Indianapolis Times, Volume 42, Number 259, Indianapolis, Marion County, 10 March 1931 — Page 4

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STATE PYTHIAN LODGES ADOPT NEW CEREMONY Ritual Is Being Presented to All Chapters by Districts. Nw ritual adopted by Indiana Pythian lodges is being promulgated at a emi of district meetings in the order’s twenty-seven districts of the state this month. The series will be continued at Milroy in the Sixteenth district tonight, at Elkhart; Third district, Tuesd*r night; French Lick, Twenty-second district, Wednesday, and at Auburn and Worthington Thursday night. AH lodges of the state are expected to participate in the meetings arranged especially by Dr. Colin V. Dunbar of Indianapolis, grand chancellor, for the purpose of exemplifying ranks of the order with the new ceremonies. Carl R. Mitchell, Indianapolis, grand keeper of records and seal, and Dunbar are attending most of the district sessions. The rank of Knight is being conferred on large classes In many of the districts. A membership drive has been launched in all lodges of the state at the suggestion of grand lodge officials. Other district meetings for next week will be at Westfield, Eleventh district, Monday night, March 16; MedaryviUe, Fifth district, Wednesday, March 18; Syracuse, Thursday, March 18, second district. A calendar of other coming events for the lodge is announced by Mitchell. These events include an initiatory meeting at Cloverdale Tuesday night at which ChanceUor Dunbar will be the principal speaker. The rank of esquire will be conferred. with all lodges of the district in attendance. Michigan City Pythians will Join in observance Tuesday, March 17, of the golden anniversary of Washington lodge No. 94 of that city. An elaborate ceremony has been arranged. New ritual will receive special emphasis at a meeting of Indianapolis lodge No. 56, March 19, when the rank of Knight will be conferred.

HARTFORD CITY ELK TO RUN FOR OFFICE Candidacy for District Deputy Grand Exalted Ruler Announced. B-v Time* Special HARTFORD CITY, Ind., March 10. —Candidacy of William H. Gardiner, member of Elks lodge here, for district deputy grand exalted ruler of the order in Indiana, was announced today. In his campaign to succeed Ralph McCarty, Frankfort, present holder of the Office, Gardiner is expected to be supported by the local lodge and by W. C. Groebel, Shelbyvllle, state Elks secretary. Gardiner is past exalted ruler of the Hartford City lodge and member of its degree team. James Cronin Jr., another member, is a past district deputy. LEGION POST IS TO GIVE MINSTREL SHOW Programs Will Be Presented at Fortvillc, Lawrence. An American Legion minstrel show will be staged by Service Post No. 128 at the opera house in Fortville tonight, and at the high school auditorium in Lawrence Wednesday night, March 18. The show, entitled “Seven-Eleven Regiment,” is divided into two parti with intervening variety entertainment. The first part will feature a men’s chorus and string band, while the second part will represent a scene in a Negro stevedore camp on inspection day. Proceeds will be added to a fund for purchasing a home for the post. ELKS ELECT GRIFFEN Lo6*t 13. & P. O. Choose Officials for Coining Year. Election of James C. Gribben as exalted ruler of Indianapolis lodge No. 13, Order of Elks, was announced today. He succeeds Earl C. Wolf. Other officers elected Friday are: Joseph JS. Barron, esteemed leading knight: M. H. Peters, esteemed loyal knight; George Blnger. esteemed lecturing knight; W. G. Taylor, secretary; Timothy P. Sexton, treasurer: Fred n. Bodenmiller. tyler. and Paul O. Beckner. trustee. Wolf becomes grand lodge representative and Thomas L. Hughes, alternate. ARRANGE BUNCO PARTY Cards WBI Feature Security Association Meeting. Euchre and bunco party will be given Wednesday night by Marion Council, No. 738, Security Benefit Association at 116*4 East Maryland street. The committee in charge of the arrangements includes George Carr, Leona Daglish, Flora Mescall and John Wills. It is scheduled to start at 8:30.

