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Show . Masons Open 55 New Temple at Mount Pleasant es ' Gathered from every section ol Utah, 184 Masons, representing the Ilatl 2( Masonic lodges of the state and 'l several from other jurisdictions of Hkthe United States participated In xJwidtk the dedication Saturday of the new If ''Masonic temple recently completed tot by Damascus lodge, No. 10, P. and V, A. M., in Mt. Pleasant. 068 1.' This also was the occasion of the W for 'annual official visitation of the l.. Vand lodge. F- and A- M- of Utah, WlUo the local lodge. lr them, Assembling at the First Presby. terian church at 4:30 p. m. and led f by a detail of uniformed Knights Templar, the procession escorted it I . ,the grand lodge officers to the new de' ' '. temple for the dedication ceremon-anj ceremon-anj "J',"ies and the official visitation. The p . , dedicatory address was delivered by ?""""tthe most worshipful past grand g i master, Dr. John Edward Carvei of Ogden. After the dedication and the re-!pN. re-!pN. turn march to the church, the . J Tlu assemblage was entertained at a , I vt chicken dinner in the dining hal. of wasach academy. Two hun-tWsi- tired guests were seated at six long tables. Dinner music was furn- Pished by Mrs. Stanley H. GiU and Miss Kathryn Jacobsen. Other speakers were Burt H. Hunt, most' worshipful grand Master, Mas-ter, and C. W. Morse and A. E. EEberhardt, past grand masters, all .of Salt Lake, fl Seven past grand masters of tho yjrand lodge of Utah were present. 'b. R. Howell, R. L. Conley, S. H. Goodwin, James H. Brown, C. W. Morse, J. E. Carver and A. E. Eb-rhardt. Eb-rhardt. The following grand lodge offi- ;ers participated in the ceremonies. Burt H. Hunt, grand master; B. P. Howell, deputy grand master; N. Ik Ft. Vote, senior grand warden; J. W. Stoner, junior grand warden; r Ft. L. Conely, grand treasurer; S. rl. Goodwin, grand secretary; Rev. M. R. Smith, grand chaplain; G. H. Ftyan, grand orator; D. D. Stock-nan, Stock-nan, grand lecturer; C. H. Fischer, I jrand marshal; Elmer Qualtrough, trand pursuivant; J. H. Brown, trand standard bearer; C. W. Morse rrand sword bearer; P. H. Hutch-nson, Hutch-nson, senior grand deacon; H. R. Waldo, junior grand deacon; A. E. i 3uckler, senior grand steward; G. ; 1. Nelson, junior grand steward; A. E. Buckler, senior grand steward; 3. H. Nelson, junior grand steward: Charles Shields, grand tyler. 'llul Damascus lodge No. 10, chartered charter-ed January 21. 1896, and constitu-;ed constitu-;ed by the grand master February ,!, 1896, now has a membership of --.hnnt-, 80 master Masons, scattered :ver every part of the United Sta- I m wires Moving spirits in the organ-nation organ-nation of the lodge were William -Wallace Woodring, first worship- V tul master, and Robert Peter Mor- m I ey anc Peter Vail Cassady, the I Ifirst wardens V) The present officers are Norman Ralph Smith, worshipful master; Ernest Gordon Brunger, senior warden; Theodore Manoff Keusseff i? 1 junior warden; Edward William Wall, treasurer; and Fredrick Ras-I Ras-I mussen, secretary. I The new temple, which housed g. the First Presbyterian church from 9 1875 till 1920, has been remodeled and furnished at a cost of about (6,000. It is used jointly by Da-masctus Da-masctus lodge, Ivy chapter, No. 10, D. E. S., and Mt. Pleasant chapter, Ft No. 7, R. A. M. jrt I The Masonic order purchased n):he properety about eight years ago. ' It marks the location of th2 begin-, begin-, Mng of Protestant work in Mcunt lfl0Ilil;Plcasant and was the first home of Wasatch academy and tjie First rTjj,; Presbyterian church. |