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Reports of Grand Lodge
Officers Submitted
Today.
MEXICAN DINNER
Forty-Four More New Lodges Or
ganized During Past Year,
Adding 30,000 New
Members.
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14.—Delegates |
Hears; News Service.
Dallas. Texas. July
to the national Grand I.odge cunveu
tion of the Benevolent and Protective
Cider of Elkv today began the serious !
business of the session. The reports
ot the Grand Lodge officers were pre
sented today ami show a ratifying
gain in membership and financial
prosperity since the meeting last year
in Philadelphia. A great Mexican din- j
ner will be the day's entertainment. \
In his report. Grand Secretary Fred j
C. Robinson, says: !
"The membership, i li-• past year, ha;
feature.
had the usual steady growth, and the
increase is much greater than it ha.
been for many yeai s. Ii !- notirable
that lodges are weeding out
linquent members and
sirable are rapid!.' !,.*iii
the rolls. During tit
ceived by initiate;
he de -1
or affiliation 46,-1
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year lodges re
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345; suspended or expelled 264; strick
en from the rolls for non pSynient of
dues, 8,206; and admitted, 5,368. De
cased 2,718.
"Forty-four new lodges have been
added to the long list, with an in
crease of 29,789 in membership, giv
ing us today 1,125 lodges and a total
membership of 284,321."
I In the numerical standing of lodges,
I Brooklyn takes the lead, with New
^o\ 8 t" t rrerat?ouLrmet
j hers each, a gain of five over last year.
In membership gain during the last
year, Rochester takes the lead, with
Scranton, Pa., second and Hutchinson,
, Kan., third.
The sixteen leading lodges of the
: country, in the order named are as
follows: Brooklyn, New York. Phila
delphia, New Orleans, Chicago, Port
! 'and. Ore., Denver, Kansas City. Balti
more, Hoboken. Detroit, Oakland, Cin
cinnati, Buffalo, Rochester and Pitts
| burg.
| Among the states,
Pennsylvania
leads in Elk membership, with 25,565;
New York is second, with 19.876, and
Michigan, In
! Ohio third, with 17,076.
diana and Illinois follow in the order
j this sum, $100,529.85 is in the general
\ fund. $15,638.21 in the emergency char
named.
The report of the auditing commit
tee, presented today, shows that the
total cash on hand is $220,168.06. Of
ity fund. $50,000 in the reserve fund.
j $50,000 in the emergency charity
! serve fund, $2.00 in the contingent
fund of the grand secretary, $1,00 in
re
'he contingent fund of the grand ex
ailed ruler and $1,000 in the contingent
fund of the home committee,
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The fight for next year's reunion
one. Seattle
but Louis
ville,. Los Angeles and several other
cities are also entered in the
promises t
be
a hot
| claims to be in the lead,
race.
TO TEST NEW
AIR VESSEL
Hegrst News Service.
Berlin, July 14.—Count Zeppelin will
give his new military airship a
thorough test tomorrow, on the suc
cess of which depends the govern
ment's purchase of the machine for
$500,000. Previous flights have been
highly successful and the count has
received a message from the kaiser
wishing him good furtuue in tomor
row's test and declaring that it will
mark "the beginning of a new nation
al era."
FREE RIDES FOR
ORPHANS IN BIO
AUTOMOBILES
Atlanta, Ga., July 14.—Orphans' da.v
was observed by the automobile own
ers of Atlanta today, in accordance
with the annual custom of taking the
children of the various orphans' homes
on an excursion. Several hundred
youngsters participated in today's out
ing and a large proportion of the ma
chines in the city were utilized.
Of course, "amount of space used'' :s
not everything in advertising. Put,
Just in the pursuit of wisdom keep |
track for a time of the amounts used
by the various stores ln this newspa
per— and see if you couid not safelv
classify the stores accordingly.
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WHEN
THEY MET
HE young woman
on the front seat
of the automobile
gave a decided
l tug to.her veil.
4 "No," she said,
"you can't care
. very much or
you'd remember
a little thing like
that!"
"Well," sug
gested the young
man, anxiously
frowning over the
steering wheel,
"if it's so little what's the use of
making a fuss over it?"
"It may be small in one way—but
not in another!" corrected the young
woman with dignity. "I can't un
derstand It! You say you didn't re
member in the least how you felt
when you first saw me—or where or
whea it was!"
"You see, it's as if I'd always known
you," exclaimed the young man,
brightly. "I don't remember anything
before that!"
"In that case you'd remember the
beginning!" insisted the young
woman, in sad triumph. "It Just shows
that our first meeting meaDt nothing
to you!"
"Why, I remember all about it!"
burst forth the young man. "Of course
I do! You had on a dress with pink
roses on it and it was at Molly Frost's
at a card party exactly three winters
ago!"
