Show SECnET CIRChES The MaSOnic ifraternity in this jurisdiction juris-diction has been augmented by the addition ad-dition of a new lodge which was instituted in-stituted on Saturday evening at Mount Pleasant by Grand Master Dalny as sistPd by Deputy Grand Master A Dash D-ash of Provo Grand Lecturer F C Schramm of Ogden Grand Secretary Chris Diehl and Grand Treasurer JohnS John-S Scott of Salt Lak The members of the new lodge which V Is called Damascus No 10 have been working under a dispensation from the grand lodge since September last and now start out a a lodge under very favorable auspices Dr Woodring is worshipful grand master John Cassa day senior warden and Mr Morrow junior warden The lodge has a large field from which to draw its member ship I being the only Masonic lodge in Sanpete county I is the recipient of hearty good wishes from sister lodges V lodg-es in the jurisdiction I O O IiI Ii-I was ladies ee among the Odd Fellows of this city and Ogden Ester Hebeckah Lodge No S of Salt Lake T a instituted on Tuesday and these proceeding have so crowded this column that much other interesting matter is left out With the noble body of the men and women of Utah Odd Fellowship it is work work with a oiety of pleasure occasionally larded in to help them in their labor for humanity and their warfare against virp Benevolent actions both in and nut of the lodge rooms have had their lace for several weeks since for they like other organizations have their afflicted to care for and tile needy to st rror Lodge matters have moved along smoothly The principal events of eacn bdy is in the following report On Monday Mystic lodge held its regular session and had fglar considerable business The members had their degree de-gree taft in training for work onight but as their captain is determined their work shall rank second to none the first degree will not be conferred till nExt week A committee on their anniversary an-niversary celebration is out working up an entertainment that will be strictly gorgeous So many of the members of Ridgely ludgp No9 tired themselves out at the institution of Ester lodge and the storm of Wednesday night was such a good excuse that the lodge had only a short session Enterprise lodge No 15 on Wednesday Wednes-day had notwithstanding the rain a fairly good membership present and kept trip interest up till a late hour Secretary Elliott made some of his hearers think and his voice heard and with past grands Hulmer and Jennens the Salt Lake press a not forgotten and The Herald came in for its share in the discussion Where was Brother Wattis 1 Benevolence was a word frequently fre-quently heard and Brother Grimsdell of No3 spoke to the point in his remark re-mark on caring for the family of an afflicted Brother I was a good meeting meet-ing and more would have profited had they been presenL Thursday night is always a goodnight good-night at the Temple And why Utah lodge NO1 and Jordan lodge No J meet that night and they are old tried and true partners in good times and had times For over a fifth of a century they have stood shoulder to shoulder through weal and woe and are still working together Old Utah a lately been doing a little better than Old Jordan and on Thursday night admitted one of Salt Lakes lead ins bankers to membership Thats all right Jordan ha one United States senator and may soon have another an-other and a governor The two lodges I are now at work organizing a degree staff for Jordans use in initiating them On Friday night Fidelity lodge No 17 had treir usual well attended meeting but their official reporter could only state that the members paid a fraternal fra-ternal visit i to Salt Lake lodge No 2 where one of the latters members was advanced to the first degree The session ses-sion of No 2 was a busy one besides t degree work one application was acted upon tbe candidate for membership member-ship beng elected REBEKAH ODD FELLOWSHIP The meeting of Naomi Eebekah lodge co 1 on Saturday evening was a very pleasant one and well attended One applicant for initiation was elected and Captain Budds was demonstrating V the ability of his corps of ladies to make a good Odd Fellow of the lady at the next meeting of the lodge Active preparations for a social in behalf of the relief fund to be held on the evening even-ing of February 29 wore inaugurated by the appointment of 3 committee i consisting of Sisters James Culmer Hlsson Jennens and Phillips with Brothers Blackmarr Owen and Watkins Wat-kins and the Noble Grand Sister Watkins Wat-kins a chairman exofficio i spr Kfbekah Lodge When a third I Kpb uh lodge in Salt Lake City a first spiken of the advisability of tIe undertaking was questioned by many but it vrpu d seem from the general I V I 1 I sentiments of the many who were I present at t1P institution of Ester lodge No 8 on last Tuesday that all fears for the success of another body of Rebekahs in our midst may be thrown to the breezes for a happier and more auspicious starting out in life of a new lodge it would be hard to conceive of In connection with the instituting of the lodge may be well considered the advancing spirit o those engaged in Odd Fellowship a regards the throwing open of the portals por-tals of the Rebekah lodges to the I young women of America who are not I connected by relationship with member mem-ber of the order and