Typed as spelled and written
- Lena Stone Criswell

THE DAILY DEMOCRAT
Thirty-First Year - Number 16
Marlin, Texas, Wednesday, May 20, 1931

PYTHIANS ELECT MARLIN
MAN GRAND OUTER GUARD

Put in Nomination by Senator and
Wins Contest by Large
Margin.

       G. S. Buchanan was elected grand outer guard of the Texas Pythian grand lodge at its 1931 session in Temple today.
       Nominated by Senator Tom Connally of Marlin, himself a past grand chancellor, the Marlin candidate was chosen in a contest with H. V. Wheeler of Jefferson lodge No. 55 of Beaumont by a vote of 193 to 66.
       Under a practice observed in the Knights of Pythias grand lodge, election to the post of grand outer guard puts this officer in line to be advanced to other chairs through the grand chancellorship.
       Mr. Buchanan has been active in Pythian circles of the state for a number of years, attending the present grand lodge session as representative from Marlin lodge No. 16.  He has also been an ardent member of the D.O.K.K., an advanced degree of the order, having attended several of the international biennial conventions of the latter.

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