Indianapolis Times, Volume 39, Number 250, Indianapolis, Marion County, 25 February 1928 — Page 2

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WOODMEN CLUB PLANS COMEDY FOR MARCH 3 “Always in Trouble,” to Be Given by Marion Camp Members. “Always in Trouble,” a three-act comedy, will be given March 3, by the Marion Camp Dramatic Club of the Modern Woodmen of America at the Marion Camp Hall, 322 E. New York St. Proceeds of the play will be used to send the Marion Camp drill team to the Sta'e encampment at Lake Wawasee the week of July 22. The team is captained by Harry Argus and has competed in all national and State contests of the M. W. A. Dramatic Club is under the direction of J. W. Sproule and R. C. Quinn. Those taking part in the play are Sproule, Argus, John Purvis, H. Hagist, Mrs. C. O. Condon, Mrs. J. W. Sproule, Mrs. R. La Roche. G. Walden, Mrs. B. Cuddy and Mrs. H. E. Argus. Marion Officers to Meet Officers of Marion County camps of Modern Woodmen will meet at 8 p. m. Friday, at the Broad Ripple Camp Hall for a school of instruction in Woodcraft-Lore under the direction, of M. T. Wright, district deputy. State Deputy George E. Hopkins will assist. Problems in attendance, interest and new members will be discussed. Capitol City Camp has purchased a lodge hall at 1025 Prospect St., through the building committee composed of Joseph Thron, Fred Stark and Frank Gruber. The camp has been meeting at 116 E. Maryland St., Thursday nights, but they will meet Friday nights at the new home after March 1. An initiation will be a part of the dedication ceremonies, March 9. The camp was organized in 1900 with twenty-seven members. It now has more than 400 members and has paid twenty-one death claims amounting to $23,000. The camp has paid $3,000 in sick benefits. Cedar Camp Initiates Original camp officers were: Gert Gresham. J. Male, W. J. Berke, Arthur Greham, Charles Selkin and Henry Kunklc. Cc-ar.r Camp held initiation in the fraternal degree Wednesday at the hall, 322 E. New York St. Degree team was composed of officers of Indianapolis camps and the uniformed degree team of Cedar Camp, under the direction of Captain M. R. Eddington. A delegation from Oak Camp brought two candidates headed by Matt Epperson, camp deputy. John Ferguson, Cumberland Camp deputy, headed a delegation from that city. Other camps present were Maple, Cedar, Oak, Marion Ironwood, Capitol City and Cumberland. Confer Dramatic Degree A. G. Williams, who was escort at the national meeting of Modern Woodmen at Chicago in 1925, was escort for the degree work. Marion Camp met Tuesday night at the M. W. A. Hall, 322 E. New York St., and conferred the dramatic degree under the direction of Harry Argus. Degree team and members cf Bloomington, Ind„ camp were guests. Charles H. Stineburg, Bloomington. Spoke. Other speakers were: William D. Headrick, State lecturer, and Vincent 11. Manifold, and • George E. Hopkins, State deputy. Broad Ripple Camp held a stag supper Tuesday night in charge of Arthur Probst, chairman. Headrick was the speaker. Davis County Group Meets Bu Timex Special WASHINGTON. Ind.. Feb. 25. Davis County members of the Modern Woodmen met last week in a county meeting and initiation. Odon, Ind., degree team conferred the work. George E. Hopkins, State deputy, spoke. A fish supper was served after the speeches and the initiation. Towns represented were: Washington, Odon, Elnora, Plainville, Montgomery, Alfordsville, Cornettsville, Curns City and Loogoote. 200 Meet at Peru llv Time* Special PERU, Ind.. Feb. 25.—About 200 members of the Modern Woodmen of America met here this week in a district meeting, representing camos in Twelve Miles, Royal Center, Logansport, Kokomo, Converse, Amboy and Pru. S. G. Fitch, Kokomo, district inspector, was in charge of the meeting. Mayor T. O. Keller spoke. Response was made by George Hopkins, Indianapolis, State deputy. A class of thirty candidates was initiated by the Kokomo degree team. The next district meeting will be held in April at Kokomo. —,....... . . * S. p. A. Plans Card Party Southern Council of the Security Benefit Association will give a card party Tuesday night at the hall, 116 ! /a E. Maryland St. Committee in , charge: Mrs. Katy Harryman, chairman; Mrs. Sadah Bruner and Mrs. Nettie McCarthy.

