Salt Lake Telegram | 1921-04-25 | Page 18 | Big Scottish Rite Class to Get Degrees

BIG SCOTTISH RITE CLASS TO GET DEGREES Thirty Seventh Seventh ty-Seventh Annual Reunion Reunion Re union to Open Here T Tuesday Tuesday Tues Tues- ues- ues day Morning Members of the Scottish Rite of Freemasonry of Utah will hold their seventh annual reunion at the Masonic temple tomorrow Wednesday Wednesday and Thursday The outstanding feature of the tho re reunion reunion re- re union will wili be the conferring of degrees upon the largest class in the history of Scottish Rite Freemasonry n Utah Over applicants have been elected and will receive degrees during the re re- re re-I re union F. F C. C Schramm grand inspector general is at the head of the general on arrangements Dr A. A C. C Wherry will be bo in charge of the degree work with or more members members mem mem- bers hers aiding in the exemplification of the ritual The Scottish Rite first came into ex exIstence ex- ex existence in Utah on January 18 1871 seventeen members of the organization from widely scattered jurisdictions or- or at that time St. St Johns John's lodge of Perfection No 1 Ebenezer H. H Shaw then an active member of the su supreme supreme supreme su- su preme council of the southern jurisdiction tion of the United States was an active active active ac ac- ac- ac tive figure in the organization oft oct he lodge CAREER DIFFICULT T. T The new organization had a fitful I career having been organized prema prema- There was no grand lodge of Masons In Utah at that time and only three or four symbolic lodges There was therefore little material from which to recruit new members and after six years of precarious existence the lodge charter was surrendered and the organization ceased to exist The charter Is still preserved In the theoffice theoffice theoffice office of the grand secretary and Is a most prized document Inasmuch as It bears the names of several of the nations nation's nations nation's nations nation's na na- na- na tion's greatest Masons Until 1903 the Scottish Rite was not represented In Utah when charters were granted to four organizations and I the order has since then continued to to play a prominent part in the Masonic Masonic I I of the tho state PROGRAM ANNOUNCED The program as announced for tor the I three days' days reunion is as follows Tuesday morning April 9 26 9 j I o'clock reception of visitors and candidates can can- can I 9 9 15 15 special meeting of 01 Lodge of Perfection 10 o'clock fourth degree secret master 11 o'clock fifth I degree perfect master 11 1145 45 sixth seventh and eighth degrees rees communicated com corn 1230 luncheon i I Tuesday afternoon S 2 o'clock ninth degree Elu of the Nine 3 o'clock tenth degree Knight Elu of the Fifteen Fifteen J teen eleventh twelfth and thirteenth degrees communicated 8 I o'clock fourteenth degree Perfect Elu 10 o'clock lunch Wednesday morning April 27 9 27 27 o'clock special meeting of chapter i 9 45 fifteenth degree Knight of the tho the I East 11 o'clock sixteenth degree communicated 11 15 11 15 seventeenth de degree degree degree de- de gree Knight of the tho East and West Vest 12 1230 30 luncheon I I Wednesday afternoon i 1 30 o'clock I eighteenth degree Knight of ot the I Eagle special meeting of council 4 o'clock nineteenth and twentieth degrees de degrees derees de- de grees rees communicated 4 30 o o'clock lock I twenty-first twenty degree or Prussian Knight o'clock twenty- twenty twenty third twenty fourth twenty-fifth twenty and twenty sixth degrees de degrees degrees de- de grees communicated ft o'clock twenty seventh degree Knight Commander Commander Com Corn mander of the Temple 8 45 twenty- twenty eighth degree communicated 9 o'clock twenty ninth degree Scottish Knight of St. St Andrew 10 o'clock lunch S Thursday morning April 28 28 o'clock thirtieth degree deg Knight of Kadosh 1230 o'clock luncheon Thursday afternoon I 30 o'clock special meeting of consistory 2 o'clock thirty-first thirty degree Inspector Inquisitor 7 o'clock thirty-second thirty degree Master 1 of the Royal Secret 1030 o'clock banquet t