who may now I aspire to unite themselves with this I I great body of womankind on conditions j exactly similar to those required of the young men While for financial success suc-cess the stronger the lodge be in that I sense the fewer lodges there are the better yet for other reasons many smaller bodies might be preferable I especially when one and all are in such a position that with but little I exertion each of them may double their membership i I I was no doubt with such sent i ments as the above that the founders I of Ester No S undertook its organiza i etion and if so it is most meritorious I Eton and the new lodge will prove it before many months have passed away When the grand master Bro E SLut I S-Lut with his fellow officers ascended their chairs on Tuesday afternoon for performing the work of instituting the lodge they faced a roomful of members I mem-bers of the Rebekah degree The grandmaster grand-master in conducting the ceremony I was assisted bv John T Buckle D G I W O Carbin G W W J Moore G Secy E W Loder Acting G Treas J I Breezey G Marshal J C Harvey G G andP G 3Mf J J Thomas G R The proceedings were most lengthy and after some felicitations the care o the lodge was handed over to Sister Julia McGHIivray D D G JL for the purpose of installing into office the new lodges first elective and appointive appoint-ive officers they being P N G Lida Ewing N G Maud Andrews V G Loitie Higley R S Sara Hepworth P S K A Andrews Treas Mary E I Boos R S N G Dr S Ewing L S N G Rebecca Delovage R S V G Myrtle Hartman L S V G Lena 1 Trethewey W Kate Loring C Caroline Caro-line Neilsen D G Rie Moench O G I M Higley chaplain Minnie Lock wkz The above officers together with the following compose the charter members mem-bers of the lodge L G Neilsen J C Trethewey John F Boes Lizzie Klip pie A J McIntyre William P Rowe E I Friedman and Dr J C Nan chett The D D G 11 had for her support during the installation ceremonies the following staff of appointed G L officers cers G W Carrie I Moore G Secy Hattie Harvey G Tress Fannie Pen dleton G Marshal Georgiana Higson G G Carrie Coker Before Sister McGHIivray placed the new lodge in care of its officers she addressed the lodge in words that by their earnestness secured undivided attention of all < the members of the I I degree present The kindly expressions I sions of esteem in which she held nil I the members of the order the sentiments senti-ments of good wishes for the new lodges prosperity and the happy words of advice will long be cherished in the minds of those who heard them At the evening session of the lodge the principal work was the election of new members and their admission to the lodge Twentythree nearly all ladies were admitted and received am the degree after which a jolly time was had by all the days work being concluded b a social dance and kindred kin-dred amusements NOTES IN GENERAL The little busy bee begins to buzz in the brain of aspirants to grand lodge offices Lot the office seek the man not the man the office The Grand Lodge officers have no fault to find on account of lack of business busi-ness Their record of labor the past few months should be doubleleaded in print lag the report The banners of Ester lodge were made bv the members and were very much admired by the guests I is believed the ladies intend making all their own paraphernalia The following were among those initiated in Ester ledge No S on Tuesday I I Tues-day evening Cora Rithell Rena Clifton Clif-ton Carrie Clayton Alice Hawkes Ebel F H and Ida Emerson Hettie Hep worth Minnie and Eveline Hodges Hannah Hanchett Kezia and Clara Haywood Lisle Mathews Dr Luella P Myles Lizzie and Annie ODonnell Mrs M Sawin Lillie and May Smith T J and Ellen Williams Lottie Wahl strom I There are members of our order who have the gift of finding joy everywhere and will leave it behind them when they ro Their influence gladcfens the heart of every brother and sister they come in contact with They give light that will shine after they are gone The brightness is as a window through which we look into eternity Library committee meeting tomorrow night at S p m In the grand secretarys office Sister Joanna Melton is agitating for the formation of a Past Noble Grands club The question is being asked I I is expected the maiden ladles will play hearts and the married ones poker and I what nights they will meet and where Procure copies of the present issue of I the Utah Odd Fellow and mal to your j friends Its a fourteen page paper with an Illustrated supplement Odd Fellowship is no single or Isolated Idea which regards humanity in one aspect alone and seeks to promote the I welfare of man in one direction only J But it is a complex system which re spot alike the social the moral and I the physical man I contemplates man j not as an isolated fragment of creation all of whose interests are centered in i himself but i looks upon him In his re I lations to other men and seeks to place him in his true position as a member of a common race 1 I nfghtH of PythlRM The Pythians enjoyed a very good I j week and transacted a fair amount of j business The great event of the week I was the institution of a new lodge of the I order at Lehl which has been named I Bonneville lodge No 1 Grand Chancellor Chan-cellor Meakin and the other grand officers of-ficers accompanied by a number of members