Show LODGES WILL NOT CONSOLIDATE Plan to Unite Knights of Pythias Organization Acted on Unfavorably Unfavor-ably by Joint Committee at Meeting Last Night The proposition to consolidate the four local lodges of Knights of Pythias into one large lodge which has been more or less talked of since last winter a has failed practically and no further I serious action Is expected There were five lodges viz Calanlhe Rocky Mountain Myrtle Zion and Monitor but Monitor lodge was consolidated last spring with Rocky Mountain lodge reducing re-ducing the total to four It is said that the plan for the quadruple consolidation consolida-tion was suggested first In Zion lodge and broached from lime to time In the other lodges the reason offered in favor of the move being that more good could be accomplished by the order locally at much less expense were there only ono lodge and then individual expenses would be largely reduced Reasons urged against the proposition proposi-tion were that the wealthier lodges would no doubt object to assuming the burdens of tho smaller lodges and there wore doubts about greater good being accomplished anyway by the order or-der through the suggested consolida tion However the plan gained sufficient strength to secure the appointment ap-pointment of a joint coiiunltlce of conference con-ference to talk the situation over The committee met last night In Castle hall but failed to agree and decided to refer the vhole matter back to individual lodges for final settlement there jA number of prominent Knights of Pythias stated last night that in their opinion this ended the plan b |