meeting Ground
The Ancient Arabic Order Mobiles or
the Mystic Shrine was organized as
common meeting ground for men who
passed upward either through the YORK
rite to the rank of Knights Templar,
or through the Scottish rite to the
thirty-second degree. 1t is frequently
called ''The Playground of Masonry"
but more aptly should be described as
"The Playground Of Masons," for the
Mystic Shrine does not pretend to be
Masonic body, although its member
ship is open only to Masons, and then
only when they have attained the high
est degrees.
The work of the Masonic lodges is
serious: that of the Shrine is serious
as well. but clothed mostly in an as
pect that produces wholesome, clean
fun. The Shrine teaches Mason how
to really enjoy life without prejudice
to principle, ethics, morality or other
virtue.