Indianapolis Times, Volume 40, Number 228, Indianapolis, Marion County, 11 February 1929 — Page 13

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FORMAL DANCE IS PLANNED BY MYSTICSHRINE Affair Will Be Held Feb. 22; Women Allowed to Attend Events. A full dress Washington’s birthday dance is being planned for Feb. 22 by the Murat temple of the Mystic Shrine, it was anounced today through the Oasis News, official Shrine publication. This will be the first strictly formal affair held by the Shrine in several years. The committee in charge includes Granville A. Richey, chairman; G. M. Stewart, vicechairman, and William Seitz and C. S. Ober. Special invitation cards will be sent to members about a week before the party. The guest list is limited to members. An innovation in local Shrine affairs, announced in the Oasis News, is that women will be allowed to attend the sporting events and entertainment features following the monthly stated meetings of the temple.

The first occasion of this character will be Feb. 18 when two basketball games will be played in the Egyptian room following the business meeting. One game will be between boys and the other between girls. Plans for entertainment for the women at the stated meeting* March 18 also are being arranged. Senator Arthur R. Robinson, newly elected potentate of the Shrine, announced that the next ceremonial will be held March 28, and he called on members to add 200 new members to the roster. Robinson is the only active United States senator elected potentate of a Shrine, it is said. Following his inaugural, he pointed out the strong financial condition of the organization and commended the members of the uniformed ranks for their work. KNIGHTS OF ST. GEORG£ WILL HEAR PASTOR Basketball Team to Meet St. Paul, Stag Party to Follow. The Knights of St. George will meet at 7::30 p. m. today at Sacred Heart hall, Meridian and Palmers streets. The Rev. John Flynn, assistant pastor of St. Catherine’s church, wall speak, and the Sacred Heart orchestra will play several numbers. Miss Hermadine and Margaret Kroeger will sing, and Miss Catherine Harmon will play several piano selections. A stag party will follow the business meeting. The Y. M. S. basketball team will play the St. Paul Evangelical five. Francis Hartman is manager of the Y. M. S. five. Officers of the organization are A. J. Wichman, president; A. I. Kriech, vice president; Edward Steffen, secretary; Albert Koors, assistant secretary; Louis Koerner, treasurer; Dr. A. W. Miller, Frank Slupesky, Louis Koerner Sr., A. J. Voight and E. L. Etter, trustees. Voight and Guy Dearth are members of the entertainment committee. WOMEN PLAN DINNER Benefit Association Will Hold Event on Wednesday. Fidelity review of the Woman’s Benefit Association will hold a card party and dinner at 2:30 p. m. Wednesday at 2:30 East Ohio street, it was announced by Miss Nettie Ldtz, press correspondent. The dinner will be in charge of Mrs. Hannah Hiatt, assisted by Mrs. Tillie Lehr, Mrs. Cora Haffacker, Mrs. Mary Werker, Mrs. Lucille Johnson, Mrs. Laura Ashton, Mrs. Mary McGary and Mrs. Ruth Markert. The card party will be in charge of Mrs. Lena Woods, assisted by Mrs. Josephine Coibion and Mrs. Lotz. LODGE PLANS PROGRAM Odd Fellows to Hold Joint Meeting Tuesday Night. Puritan lodge of Odd Fellows will hold a joint meeting with Progress Rebekah lodge Tuesday night. The women are planning an elaborate program. The degree staff of Puritan lodge will give the brotherly love degree Thursday night, and the degree of truth will be given Feb. 22, according to H. G. Schenk, noble grand. Neighbors to Give Party Northwestern camp of the Royal Neighbors of America will give a benefit card party at 2 p. m. Wednesday at the hall, Twentyeighth and Rader streets, according to Mrs. Grace Garringer, chairman.

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Naomi chapter No. 131, O. E. S., will honor MrS. Susie Masters, worthy grand matron, on her official visit Friday night. Mrs. Kathryn Bortsfield is chairman of the program committee. Other members of the committee are Mrs. Charlotte Halter, Mrs. Ellen Dain, Mrs. Bertha Meyer, Mrs. Meryl Fruits and Mrs. Jessie Craig. Mrs. Eva Turpin, associate matron; Mrs. Mabel Fuller, conductress, and Mrs. Cora Welland, associate conductress, are in charge of the dinner at 6:30. Reservations for the dinner should be made early. Mrs. Josephine Wishmier is worthy matron of the chapter.

