| Show FRATERNAL SOCIETIES I SOCJTIS OF CITY ANI STATE I Growth of the Yariou Orders During the Year Increased prosperity and a stead growth has been generally manifest In secret and fraternal society circles durIng dur-Ing the past year This apple to the societies of the state in genera and those of Sat Lake In particular While the local branches of the dlfrent orders or-ders have not had any single event ot overshadowing importance to create an undue interest In their work theIr cure during the year 1899 ha been marked by increased membership and more extended charitable fraternal and benevolent accomplishments The later features of the work have ben made possible by an incIeac and more extensive liberalIty as to contributions butons on the part of the local member mem-ber showing conclusively that fraternity frater-nity Is the spirit of the times At the present time there are about a tme tere ae dozen different secret and fraternal orders or-ders wit branches in Utah all of which have subordinate organizations In Salt Lake Masonic At the present time there are ten Masonic lOdge In the state with an aggregate membershIp of aboUt SOP Three of these lodges are in Salt Lake They are Mt lorlah lodge No2 Charles J Hlgson maser and ChrIstopher ChrIsto-pher DIeh secretary with a membership member-ship of 200 an increase of 10 per cent during the year Watch lodge No I W O Bridge I mamaster and A J Lowe secretary with a memberilp of 15 an increase of nearly 10 per cent during 1899 Argenta lodge No3 W T Shelton master and M G PhiIps secretary wIth a membership of 125 a gain bt about 8 per cent during the past year All branches of the Qrde1 In Sat Lake frOm the blue loges up are on a sound bas with strengthened finances and a ears record of good deeds t their credit Throughout the sate the blue lodge have ben very fortunate during 1899 The member of the tPleasant and Pak City lodges whose lodge room were both destroyed by fire during the preceding ea have ben able to repair re-pair theIr loss and Once more have beautifully furnished headquarters Anew A-new lodge of ten Yfour members u the OCKY uountn wage was institutes at lerur durIng the year The present officers C the grad lodge are 11 W James D Murdock grandmaster grand-master Sat Lake City R W George iv Sclrmm dtpiity grand master Ogden R W Charles W Morse senIor grand mater Sat Lake City B W William J Lynch junior grand warden Sat Lake City 11 W J Shaw Scot grand treasurer Sat Lake City R W Christopher Dleh grand secretary Salt Lake City W Albert C Stnten grand chaplain Murray W Herman S Martin gand orator PrO W Fred C Scrm grand cturer Sat Lake City W Harwood M Cuehing grand marshal Salt Lake City W Dudley L Cok grand purhant Pro W Wiiam J Shea grand standard bearer Ogden W George D Aiken grand sword beer Sat Lake City W Samuel Le Page Raddon senior grand deacon Pak CIty W Willis O Brldgaa junior grand deacon Sal Lake City W Balhaar Christensen senior grand steward Eureka W George O Bradley junior grad steward Sat Lake City W John F Corker grand tyler Sat Lake City The twentyninth annual communication communica-tion of the grand lodge of Utah wi beheld be-held at Ogden on Tuesday Jan 16 1900 While not a recognized branch of the Masonic order the Mystic ShrIne draws its membership from the former only Masons being eligible to become Shrner During the pat year quite a number or tlrtyseCd degree Masons Ma-sons have also affiliated with the other order As a reuIL the Mystic Shrine orer I now enjoys 10tann ib ihip of about 200 while the prospects for the corning corn-Ing year are uusualy brIght L0OP The eforsof the Odd Felows to eX tedteir order in Utah during the AI Q < t d > o year 1899 have been nked with st factory results During that time two new subordinate and one new Rebekah lodges were Insttut d at Murray Ca tete and Lhi epedlVely The new branches are doing good work along fraternal lines a are also the old one and the cmberhip Is stead fly increasing Te order In Utah I now represented liy thirytwo subor mate and thirteen Rbeka logs There a now aboH11 OO members of the subordinate lodge and 800 Rebek members In uta This is an estimated gIn of 10 per cent alt around In the stat during the year In Salt Lake City there are efghtsubbrlnate loges three Rebekali lodges Reeka IogEs one epment and one canton all In a prosperous condition The local membership now aggregates 80P an ncrae a abut 5 per cent during 1899 All otthe lodges have responid friy In the matter of contributions toward the Odd Fellows Fel-lows Home fund in addition to car ring on the other btnevolent work and