Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-01-16


Thursday-Almas Temple. annual
meeting and election.
OSIRIS Lodge, No. 90, will have
" charge of the services at the
Masonic and Eastern Star Home this
afternoon at O'Clock. when DR..
Thomas z. Green of the American
Red Cross will officiate and music will
he furnished by the lodge quartet.
Automobiles will be in waiting to con
vey members and visitors to the
home.
G. Hamilton Anderson, master of
BrightWood Lodge, No. 43, has called
a special communication of the lodge
at the Brightwood Masonic Temple
this evening at o'clock, previous to
the attendance of the lodge at serv-
ices to lie held in the Church of the
Incarnation nutheranl, al Fourteenth
and Gallatin streets northwest, where
Rev. Henry Manken, jr., will preach
the sermon.
The Grand Lodge of the District
will constitute and consecrate Justice
Lodge No. 46. in the lodge hall Friday
evening, with Past Grand Master
Sydney r. Jacobs representing Grand
Master Dunkum in the ceremonies.
The grand master. however. will de-
liver TO the new lodge its charter and
install it's officers. as follows: Eugene
j. Matchett, master: Don c. Fees,
senior warden: George H. Foster,
Junior warden: Burton w. Hildrith.
secretary: Albert A. Lohr, treasurer;
Rev. P. W. Crosby, chaplain; L. Her
bert Pennington, master of cere-
monies; Thomas F. Baughman, senior
deacon; Cassius L. Keep, junior
deacon; Herbert j. Mcclure, senior
steward; Dwight E. Rorer. junior
steward, and Fred G. Egelseer, tiler.
Almas Temple of the Mystic Shrine
will hold its annual meeting and cleo
ton of officers Thursday evening at
the Masonic Temple auditorium, the
business meeting opening at 3 pm,
while the election will follow. the polls
closing at 100 pm. As usual, the
latest membership card Q920 will be
required by mobiles to gain admission.
Potentate Charles d. Shackelford
eloquently unfolds his swan song in
the January Almas Alibi, recounting
the accomplishments of his year and
making the usual appeal for support
of the new officers. Among the inter
esting data is noted the fact that the
amount realized by the base ball game
for the benefit of the Masonic and
Eastern Star Home was $21,233.9S,
as against $21 1880 in 1924 and ST.
1861 in 1925: also the potentate's
urgent recommendation looking to
permanent headquarters at 1313-15
K street northwest.
Judge Arthur B. Hayes will head
the cast in the twentyfirst Scottish
Rite degree, "Noachite, or Prussian
Knight" at o'clock Tuesday evening
in Robert de Bruce Council, Knights
Kadosh, at the Scottish Rite Cathedral
Third and E streets northwest
Mithras Lodge of Perfection will hold
its statutory assembly the same eve
ming, but earlier
Robert lie Bruce Chapter. Order of
De Molay. publicly installed its Off
GERS and presented the majority degree
Friday evening, January z. THE
Masqueraders" reelected Ben Doehrer
president; Vincent Vasco, vice presi
dent, and Buddy Mitchell, secretary.
p. NJ. G. Carlin Mason was appointed
business manager. and the announce
nent was made that three-act play,
Hurry, Hurry. Hurry will be pre-
sented in Hyattsville during the cur
rent month.
A special meeting of Mithras Lodge
of Perfection has been called for the
evening of January. 81 at 1880 o'clock
in the Masonic Temple auditorium,
Thirteenth and New York avenue, to
act upon resolutions adopted by the
board of trustees looking to the cree
ton of a new Scottish Rite edifice in
the District.
In Theodore Roosevelt Lodge, No.
~, Wednesday evening, the three
lesser lights of the lodge will be duly
installed by Grand Master Dunkum.
These were the lights presented by
Matinecock Lodge of Long Island.
In the degree at the special COM
uunication of Washington Centennial
Lodge Saturday evening. official sta
tons will be occupied by members of
The Builders Club" of Woodward &
Lothrop and Past Master Edgar E.
Bageant of Pentalpha Lodge, No. %,
will be in charge.
Master irwin H. Hollander states
that in Hope Lodge. No. 20. the eve
ming of the 2Sth instant, DIR. Henry
r. Evans, 33d degree, of the u. S.
Bureau Of Education will deliver a
9loiI ASNiute oil LIE ITce 1TedI
Lights in Masonry"
The Order of the Temple in Orient
Commandery, No. 5. Knights Temp
lar, tomorrow evening will be pre-
scented by present and past officers of
the Grand Commandery in the re-
spectiVe stations.
Charles .. Parks, formerly of Wash
ington. but for the past 10 years a
resident of st. Petersburg, Fla, has
been elected unanimously Monarch
of Selama Grotto of that city. Mr..
Parks is a member sof La Fayette
Lodge, No. 10, and Mount Vernon
Chapter, No. 3, of this city. He is
also a thirty second degree Scottish
Rite Mason. Southern Jurisdiction,
and a member of Egypt Temple, A. A.
y. y. NJ. S, of Tampa, Fla.
1t is expected that Past Grand
Monarch Ed S. Schmid of this city.
who with a large party of local
viii install the new officer of Selama
F;rotto, Wednesday of this week. Past
Grand Monarch Schmid instituted
this grotto some years ago.
At its communication tomorrow
night Pan iamin b. French Lodge, No.
10. will in the degree work, have
Senior Deacon Harry l.. Strang. Sd,
in the East.
The recently organized Fellowcraft
Cub, of which p A, Chamberlain is