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Indianapolis circle of Druids will entertain grand officers tonight at the hall, 29 South Delaware street, according to Ethel Disbrow, correspondent. A dinner will follow the initiatory work. A stated meeting will be held at 7:30 p. m. today bv Mystic Tie lodge No. 398, F. & A. M., at the Masonic temple, North and Illinois streets. Herbert S. King and Daniel V. Metzger are members of the reception committee. William R. Humphreys is master. The Merry Makers Club will meet at the home of Joseph Dosch, 1451 South Meridian street, Tuesday, according to Miss Lottie Davis, president. The Brightwood lodge of Odd Fellows will confer the degree of love on a class of four candidates at a meeting Tuesday night, according to A. E. Rettig, press correspondent. Tiie same class received the degree of friendship recently. Ancient Landmarks lodge No. 319, F. & A. M., will give the entered apprentice degree at 3:30 p. m. today at the Mason'-: temple, North and Illinois streets. Mayflower camp of the Royal Neighbors of America will meet Wednesday at the Woodmen hall, 1025 Prospect street. Charity lodge of the Independent Order of Shepherds will meet Thursday night at 29 % South Delaware street to give the first degree to a class. PLAN ENTERTAINMENT Foreign War Veterans Invite Women Wednesday Meeting. Hoosier post of the Veterans of Foreign Wars will hold an open meeting Wednesday night and entertain women guests, it was announced by C. O. Bittner, officer of the day. The largest class since the annual encampment was taken in at the last meeting. Gus Powell, past commander, was given a past commanders badge by Frank S. Clark, also a past commander. Drums ar-’ bugles for the corps have been ordered, Bittner reports. The corps probably will be organized and uniformed in time for the annual encampment at St. Paul, Minn., in August. LODGE INSTALLS CHIEFS Be .z Brown Ascends Chair as Patriarch Captain. Douglas Brown was installed as captain of Canton Indianapolis No. 2, Patriarchs Militant, at the last meeting at Germania hall, Prospect and East streets. Other officers are Clifford Scholey, lieutenant; Ernest Schneider, ensign: Frank Lee, clerk, and William F. Menning, accountant. The services were performed in full dress uniforms, and Colonel Henry Roesner was installing officer.

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Book Owned by Founder of Order Will Be Employed in Initiations. The first of a series of Rathbone Bible page rank classes of the Knights of Pythias will be held Tuesday at Brookston, Ind., it was announced today by Carl R. Mitchell, grand keeper of records and seals. • Final arrangements have been made at all lodges where the Rathbone classes are to be held. Redkey, Ind., gets the famous book for a class Thursday; Fort Wayne, Ind., Friday; La Porte, Ind., Saturday; Rushville, Ind., Feb. 18; Salem, Ind., Feb. 19; Evansville, Ind., Feb. 20; Terre Haute, Ind., Feb. 21, and Indianapolis, Feb. 22. The Bible used by Justus Rathbone, the founder of the K. of P., in initiating the charter members, will be used in ail of the page rank classes. The famous book will be in the possession of Harry M. Love of Minneapolis, Minn., supreme keeper of record and seals, who will take the prelate’s station' at all ceremonies. One lodge in each town sponsors the ceremonial, and lodges in the vicinity offer candidates for the work. The work in Indianapolis will be held, in the grand lodge auditorium on Washington’s birthday. The gathering is expected to be one of the largest of its kind every held here.