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RED MEN WILL INITIATECLASS Tribes of State to Convene at Columbus. Adoption degree will be conferred on a large class at a district meeting of Red Men tribes In Columbus, April 8, by the degree-stafT of Wln&mac Tribe No. 270, Indianapolis, Frank Flanigan, chairman of the meeting, announced today. All tribes of Marion county have been assigned to take part in the session which will Include tribes from the following counties: Bartholomew, Shelby, Marion, Morgan, Johnson, Decatur, Franklin, Jennings, Ripley, Dearborn, Brown, Jackson and Ohio. Inguashagua Tribe No. 84, Oolumbus, will be host to visiting members. Next Thursday night, Indiana Tribe No. 1, Muncie, will entertain at an open meeting, assisted by the four councils of the Degree of Pocahontas of that city. Expected to be one of the outstanding meetings of the order there this year, the occasion will mark a visit of Arch H. Hobbs, Indianapolis, great chief of record and a member of an Indiana tribe, who wiU be guest of honor. Announcement is made that tribes of northern Indiana will meet Jointly with tribes of northwest Ohio at Convoy, March 31. LUNCHEON IS ARRANGED Mrs. Laura Ashton Is Chairman of W. B. A. Meeting. Mrs. Laura Ashton will act as chairman of a covered dish luncheon to be served Wednesday by the Woman’s Benefit Association, 140, at Castle hall, 230 East Ohio street. A card party at 2:30 will follow the luncheon.

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Mrs. Frances Curtis ELKS SELECT OFFICERS Robinson Hitchcock Chosen Head of Bloomington Lodge. By Times Special BLOOMINGTON, Ind., March 10. —Newly elected officers of the Elks lodge here are headed by Robinson Hitchcock, exalted ruler, who succeeds John M. Franzmann, chosen grand representative for 1931. Other officers are: Robert E. Myers, esteemed leading knight; Merritt A. Calvert, esteemed loyal knight; Robert C. Wilse, treasurer; W. P. Dill, secretary; Edward 8. Cook, tyler; Fred Matthews, R. O. Pike and A. K. Helton, trustees. Building Permits John and WIU Hot*, alteration and repair. 314-18 West Sixteenth. S3OO. JfUtt s'. I B&4Sr.“ 4 - John and WIU Hots, one-story buudhur, northwest corner Senate and Sixteenth, SIO,OOO. John Wooda porch. 1815 Oapttol. SSOO.

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Four district deputies who served in the same capacities during spring meetings last year will have charge of district sessions for the Indiana Knights of Pythias lodges this month and In April. They are C. O. Brown, Logansport, who will preside at Kokomo Wednesday night; H. C. Constable, Rensselaer, at Medaryville, Marsh 18; W. H. Winter, Corydon at Milltown, March' 31, and George Wilhite, Clinton, at Clinton, April 1.

INDIANA VETERANS’ POSTS SHOW GAINS

Membership Increases of 100 Per Cent Are Recorded. Indiana is near the front in the Veterans of Foreign Wars national membership drive, with thirty-one posts in the state reporting gains of more than 38 per cent. The state is slightly ahead of Illinois posts and behind those In Michigan, according to Arthur G. Gresham, department commander. Gains of 100 per cent in member-

Worthy Grand Matron ffs to Be Guest of Marion County Chapters. Final inspections of the year in Marlon county will be made by Mrs. Frances Curtis, Monon, ind., worthy grand matron of the Order of Eastern Star, the week of Mf.ch 16. On that date she will be the guest of the Broad Ripple chapter. March 17 she will be at North Park chapter, at Southport chapter March 18, at New Augusta chapter March 19, and at Naomi chapter March 20. The year just closing finds the grand chapter In a good condition, both in membership and finances, according to Mrs. Curtis. Matrons and patrons of the city met In the office of Mrs. Blanche Regett, grand secretary, Thursday night to formulate plans for the entertainment of delegates and visitors to the grand chapter session in Indianapolis, April 22 and 23. Mrs. Daisy Crist, Crawfordsvllle, will succeed Mrs. Curtis as grand matron, and Truman Yunker, Greencastle, will succeed Ura Seegar, West Lebanon, as grand patron. MAN KILLS SELF, SON Child Is 5-Year-Old Cripple; Dies in Rocking Chair, By United Press BENNINGTON, Vt., March 10. After opening several gas jets, Wilson Foster took his 5-year-old crippled son in his arms and sat in a rocking chair. Both were dead when found. FALSE TEETH Dentists agree the one sure way to make false teeth comfortable la to keep them firm. Just sprinkle a little KLINO on the plates. This improved powder holds plates eo snug they cannot rock or slip. You can eat and talk aa well as you did with your own teeth. Sweetens the breath and avoids embarrassment. Don’t waste money on substitutes. A large package of KLING costa only 35c at Hook'a. Walgreen's or any other druggist. Money refunded if you are not mere than pleased.—Advertisement.

