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HISTORY
OF ADONIRAM COUNCIL, NO. 9 R.&S.M.
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and he referred the matter to the Grand Council. No action was taken
on the letter by the Grand Council.
On
December 24, 1907, M.I.G.M. J. Edward Blackmore, received a petition
from members of Adoniram Council No. 9 and a number of others holding
proper Dimits;l, praying for a dispensation to resuscitate Adoniram
council. After investigation and due consideration, M.I.G.M.
Blackmore granted a dispensation and on January 4th 1908 assembled a
Council of his associate Grand Officers and then presented said
petitioners the said dispensation to take the place of a warrant
until the meeting of Grand Council. An election of officers was
proceeded with and the M.I.G.M. set them at work again.
Further
in his report, Grand Master Blackmore, owing to the fact that the
charter of Adoniram Council No. 9 had been lost or destroyed at the
time of the fire in the Masonic Hall in Elizabeth, he recommended
that a duplicate charter be granted this Council.
At
the Grand Council Assembly in 1908, the committee on Doings of Grand
Officers recommended that the matter of Adoniram Council No. 9 be
referred to the Committee on Dispensations and Warrants, and in the
report of this committee is found the following, "would
recommend that a duplicate warrant be granted Adoniram Council No. 9
of Elizabeth, N.J. without cost to them."
Thus,
after a period of approximately twenty eight years, Adoniram Council
No. 9, R. & S. M. was revived in the City of Elizabeth, due to
the untiring efforts of P.T.I.M.'s William D Wolfskeil, Theodore B.
Townley. Companion Charles P. Russ and the wise council, kind
assistance of Grand Master J. Edward Blackmore.
With a charter list of thirty-one and petitions of nineteen Companions duly elected and initiated at this assembly of January 4 1908, a total of fifty members, Adoniram No. 9 was reinstated and again took it's place among the councils making up the Most Puissant Grand Council of New Jersey. The officers elected and installed at this assembly were:
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