Shanghai, are making preparation to receive Imperial and Illustrious Potentates, High Priests and Prophets, and other dignitaries of the order in the course of their forthcoming visit to the East. We understand that in Shanghai there are about 100 gentlemen awaiting initiation into the mysteries of the order, and another 150 in Manila, and as the attendance of Potentates is essential to the cere-many, the Potentates are coming East on a pilgrimage.
The party of 12 distinguished Shriners who are making the trip includes: Ellis Lewis Garretson, Tmperial Potentate; Ed. B. King, Illustrious Potentate of Afifi Temple, Tacoma, Wash.; Judge Grover Nolte, Chief Rabban; Judge Frank Oakley, Assistant Rabban, and Bishop Frederick W. Keater, Episcopal Bishop of the Diocese of Washington, High Priest and Pronhet of the Order. and the Recorder. They will all be accompanied by their wives.
According to present arrange-
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