The Nome nugget., 1924-01-12
LOCAL NEWS
ORDER OF THE EASTERN STAR
 lNSTAl.LS OFFICERS

at the Masonic Temple. the Order O.
 Eastern Star installed the following officers:
 Mrs. Emma Lyle. Worthy Matron Mir. Edward F. Grimm. Worthy Patron.
 Mrs. Anna F.. Tarnutzer. Asseci. a;e Matron. Mrs. Bella Julian. Secretary. Mrs. Marie Grimm. Treasurer. Mrs. Wtnnifred Rank. Conduct ,ess. and Mrs. Emma Rowe. Associ ate Conductress.
 The Star Point Officers are as fol- lows; Mrs. Marguerite Hofer, Mrs. Augusta Anderson. Mrs. Addie Box. Mrs. Annabel Fromm and Mrs. A. pulet.
 Mrs Louise Hegness is Warder, aLd Mr. s. C. Anderson. Sentinel. Visiting Sister Mrs. Nell Thommen acted as Marshal during the install lation, and visiting Sister Klondy E. Wcotter furnished the music.
 After the installation a very nice lunch was served by the social com mittee.
 The presentation speech of the jewel to Mrs Marie s. Grimm, Past worthy Matron of the Alaska Chap ter No l, Order of the Eastern Star. was made by Brother s. N. Carman. which was responded to by Mrs. Grimm with well-chosen words. Brother Carman's speech is publish ed below by request, and is as fol- lows:
 Robert Ingersoll once described life as a narrow vale between the cold and barren peaks of two eter- mites. We strive in vain to look be- yond the heights. we cry aloud and tine only answer is the echo of our wailing cry
 Rene boring these words, l am tcnisht impressed with the thought ttat an existence such as he deScrib- ed must be totally devoid of all pleasure and happiness. and doubt if any here assembled could bring themselves to look on life from 1n- gersols unattractive viewpoint.
 "To a majority of us. life is broad. fertile valley, which continu- ally widens, from our earliest in fancy. to the time when the last great dreamless sleep shall kiss down our eyelids forever Though sorrow and reverses may cast shad- ows of various depths about us, and tlcugh our pathway may sometimes b.. darkened because the star of our happiness has been temporarily ob- stured. still will the gloom of our desolation always be somewhat less ered by the torches of true friend snip, when in our darkest hours, will burn with steady. unwavering light
 When the grim reaper shall final lv sever the silver chord of life and these frail tenements of clay shall have passed into silence and pathet- ic dust, then will our friends. by the profusion and fragrance of their flcral offerings. silently voice their love for us.
 "Rut, Worthy Matron, how una yailing then will be all such ex- pressions of friendship. Is it not far better while one is yet in love with life. and enraptured with the world, to give her some evidence of the esteem in which she is held? This is the belief of the individual members of this Chapter. who have signally honored me by asking me .o present to you this jewel. This gift. Past Worthy Matron. is not made in recognition of your zeal and untirfng efforts in this Chapter. but rather do we wish you to accept 1t AS a token of friendship, which is deep as hell. and as high as heaven IS broad as the East Is from the West, as constant as a mothers love ard as enduring as the rock-ribbed mountains which rear their snow crowned summits into the ethereal blue of Heaven; a friendship which | no words of mine can measure. even were I possessed with the logical el- eloquence of a Webster or Beecher 1 or of the more ornate and polished rhetoric of a Depew or Choate, or were my soul fired with the poetic imagry of a Byron. yet would lang uage fail me utterly in which to ade' quately describe this friendship, this evidence of work well done and st f;ttingly and worthily bestowed.
 May you live long to wear it."