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OLDEST MASON IS 87 Columbus Man Has Held Many Lodge Offices. By United Press COLUMBUS, Ind., March 10.—William F. Kendall. 87, Civil war veteran, Is believed to be the oldest member of the Masonic lodge in the state and possibly in the entire country. For sixty-five years Kendall has been a Mason, and has held commanding offices in every body of the lodge. At a recent commemoration meeting held for past high priests he occupied one the chairs in conferring the Royal Arch degree. He seldom has missed a lodge i meeting and still is an active worker. During the Civil war he served three years; was with Sherman on his march to the sea, and confined thirty days in Libby prison. Nile Daughters to Give Dinner Koran Temple No. 30, Daughters of the Nile, will give a “pitch in’* dinner and card party at the home of Mrs. John Scoenholv, at 240 South Emerson avenue, at 12:30 Wednesday.

ship are reported by posts at Madision, Rushville, South Bend, Ft. Wayne, Kokomo, and the La Velle Oossitt and Walter Q. Gresham posts of Indianapolis, Gresham said. With enactment of the bonus bill, giving veterans cash loans on adjusted compensation certificates, state offl Mrs expect to triple the membership of the Indiana department in the next ninety days. The legislation was sponsored by the national legislative committee of Veterans of Foreign Wars. Posts in the state are looking forward to the state convention 4x> be held at Connersville in June, Gresham announced. Edward G. Schaub, state cemmander, predicts it will be the largest encampment ever held in Indiana. Among bands that have arranged to attend the convention are a sixtypiece band from Ft. Wayne and r. forty-piece drum and bugle corps from Terre Haute and New Albany. Gone, but Not Forgotten betotw'to^ 11 ** to Police M stolen _ Thomas Maloney. 1438 King avenueChevrolet sextan, 64-778. from Tremoni avenue and Michigan street. Howard A. Hammer. Clayton. Ind.. OhevHa tissii s!t- ”° m *“*• Fred Taomas. 413 West North street, street COUD ** 736 ' 77 7. from 413 West North WlMam Campbell, Letonla. K . Ford coupe. 488-244 Ky." from 4800 Eng h avenue. BACK HOME AGAIN bek*ng B, to . automoblle * by poUce 909 ®° ut ? Missouri street. ESSth°oifaw a :r a nd e an it^ n ‘ l la °* 889 -Fun* coupe, with stolen license plates. a 2r d certificate of title Issued to found at 3100 West Morris street. jfTtsßsasjtisar* “

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ELKS CHAPTER PLANS GOLDEN JUBILKAFFAIR Program and Banquet Are Arranged for Celebration at Antlers. In celebration of fifty years of service by Indianapolis lodge No. 13, Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, the lodge’s members are arranging to hold a giant golden Jubilee observance March 20. Plans announced today by E. C. Wolf, exalted ruler, are lv an open house at the Elks home, now the Antlers, from 2 to 6 p. m. on t-hat-date. Assembly will be held in the lodge room at 6 and a banquet commemorating the affair will be served at 8. The lodge was founded March 20, 1881. since that time, according to a statement by Lawrence Rupp, grand exalted ruler, “It has evidenced a keen appreciation of the basic principles of the order and furnished extraordinary leadership in the grand lodge.” Joseph T. Fanning is general chairman of arrangements, assisted by George W. June, vice-chairman, and the following committees: B*nqut—June. William a. Taylor. C. W. Orowe, Everett Irish. Robert Damaby. James M. Quigley and Sam Marer. Arrangements—Wallace O. Lee. Otto Ray. Oeom Binver, Claude Wolff, U. J. Hanrahan and Charles W. Crowe. Charter Membership—Vanning, Barry S. New. June. Jamea V. Cook. John J. Curtis, Kugene Cooper and Charles Cleaveland. Reception—James M. Quigley. Joseph Bauer. Charles A. Orossart. Hubert 8. Riley. Russell B. Harrison. J. A. Donahue, William J. Spires. J. Harry O'Brien. Joseph L. Clarke. Bred B. McNeely, Thomas L. Hughes and V. M. Armstrong. Press—George w. Binger. Claude Wolff. Otto Ray. M. J. Hanrahan. V. U. Armstrong. William Taylor and B. J. Oausepohl. Music—John Lauck Jr.. Courtland o. Oohee. Joseph It Barron. W. 3, Fahey. Officers of the lodge and trustees will work with these committees. Invitations to grand lodge members are being sent by a committee including Fanning, Joseph L, Clarke, Armstrong, J. Harry O’Brien, Fred B. McNeely, Thomas L. Hughes, Russell B. Harrison, Hubert S. Riley, Bauer, Donahue, Cook, Orossart, Quigley, William J. Spires and June.

