Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 41, Number 18, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 November 1908 — Annual Inspection of Eastern Stars. [ARTICLE]

Annual Inspection of Eastern Stars.

The Rensselaer Chapter Order cf Eastern Star was Inspected Monday evening by the Grand Matron of Indiana, Mrs. Pauline Summers, of Valparaiso, and the inspection and degree work were preceded by a banquet held at the Masonic hall In the K. of P. building. Mrs. Minnie Blythe, State Grand Ruth, and Mrs. Aug. Dreifus, of Delphi, were a’so present, and Mrs. Summers was accompanied from Valparaiso by her daughter, Miss Edna Summers, Mrs. M. A. Miller and Mrs. C. W. Seeley, and by ’Mrs. F. J. Buss rd, of Plymouth. There were forty-two guests from the Monticello Chapter and about thirty from Monon, and Mrs. Maud Lally Reed, from Michigan City, making a total of mare than eighty out-of-town guests. The banquet was qui’e an elaborate affair, more than one hundred and fifty participating in it. Mrs. Willis J. Imes presided at the meeting of the order which followed the banquet and the Grand Matron Inspected the work anti fa-' structed the various offl e s in th Ir i duties. One candidate was Initiated, j the Monticello officers exemplifylrg the mystic tie. A feature of the i evening was the addre s by tie Grand Matron, in the course of which the local chapter was highly complimented for the splendid condition It is fa. The Grand Matron and the ladles accompanying her we e the guests —while here of Hrs. J. K. Davis.