Show L O O 1 Jordan Lodge No 3 on Monday night last conferred the initiating degree on one candidate The other lodges met as usual and after disposing of routine business indulged in-dulged in speech making and sociability ityAt V At the beginning of the year there were 3292 RebeKah lodges in the United States with a membership of 202442 of which 180612 were females A fair held at New London Conn by the local D of R In behalf of a proposed orphanage continued a week and was well attended netting about 5700 above expenses In Massachusetts the charter fee for Rebekah lodges has been raised to 25 In New Hamphir the fze is only 510 In no Rebekah lodge should the entrance fee be less than 1 The annual dues should be the same I ia stated that the voluntary contributions con-tributions to the fund for the purchase pur-chase and maintenance of the Odflfel lows Home at Fairvlew Conn by operation of the weekly 2 cents per capita arrangement now amounts to about 20000 The subordinate lodge ritual is now printed In eight different languages viz English German French Spanish Span-ish Norwegian Italian Swedish and Bohemian The Rebekah ritual is printed only in the English and German Ger-man languages The grand lodge of New York was removed from the city of New York remover cty to Albany in 1828 without authority or sanction of the G L of U S and was reorganized at Newburg in November No-vember 1857 by a commission from the sovereign grand body Mystic Lodge No 22 LOOP will be organized and instituted during the present month with nearly one hundred hun-dred members composed of the best class of citizens residing in this city The lodge will start out with V most flattering prospects and will be a leader from the beginning The Grand Lodge of Utah is most pleased with the enthusiasm displayed by the intending in-tending members and will assert all their care to advance Its interests Regalia and a complete paraphernalia outfit has already been ordered from a firstclass eastern house and there is nothinf lacking to boom the whole affair af-fair TTe welcome the new lodge In the galaxy of lodges of this jurisdic tion V |