Show SECRET SOCIETIES G Afl Tho meeting of James U McKcan post Iso 1 lost Tuesday evening was a short one but was interesting to Jho comradds i o OF Oqulrrh encampment No 1 IO O F had degree work last Tuesday night Although the attendance was small thb work was well presented Salt Lako loclgo No 2 I O O F had ono application teporlcU and balloted upon last Friday night Naomi Pebokah lodgo No 1 I 1 O O F had a Kood meeting on iKst Saturday night Tho new csiptaInvrcQrsnnIred tho degree mart and had a dhort drill On Thursday aUornoon Qctobcr 3rd tho past nobio grands will meal at Mrs Pcmllotons 235 West Third South Street Fidelity lodge No 17 I O O F held its regular mooting on Friday evening There were visitors present from Texas and Arkansas Tho degree of brotherly JOVe was conferred on ono candidate Tho third decree will bo given next Friday night AM member of the order urged to bo present Our captain bos something new li store for this degree Esther Rcbokhoh lodge No 8 will hold Us regular meeting Tuesday evening Oc tobor 1 1 1S01 The members arc very much interested in a Halloween pnrty to bo given the latter part of October Visiting Kebckaha are always welcome 5 Ladies of the Maccabees Banner hive No 11 I ullcs of the Mac cabees will hold Its regular review Tuesday Tues-day afternoon at 230 There will bo Initiation Ini-tiation of candidates All members requested re-quested to bo present Under tho present dispensation tho hlvo Is adding many new members This hIve was organized March 2 1911 and Is now the largest hive In tim State Visiting Lady Maccabees cordially invited to attend Salt Lake City hlvo No 4 Is holding splendid reviews and the entertainment committee Is doing good work for the beginning be-ginning of the winter season At last review re-view the ladles wrtro entertained by Lady McGlo and Lady Ward ladles bees There will bo review Tuesday evening next Wulcomo to ali Maccabees Molllo Scho nert R K Hive No 4 Modern Woodmen Tho lodge of Modern Woodmen of America Instituted at Foresters hall on Richards street during tho pJiit week starts out well Tho membership consists of 100 old members and about fifty new ones The next meeting will bo held at the same place next Tuesday night at Thlch time a regular meeting night will be selected Thc following Is the list of ofllccrs elected elect-ed to serve until Januorv 1 1002 Jacob Swart V C Dr W H Iloilges advisor George M Sullivan clerk J JO Harrison banker J II Rothwcllf escort C p Gregory watchman J p McDown sentry sen-try A S Watson A B Grceson W A Lee managers H N Mayo 12 F Root A McCurtaln F IL Baby camp physicians Maccabees Utonlon tent No 12 K O S M hold Its regular review on Tuesday evening last with a fair attendance of the Sir Knights The entertainment committee announced arrangements In hand for a social gathering gath-ering the first of the season to take placo the middle of next month After the usual routine business a good tlmo was had and the review closed Woodmen of the World While the Woodmen of Bolt Lake are of the unobtrusive sort not wishing to rush In where ansols fear to tread as was evinced by their slight showing at the Elks fraternal day parade yet they arc surely and continually flawing wood Of the 100 Woodmen In Salt Lake Utah camp No 33S has her good share and Is receiving re-ceiving now applications at every meeting Theso long evenings suggest amusement and 23Ss degree team will give Its fIrst social card party next Wednesday evening even-ing Octobtr 2nd A few musical numbers and refreshments will add to the diversion diver-sion Candidates must como cariy to avoid the rush Everybody Invited > < i Fraternal Brotherhood Salt Lake lodno held Its rXeular meetIng meet-Ing Saturday evening at Forestershall Tho rapid growth of the lodge was again evidenced by action on thirteen applications applica-tions formembership while four candidates candi-dates were Inltlatcdi Music and dancing wcrO InTlulgfrd In ami a gcnerargotfu time had The loilgo will glvo a card party In tho near future Improved Order of Ued Men Affairs were quiet In secret societies during the past week and Washokia Tribe No 1 did not escape the effect of the Elkft carnival the council on Ion day evening last being but lightly attended at-tended Tonight however much Important Import-ant business Is to bo transacted not the least of which Is degree work and It Is