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The Indiana Society of Mayflower Descendents will celebrate the twelfth anniversary of the granting of their charter March 21 under the direction of Mrs. Laura A. Gillispie, governor. GARYPYTHiANS PLAN MEETINGS Set Wednesday for Roll Call; April 14 r Initiation. Bp Times Special GARY, Ind.. Feb. 25.—Plahs are being made by Gary Knights of Pythias for two important meetings to be held Wednesday and April 14. The first session will be the annual roil call meeting, and the second Is the initiation in the third Parker, master of the exchequer, degree or highest rank. Fred W. will be in charge of both events. More than 200 members are expected for the roll call. All members report either in person or by telegraph or mail. James Daly has been appointed chairman of the meeting. About 500 Pythians from nearby towns will attend the initiation in April, Parker said. Chicago Past Chancellors’ Association will conduct the ceremony with a team of fifty members headed by Calvin Andy, captain. The Dramatic Order Knights of Khorassan, playground of Pythianism, will accompany the team. More than 200 Chicago members will be present.

Lodge News The Indianapolis Times, with the assistance of secretaries and heads of Indianapolis lodges, publishes a page of lodge and fraternal news each Saturday. The page is devoted exclusively to items of interest to lodge members. Secretaries are aske : d to send advance notices of meetings and important business matters to tjie Fraternal Editor, Indianapo,is Times. All material should reach The Times office not later than Thursday afternoon. Mr. Lodge Member, this page is for your benefit. Let your brother members know what your lodge is doing.

DEGREES CONFERRED Jerusalem Lodge No. 99 Receives Candidates. By Times Special CLINTON. Ind., Feb. 25.—Jerusalem Lodge. No. 99. F. & A. M., conferred Masonic degrees on three candidtes this week. Knightsville and Clinton lodges were in charge of the work. Those in charge are Bert Huffman, Thomas Wilson, Max Johnson, John Gilmoou, William Kelly, William Nesbit, William Gray. Harry Call. Dr. Paul B. Casebeer, Clarence Harrison, Charles Taylor and George Kittoo. ELKS TO CELEBRATE Anniversary Observance Set for March 13. Indianapolis Elks will celebrate the forty-seventh anniversary of the institution of local lodge. No. 13, March 20. at the Elks' clubhouse. St. Clair and Meridian Sts., according to George W. Ju'toe. A "get-together” session will be held preceeding an Elks’ Gambol depicting an old time social affair. Mooseheart to Give Party Up Timed Special COLUMBUS. Ind.. Feb. 25. Mooseheart Legion, women’s auxiltary to the Moose lodge, will hold a St. Patrick's Day party March 14, with Mrs. John Sears, Mrs. William Layne, Mrs. Samuel Snider and Mrs. Lloyd Nickerson in charge. Odd Fellows to Give Degree MONTICELLO, Ind., Feb. 25.—Degree staff of the local Odd Fellow lodge went to Brookston today where they will exemplify the third degree for candidates from county lodges tonight.

Pledges Get Three Goats Farmers, Cop’s, Nanny’s With the "hell week” of college fraternities in full swing at Indiana University, the old black goat east of Bloomington, Ind., is fast losing its coat of glossy black hair. And the police department gasoline fund is being rapidly depleted. One of the favorite stunts of the upper-classmen is to order a freshman pledge to "get a black goat with long horns.” If the pledge is wise, he will go to the police station and ask for Perry Cardwell, police chief. He should ask for the goat, too. Not that the chief keeps the goat at the station, but he knows where to get it. Usually the chief or some other officer takes the pledge In the police automobile to a farm on the east side of the town where the goat resides. The first time the order was funny. But after the first few years the police, the farmer and the goat got awfully tired helping pledges. Now there is a charge for the service.

