The meeting was held in compliment
to the Scottish Rite Masons of Gads
den and vinicinty and it proved most
satisfactory from every standpoint it
is said,
A score or more of members of the
Lodge of Perfection, from Birmingham,
included Judge R. B. Watts, venerable
master and practically all the officers
attended the meeting, which met Wed
nesday morning and started a class
of 22 candidates during -the degrees
from the fourth to the fourteenth. At
the noon recess a luncheon was served
by the ladies of the Eastern Star. Fid
lowing the afternoon session a banquet,
complimentary to the Birmingham visi
tors and the class of candidates, was
given by the Scottish Rite Masons of
Gadsden.
A number of interesting tnlks were
made at the banquet largely dealing
with matters of vital interest to the
rite. The speakers were profuse in
their complements to the Gadsdeu mem
bers for the splendid manner in which
the meeting was planned and carried
out.
MASONIC EVENTS
HERE AND THERE
Hospital Named For Philadel
phia’s ‘Clean-Up’ Mayor
PHILADELPHIA.—Lu Lu Temple
hai appropriated tlie sum of .$100,000
for the W. Freeland Kendrick Con
valescent home to he placed on the
site with the Sbriners' hospital for
crippled children on the Roosevelt
boulevard in Philadelphia.
This is in honor of IV, Freeland
Kendrick, who was potentate of the
Shrine for sixteen years, and who was
elected mayor of Phialdelphia recently
and •‘drafted" Gen. Sraedly G. Butler
to clean up vice conditions in the city.
SOUTH BERKELEY, Cal.—The
cornerstone of the new Masonic temple
in South Berkeley will be laid on
March 8 by Past Grand Master Wil
liam A. Sherman. The new temple cost
.$50,000 and includes lodge and com
mittee rooms, banquet halls, etc.