the fund now amounts to about 220 On account of changing the time from November to April no meeting of the grand encamnment of Utah was held las year Tho officers elected at he recent methg o the grand lodge I Q Q F of Utah were L E Hub bar gad mater Park City A T McCune deputy grand master Nephl S W Darke grand warden Sal Lake City W J Moore grand secretary Sat Lake City Gerge B Squire grand treasurer Salt Lake City J J Thom T W Whiteley grand rpr setaU e eFrterl Union The FrtQrnal Union of America which was instituted four insttute years ago with 500 member and which now has a membership of 17OQO has two branch es I utan DurIng the past ea Ever L lodge No 151 of Sat rae has doubled its membership the pre I ent membership being 26 On Jan 15 officers for 1900 will be installed as fbI lows A Chh eral fraternal mst er Mrs Martha Williams justice B B Coons protector Ed W Loer see reta W H HOdges treasurer Miss Jessie N Mull truth Mrs Rose L IcKay mercy Arthur Eres guideR guide-R H Inlne ame Kelly stewards stewars W H Park guard rr Hfran S L le entIne Royal Arcau Salt Lake council No 1517 Royal AJ canu organized two years dgo with twentythree charter members made considerable progress during the past year and has doubled Its membership I Is a fraternal beneficiary order with just enough secret work to make I 1Ilt1tHHIb un J5fl 11 ollcers lor 190 will be Instlel a follows A F Br wer rent James Clppinger vice regent Dr C I Douglass orator L A Chapin secretary F N Hess collector col-lector G K Smith chaplain C J McNitt treasurer John Crickshank guide A E Kimbal warden E N Botfsford tee sentry I D Sabine trus Knights of Pythias Pyas While there has not ben anything of an unusual natu1 manifest among the Knights of P hla In Utah < urIng the year 1899 the year has been a creditable one In ever why to the members o the order Xo great gins in membership member-ship aere made although the order more than held its Own One new lodge was organize at TIntc while that at Lehi was dissolved The latter however how-ever was not a loss to the order as the orer dissolution was due chel to the Lehi members moving f Other places where a majority C them assumed relations with other log of theIr order At the presenl time there are seventeen subordinate ledge and four companies a the UniformRank In the sate with u total membership of slightly over 1200 1n addton there are seventeen ecUons G he endowment branch with abOut 300 member who car an insurance In-surance or over half a million d la In Salt Lake City tee are five sborinte lodges with endowment branches and one cOmpany of the Unl for Rank having a present member ship of about EOO The lodge at Categte ha enlarged Its buldInghnd refurishe and beau Ite their lodge room during theyeotr while the log at Park city whidh was burned dut has fitted up a hand se new lodg rom At the lat meeting ot the grand lodge the following follow-Ing ofcEw re elected F W Ga meg graxid eh ne1lor Salt Lake CIty r 1 t C P Jennings grand vIe chancellor Ogden George R Stone grand pre late Provo H C Walelgh grand keeper of records and seals gd L Douglas grand master ot exchequer ex-chequer Sat Lake City W D Watson Wat-son gapd meatas Park City S A HarrIson grand inner gar Sc field H N Standish grand outer guard Bingha L H Farnsworth F W Duncan supreme representatives Salt Lake City The dratic order Knights Of Khoassn a social order membership to which only Knights < Pthiss are eligible has received abut 10 new member fr pthian ranks during the year and as a result the headquarters headquar-ters of the order have been moved from Ogden to this city I O B B The B F peixott loge No 421 I O B B Is a social and benevolent order limited to Jewlsh members which has done micrh good In a charitable way during the pt year I Is the only lodge a It kInd in the state The membership now numbers fifty an increase In-crease of fifteen during 1899 The benevolent nevolent contributions during the yea have been unusually liberal On the first Tuesday In January officers for 1900 will b installed a follows W G Water pridet W Grupe monl ter J Bruer vie president DavId Spitz secretary M J Friedman treasurer urer J Schwartz assistant monitor M Harris warden Judge Sommer guardian A p U W Members of the Ancient Order of United Workmen have no cause for complaint of the progress theIr order made in this jurisdiction during the pat year as about tOO new members were secured In the district over 100 a which were added to the Sal Lake CUr log alone This brings the total membership for the twentyseven lodges In the jurisdiction up to 310 and that of th