SAHARA GROTTO MAKES PLANS FOR INITIATION Members Meet Monday to Discuss March Ceremonial. Plans for the full form ceremonial to be held by Sahara Gi’otto on March 23, will be discussed at a meeting of the entire membership Monday night at the Denison Hotel auditorium. The Blue Devil Zouaves will act as an entertainment committee. Three hundred neophytes are expected to be initiated at the March ceremonial. George Jerome Brenner of Saginaw, Mich., grand monarch of the mystic order of the veiled prophets of the enchanted realm, will be the official guest of Sahara Grotto. \ Reception Comittce Named A special committee, headed by Past Monarch Raymond F. Murray, chairman of the finance committee of the supreme council, has been named by Monarch Charles G. Walsh to be in charge of the reception and entertainment of Grand Monarch Brenner. Committee members are Lawrence W. Drapier, Chester O. Martin. Othnlel Hitch, Oliver R. Wald and the present Grotto officers. The Monday night meeting will be the initial stated meeting of the Grotto since the installation of the newly elected Grotto officers and Monarch Walsh will announce the appointment of his officers and committees for the year 1928. Officers to Be Ratified The following officers, appointed by the monarch, will be ratified by the prophets: Orator, Stephen j. Fullen, Marshal, J. Wilbur Foster, Captain of Guard, H. N. Trowbridge, Sentinel, Ore Hiatt, Master of Revels, L W. Drapier, President of Cast, Robert Wilcox, Cast Director. Kenneth E. Yates, State Director, George S. Curran, Wardrobe Master, William A. Hughes, Ceremonial Orchestra Director, Palmer Laycock, Band Director, Brewer T. Clay, Assistant Band Director. Fred Jewell. Band Manager, Carl Schey, Drum Major, Harry Saunders, Captain of Blue Devil Drill Team, Michael Sculley, President of Drum Corps, Fred Hollingsworth and Clarence R. Greene, representative to the Masonic relief board. Executive Committee Charles O Walsh. Lewis A. Williams, H. F. Buchanan. Carl Schey. John H. Berlin*. Charles C. Brautlßam. ftaymond F. Murray. Othneil Hitch, Oliver R. Wald, Chester O. Martin, L. W. Drapier. Entertainment Committee Fred H. Knodel, chairman. William Hamilton. R. R. Reeder. Louis Sweeney. F. F. Diet?. E. B. Knickerbocker. E. Wood Nichols. F. 1. Tompkins, Sam Johnson. Carl Frevn. J. H. Makin. Elmer J. Kohl, W. W. Watkins. Robert Wilcox. Pilgrimage Commute for Tlilrtv-ninth Supreme Council Session at Richmond. Va.. June 5, 8. 7,--Charles G. Walsh, L. A. Williams, J. h. Berlin*. W. A. Allen, Billy David. Ren T. Thompson. Sick Committee—John Riddle, chairman. Sam Johnson. Lewis A. Williams, Hansford E. Poole, clavton C. Marsh, Charles Oraul. Ed Lawrence, Albert J. Moore, Robert C. Young. Reception Committee- Delbert O. Wilmeth. John Murrav, Billy David. Frank G. Holden. Clayton C. Marsh, Jacob Lieder. T. A. Lawrence. Membership Committee—Oliver R Wald, chairman, J. Steven Fullen. J. Wilbur Foster. H. N. Trowbridge. Ord Hiatt. John H. Barling. Special Committee— D. Y. Byrkit. Chester O. Martin. Banquet Committee—Charles Apostol, chairman. Ed Young, vice chairman. Chester O. Martin. Charles p. Ehlers. John Riddle. Charles Riddle. Jack Stone. C. A Spurrier. Oscar Lee. D. L. Bennett. Harry Kalb. Lon Tracy. George Schmidt. D. V. Byrkit. Herbert Wald. R T. Kelly. Charles Kern, Karl Erath. Walter Beauchamp. Chaplains—The Revs. J. Ambrose Dunkel. W. H. Kendall. L. P. Cooper. Louis Brown and Major Earle Hites. Finance Committee—George E. Morgan, Kenneth E. Yates. Clyde E. Robinson. Athletic Committee—F. M. Campbell, chairman. Orville Wise. Rav W. Robertson. D. C. Barnhill. Safety Committee—Fred Drinkut, chairman. Jesse Hutsell. Herbert Wald. The Sahara Prophet—Charles G. Walsh, editor: John H. Berlin*. managing editor: Garner Branvvood. assistant editor; Raymond F. Murrav. publicity director: D. McFadden, bowling; Frank Holden, cast; William J. Bradlev. drum corps: F. Campbell. sports: M. W. Dallas, drill team: J. E. Dodson, special: Harry Sunders. band; E. Bryant, revelers: D. Y. Bvrkit, special.

