Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-09-19
FRATERNITIES

solos were rendered by Mrs. Edith
Schilling Of St. Johns Lodge Chap.
ter. The next meeting Of the auxil-
larry home board will be held Tues
day at 1880 am. at the residence Of
Mrs Katherine s. Merritt, 1345 JET.
ferson street. The chapter will give
an entertainment at the Masonic and
Eastern Star Home next Friday. Past
Patron J. Harry Phillips announced
| that final report Of the silent card
party" for the benefit Of the home
will be made October Z.
Mrs. Lena Stephenson, associate
grand matron, entertained the 1926
Associate Matrons at luncheon last
Saturday at the cottage of Past Grand
Matron Helen B. Strait at North
Beach, Md. Associate Grand Con.
ductress PeArle Glib and Associate
Grand Patron Earnest Dulin and
Mrs. Dulin and Past Grand Matron
Strait were present.
The auxiliary home board will
meet Wednesday at s pm. at the
home of Annie Wood, 4017 Illinois
avenue. The auxiliary home board.
assisted by the dormitory committee,
will give progressive 500 party
for the benefit Of the dormitory fund
in Joppa Hall, 400 Ninth street, the
afternoon and evening Of September
"a. The annual bazaar will be held
| October 8 and Z, a supper to be served
both evenings at $50 o'clock. Asso-
ciate Matron Ida V. Jones is general
chairman. The annual rummase sale
will be held October II, - and IS.
Gavel Chapter, No. 90, will celebrate
it's fifth birthday Tuesday evening.
| The finance committee for the ba-
zaar and dinner to be held October s
will give a 500 card party Thursday
| evening at the residence Of Mrs.
, Florence Norris, 1011 B street north.
east, at o'clock.
Brookland Chapter resumed it's reg
| ular meetings September 8, and four
candidates were initiated. A pro-
gram was given, and Mrs. Gwynette
| Willis recited in verse the experiences
Of a boat trip from Baltimore 10
| Washington which was taken by
some of the members of the chapter
July "a. Matron Virginia Carleton
announced that the next meeting.
| september %, will be the twentieth
anniversary of the chapter and there
will be dancing and cards. An invi.
tation was extended to members Of
King David Lodge to be present on
that occasion. Announcement was
made that a bazaar and dinner would
be held by the ways and means COM
mittee, assisted by all other commit
tees Of the chapter october l and 2,
and dinner will be served from un-
til pm.
Bethlehem Chapter. No. Z, has two
meetings scheduled this week. The
| first will be that of all the various
| nh for ho zaar
at the home Of Mrs. Mae Smith, 800
Tennessee avenue northeast, tomor-
row evening at 1870 o'clock. Tuesday
evening at 7:30 o'clock the dormitory
committee will meet at the home Of
! the chairman, Mrs. Carrie Hatson,
329 Adams street northeast.
Odd Fellows.
The annual session of the Sovereign
Grand Lodge will meet in Philadelphia
tomorrow morning. continuing until
Friday evening. OF interest to this
jurisdiction is the fact that Ernest W.
Bradford will be elevated to the office
of grand sire. This jurisdiction has
for some time been engaged in prepar-
| ing home welcome to the new grand
sire when he returns from the sessions
of the Sovereign Grand Lodge next
a
has been organized, which committee
comprises the three Jurisdictions Of
Maryland. Virginia and the District Of
Columbia. The grand officers Of the
three jurisdictions, with the numerous
subcommittee. have completed plans
for a great tri-State welcome to the
grand sire September 95.
1t is planned to have a great parade
on Pennsylvania avenue, beginning at
haE inc a.
Peace Monument, will march on Penn
sylvania avenue west to Fifteenth
street north on Fifteenth street to
New York avenue, then west on Penn
sylvania avenue to Ninteenth street.
south on Nineteenth street to the
Washington Auditorium. At 1925 pm.
the grand sire will arrive at Union
Station and be received by the recep.
ton committee.
The parade will consist of six d.
visions, headed by various bands, and
| special features will predominant, in
Guiding floats. special costumes. etc.
Past Grand Master Wilfred E. Law.
son. chairman Of the parade commit
tee. has completed the assignments Of
the various divisions.
The paraders will enter the Audi
torium, where at pm. public re.
ception and welcome will be rendered
Grand Representative William T. Gal
liner is to be the ma ster of ceremonies.
conducting a program arranged as fol-
lows: Invocation, Rev. Hugh T.
Stevenson. past grand chaplain Of the
Ora nd Lodge of the District of Column
bia: city's welcome to the grand sire.
Commissioner Cuno H. Rudolph: the
orders welcome to the grand sire. DR..
Henry w. Tippett, grand master Of
the Grand Lodge Of the District Of
Columbia: addresses by Grand Master
mund H. Allen, grand master Of Vir-
snia: Grand Representative H. Dorsey
Etchinson of Maryland and Grand Sire
Ernest w. Bradford. There will also
be musical numbers.
Concluding the public reception and
welcome a band concert will be given
until pm, followed by concert
given by an orchestra from 8 pm. to
pm. From s to 9 pm. formal re-
ception will be rendered the grand sire
in the Auditorium. Beginning at 9
. m. and lasting until midnight pub
is ball will he given in the Auditorium.
The tri-State welcome committee
held a final meeting at the 1. o. 0. F.
! Temple last Monday evening. and full
committees were present. The grand
officers Of Virginia and Maryland were
present. and encouraging reports were
had from them. Maryland and Virginia
expect to have 1900 members each
in the line of parade. and the District
Is assured of a large turnout of it's
own members. The tri-State commit
tee is composed Of the following: Cen
eral chairman, Millard F. Zepp, grand
marshal Of the Grand Lodge: recep-
ton committee. DR.. Henry w. Tippett
grand master of the District Of Co
lumbia: Charles 3. Schone, grand mas
ter Of Maryland; Edmund H. Allen.
grand master of Virginia. DR. Charles
W. Cuthbertson, grand patriarch Of
the Grand Encampment of the Dis
; trict of Columbia; Albert Wolff, grand
patriarch Of Maryland: A. l.. Evans,
, grand patriarch Of Virginia; Mrs. Lin