Class on Wednesday Bu United Press RED KEY, Ind., Feb. 11.—Plans have been completed for the holding of the Rathbone Bible page rank class of the Knights of Pythias here Wednesday. Candidates will be offered from Bluffton, Montpelier, Portland, Pennville, Marion, Gas City, Anderson, Muncie, Union City, Lynn, Albany and many other cities in Indiana and Ohio. The Montpelier degree team will confer the work with the assistance of si— and grand lodge officers. PICK 1,200 DELEGATES Representatives Will Attend Camp of Woodmen in April. More than 1,200 delegates were elected last week by Marion countycamps of the Modern Woodmen of America to attend the county camp to be held in April. The delegates will name other delegates to the state camp later, who in turn will name the representatives to the head camp to be held in Chicago this summer. COUNTY MEETINGS SET K. of P. Lodges to Hold Session at Warren, Feb. 19. BV Uiv ted Press WARREN, Ind., Feb. 11.—The second of a series of four meetings of Knights oi Pythias lodges will be held Feb. 19 here, under the direction of Monroe Wiley, deputy. The meetings are in observance of the anniversary of the founding of the organization. The other sessions are March 8 at Markle, and March 20 at Huntington. Masons to Hold Rehearsal Calvin W. Prather lodge No. 717, F. & A. M., will hold a craft rehearsal Tuesday night and will give the master Mason degree‘Friday at the Masonic temple, Forty-second street and College avenue. Russell B. Hinesley is master. Eastern Star Meets Tuesday The Indianapolis chapter of the Eastern Star will hold a stated meeting at 8 p. m. Tuesday at the temple, 1522 West Morris street. Laura Rathbun is secretary, and Beulah Lewis is worthy matron.

Women s Corps to Give G.A.R. Valentine Dinner The Major Robert Anderson post of the G. A. R. will be the guests of the Anderson women’s corps at a Valentine dinner Wednesday noon at Ft. Friendly, 512 North Illinois street. Following the dinner, the post will hold a business meeting with James Clark presiding. Mrs. Grace E. Hoffnjeyer will preside as adjutant. Under anew ruling by the national organization, allied organizations now may assist the G. A. R., and Mrs. Hoffmeyer. is the first woman officer of the G. A. R. in Indianapolis. The Anderson post once was one of the largest posts in the middle west There now are twenty-seven members.

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CITY MOOSE TO HEAR REPORT OF DELEGATES Visit to Home for Aged Will Be Reviewed at Meeting. A complete report of the midwinter conference of Moosehart Legion held recently at Moosehaven, Fla., will be given at the next meeting of the Indianapolis lodge of Moose by Harry Neerman, delegate from Hoosier Heart Legion, and William Anderson, supreme councilman, who returned this week srom Florida. Moosehaven is the site of the home for aged members of the Moose. “There are forty aged men and women in the Hoosier colony of the home,” the delegates report. “No couples are separated, and it’s one of the few homes in the United States accepting both men and women.” The delegates participated in the dedication of four new buildings at the home, and inspected seven other units which were rebuilt. The home is located on St. John’s river directly across from the former home of Harriett Beecher Stowe, and midway between Jacksonville and Greencoe Springs on the new U. S. highway. About three hnudred additional persons can be cared for in the new units, it is said. About 150 units were instituted in the British Isles last year, it was reported at the conference. There are more than 2,000 Moose lodges in the world, with combined assets of more than $50,000,000. The local delegates received their reports from James J. Davis, secretary of labor, who is the director general of the Moose. Indianapolis lodge now ranks seventh in membership and fifth in assets, it is said. LODGE PLANS PARTIES Fund From Events to Send Team to Meeting. The fancy drill team of Center comp of the Royal Neighbors of America will give two card parties this week for the benefit of the team. The first party will be at 2 p. m. Wednesday and the second will be Saturday. Both parties are to be held at the Modern Woodmen hall, 322 East New York street. The fund will go toward paying expenses of the team to Crawfordsville, Ind., in March for the state convention of the R. N. A. The team will confer the work on a large class of candidates then. Mrs. Cordellia Shumon, captain, is in general charge of the two affairs, according to Mrs. Murrell Wright, press correspondent. LODGE PLANNING ~FEST Shambah Temple of Dokkcys to Stage Smoker Friday. A smoker and pep-fest will be given Friday) night by the entertainment committee of Shambah temple of Dokkeys, at Castle hail, 230 East Ohio street, it was announced today by Robert E. Long, publicity chairman. A number of selections will be played by the thirty-piece drum and bugle corps in August in Winnipeg, Canada. Members are asked to wear their fezes and* bring a nonmember who is a member of the Knights of Pythias. STORE IS EXPANDED Miller-Wohl Company Opens Larger Basement. Announcement of Ijjhe expansion and opening of a newly decorated and larger basement was made today by of the Miller-Wohl Cc: 45 East Washington street, I "' , jes’ ready to wear store. The shoe department, formerly occupying a large space in the basement, has been discontinued to provide more room for the new MillerWohl expansion program. Officials of the company declare that the added space will make larger stocks possible. - LEGION PLANS BANQUET Indiana Commandery Will Hold Meeting and Dinner Tuesday. The Indiana commandery of the Military Order of the Loyal Legion assisted by the Dames of the Loyal Legion will hold a business meeting and banquet at 6:30 p. m. Tuesday, at the Spink-Arms hotel. The dinner will be served at 7 p. m. William L. Barker of Boonville, Ind., will be the principal speaker. Capt. F. M. Van Pelt, commander, will be in charge of the affair. Wife 49 Years Asks Divorce Bn Timet Special LEBANON, Ind.. Feb. 11.—Mr and Mrs. Lucius N. Slater will not celebrate their gc’ anniversary ol .their wedding June 15. if Mrs Slater hs.s her way'. She has filed suit for divorce in Eoone circuit court here, illeging desertion and failure to provide.