DISTRICT I. 0. 0. F. MEET Eight Lodges Send Delegations to . Session. By Times Special EL WOOD, Ind.. Feb. 25.—Odd Fellows held a district meeting Friday in this city with Walter Hughes, district deputy grand master, in charge. Marion sent 100 delegates to the meeting. I Other lodges represented were: : Pendleton. Anderson Lodge No. 131, iLinwood, Gilman, Alexandria, Frank- | fort and Lapel. Ben Hurs to Confer Ben Hur will give the Metiers degree to all members applying Monday night at Moose Hall, 135 N. Delaware St., according to Mrs. Josephine Truelove. A banquet will be served at 6:30 p. m. before the ceremony at 8. Louie Mills will be in charge of the degree work. Announce Open House Capitol City Circle No. 176, of the Protected Home Circle, will hold open house Wednesday night at Red Men’s Hall. North and Capitol Ave. Dancing and cards will be features of the evening. Plan Card Party National Tent No. 101, of the Maccabees will give a public card party Monday night at 137 W. 'North St., according to E. H. Harriman, record I keeper.

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Women of Mooseheart Legion, women's auxiliary to the Loyal Order of Moose, recently appointed Miss Katherine Smith grand recorder. Indianapqlis chapter has a membership of about 350. The national organization’s membership is 60,000. K. OF C. WILL ELECT TRUSTEE Important Post to Be Filled at Monday Meeting. Knights of Columbus will elect a trustee Monday night at a meeting at the K. of C. auditorium. Thirteenth and Delaware Sts. The past wast vacated by Bernard Costello who resigned two weeks ago. “Brother Costello’s withdrawal from the past was occasioned by his absence from the city on numerous occasions, and it was with reluctance that his resignation was accepted,” said James E .Decry, grand knight. The office of trustee is one of the most Important in the council since it is the board controlling finances. Deery pointed out. The grand knight asks that all members attend to vote. An open forum will be held during the lecturer's hour in charge of August Krieg. Several pertinent subjects will be discussed. In addition there is to be a lecture by Mrs. E. M. Jackson of the Canadian railroad, on “The Canadian Rockies.” MAKE ELKS FAIR PLANS Conncrsvilic Committees Named for April Event. Bp Times Special CONNERSVILLE. Ind., Feb. 25. Initial plans are being made for the Elks Fair to be held April 21 to 28 in this city. Carl Mangrum was appointed chairman of the arrangements committee. Nine candidates were initiated at the last meeting. They are Edwin S. Wittich, Charles P. Ready, W. A. Stevenson, Carl Shriner. A. W. Heeb, R. W. Adams, W. G. Ogle, Charles Lewis and T. O. Baker W. Naughtiia was the chaiman of the Washington’s Birthday dance which was given Wednesday night.

First in Home Bp Times Special KOKOMO. Ind .Feb. 25.—Mr. and Mrs. Alex Ruse of this city, will be the first couple to enter the Pythian Home at Lafayette, Ind., from Howard County. The couple has been active in lodge work for several years. The new home was opened in December. The couple will be welcomed at the home by William B. Gary, superintendent, who took charge of the home recently.

Law Dean to Address Masons Paul V. McNutt, dean of the Indiana University law school,' will be the principal speaker at the din-ner-meeting of the Ancient Landmarks Lodge, F. <fe A. M., at 6:30 n. m„ Monday at the Masonic Temple, North and Illinois Sts. Acacua Club of the university will be guests and will confer the master mason degree. Scottis Rite Sets Convocation By Times Special FT. WAYNE. Ind., Feb. 25.—Scottish Rite will hold its annual spring convocation and reunion March 2C, 21 and 22. Invitations have been issued by Ft. Wayne Lodge of Perfection. Darius Council Princes of Jerusalem. Emanuel Chapter of Rose Croix and Ft. Wayne Consistory. Lodge Sends Mining Relief By Times Special LEBANON. Ind., Feb. 25.—Pocahontas Lodge sent clothing and food to the relief of miners in Bicknell. Ind., this week. The committee in charge of gathering the materials for relief was composed of: Mrs. Irmel Peterson, Mrs. Fannie Butcher, Mrs. Edith Morris, Lon McCann and James Garner. Phi Gamma Sigma to Initiate Phi Gamma Signa fraternity will hold an initiation Monday night at the Liberty Hotel. 3290 E. Michigan St. Pledges to be initiated arc Leo Beck. Theodore Crockett and Harold McGee. Triple Link to Give Card Party The Triple Link Club will give its weekly card party night at its hail. Cottage Ave. and Olive St.

