Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 60, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 March 1915 — K. OF P’s. TO HONOR CHARTER MEMBERS [ARTICLE]

K. OF P’s. TO HONOR CHARTER MEMBERS

Photographs of All to Be Framed and Hung With Charter in Pythian Lodge Room. Rensselaer Lodge, No. 82, Knights of Pythias, is to honor its charter'* members by having their pictures framed and hung in the lodge hall. A committee composed of Chancellor Commander A. E. Wallace and Delos D. Dean has been collecting the pictures and have already secured all but five of the twenty-four men who joined the order when it was instituted in this city in 1878. The charter members follow: Charles H. Pricfe, Benjamin Wai- ' dorf, M. F. Chilcote, Elza Phillips, George M. Robinson, Edward D. Rhoades, Frank B. Meyer, Daniel B. Miller, I. N. Lowman, Moses Tuteur, Benjamin Tuteur, F. H. Robinson, Lewis Bass, L. C. Grant, C. A. Hopkins, O. P. Robinson, C. C. Starr, Thomas -Knox, R. B. Patton, A. W. > Cleveland, L. F. Hopkins, G. W. Allen, N. W. Reeve, Erastus Peacock. Pictures have been received of all except Frank B. Meyer, I. N. Lowman, A. B. Patton, Moses Tuteur, and G. W. Allen. The committee has secured track of some of these and pictures will probably be received shortly. Information is desired of the address of I. N. Lowman, R. B. Patton and G. W. Allen, if they are living, or of relatives or any who can loan a photograph. The pictures are all to be copied by Photographer H. F. Parker and will be returned in good order to the person who loans them. The work of the committee has developed some interesting correspondence and the following letters are among those received: Division of Surveys, Gen. Land - Office, Washington, D. C. Mr. A. E. Wallace, C. C., Rensselaer Lodge, I. O. O. F., Rensselaer, Ind. Dear Sir and Bro.: In reply to your letter dated Feb. 10, I am enclosing a reproduction of a picture taken of me about the time of the institution of the lodge. Would you kindly have me advised what it will cost to pay up all delinquent dues and restore myself to full membership. In the best of health myself and wishing the old lodge of which I was so fond for so many years all prosperity, Very sincerely yours, DANIEL B. MILLER.

February 9th, 1915. Mr. D. D. Dean, Rensselaer, Ind. Dear Sir: I am in receipt of your favor of the 28th, regarding a photograph of my father as one of the charter members of the K. of P. lodge. I have been out of the city and did not return until yesterday and this is the reason you have not heard from me before. I shall be very glad to comply with your request and wish to thank you for your efforts in this matter and it is something that deserves the encouragement of all members. I have referred the matter to my mother, who has the photograph, and as soon as I get it, I will forward the same to you. You ask the address of Benj. F. Waldorf, and I am quite sure that if you address him at 3510 Reta Street, Chicago, that it will reach him. You will hear from me again iii the near future. Thanking you, I remain Yours very truly, LOUIS F. HOPKINS, . Chicago, 111. Chicago, 111., Feb. 15, 1915. Mr. D. D. Dean, Rensselaer, Ifid. Dear Sir: In compliance with your request I am mailing you today under separate cover picture you asked for, and trust that you will return it in due time in good condition, as it belongs to my family and is the only one that we have- Kindly give my regards to all inquiring friends of the old charter members of No. 82, as well as the new members. Yours truly, B. F. WALDORF, 3510 Reta Street.

Baltimore, Md., Feb. 13th, 1915. My Dear Mr. Dean: Your communication of the 10th’ at hand and contents noted. Am delighted to have the honor of having my photo adorn your charter —to be among such a noble body of men who were “brave” in my old home town almost 40 years ago. Should very much like to be there personally. If it is possible equid it not be so arranged to send each one of the charter members a copy of the reproduction. it would be an expensive proposition. I have almost fta-gotten the old members. Suppose quite a number of them have “gonefiefore.” When you meet again in the Castle Hall, kindly remember me to all the members, old and new. Tell them that I have tried to live up to all the . degrees in the K. of P., which I con r sider, as a secret order, superior to " any order extant Please return the photo, as it was taken from a small frame. Please remember me to my old friend, Mr. James McEwen, and* all inquiring friends in Rensselaer. Yours in F. C. and 8., LOUIS BASS. Of course you saw the big Jap-a-lac-ad in the magazines this month. Possibly you thought you would tike to try Jap-a-lac yourself. Fendig’s Rexall Drug Store has it