END MEMBERSHIP DRIVE United Order of American Wort era Will Install Chapters. Membership contest in Harmony lodge, United Order of American Workers, was won by Gladys Paul, lodge officials announced today. Harmony lodge 1s assisting in organization of Golden Rule lodge. No. 3, which will be located near Fountain square. Supreme lodge officers who have offices in this city are preparing to inaugurate lodges in several cities over the state. FILES~BANKRUPT PLEA Debts of $248,000, Assets of $586 listed by Salesman. In a petition in bankruptcy on file in federal court today, Robert N. Buchanan, traveling salesman, lists his debts of $248,648.26 and assets at $566. Twenty-five creditors are listed among n Tandise accounts totaling $21,997.i0. Balance of debts are owed to thirty-five real estate creditors for real estate purchases, mostly In Florida. Buchanan formerly operated under the name, the National Manufacturing and Importing Company.

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Officers of Prather Craft Club of Prather lodge No. 717, F. Sc A. M., elected at (he club’s anniutl dinner, are headed by Roy son, president. Other offifers are: Cramford J. Walter, Vice-presi-dent; Hubert Mann, secretary, and Fred V. Ferre, treasurer. George H. Drechsel Jr., retiring president, presided at the Installation ceremonies. The new offiicers are planning a dinner-dance to be held by the club at Prather temple, Forty-seconcl street and College avenue, March 28, Peterson announces. Conferring of the Master Mason degree is scheduled tonight by the lodge, with the Entered Apprentice degree Friday. A dinner will be served at 4, March 20, at the temple prior to exemplification of the Master Mason degree. ELK RULER IS ELECTED George K. Coon Will Head Lodge at Marion. MARION, Ind., March 10.—George M. Coon, for seventeen years chairman of the Elks lodge poor fund here, has been named exalted ruler. Other officers are: Edward Norman, esteemed leading knight; Harry Shildmeyer, esteemed * lecturing knight; George Steffens, secretary; Dr. G. S. Grubb, treasurer; Lark Sprinkle, tyler; W. H. Lugar, trustee for three years and grand lodge representative. ANDERSON ELKS ELECT Ralph Wildredge Is New Exalted Ruler of Lodge* ANDERSON, Ind., March 10.— Ralph O. Wildredge Is newly elected exalted ruler of Anderson lodge of Elks. He was unopposed. Other new officers are: Ira Davis, leading knight; A. L. McKee, lojral knight; Faye Bronnenberg, lecturing knight; Fred F. Barr, secretary; George E. Nlchol, treasurer; Otis P. Warrender and J. J. Bravy, trustees for three years. KONJOIA WINS REAL VICTORY Indianapolis Man Enthusiastic About Results This Medicine Brings. After all, the merit of any medicine is measured by what it has done ... the relief it brings. Well, Konjola has scored amazing triumphs in tens of thousands of cases over ills of the stomach, liver, kidneys, Sad bowels, and rheumatism, neutls. and nervousness.

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LEGION DRIVE TOCONTINDE Campaign for Members to End April 6. Continuation of its membership drive until April 6, anniversary of America’s entry into the Wprld war, is annunoced by the Bruce P. Robinson post No. 133, American Legion. Frank Coilman is heading one team with Shelby Thornberry captain of the opposition. Goal for both teams during March is 100 new members. Losers in the contest will police the south steps of the Soldiers’ and Sailors’ monument attired In maid’s garb. Anew Legion feature for Indianapolis will be a uniformed firing squad and dril team to be sponsored by the Robinson post for use at

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veterans’ funerals and official occasions. This squad will have official blue uniforms and will meet at 335 North Illinois street at 7 each Tuesday. Wednesday and Thursday nights for practice, under direction of Tbomberry. The post also announces It Is assisting in organization of new Legion posts at Edge wood and Southport. Robert * Echer, Indiana service officer of the Legion, was guest of honor at a recent meeting and dinner of the post, attended by 130 Legionnaires. WOODMEN TO INITIATE Drill Team From Bloomington Will Confer Adoption Degree. A class adoption will be held by Marion Camp No. 3558, Modern Woodmen of America, March 17, with the Woodmen drill team from Bloomington conferring the work. Further plans for the adoption will be made at the camp’s meeting Tuesday night at the Woodmen hall, 322 East New York street. A public card party also will be held.