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Show SALT LAKE MASONIC CLUB HOLDS SOIREE San Francisco , Man Entertains at a Smoker With Glories of California Cali-fornia Lodge. The Masonic club held a soiree this week to ' commemorate the success attained at-tained through a chartor membership campaign. The affair was a smoker, and Charlie Hodge, a San Francisco professional man, was given a place on the speaking programme by Toastmaster Harry Harper. Har-per. The Salt Lake Masonic club is a new institution, and Harper is its president. presi-dent. San Francisco has, by . reputation, reputa-tion, the biggest and best Masonic club in the west. Harper, introducing Hodge, explained that the coast man would tell how a "real Masonic club is run." Herbert E. Macmijlan, grand master of Utah Masons, followed Mr. Hodge. The manner of Harper's introduction of the latter recalled to Macmillan's mind a trip he took to Los Angeles at the time of the join celebration between be-tween Salt Lake and Los Angeles of the driving of the last spike on the San Pedro railroad. Fisher Harris was secretary rfthe Salt Lake Commercial club at the Tta and he was in charge of the excursion ' to the coast. A Los Angeles man, on the programme for a talk, dilated on . the grandeur and resources of Cali;' fornia. Harris followed him. "J. had always thought," Mr. Larris began, "that God Almighty made California, Cali-fornia, but after listening tq the eloquent elo-quent expressions of our Los Angeles friend, I have reached the conclusion I have always been wrong. California made God Almighty." |