Send in News The Indianapolis Times publishes the lodge page every Monday. Items of general interest to all fraternal organizations are used. Secretaries and chairmen of publicity committees are asked to send news stories to the Fraternal Editor before Friday of each week for publication the following week. Let your membership know what is happening in your lodge by using the lodge page. Many lodges inform their membership of social and fraternal affairs through The Times lodge page only. “Read the lodge page in The Times,” almost has become a “by-law” in many organizations.

SEEKS NATIONAL POSTINEAGLES Elkhart Man Candidate for Vice-President. Bu Times Special ELKHART, Ind., Feb. 11.— Robert E. Proctor, Elkhart lawyer, today announced his candidacy for the office of grand worthy vicepresident, Fraternal Order of Eagles. Election will be held at the order’s national convention, set for the second week in August at Minneapolis. If elected, Proctor will become national head of the order in 1930, under a rule of moving officers up. The local aerie of Eagles has inporsed Proctor’s candidacy and its officers have full confidence that he will be elected. Since 1923, Proctor has served as chairman of the order’s national judiciary committee, having been re-elected to the office at each annual convention since. He has served in all the offices of the local aerie and as president of the Indiana state aerie. At present Proctor is a member of the Indiana Eagles old age pension commission. LODGE GETS REPORTS Knights of Pythias See Copy of Official Proceedings. The official record of proceedings of the grand lodge of the Knights of Pythias was received this week by officers and members of the lodge, it was announced today by Carl R. Mitchell, grand keeper of records and seals. The book has 273 pages and contains reports of all officers, financial statements, addresses and a detailed report of proceedings of the grand lodge session. There are fourteen full page illustrations. ELKS NAME HEAD Armstrong Nominates Ruler to Succeed Hughes. Vayne M. Armstrong was nominated exalted ruler of Indianapolis lodge No. 13 of the Elks at the last meeting, to succeed Thomas L. Hughes, present ruler. Armstrong is vice-president of the Service Club, former district commander of the Indiana department of the American Legion, past chef de gare of the Forty and Eight for Indiana and past commander of the Howard Q. Root post of the Legion. He is a graduate of the Benjamin Harrison Law school and a member of Sigma Delta Kappa law fraternity. Armstrong also is general sales manager of the E. W. Showalter Company. SLATE, BANK PARLEYS Four Regional Conferences to Be Held to Diseuss Savings Problems. [li,i Times Special NEW YORK, Feb. 11.—Four regional savings conferences will be held during the spring in various parts of the country under the auspices of the Savings Bank Division, American Bankers Association, for the purpose of bringing to savings bankers the best and most up-to-date '—plicable to tins phase of banking. The'first meeting will be held Feb. 27-28 in Grand Rapids, Mich., for the central states, comprising Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Wisconsin, Michigan, lowa, Missouri, Kansas, Minnesota, North Dakota, South Dakota and Nebraska. CONFER MASTER DEGREE Englewood Lodge of Masons Stage Ceremony The master Mason degree was conferred Saturday by Englewood lodge No, 715, F. & A. M„ at the Masonic temple, 2716 East Washington street, under the direction of Richard R. Speitel, master. A special meeting has been arranged for Feb. 26 for consideration of important business. The next stated meeting will be March 5. - ! Koran Temple Officers Installed Officers of Koran temple, Daughters of the Nile, were installed Thursday night in the Riley room of the Claypool under direction of Mrs. Susie Masters, queen. Dinner preceded the ceremonies.

