Masonic Token: July 15, 1893
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MASONIC TOKEN. WHEREBY ONE BROTHER MAY KNOW ANOTHER. VOLUME 3. PORTLAND, ME., JULY 15, 1893. Ng. 25. ham Lodge, No. 199, at Bingham, June 22d. Charles E. Libby, Auburn, Grand Capt Published quarterly by Stephen Berry, of Guard. Past Grand Masters Albert Moore and Wm. No. 37 Plum Street, Portland, Maine. Warren O. Carney, Portland, Grand Sen R. G. Estes and P. J. G. Warden A. M. tinel. Twelve cts. per year in advance. Wetherbee were present. There was a The following distinguished visitors were Established March, 1867. 27th year. large attendance, and an excellent collation present from the Southern Jurisdiction : in a neighboring hall followed. Tbe lodge Cornelius Hedges, 33°, Helena, Montana, Advertisements 34.00 per inch, or $3.00 for starts with a good hall, good membership Grand Secretary of Montana. half an inch for one year. and bright prospects. M. W. Wood, 33°, Surgeon U. S. Army, Fort Preble. No advertisement received unless the advertiser, Grand High Priest Penley constituted or some member of the firm, is a Freemason in J. Madison Case, 32°, Milwaukee, Wis. good standing. White Rose Chapter, No. 54, at Sanford, The following resolutions were adopted: June 27th. An elegant bill of fare from Resoloed, That the Council of Delibera DAYS GONE HL H. P. Frank Wilson, shows that a substan tion recommend to the Supreme Council tial dinner followed. to grant a charter to Deering Council of BY JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY. Princes of Jerusalem, located at Machias, Grand High Priest Penley also consti Me. Oh, the days gone by ! oh, the days gone by ! tuted Saint Andrew’s Chapter, No. 51, at The apple in the orchard, and the pathway thro’ Resolved, That there is no law or obliga the rye ; Mechanic Falls, July 13th. It was a bril tion requiring candidates for admission into Bodies of the Rite in this jurisdiction to The chirrup of the robin and the whistle of the liant affair, including an oration by Rev. D. quail, possess any qualifications additional to those As he piped across the meadows sweet as any V. Gwilym of Lewiston, music by orches nightingale ; prescribed in the Constitution of the Su When the bloom was on the clover, and the blue tral band and quartette, and a banquet at preme Council. was in the sky, And my happy heart brimmed over, in the days Murray hall. ---------o--------- gone by. Grand Master Burbank has appointed Meetings were held in all the bodies June In the days gone by, when my naked feet were tripped, Geo. B. Randlette, of Richmond, D. D. G. M. 8th and 9th and the various grades conferred By the honeysuckle’s tangles, where the water lilies dipped, of the 14th Masonic District, in place of on a large number of candidates. And the ripple of the river lipped the moss along Judson Bangs, resigned, and has formed a the brink, Where the placid-eyed and lazy-footed cattle came new district, No. 24, with Edwin K. Smith, The following officers were elected in Dun to drink, And the tilting snipe stood fearless of the truant’s of Lewiston, as D. D. G. M. It is com lap Chapter of Rose Croix, May l9th: wayward cry, posed of Cumberland, 12, New Gloucester; M. W. and P. M.—Rufus H. Hinkley. And the splashing of the swimmer, in the days by. Tranquil, 29, Auburn ; Tyrian, 73, Mechanic S. W.—Charles E. Snow. J. W.—M. A. Dillingham. Oh, the days gone by ! oh, the days gone by ! Falls; Nezinscot, 101, Turner; Ashlar, 105, G. Orator—H. W. Robinson. The music of the laughing lips, the luster of the eye; Lewiston; Rabboni, 150, Lewiston; Web- Treas.—J. A. Merrill. The childish faith in fairies, and Aladdin’s magic ster, 164, Webster; and Ancient Brothers’, Sec.—M. F. Hicks. ring, Hospitaler—A. Keith. The simple, soul-reposing, glad belief in every 178, Auburn. M. of C.—F. E. Chase. thing. Bingham Lodge, 199, is added to the 13th When life was like a story, holding neither sob C. of G.—W. S Corey. nor sigh, District, and St. Aspinquid, 198, to the 19th Yates Lodge of Perfection elected Feb In the olden, golden glory of the days gone by. District. [The Republic. ruary 3d: Scottish Rite. George E. Raymond, T. P. Grand Master. William S. Corey, Deputy Grand Master. MASONRY IN MAINE. MAINE COUNCIL OF DELIBERATION Benjamin C. Stone, Senior Grand Warden. Lodge Elections. held its annual meeting in Portland, June George C. Ricker, Junior Grand Warden. 