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Newspaper
Greeley Tribune
Location
Greeley, Colorado, United States of America
Date
Dec 12, 1888
Page
9
A column offers thrifty Christmas gift ideas from worn hats and tomato cans, detailing how to transform old straw hats into decorative pieces, make piano back drapery, plant stands, and other affordable presents. It also covers winter fashion trends including hats, bonnets, hairdos, veils, and dresses, with notes on street styles and millinery.
A little cross eyed woman in a street car thanks a man for offering a seat and picks a seat among six men who think she stared at them. The Chicago Tribune notes the eye and the power of perception. Meanwhile jewelers report brisk holiday trade in solid gold wedding bands as elderly men wear them.
Charles La Tour born in Rochester New York June 17 1837 rose from an apprentice painter to editor of The Detroit Weekly Freemason and member of several New York papers. He supported temperance work lecturing nationwide and published The Freemason for four years before illness struck while he served with the grand lecturer.
The A. O. U. W. reports August membership changes by state with New York leading gains at 62 and Ohio showing the largest loss at 125. The grand total in good standing reaches 209,814 with a net month gain of 1,609. Beneficiary money paid in August totals 262,100.75 and disbursements to deceased members amount to 254,001.50.
William H. Jordan born Cincinnati September 3 1849 moved to Oakland California as a youth. Yale graduate and lawyer became senior partner of Jordan and Ball in California. He served two terms in the California legislature and was speaker of the assembly last session. He joined the Ancient Order of United Workmen in 1877 and rose through Pacific lodge No 7. Elected grand master workman in 1868 and re elected the next year. He later held supreme lodge roles and was supreme master workman in 1887.
In the 1888 annual report to the Pennsylvania grand lodge by George Hawkes G K R 8 the Jersey Knight lists 398 lodges with 88951 members as of June 30 1888. New initiates 4220 by card 872 reinstated 244 total 4836. suspensions 2586 withdrawals 236 and deaths 479. Net gain 10 lodges and 1485 members. Relief expenditures total 147611.19 for brothers burial 41916.76 for widowed families 1263.05. Funds on hand and invested at subordinate lodges 689743.98.
Corinthian lodge of Camden surrendering its charter. Buckeye lodge Canton leases Madison hall for fifteen years. California brigade to meet in Fresno during the grand lodge session starting April 12 1889. Knights of Pythias Piedmont Missouri suffer big loss from castle hall fire built by Friendship lodge. Portsmouth Atlantic and Atlantic division in Virginia show strong growth. Norfolk fields two lodges and Virginia division No 2. Suffolk welcomes Welcome lodge and Withers division.
A dispatch from Rochdale reports John Bright has had a further relapse and his death is momentarily expected.
The Christmas number of Harpers Magazine features strong engravings led by The Viking's Daughter frontispiece, Christmas stories, and well-illustrated poetry. Scribner's Magazine ends its second year with nineteen prose and verse articles, twelve illustrated, and promising next volume. American Magazine plans changes under editor John Gilmer Speed. Our Little Ones and the Nursery remain well regarded and richly illustrated. The Forum December includes Tolstoi article and essays on naval warfare, prison labor, marriage, and teaching the mechanic arts, plus scientific news from Science. The American Garden December issue is illustrated and filled with horticultural content. Interspersed humor and domestic scenes appear, including jokes about log cabins and a comic exchange about a marriage. News notes announce Pullman Sleepers and routes via Overland and Wabash lines, and Pueblo’s United Workmen building society plan with stock for members.
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