and friends of the order went down to Lehi on Saturday morning forV the purpose of conducting and taking Dart in the institution ceremonies The visitors were received with the utmost cordiality and were made the guests of the city the mayor and other officials turing out to do them honor The insti Lution was successfully performed and then the time was given over to rejoic ine and festivities which were carried far into the night The new lodge starts out under very auspicious auspices and I with a large membership An official visit was paid by the grand lodge officers to Monitor lodge on Wednesday night In anticipation Vof the event there was a large attendance and after the work was done refreshments refresh-ments were served and a pleasant social hour spent The other lodges held their ordinary meetings did a fair amount of degree work and received applications for membership I mem-bership i Iviiiphts of the Mncfjibevn I The Maccabees is one of the great progressive pro-gressive fraternal beneficiary orders of tile United States and Canada I now numbers over 220000 members and its local organizations are found in nearly all of the states and territories o the American Union and in most of the provinces prov-inces of British America Its representative represen-tative came to Salt Lake city In January 1815 > and established a fine tent of the order here and one In Ogden In February Feb-ruary of the same year As the representative repre-sentative of the order with his headquarters head-quarters in this city he now has charge of Utah Nevada Wyoming Idaho Montana Mon-tana New Mexico and Arizona in which territory more than thirty local organizations organi-zations have been effected during the last year with over one thousand members Several state deputies have been appointed ap-pointed and the work or organizing new tents and of recruiting membership of old ones is being pushed rapidly The tent in this city has charge of and is arranging for a grand demonstration demon-stration and excursion to this city during dur-ing the pleasure season of the coming summer From all over the vast region within the territory named above there comes encouraging word of the interest felt by the members in this enterprise At Evanston Wyo at least one hundred members will contribute to the success of the undertaking Nearly all the tents of Montana and most of those of Idaho have sent greetings and kind assurances of cooperation The tent at Mercur is full of life and energy and is preparing fo build a good hal at that thriving camp The quiet which has prevailed at the Park for some time is ominous and It will be strange i in the near future that tent is not heard from In the far south at Albuquerque N 1 an organization will soon be effected and at Laramie Wyo Sir Knight Whiting is at work getting together the requisite number for a tent with every prospect of success The state deputy of Idaho has been detained at one of the interior towns in the northern portion of the state and he Is likely to remain there till tlC heavy srows somewhat disappear In the sprnlg I is thought that a tent will soon be established at Murray Utah by Deputy Supreme Commander Tattersall as a number of the enterprising people of that fair suburban town have applied for membership I A committee of five sir knights has been appointed in Salt Lake Tent No 2 to make arrangements for holding some open meetings for the entertainment of the friends of the order and for the purpose pur-pose of farther acquainting outsiders with its benefits Home Forum The youngest addition to fraernal organizations or-ganizations in Salt Lake city is Home Forum No 60S which held it first social on Thursday evening and demonstrated its ability to vie with older societies by a crowded hall and a very happy gathering gather-ing Songs by the Chamherlin family were Yen good also a recitation by Miss Annie Collett the president Mr Issl and his friend gave the Larboard Watch In line style While Mrs Wight fairly brought down the house with her ludicrous rendition of a couple of comic sketches which were enough to burst every corset in the house and give the sweeper a good crop of vest buttons Progressive high live followed and held full sway until near midnight when the rul company disbanded full of good wishes for the excellent committee which had given them such a delightful evenings amusement The first ladles prize was gathered in frst by Mrs C J Higson and the second by Mrs E O George The first gentleman prize was awarded to Mr Wilson and ll S S Kingsbury carried to the streetcar street-car a dancing skeleton a an acknowledgement acknowl-edgement of his powers on the losing ride It is proposed to repeat these socials to the Forum members and their friends and if Thursdays gathering can be taken as an augury < of future meetings a much a larger ball will be required ere long G A II The ladies or the George R Maxwell SV R C have gone into the work with a will tills year They have appointed a press correspondent and Have adopted the patriotic salute I is a grand thing and should be in every corps rhey will give one of their enjoyable socials at Grand Feb 19 Army hail Wednesday evening AU are Invited The social rt Mrs M J Schencks Is postponed indellnitely Mrs Carr the national Inspector will be here this week Notice of inspection will be given later |