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SCOTTISH RITE PREPARE PLANS FOR GATHERING Degrees Will Be Conferred From Feb. 27 to March 27, The last date for receiving petitions for the first section of the sixty-fourth annual convocation and reunion of the Scottish Rite in the Valley of Indianapolis has been set for Tuesday, it was announced today by Fred I. Willis, secretary. Degrees will be conferred on the first section from Feb. 27 to March 27. Last date for petitions for the second section is March 13, and degree work will be given three days starting March 25. The secret master, or fourth degree, will be given Feb. 27 and March 25 with Tine P. Dickinson presiding. This is the first of the degrees in the Adoniram Grand Lodge of Perfection. Dates of other degrees and the presiding officers are: Fifth degree, Feb. 27 and March 25, Dr. Lewis Brown: sixth degree-, Feb. 27 and March 25. Charles L. Hutchinson: seventh degree, Feb. 27 and March 25, Frank E. Floyd: eighth degree. March 6 and 25, John F. Engelke; the Elu degrees, which include the ninth, tenth and eleventh degrees. March 6 and 25, F. Elmer Rasing; twelfth degree, March 6 and 25, A. Marshall Springer: thirteenth degree, March 6 and 25. David C. Fyke, and the fourteenth degree, March 6 and 25. Vincent V. Smith. The fifteenth and sixteenth degrees oi the Saraiah Council Princes of Jerusalem will be given March 8 and 25 with William Earl Gentry and Clarence R. Martin presiding. The seventeenth and eighteenth degrees of the Indianapolis Chapter of Rose Croix will be given March 13 and 26 with Henry C. Thornton and William H. Morrison presiding. The nineteenth degree, the first of the Indiana Sovereign Consistory, will be given March 15 and 26. with Lee S. Busch presiding. The twentieth degree will be given March 15 and 26, with Clifford L. Harrod presiding. The twenty-first degree will be given March 20 and 27. with William F. Kruger, presiding. The twenty-second through the thirtieth degrees will be communicated March 20 and 27 with Harry C. Anderlon, presiding. The twenty-seventh degree will be given March 20 and 27, with James H. Lowry, presiding. The thirtieth degree will be given March 20 and 27, with J. Clyde Hoffman, presiding. The thirty-first'and thirty-second degrees are to be given to both sections March 27. with Edward H. Mayo and Harry C. Anderson, presiding.'

Eagle Events in Indiana

Reports on a membership campaign ( to close March 1, when a class honoring its president, William Beswick. is to be initiated, will be made at a meetng of Indianapolis aerie tonight. Plans will be discussed for entertaining members of the women’s auxiliary, Feb. 26, when Muncie auxiliary members also will be guests. Kokomo—Local Eagles are engaged in a midwinter membership campaign, with prizes offered to teams engaged in the drive. A fish fry will be held Tuesday .night and a dance Wednesday night. • Elwood—Annual roll call was held by the Elwood aerie Sunday, with members of the Anderson and Kokomo aeries as guests. Ernest E. Cloe, Npblesville, state secretary, and Otto P. Deluse, Indianapolis, ch:.' the Indiana Eagles old age pension commission, were speakers. Evansville—Following presentation of a minstrel show here a cast composed of twenty-five members of the Evansville Eagles, engagements have been booked at Mt. Vernon, Tell City, and Vincennes. LODGES ARRANGE DANCE I. O. O. F. and Rebekahs to Hold Party Monday. The Marion county association of Odcl Fellows and Rebekahs will give a dance and card party Monday night, Feb. 18, at Haddon hall, on pike. Members and their friends representing fifty-one lodged have been invited. Admission is free. The committee in charge includes H. G. Schenk, I. C. Simmons, Leona Gill, Clarisa Bennett and Dora Grabe. Moose to Initiate Class The Indianapolis chapter of the Loyal Order of Moose will initiate a class of candidates Tuesday night at the hall, 135 North Delaware street. Veterans Will Stage Dance The auxiliary to Convention City post of the Veterans of Foreign Wars will give a dance Saturday night at 143 East Ohio street, it was announced today.’

