Jasper County Democrat, Volume 15, Number 11, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 May 1912 — STATE HAPPENINGS RECORDED IN BRIEF [ARTICLE]

STATE HAPPENINGS RECORDED IN BRIEF

NEWS ITEMS FROM ALL OVER INDIANA. STATE TEMPLARS IN SESSION * . 9 Reports of Officers of Grand Commandery Shew Order to Be in Flourishing Condition, With 6,970 Members. Indianapolis, May 9.—ln lys report at the fifty-eighth annual conclave of the grand commandery, Knights Tern plar of Indiana, at the Masonic temple, John L. Rupe of Richmond, grand commander, showed that the total membership at the close of the calendar year 1911 was 6,970, and that the number knighted during the year was 404, a net increase of 131. In the last year 113 members of the order died, including one eminent commander, A. S. Tilford of Martinsville. The grand commander showed that a dispensation had tbeen granted for forming Gary commandery, and that a commandery had been instituted at Seymour. j-.. ’

He recommended that the sir knights of the ordev should observe Christmas and Easte.- Id the same manner that Ascension day is observed by the commanderies. Charles L. Hutchinson of Indianapolis, grand treasurer, reported that the grand commandery had $6,933.97 in the treasury, and that the total assets of the commandery were $20,123.47. Calvin W Prather of Indianapolis, grand recorder, made a report Showing the various transactions of the Knights Templars during the year. About four hundred Knights Templar were in attendance. They and their women relatives, enjoyed a banquet, with Grand Commander Rupe as toaemaster