People's Pilot, Volume 5, Number 12, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 September 1895 — Illinois Good Templars Adjourn. [ARTICLE]

Illinois Good Templars Adjourn.

Bloomington, 111., Sept. 12.—The Grand Lodge of Good Templars adjourned last night. A by-law was adopted authorizing special sessions of the Grand Lodge for granting Grand Lodge honorary degrees. After a discussion of two hours it was decided not to organize a junior Grand Lodge for Scandinavians, but authorizing the return of the entire per capita tax paid by Scandinavian lodges to be expended in mission work among their own people. Eight hundred dollars was subscribed toward a Good Templars’ home for orphans and the matter was laid over. Galesburg offers SSOO for the location there of the home. Uriah Copp, Jr., Loda, was elected chief templar.. Aurora was chosen as the next meeting place.