Rensselaer Republican, Volume 26, Number 40, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 May 1894 — MASONIC GRAND LODGE. [ARTICLE]

MASONIC GRAND LODGE.

• vcnty-Third Annual Meeting at Indlanapvl!». The seventy-third annual meeting Inliana Grand Lodge F’ & A. M. convened :t Indianapolis, Tuesday. Five hundred ielegates were present. Grand Master Moyes’ annual report called attention to < he prosperous condition of the order. Among some of his official aets during the jast year he called attention to decisions ts follows: That a lodge has no right to withhold 1 dimit from a brother upon the sole rround that he has made use of barsh itterances against a brother in the same odge. Permission to confer the degrees upon tn “importer ami wholesale dealer in .vines and liquors” was refused. An invitation to lay a corner stone 00 :he Sabbath was res pee ts nliy declined Dispensation for new lodges have beet* zranted as follows: East Chicago Lodgr. Lake county; Pleasant Lake Lodge,Stenoen county; Farmersburg Lodge, Sullivan county. The Grand Master referred to the face that begging circulars had. been sent out by an Indiana lodge, but that they hal been speedily recalled and suitable apologies made for a violation of th®. Grand Lodge Order, and he recommended that the offense be forgiven. Such a circular had also been received frem a Florida jurisdiction, and had been returned, ac:ompanled by a copy of the resolution of the Indiana Grand Lodge on the subject. The election of officers for the ensuing year resulted as fellows: Grand Master—Frank E. Gavin, Greensburg. Deputy Grand Master—Ed. O’Rourke, Fort Wayne. Senior Grand Warden—Simeon P. Gillette, Evansville. Junior Grand Warden—Mason J. Niblack. Grand Treasurer—Martin H. Rice, Indianapolis. Grand Secretary— William 11. Smythe, Indianapolis. Trustee (three years)—John Caven, Indianapolis.