The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1922-06-17
BOYS CHAPTER IS
LAUNCHED At BIC
CEREMONIES HERE
Many Local Lads Started OF In
pemolay Work; EssmpIIflca,lon
Handled by Sloan Chapter
OF Capital Lodge.
AUSTIN WELCOMES ALL
VISITORS TO COLLEGE
History OF Order Shows While Move.
ment Young. us Growing Rapid.
Iy: Festivities Ended by
Dance az Elks.

| thicknhha chaptcr OF the order q
DeMolay was instituted last night II
the auditorium Of the Oklahoma Col
lego for Women. Thirty.slx boy
between the ages OF IG and n re
ceived the degrees of the order.
The work was cxcmplifIod by .
team representing the SLOAN Chap
ter OF the order. located at Okla
homa City. About 30 assisted In the
oxemplificatlon OF the work under
the leadership OF ]. A. Todd. chair
man of SLOAN chapter advisory
council.
II is estimated that 800 master
Masons witnessed the institution OF
the Chickasha chapter here. Many
OF these Masons were from other
towns and cities In the state. Mast.
or Masons are admitted TO sessions
of the Order of DeMolay. according
to members of the advisory board of
the Chickasha chapter.
Austin Delivers Welcome.
G. w. Austin, president of the
Oklahoma College for Women. de.
liyered the address of welcome 10
the lads. the visiting DeMolays and
the many master Masons who had
assembled to witness the institution
of the chapter. Mr. Austin was I'm.
troduced by r. Norris West, chair
man of the advisory council of the
Chickasha chapter.
After the address of welcome. Mr..
West introduced Mr.. Todd. worship
full master of Sloan Lodge No. 276,
Oklahoma City, and chairman OF the
advisory council of the order of De-
Molay, under whose direction the
work last night was exemplified. In
a short address, Mr.. Todd told Of
the origination of the Order of De-
clay, pointed to the rapid growth
of the order and expressed his ap-
probation for the privilege of direct
ing the installation of the chapter.
Thirty Receive Degrees.
Following Is the list of 80 boys
who received the degrees last night
and who have become active mem.
bers OF the chapter:
Daniel Marsden Austin, Henry
Payne Baker, Theodore Roosevelt
Bingham, Virgil Prentice Bishop,
James Franklin Bryan, A. : Bullard,
William Elliott Butler, enry Daw-
son Daniels, Richard Cecil Darnell,
Russell Henry Davis, John Henry
DeKinder, Edwin Buie Duncan,
Charles Crit Elliott, William Otto
Elliott, jr., Edward Brownwood EN-
erson, Frank Franklin, Russell Albert
Harrington, Lawson Zed Hopkins,
Shelby Oliver Ishler, Jesse Leonard
Larson, George Pogue Livermore,
Virgil E. Lowe, Jack Alexander Nc
Rae, Forest Ryan Means, Sidney
Cooper Mills, Osman Benjamin
Moody, Meyers Osherwitz, Frank
Lloyd Palmer, Paul Sidney Pitch
ford, Horace Coleman Puckett, John
Curtis Rickerts, jr., Henry Albert
Roach, Herbert Ephraim Shockley,
Jesse Brown Whitson, Marvin Lee
Washburn and Kenneth Carswell
Watkins.
Three local lads, Gwynn Ray,
Grant Gibson and Albert Wood, re-
ceived the degrees several weeks
ago in Oklahoma City, but they will
be affiliated with the Chickasha
chapter, according to the advisory
council chairman.
Order Growing Rapidly.
The Order of DeMolay is growing
rapidly and chapters are now being
organized in every section of the
United States, according to mem
bers of the local advisory council.
Founded on Masonic principles,
only sons of Masons or their chums
are eligible for membership in the
order. The movement started in
Kansas City about two years ago
when a Mason named Land, who Is
connected with the various Masonic
bodies in Kansas City, became in
terested in a boy whose father and
mother were dead. He induced two
chums of Master Masons to become
chums with this boy, to council with
and help him. Within short time,
the three boys had become almost
inseperable and they desired to
take i'm another boy whose par.
ents were dead. This led to the
founding of the first chapter of the
Order of DeMolay. Soon thereafter
many other chapters were being or
ganized and now, the order is being
established in almost every state in
1.-THE union.
Elect Officers Later.
No officers were elected last night
as no one is eligible to hold office
in the order until they have received