9th. The following officers were elected : Bryce M. Edwards, Grand Orator. Polar Star, 114, Bath. Clinton Child, m ; William O. Fox, Grand Treasurer. Geo M Duley, sw; Wm H Hayden, jw; M. F. King, Portland, Commander-in- John S. Russell, Grand Secretary. A G Eaton, sec. Chief. George D. Loring, G. M. of Ceremonies. Chas. I. Collamore, Bangor, 1st Lieut. Joseph E. Henley, Grand Capt. of Guard. Nezinscot, 101, Turner. Albion W Rob- Commander. erts, m; Wm H Downing, sw; W 'H Millard F. Hicks, Grand Hospitaler. Fessenden I. Day, Lewiston, 2d Lieut. Warren O. Carney, Grand Tyler. French, jw ; S D Andrews, sec. Commander. Waterville, 33, Waterville. T E Ran- George E. Raymond, Portland, Grand M. Maine Consistory, S. P. R. S., elected Dec. sted, sec., vice W D Spaulding declined. of S. and G. O. 27, 1892, for three years: Matthew S. Hughes, Portland, Grand Chapter Elections. Prior. Edmund B. Mallet, Jr., 33°, Freeport, Ill. Commander-in-Chief. Turner, 41, Turner. S S Merrill, hp; S Algernon M. Roak, Auburn, Grand Chan cellor. Albro E. Chase, 33°, Portland, Ill. First D Andrews, k; W L Loring, sc; trank Lieut. Commander. T Faulkner, sec. William O. Fox, Portland, Grand Treas urer. William J. Burnham, 33°, Lewiston, Ill. Montgomery and St. Bernard, 2, Bath. By John S. Russell, Portland, Grand Secre Second Lieut. Commander. dispensation—Charles W Clifford, hp. tary. Hugh R. Chaplin, 32°, Bangor, Ill. Min. of King Hiram, 9, Lewiston. Fred G Payne, William Z. Clayton, Bangor, Grand Eng. State and G. O. hp; W H Judkins, k ; Chas A Jumper, sc; and Arch. William M. Nash, 32°, Cherryfield, Ill. Geo A Callahan, sec. Jewels were pre Norris E. Bragg, Bangor, Grand Hospi Grand Councillor. sented to all the fourteen Past High Priests. taler. Albion Keith, 32°, Portland, Ill. Grand Frank E. Sleeper, Sabatis, Grand M. of C. Treasurer. Constitutions. Thomas P. Shaw, Portland, Grand Stand Samuel F. Bearce 33°, Portland, Ill. Grand Grand Master Burbank constituted Bing ard Bearer. Secretary. 212 MASONIC TOKEN, JULY 15, 1893. St. JohN’s Day.—Portland Commandery, —The Open Court, 324 Dearborn St. Chi- Atheletics article is by John Graham of the forty strong, started for Kineo Friday morn cago, weekly, $2, is a champion of free Cbarlesbank Gymnasium, and is devoted to ing, June 23d, and returned after midnight thought, and has the ablest writers among “ Out-of-door Gymnastics.” 24th. A northeast storm prevailed during its contributors. 20 cents a number. At the new stands, the two days, but they enjoyed it. —The Monist, a quarterly, 82, is published or direct from the publishers, D. Lothrop Lewiston and DeMolay Commanderies by the Open Court Publishing Co., and takes Company, Boston. came to Portland and were entertained by the more ponderous articles on kindred sub- —History of the Crusades, by Michaud, St. Alban with an excursion to the Waldo jects. illustrated by Dore. George Barrie, 31 Milk at Little Chebeague Island. They, too, —A mid-Summer Night’s Dream, is a St., Boston, Publisher. M. M. Simmon, noticed that it was damp, but went back little poem by Edwin Baker, of Providence, Agent. Part 23 contains Dora’s Sinews of cheerful. representing the Brownies taking the de- War, The Departure from Aigues-Mortes, Dunlap Commandery of Bath, went to grees of the Mystic Shrine. It is illustrated A Message from the East, and The Captives. Portsmouth, N. H., where they were enter- by J. Winthrop Phillips, and is very bright. The text discusses the State of Europe, tained by DeWitt Clinton Commandery —Garden City Lodge, of Chicago, again 1571 to 1685, and the effect which the with a dinner at the Isle of Shoals. • sends out a neat historical annual for 1893, Crusades had upon it. Calling attention to Franklin Chapter, at Farmington, cele- prepared by Gil. W. Barnard, who sends us the vast good which they would have done brated the day by social entertainment in a copy. for civilization had they been successful, the evening, with music and supper, Major —Reception of the Heart of Ygnacio Her- the author claims great benefits in the at S. C. Belcher presiding. rera y Cairo, the Martyred Mason, by Geth- tempts, fruitless as they were. One of the semane Chapter, Rose Croix, Oakland, Cal., results was the redemption of Prussia from Claremont Commandery of Rockland en- April 24, 1893, from Bro. Hugo 0. Green- Paganism. They destroyed the abuses of tertained Palestine of Belfast and DeValois hood. the feudal system and fostered its most gen of Vinalhaven, July 6th, with parade, ex —Yorston’s book of portraits is nearly j erous sentiments. cursions, banquet, speeches, reception and ready, and the canvasser will soon be Part 24 contains Dora’s Gaining Con ball. The occasion appears to have been around. It will be issued in five quarto ‘ verts, An Enemy of the Crusaders, Cross brilliant. volumes at 86 a volume, making the cost j ing Mount Taurus, and The True Cross. Ancient Land-mark Lodge of Portland 830 for the set. But it is an elegant work, The text continues the reflections upon the made its annual excursion July 12th to the and will contain 100 steel portraits of the State of Europe.