Evening star., 1924-06-08
THE Scottish Rite bodies have

found it necessary to hold an
other reunion for the degrees.
from the fourth to the thirty
second, beginning Tuesday. June Il,
and continuing daily thereafter to
and including June 20 This will be
the last opportunity for those seek
ing the degrees until the fall, it is
announced. Evangelist Chapter. Rose
Croix, will hold a statutory assembly
Tuesday evening. when details of the
reunion will be considered, and in
addition the executive committee of
the joint bodies is giving its personal
attention to the reunion in the hope
that all the available material may
he included in the forthcoming cere-
monies.
Secretary Stirling Kerr states that
the Rite has had an unusually sue
ceSSful season. and even after the
reunion has closed. the committee
will be busily engaged in matters of
vital interest to all the members, the
chief of which is the question of the
new cathedral. The Rite, it is said,
issdetermined to press the cathedral
to realization and it had been eX
peoted that the cornerstone of the
site at 18th and h streets. The
desire of the fraternity to have the
cathedral on the site of the new
Masonic Temple to be erected on the
Dean estate. however, has stayed
matters until it can be definitely de-
termined whether change in plans
is for the best interest of all con-
cerned. Wise heads have the matter
under conSiderat tion and inveStiga-
ton. and Secretary Kerr states that
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d. final report to the end that a def
mite decision may be reached. He
thinks, however. that there is no
doubt that the cornerstone of the
new cathedral will be laid in the fall.
whether at 18th and X streets or on
the site of the new Masonic Temple
Robert lie Bruce Chapter of the
boys order of DE Molay will call off
for the summer during the current
month. according to the announce
ment of EllWood p. Morey, deputy of
the Supreme Council of the Rite for
the southern Jurisdiction. in the June
issue of the Cathedral calendar.
The annual excursion of the De
Molay boys is scheduled for June %
to Marshall Hall, when the big
brothers of the fraternity are eX-
pected to show their interest. Robert
lie Bruce Chapter also has picnic
Rev. David ,Covell. before his de-
parture for the Pacific Coast, gave to
the Scottish Rite the greater part of
religious works. many books on So
ciology, poetry. travel and fiction.
Masons generally throughout the
trict who are now beyond it's confines
are said to be showing live interest
in the forthcoming field day at Clark
Griffith's stadium. Saturday, June 81,
ters' Association. ball teams from the
Shrine and kallipolis Grotto will
stage their annual game. The fun
making and entertainment that al
ways go with this annual event will
begin at 2:30 pm, with the game
following an hour later. And all this
fun, pleasantly and sport have be-
hind them the earnest annual effort
of the Masonic fraternity to swell
the fund for the splendid work of the
Masonic and Eastern Star Home, the
greatest exponent of militant Masonry
in the District of Columbia, which
owes its origin and so much of what
it already has achieved to the good
women of the order of the Eastern
Star, according to the promoters of
the forthcoming field day. June 81
promises to be the big Masonic fete
of the year so far as the general
The annual banquet of the National
Sojourners' Club will be held at the
Columbia Country Club, Tuesday eve
ming, starting at pm. Representa-
tive Arthur NJ. Free of California will
be the chief speaker and music will
be provided by the United States Ma
rine Band. Mayor Freeland kendrick
of Philadelphia, past imperial poten-
tate of the Mystic Shrine, and his
man in the matter of law
and order Gen. Smedley D. Butler,
who has been glorified with the salu-
tation of the marine invincible," will
be guests of the evening. At 1880
the same day there will be a luncheon
and the annual meeting of the club at
the Lafayette Hotel.
Maurice l.. Brewton will head the
Chapter. No. s. Tuesday evening, in
the degree work scheduled in the cal
endar at the head of this column.
Monarch Samuel F.. Shreve an
nounces that a pre-convention, short
form ceremonial of Kallipolis Grotto
will be held prior to June 81, the
exact date to be announced later.
This will afford the candidates an
Council convention to be held in In
dianapolis. Ind, June %, "a and 25.
1t is expected that kollipolis Grotto
will carry a large delegation to the
convention, including the band and
drill corps. Sahara, the host grotto,
promises the best convention in the
history of the order
The past commanders of Potomac
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