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PYTHIANS ENTER 65TH YEAR OF ORDER^SHISTORY End Week of Celebrating in Honor of Lodge’s Anniversary. Indiana lodges of the Knights of Pythias tonight will end a week's celebration of the sixty-fourth anni - versary of the founding of the national order, Feb. 19, 1864. Rensselaer, Ind., members this week conferred the page rank on nineteen candidates as the principal feature of the celebration. A membership drive has continued several weeks. According to T. J. Hoyes, chancellor commander, the object of the campaign is to double the attendance record and add fifty members before July 1. Ivy Lodge, No. 27 of Rushville, Ind., observed the anniversary with the annual roll call and an entertainment. More than 100 members and twenty sponsors attended the meeting. The committee in charge of the program was composed of Charles S. Green, G. P. Hunt and Gibson Ross. Samuel L. Trabue, grand chancellor commander, spoke on the history of the lodge and the Pythian home at Lafayette, Ind. Members of the Milroy, Ind., lodge attended. Plan Bloomfield Meeting Bp Times Special BLOOMFIELD, Ind., Feb. 25. Twenty-five lodges of the Knights of Pythias in the second district will meet March 6, in this city. Counties in the district are: Knox, Sullivan, Davis, Owen and Greene. William Davis, Lyons, Ind., district deputy grand chancellor, will preside. Other officers who will attend are: Dolph E. Farr, grand chancellor; Carl R. Mitchell, grand kepper of records and seals, and Samuel L. Trabue, grand vice chancellor. Page rank will be conferred on a class of 100 candidates as the feature of the event. Aid to Bicknell Miners Bp Times Spcrlal BLOOMINGTON. Ind., Feb. 25. Following the anniversary meeting of the local lodge of the knights of Pythias this week, several automobile loads cf food and clothing were sent to Bicknell. Ind., for the relief of stricken miners. 17 TOWNS REPRESENTED Send Pythians to Service League Meeting at Muncic. Bp Times Special MUNCIE. Ind., Fob. 25.—Pythian Service League met Friday night at tiie Masonic Temple with several hundred members from surrounding towns in attendance. Clem V. Powell, secretary of Weicome lodge, and Fred B. West were in charge. Richard Witte. Milwaukee, Wis., supreme chancellor, spoke. Towns represented were Anderson, Alexandria. Elwood. Fairmount, I Gaston, Marlon. Redkey, Portland, j Albany. Winchester Newcastle,! Jonesboro. Summittville. Frankton,! Middletown, Mt. Summitt and j Mooreland. 100 AT LODGE PARTY Indianapolis Men Are Guests at Ft. Wayne Red Men Affair. Bu Times Special FT. WAYNE, Ind., Feb. 25.—More than 100 members and guests attended the George Washington party and banquet of the Ft. Wayne tribe, No. 106, of Red Men. Among special guests were: Albert Housman, Indianapolis, great salchenv and Arch H. Hobbs, Indianapolis great keeper of records. Beth spoke before the initiation. Committee in charge included Charles Leuenberger, E. W. Johnson. K. C. Baltzell. William Meyers and C. E. George. Members of Samosette Council served at the banquet. Mechanics Plan Diamond Jubilee Bp Times Special PORTLAND, Ind., Feb. 25.—The Diamond Jubilee celebration of the founding of the Junior Order of United American Mechanics will be held here May 19, with all councils of the tenth Indiana district in attendance. Towns to be represented are: Portland, Winchester, Union City, Dunkirk and Boundary.

