Show installation AND BANQUET MT MORIAH CELEBI celebrates tATES AN IMPORTANT OCCASION N mew ew officers of the oldest aas masonic 0 nic clodgo in utah installed ceremonies followed by a banquet the members of lit IL martah led lodge ge no 2 A F P ara and AM aar held ther annual installation of officers lost night in masonic hall grand master A S chapman performed the installation ceremonies assisted by the tha g grand gand and officers the following la Is a list of it the officers tor for the ensuing year william J lynch W M charles III stanton S W joseph 11 young J W harry T duke treasurer christopher diehl secretary joseph 0 bywater S D walter P F goode J D edward H mach alack S S henry 0 G gregory J S J frederick corker T louis conn cohn trustee for three years tho the installation ceremonies tv were cot public but regardless l ot of this facto fac fact tv a a splendid banquet followed to which the members endeavored to do justice during the progress of the banquet grand master AS chapman addressed the assembled masons upon the responsibility that attached to masonry lie he wa waa 3 followed by C E stanton who read an original and humorous poem in which nearly every ni member em ot of sit mt oriah lodge w was as supposed to be assigned assiR ned to a a special c lal duty the particular obligation bein bednar g ini in harmony with the everyday every day P pursuits of the member joe youns young responded with an address in a si similar nillar view but shortly after adopted a more serious tone and impressed in hla his hearers with the tact fact that hat while he was enjoying himself f the F solemnity of the rites of the order and its obligations were ever uppermost tv with fill him mr air youns young was waa followed by the retiring past master surbaugh and past master alaster P F X N baskin mayor layor baskin reviewed the early rt struggles ruggles of masonry in utah and the early history of qt mt meriall lodge in particular he thought that the masons have purchase d a lot years ago as he had advocated and constructed a masonic T temple emple masonry had now assumed such proportions in the territory and in salt lake especially that this temple was now almost a necessity christopher diehl was the next speaker he also reviewed the history ot the lodge since its institution I 1 in n and it Is 1 worthy of note that hat it last night was mr diehls silver wedding ns with mt anit moriah twenty five years ago aco last night he ha was first installed as secretary and in every year succeeding that time he be has served as an officer of the lodge lode but most of that time in the capacity to which he was first elected and to which he was again elected last night harry haynes another past masto master r of c f ML AIL I 1 moriah addressed addres the tha assemblage asse in and was succeeded by dr iliff in on oil eloquent address on masonry and christianity ile he touched briefly on his investigations of the ruins of solomons temple temp during his visit t to 0 tile the holy land and the locc logical tl connection between christianity and masonry the last speaker of tile the even evening ing was past master john ilarde ardie ll two of his young kinsmen lial just bren been installed as officers of mt moriah lodge no 2 and to them he directed his admonitory remarks these were vere WIN will J lynch W al and joe H n young J vr W this closed the ceremonies of the oven lne and after the singing of oc auld lang syna the members of mt III arlah Tr Ij ridi lAh lodge no 2 disbanded while mt moriah is designata as no 2 it Is in reality the oldest lodge lit in masonry in utah having been established in INS but through some technicality nica lity its charter ats w ls not receive 1 until after the cha titer had been issued to wasatch lodge no 3 |