three Salt Lake lodge up to CO During the year new lodges were instituted at Richfield and Robi son both of which furnished comfortable comfort-able new lodge rooms In Sal Lake City the three lodges combined and have furnished a ledge room on South Main street In the latest I prved style placing In It a piano and other things which might tend to mae It a attractive place to the member Much of the years success Is due to the c forts of Grand Master Workman Sydney Syd-ney W Dake o1thls city Woode During 1899 the Woodmen of the World more han maintained their previous pre-vious position among the iecret and 4 s4i rt p r > r I fraternal societies New camps were organized In Provo Ephrim and Logan Lo-gan These increased the number of camps In the state to eight They have a total membership at present of 1500 Of this number bout 1100 are member mem-ber of the three caps In Salt Lake City Alt of the local camps are In a sound financial condition and have increased In-creased their membership at least 51 per cent during thc year As a e ample of the work te local camps are doing nothing beter can be found tan I their financial reports which show that during the lat month alone over 800 was paid out to wIde ad orphans I The local Women have mblned to build a home of their own where their metng can be held and other bus ness of the order transacted All are contributing to a common fund for the I pOrpese During the past year the cps gave over 500 to this fund in I addition to caring on theIr other work I Foresters I The Foresters of America now have one gad court and seven subordinate court In the state wit a memberShip member-ship of about 60 In this jurisdiction again a-gain of 10 per cent over 1598 The grand I curt and two subordinate courts In Sat Lake City now have a membership I of nearly 30 I GAB A Father Time dealt kindly with the G A R during 1899 and as a result the five peals in the state now have 20 member In good standing Halt of this number belong to the two posts in Salt Lake All of the post gained slightly In membership during the year and all wee enable to strength their i finances The four auxiliary organizations I organiza-tions two of which are lCate In Ogden I Og-den and the other In Salt Lake have a I present membership of about 200 a gin I during bets the year of possibly tty morn Maccabees I The Knights of the Iacabes Is a comparatively new order In Utah but I its growth has been such a to far x i I coed the expectations of its originators 1 I origin-ators There are upwards ot ten prosperous pros-perous branches of the order now es I I tablshed at different towns pad clUes throughout the stat I The Ogden lodge which Is next In I importance after the two local organ izatons was organized early In 895 I aid now counts a membership or b I tiee forty and fy Incidentally it may be mentioned that the Macgabees have initiated Into their Salt Lake and Ogden tents during the last month In the neighborhood of sixty knIghts I which se well for he energy Qf I t > < < Q < the local promoter and general merits mer-its of the order Of the outside tents that at Spring YUe Is perhaps In the most prosperous condition Its membership Is In the neighborhood of fifty and so much In I tret Is taken In the afar of the order that a fully equipped brass band was considered a necessary adjunct of the organization I orgaizton There are also tents at Iercur Pak City COavUe Bingha and EureJ and Deputy Supreme Commander Drr reports the recent organization of a promising branch at Benjain n addition to these there Is a ladles auxiliary to the order which was not long since installed in this city under promising conditions Salt Lake ten No 2 the frs or I bameu In tae stare IS now In a most i prosperous condition The recently elected officers are Jay H D Ill Com E J Wikern Lt Com E W Hail It K L J Keye F D D C De Grf chaplain GerN B Greenwood Green-wood sergeant Robert Dick master atars DavId Cooper first M of G H J Hayward second M of G Dr J C Hanchett sentinel H W Shiverl I picket Dr A A Kerr physician Utonan tent No 12 the second local rnch place ar reports a successful success-ful career In the past and much prom ise for the future Its organization was I effected In March 1898 and although a infant as far a ear is concerned yet the order has a membershIp of over fifty Taken altogether the growth of the order In thIs state has ben a remarkable re-markable one and tho who have its interests at heart are authority for the statement that In a few year the Knights I of the Ilccabees will be one I of the most flourishing among aU loges In Utah |
