The Kadoka press and Kadoka reporter. [volume] (Kadoka, S.D.) 1910-1923, 1923-09-07

Grand Custodian
Mount MOriah Lodge No. 155 En-
tertained State Grand Custodian
Harry M. Hammond Labor Day
Eastern Star Served Banquet Il
Sixty.eight. VIM. Granger Made
Master Mason
Mount Moriah Lodge No. l55 A
F. & A. M. invited its many mem.
bers as we'll as Masonic friends to
be with them on Labor Day in hon
or of the visit Of the State Grand
Custodian Harry M. Hammond.
A good sized delegation arrived
for the afternoon session at three
O'clock, when Masonic work was
exemplified before the visiting
state officer. During this session
too VIM. Granger, a candidate for
the Master Mason Degree. received
the first part of his work.
Following this Brother Ham
mond gave a very instructive lee
ture on Masonry in it's various
forms and pointed out some help
full ways in which the work might
be made still more attractive and
useful.
At six o'clock the company, now
numbering sixty eight, were in
vited to the dining hail, in the
basement of the Masonic Temple.
The aroma that met the fortunate
guests was in itself enough to whet
anyone's appetite. 1t was a rep1st
such as the ladies Of the sister
lodge of the Masons, the Eastern
Star, are known to serve wheneve'
called upon. Local members krew
what was coming. but visitors
were very pleasantly surprised.
There was chicken aplenty, pota-
toes, coffee, parkerhouse rolls, pie
kles, beets. cold slaw. various pre-
serves and other goodies were SER
we'd and then to crown it all ice
cream and pie came in on the
grand finale. As culinary artists
the ladies of the Eastern Star need
no recommendations. They have
one preceding them.
When the inner man was well
pleased, the men were at ease for
. time and enjoyed themselves in
a social way.
Shortly after seven the Lodge
was called to order and after the
customary preliminaries a num-
Der Of visitors were examined II
omen lodge. A weakness was brot
ont here which ought to hn rem
edied by both lodges and mcmbcrs
There were no less than twenty
eight visitors and the examination
took some time.
The local lodge then put on the
finish of the third degree of Mast
er Mason on Mr.. VIM. Granger
which was so nicely begun in the
afternoon.
This work being finished the Wis
iting Grand Custodian was -aDgain
introduced as the first Master of
Mount Moriah lodge.
Brother Harry M. Hammond
dwelt for some little time on the
significance of his sojourn at Ka
doka while holding down a claim
some S miles northeast Of here II
years ago. He told of the strug-
giles and hardships Of that early
day, the good times they had en-
joyed in spite of them and how he
was now facing some OF those
same boys, who were sitting in
lodge with him then. "They staid
like heroes" said the speaker
thoughtfully, "But was unwilling
to bear the hardships incident to
frontier life and ! ran away like
coward :"
Mr.. Hammond then took up in
detail some Of the work as it was
brought before him here in kado-
ka. He was very free and eloquent
in his praise of Mount Moriah
lodge as a whole and said that
cities of from five to ten thousand
in this state did usually not r.
the work on better than was done
here. Selmer Solem. as Master, re-
ceived a beautiful verbal bouquet,
vh;ch was deserved indeed.
The former first Master then
made some pointed suggestions for
improving the local Masonic work
still further. Most Of these were
timely and very we'll taken. No
doubt Mount Moriah will profit by
them. He urged all Masons to
hold themselves in readiness for