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KNIGHTS STAGE PRE-LENTDANCE Weekly Meeting Postponed Till Next Monday. The weekly meeting of the Indianapolis council of the Knights of Columbus, scheduled for tonight, has been postponed until next Monday because of the annual pre-Lenten Valentine dance which will be held tonight in . the auditorium, Thirteenth and Delaware streets. The event will close the winter social season of the council under the direction of George Rice, chairman of the lecturer’s committee. The auditorium will be deorated in Mardi Gras style, and the dance will be informal. “Work of several important committees will continue, although no meeting will be held, and a two weeks’ report will be given next Monday,” said James E. Gavin, grand knight. Boyd Gurley, editor of The Indianapolis Times, who was scheduled to speak before the Friday noon luncheon club last week, will appear next Friday. Gurley will talk on “Rome and Italy.” Daniel B. Luten, president of the Luten Engineering Company, spoke last Friday on “Communism.” A Washington birthday party is being arranged for Feb. 22 when a patriotic address will be given. The party will be known as “ladies’ day,” and women guests will be admitted. CLERKS ELECT HEAD Railway and Express Workers Choose M. S. Chastain. M. S. Chastain was elected president cf the district council of affiliated lodges of the Brotherhood of Railway Clerks and Express Employees recently at a meeting in the Spencer House. Other officers: Charles M. Anderson, vice-presidgnt; L. S. Poliquin, secretary; E. E. Tyner, treasurer; H. M. De Witt, chaplain; and J. R. Harrison, sergeant-at-arms. Trustees: J. O. Brown, J. Br Caughlin, E. O. Andrews, W. H. Allen and G. F. Griessinger

LODGE WINS SSOO ROBE A set of robes valued at SSOO was won by the Arrius court of Ben-Hur for having the largest membership gain of any court in the United States in 1928, it was announced today by Bert E. Kimmel, scribe. The robes were offered by national officers and will be presented soon. A class of about twenty-five candidates is scheduled for initiation tonight at Moose hall, 135 North Delaware street. An open social meeting will follow the initiation. Louie Mills is chief and Mrs. Harriett Applegate is chairman of the entertainment committee. Form Masonic Council Bp Times Special MONTICELLO, Ind., Feb. 11.—A permanent county organization will be formed Thursday night when, sixty Scottish Rite Masons gather at the Masonic temple here for a banquet. Judge B. F. Carr will preside, and Vincent C. Smith, Harry Anderson, Fred Willis and the Rite quartet from Indianapolis have been invited.

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‘FUN’ MEETING IS ARRANGED BY CITY^YTHIANS Friends Incited to Attend; Special Entertainment to Be Provided. One of the largest meetings in months by a local Knights of Pythias lodge will be held at 8 p. m. Monday, Feb. 18. by Capital City lodge, No. 97, at Castle Hall, 230 East Ohio street, according to Jacob R. Roberts, chancellor commander, who will be in general charge of the affair. The program will be of a fraternal and patriotic nature, and members and their families and friends are invited. The entire evening will be given to entertainment, and there will be no charge, it was announced. “We recognize the social side of Pythianism,” said Roberts, “and we are planning many surprises for the guests. Among the features will he a good dance orchestra, and dancing will be one of the major attractions.” Refreshments will be served. Officers who recently were elected and will be in charge are Roberts, George W. Huff, vice-chancel-lor; Thomas W. Swift, prelate; E. W. McWhinney, master at arms; Arthur C. Grant, master of work; C. A. Whitton, keeper of records and seals; Harry South, master of finance; George M. Cottom, master of the exchequer; Edward Hawkersmith, inner guard; William J. Hicks, outer guard; C. E. Francisco, trustee; George W. Jobe, trustee, and George Suhdling, trustee. The meeting and entertainment also will be in the nature of an introduction for prospective members to be initiated in the Rathbone Bible class Feb. 22 in the grand lodge auditorium. The committee on arrangements for the party are Swift, Sundling, Hawkersmith, Huff, and Carey Carter.

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