The Cherished Hope of Local Masons for Year Past Has Been Realized. Commandery Instituted and Officers Installed Last Night.
The showing made before the Grand Commandery, which met in Minneapolis last year, resulted in the granting of a charter to Elkanah Commandery, and on May 14. 1909 the officers of the Grand Commandery constituted Elkanah and installed its officers.
Eminent Commander: Isaac Black
Generalissimo: W. A. Gould.
Captain General: John M. Richards.
Senior Warden: W. A. Currie.
Excellent Prelate: Herman F. Parshall.
Treasurer: F. S. Lycan.
Recorder: W. R. Mackenzie.
Standard Bearer: R. H. Schumaker.
Sword Bearer: R. F. Prebble.
Warden: George H. French.
First Guard: Henry Mills.
Second Guard: O. E. Jackson.
Third Guard: George T. Baker,
Sentinel: Euclid Burgeois.
Yesterday morning, Eminent Commander Ike Black took the visiting fraters for an automobile ride around Bemidji and visited all of the interesting points in the city. At the conclusion of the drive Mr. and Mrs. Black entertained the visitors at a sumptuous dinner, at their home, which was served in the elaborate manner for which Mrs. Black has an enviable reputation. Before departing for their various homes, the visiting sir knights all expressed their admiration of Bemidji as a progressive, go-ahead city and they congratulated the local Masons on the very good showing which they have made.