The young woman drew as far away
as the width of the seat would allow
and gazed at the scenery in absorbed
Interest. Though she said nothing the
young man felt the frost in the at
mosphere, even through his leather
coat.
"Wasn't it?" he demanded, with a
falling inflection heroically positive.
The young woman coughed. "X won
der if we'll get out to the house on
time?" she murmured as if to her
self.
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"Wasn't it?" demanded the young
man sternly, almost running over a
dog in his absorption.
"I suppose you've forgotten," said
the young woman with elaborate in
difference, "that three winters ago I
| was ln Europe and also that 1 never
laid eyes on Molly Frost ln my life till
last December."
The young man increased the speed
of the machine. "Well, anyhow," he
said firmly, "it was a dress with pink
roses and somebody wore it!"
'Tve no doubt of it," said the young
j woman sweetly. "She certainly made
a strong impression on you, since you
I recall her after ali these years. I
don't blame you, in view of that, for
i forgetting such a trivial occurrence as
| being introduced to me—"
"As if I could mix you up with any
j one else!" protested the young man,
I plunging desperately. "I—I just did
j that to tease y_ 0 Uj_Annette!"
j The young woman surveyed him I
| coldly. "Did you?" she asked with'
| suspicious calmness. Then smiled.
I "What a joke!" she murmured. Pres
ently she demanded: "Well, then,
I joking aside, when was it we first
! met?"
The young man stopped the ma
chine with a jerk and getting out some
tools, crawled part way underneath it
| and began pounding. "I thought
something was wrong," he called in
muffled tones.
After ten minutes of this he
emerged with an air of relief. "Guess
! we'll get along all right now," he said,
jauntily. "Fine day for a ride, Isn't
it? Did you notice
"When was it?" repeated the young
woman in even tones.
The young man bent low over the
wheel and swallowed hard. "It was
after you got home from abroad," he
said with a positive air.
"Yes?" prompted the young woman.
"At a dinner at the Smiths'—" The
young man felt danger ln the silence
which followed this attempt. "No, no;
I mean the theater, party Howardson
>h ? Remember the chinchilla
gave
coat you wore then?"
"My furs were ermine," murmured
the young woman with indifference.
"And I wasn't at Mr. Howardson's
party because I had the grip at the
time. What's the use of pretending
that you remember when you don't at
all? Why don't you just say that the
first time you met me I made no im
pression whatever upon you among
the crowd of really interesting peo
ple and you didn't notice me especial
ly? Why fiot be honest?"
"Of course I noticed you!" protest
ed the young man, still clinging des
perately to the romance expected of
him.
Then he threw down hie shield and
gauntlet and turned on her. ''Well,"
he said doggedly, "when and where
was It we really met? I do seem
kind of mixed on the subject! When
was it?"
The young woman turned her head
away and gave her veil another
twitch. Then she looked at him and
from behind the enshrouding chiffon
came a subdued and helpless chuckle.
"I don't k^w," she confessed. "I
haven't any more idea than you have,
Tommy!"
"Well, if you haven't got a lot of
nerve!" gasped the young man after
be had comprehended. "And grilling
me like that for forgetting!"—Chicago
Daily News.
The Melodrama Again.
The beautiful heroine stamped her
tiny foot on the tiger-skin rug.
"And you dare deceive me?" she
hissed. "Didn't you make a vow that
you would never tell me another bare
faced falsehood?"
In reply the heavy villain flashed
a pair of automobile goggles from his
pocket and put them on.
"And I have kept my vow, Helene
Hominy. 1 am barefaced no longer."
With a cry of despair the beau
tiful heroine Jumped into the paste
board river.
A Relief to Both.
"At last," he sighed, "we're alons.
I've been hoping for this chance."
"So have I," said she very frankly.
"Ah! you have guessed, then, that
I wanted to tell you that I loved yon."
"Yes; and I want to say 'No' and get
it over with."
Unnecessary.
Howies—Hallo, Salter; I suppose
you are going to write my book down
as a tissue of crass inaptitudes, eh?
Salter—Pardon me, my dear sir; It
is not my habit to repeat what every
one. 1^ saying.—Town and Country.
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Jul 11 tf
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ject to the actiou of the Democratic
voters of the city of Hattiesburg:
FOR MAYOrt.
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DR. E. DILL.
DR. J. D. DONALD.
C. W. RICH.
FOR POLICE JUSTICE.
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C. F. REDDOCH.
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A. FAIRLEY.
J. H. SELBY.
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F. H. CLINE.
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H. C. GREER.
J. W. GAY.
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OHN F ANDERSON.
M. DUNN.
A. T. POWE.
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