earnestly desired that a full attendance be present Fraternal Union of America Evergreen loOgo No lot bad mi unusually un-usually Interesting mooting last Mondav evening Seven applications for bcnollt membership wero presented and referred to investigating committees The degree team did trOin j good practice work Rose lullonfc of sympathy were adopted for the family of Prcsldont McKltilcy Tilt excrclspy vcro very good which J consisted of extemporaneous speeches byf H E RriAlings find R N Moffat solo by Mr John limcs and a duet by Miss i Youijsbeiff anti air H W Bonton and Instrumental solo hv Miss Minor The lodge has enjoyed the services of Robert N MofTat nu solicitor and organizer organ-izer The lodge has nearly 300 members now and Mr MofTat hopes to Increase It soon to COO An Idaho Mason Writes Editor Tribune Sltlcd attending tire lato scilnn of the Mqftfinle grajid lodge of Jtyaho 1 have Ifccrt from home and lid not see until my return the various Items from Boise regarding ledge business which appeared In The Tribune As some inaccuracies crept Into the reports sent out I desire to CQrrort thorn Your correspondent styles this an old controversy and though not correct In the present Instance is BO Inasmuch na It IB part of the dosperaloatrupKlo long waged by the Southern rhirlsdicUon for supremacy SL slrugslo In which truth honor Justice and Miusonlc teaching has never been allowed to bar the way io the coveted but neverattained goal For example ex-ample there wore no charges of any kind preferred against me cither bofons dur tog or since the grand lodge met thc published pub-lished asHorUon that such were to ho preferred being a part of the tactics always al-ways adopted by tile Southern Jurlslctlon against thoso whom It Is afraid to meet In open manly debate What was how over attempted was to make tnojrrand lodge of Idaho catspaw for the Southern South-ern jurisdiction as against the true and genuine Scottish Rite Masons m attempt at-tempt which was as It deserved to be unsuccessful Tho Southern Jurisdiction well aware of the weakness of HH own CLSO and of the Impossibility of Its claim upon historical grounds docs not attempt to do so but bonils all Its energies en-ergies toward aa In the present Instance enlisting the craft grand lodges Tin Its favor persuading thorn to deprive their members of the common right of freemen free-men that of thinking and choosing for themselves ns through ignorance only can It hopo lo thrive Our grand lodge thus allowed Itself to be made u tool of and In consequence llfere f it In that Jurls olctlon Ohio two grand lodges striving for supremacy A favorite epithet applied by the Southern South-ern Jurisdiction to its opponents and applied ap-plied by your Boise correspondent to mea me-a degree peddler Inferring and rightly as I think that such peddling Is unMa sonic nhil should bo condemned But to whom with justice should the term he applied ap-plied Taking the term peddler as commonly applied to one who Instead of confining his business operations to a fixed place vends his warosj wherever he tunis a purchaser 1 llnd that but a few weeks ago a thirtythird degree member of the Southern jurisdiction was In your city thus peddling the Scotllub rite degree de-gree while by tim true Scottish Jurl diction this IB strictly forbidden Further 1 as every reader of history known It wan to IL French peddler who brought thc degrees de-grees with lus other ware to this country coun-try that the Southern JurlstTletlbn owen Its origIn though falsely claiming to possu a charter from Frederick the I Great of Prussia In fact Its claim to rep rcsont tho Ancient and Accepted Scottish rite at all Is false It Is not ancient being I be-ing founded as one historian puts It I by five mercenary Jews In 1S01 < Med In ISlTi to hi resurrected la Us present form In 1K 7 Jt Is not accepted an no less than live rival jurisdictions dispute HH claims and It la not Scottish as the degree came i to It from France and It la 701 recognized I by tho parent grand council In Scotland On the hlEh > 8t authority wo have It that IL clean cannot come out of an unclean 1 thing The Southern Jurisdiction In Its origin methods and ways Is unclofin I I would therefore advise the brethren to I i refrain from the unelcnn thine M McB THOMSON 1 Representative of tho Scottish Grand I Council of Rites in the United Stales |