Jasper County Democrat, Volume 13, Number 49, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 September 1910 — LAWRENCE RESIGNS OFFICE [ARTICLE]

LAWRENCE RESIGNS OFFICE

High Officer of Masonic Fraternity Tenders His Resignation. Detroit, Sept. 23. —For some reason Gen. Samuel Crocker Lawrence, Most Puissant Grand Commander of the Ancient, Accepted, Scottish Rite for the northern Masonic jurisdiction of the United States, has resigned his office. The session at which the resignation was handed in was the last of the ninety-eighth annual meeting of ■** the supreme council, sovereign grand inspectors general. The grand commander is the head of the highest degree in Masonry. Puissant Lieut. Commander Barton Smith of Toledo, ' succeeds to the office left vacant by Gen. Lawrence’s resignation.