Bids Good-By Having a premonition -oT death. George Longnecker, 81, of Pendleton, Ind., lodge of Odd Fellows, asked brothers to carry him to the lodge hall so that he might bid them farewell. He had been a member for fifty-eight years. That was two weeks ago. Funeral services were held Tuesday. Longnecker also wr.3 a charter member of the Sicilian lodge.

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Speakers Include National Executive Secretary and John Mellett. Stuart D. Daniels, national executive secretary of the fraternity, and John Mellett, Indianapolis author, j will be the principal speakers at the State banquet of the Alpha Tau Omega fraternity next Saturday in the Riley Room at the Claypool. The organization will hold a State dance in the evening. The dinner will be at 1:30 p. m. Robert Frost Daggett, local architect, will preside at the banquet. Dr. Charles F. Thompson will welcome alumni. Several hundred alumni and active member of the fraternity’s chapters at Indiana, Purdue, DePauw and Rose Poly will attend. Louis P. Adams, Indianapolis, is general chairman of the banquet and dance. His assistants are S. B. Lindley, W. L. Graves, John Mellett and Robert C. Walker. Henry Stegg is chairman of the program committee. Other committee chairmen: Ticket sale. William Miller: publicity, Frank Raschig; finance, Burke Nicholas. Chaperones at the dance will be: Messrs, and Mesdaraes: A. E. Metzger. C. E. Whltelhlll. L. J. Koster, Jr.. H. C. Lathrop, Linn D. Hay, O. P. Torrence. Dr. Frank Gastineau. F. L. Warner, Myron D. Taylor. Dr. Chas. F. Thompson, A. C. Rasmussen. Dr. Karl M. Koons. Carl J. Wetnhardt. Harry W. Hobbs, A. J. HaltOrn. W. H. Bios*. Dr. Vincent L. Barker and W. L. Bridges, PLAN PYTHIAN FETE K. of P. Boosts Encampment at Detroit. A banquet and installation of officers with initiation in the Rank of Esquire will be held Monday night at Castle Hall. 230 E. Ohio St., by the Knights of Pythias, according to Harry South, secretary-treasurer of the Indianapolis Bureau of Employment and Relief of the K. of P. The banquet is to stimulate interest in the National Encampment to be held in Detroit, Mich., in August. Those who will attend are: Dolph E. Farr, Edtngburg. Ind.. grand chancellor; Maj. Gen. Samuel Trabue, Rushville. Ind.; Charles Loy. Roy Bates, Ft. Wayne, Ind.; Levi Hooker. Evansville, Ind.; William B. Gray. Lafayette, Ind., superintendent of the Pythian Home, and members from Martinsville. Edinburg. Greenfield, Franklin, Plainfield and Noblesville. Frank Shellhouse is sponsoring the affair and reservations may be made with Harry South. MINSTREL TO BE GIVEN Local Lodge Plans for Show at New Augusta. The minstrel show given this week by the Indianapolis Auxiliary No. 393. of the Eastern Star at the Masonic Temple, North and Illinois Sts., will be repeated March 29, at New Augusta, Ind. The show will also be given at Franklin and Mooresville. Frank Dillingham was director and principal parts were taken by S. W. Ely. Forrest Breedlove, Harry Badger. George Thoman. Frank Steinbruegge, Arthur Dobbins, Mrs. Daisy Kern. Bertha Newhouse, Cora Thoman, Bessie Thompson and Phyllis Steinbruegge. PLAN PARTY IN MARCH Merry Makers to Complete Details at Bunco Fete. Merry Makers Club will hold its next meeting at the home of Russell Gruber, 443 Walcott St., with bunco and euchre. Plans will be made at the meeting for a theater party in March. The last meeting was held at Greenfield. Ind., at the home of Merle Neeley.

