Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 113, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 May 1912 — Knights Templar Met in Fifty-Eighth Annual Couclave. [ARTICLE]

Knights Templar Met in Fifty-Eighth Annual Couclave.

In his report at the fifty-eighth annual conclave of the grand commandery Knights Templar of Indiana at the Masonic temple Wednesday afternoon, John L. Rupe, of Richmond, grand commander, showed that the total membership at the close of the calendar year 1911 was 6,970, and that, the number knighted during the was 404, a het increase of 131. In the' last. year 113 members of the' order died. The grand commander showed that a dispensation had been granted for forming Gary commandery, and that a commandery had been instituted at Seymour. " He recommended that the sir knights of the order should observe Christmas and Easter in the same manner that Ascension day is observed by the commanderies.