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Show Sir mm m. What is Going On in Lodge Room and j Castle Hall Interesting Fraternity Fra-ternity Facts, A MASSACHUSETTS SACHEM. A Sketch of Frederick 0. Downs An En thusiastic Worker Among the Bed j Men Legion of Honor. BUO. rrederiek Downs, great sachem of MassachusoUsKcd uiuu, was horn iu that state, says a writer iu tho Council Brand, thirty-three years ago. lie, early became "identified with secret fraternal societies socie-ties as an active worker, being be-ing a member of the Masonic fraternity, Odd Fellows. Knights of Pythias, American Legion of Honor aud other beuelleial orders. For the past six years he has edited and published pub-lished Tho American Legion of Honor Journal, tho official paper of tho societ, whoso name it bears. Four great suns ago he was adopted in the Improved Order of Bed Men Yononto tribe, of Hoston. (treat Sachem Dinsmoro, recognizing his executive talent, appointed Bro. Downes chairman of the linance committeo of the great council, coun-cil, and by Grent Sachem Gardner he was honored by appointment us great sauna p and us representative to the great council coun-cil of tho United States. The following fol-lowing great sun ho was elected rep- S. resentntive to the FEEDKBtCK 0. DOWSES, great council of tho United States for two great suns, and waa unanimously chosen great senior sagamore. Tho following great sun iu SJS he was unanimously elected elect-ed great sachem. Ho is nn earnest advo cate of the order, aud by example and pro-eept, pro-eept, has endeavored to carry out its lessons. les-sons. To Great Sachem Downcs is due tho inception in-ception of the now famous Masonic tribe in the city of Boston, numbering over font hundred members, adopted in two moons. During his administration many new ideas for adding to the interest in the tribes and their councils have been carried out with signal success. ' He has been prominently identified with tiie growth of the order in Xew England during bis connection with it, and has en-oeavored en-oeavored to keep it up to the high standard set by his predecessors. That ho has beer, successful in so doing tho brothers gener ally will cheerfully attest. ' |