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EAGLES' NEW HALL OPENED Class of 100 Initiated at Brazil, Ind. By Times Special BRAZIL .Ind., 1 eb. 25.—Fraternal Order of Eagles closed the dedication exercises for their new lodge hall Wednesday night, with the iniitiation of a class of 100 candidates. Otto P. Deluse, Indianapolis, past grand worthy president, was the principal speaker. Tuesday night. Judge Ernest E. Cloe, Crawfordsville, Ind.. spoke on the old age pension problem. He has been sponsoring an old age pension law for some time. The Monday night meeting was in honor of Frank E. Herring. South Bend, past worthy president and editor of the Eagles' magazine. Herring is credited with being the founder of Mother's Day. Dr. F. C. DUley, toastmaster, introduced Deluse. and elogized him for his work in fraternal orders. PLAN NOTRE DAME TRIP Knights of Columbus Prepare for South Bend Retreat. A. E. Roberts, member of the Knights of Columbus, has been appointed chairman of the Notre Dame Retreat committee by James E. Deery, K. of C. grand knight. Roberts will be in charge of the caravan making the four-day retreat to the university at South Bend, Ind-, in August, About 160 local members attended the retreat in 1927. The retreat has been held for the <ast ten years. Guests will be housed in university buildings. There will be no cliarge for the service, but a donation collection will be taken.

Old Apron By Times Special RICHMOND, Ind.. Feb. 25. A Masonic apron made by Mrs. William Pugh, Wayne County pioneer. 105 years ago, will be given to the local Masonic lodge by E. N. Wilson, great grandson of the Pughs. The apron was worn by the first master of Webb Lodge, No. 24, F. & A. M„ William Pugh. The embroidery work on the apron was done by Mrs. William Pugh and is in an excellent state of preservation. Wilson has had the apron framed.

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ANNOUNCE PLAN FOR PUTTING ON MASONIC WORK Scottish Rite Members of Valley Prepare for Convocation. Details for the spring exemplification of higher degrees in Masonry by Valley of Indianapolis organizations are given in a bulletin mailed to members of the Scottish Rite in connection with the sixty-third annual convocation and reunion to be held March 26 to 29. All activities of the Rite are now centered about the completion of the new cathedral In North Meridian St., says Vincent V. Smith, thrice potent master of Adoniram Grand Lodge of Perfection, the governing body. Candidates who take the degrees this year will be enrolled as members of the Keystone Class which i3 a title that will have special significance in ceremonies connected with the new home that is planned to be a "modern club” for members of the fraternity throughout the counties of the Indianapolis jurisidiction. OlTer Work Early [ To accommodate candidates, a ! first section of the Keystone Class will start through the degrees Wednesday evening, continuing the work on succeeding Wednesday and Friday evenings through the thirtysecond degree, which will be conferred March 23. The second section of the Keystone Class is now being formed, to take the degrees during the four days of the annual convocation and petitions for this section will be received until March 7, it is announced by the secretary, Fred I. Willis. He also explains in the bulletin that all Master Masons in good standing are eligible to petition for the higher degrees no matter where their Blue Lodge membership is held, a year’s residence in the State and six months in the Jurisidiction being the further requirements. Will Extend rian A1 V. Reschar of Anderson, is chairman of the membership committee for the current year, and at a meeting of the Anderson Scottish Rite club last week, which wss attended by Mr. Smith and Mr. Willis, as special guests, a movement was started to extend the club plan to the various counties of the Indianapolis Jurisdiction. The Indianapolis vice chairmen of this committee are: Tine P. Dickinson, J. Ralph Fenstermaker, Edward J, Scoonover and Obie J. Smith. Other Marion County members are: Harvey W. Black, Raymond A. Butler, b. E. Christie. C. L. Clark. Arthur L. Evans. Bert S. Gadd, L. W. George. James C. Gipe, John C. Hobson, George W. Kadel, A. R. Manly. C. E. McCormick, Bloomfield H. Mobre, Stanley G. Myers, John L. Parrish. W. E. Pennington, Clyde C. Riches, Briant Sando, Clyde E. Titus and W. N. Wheeler. SONS OF VETS TO MEET Arrange Benefit Entertainment for Flag Fund. Sons of Union Veterans of the Civil War auxiliary will give an entertainment Wednesday night at Fi. Friendly. 512 N. Illinois St., for the benefit of the flag fund, according to Mrs. C. J. Finch, press correspondent. The Berlault School of Expression will give a drama, and the Rev. Virgil Brock will sing accompanied by Mrs. Brock. Mrs. Alice Free is chairman of the committee in charge of arrangements. flebekahs Celebrate Anniversary Olive Branch Rebekali Lodge will Celebrate its fifty-ninth anniversary tonight with a program of social and musical entertainment.