FUNERAL ARRANGEMENTS

Midnight Masonic Service Will Be Held Tonight
Funeral services over the body of Fred Scherubel will be conducted under the auspices of the Masonic order of which the deceased was a member, and in accordance with the request of Mrs. Scherubel. Extensive and elaborate arrangements for the burial ceremonies have been made by the order. The Knights Kodash of the McAlester Indian consistory No. 2 will conduct a midnight service Saturday at the Masonic temple, Third street and Broadway, which will be opened to the public.

The funeral ceremonies will be observed Sunday afternoon, beginning at 2:30 o’clock and will be under the auspices of Slioam lodge No. 276. The blue lodge rituals will mark the ceremony, which also will be held at the Masonic temple, after which the body will be escorted by local Knights Templar to the First Christian Church. Rev. J. H. O. Smith, the pastor, will officiate in the final ceremonies at the church, after which interment will be at Fairlawn cemetery.

The midnight services Saturday will be under the auspices  of the following Knights Kodash team which will perform the ceremonial rites; W. P. Freeman, master; Geogre Lonaberry, senior warden; P. M. Anderson, junior warden; P. B. Stone, orator; Jon Mazer, secretary; J. B. McAlester, treasurer; W.. J. Schaefer, almoner; Ed Bavitt, spirit of the past; Mrs. Ed Bevitt, musical director; Frank Craig, A U. Thomas, J. G. Redpath, W. H. Fuller, Sim Naylor and Louis Berlowitz, members of the team. The doors will be opened to the public at 11 o’clock Saturday night, the ceremonies to begin one hour later.

Relatives of both Mr. and Mrs. Scherubel arrived last night and more are expected today, including Dr. H. M. Burkhart of Rock Island, Ill., the supreme recorder for the Royal Neighbors of America; a sister of Mrs. Scherubel, Mrs. G. A. Myers of Centerville, Iowa; another sister of Mrs. Scherubel, Edward Scherubel, dean of Crescent college at Eureka Spring, Ark., a cousin of the deceased, and his sister, Mrs. June Alexander of St. Louis. Repeated attempts were made to reach his brothers in California , and cablegrams sent to his brother Charles, who is abroad traveling, could not be delivered. Other brothers and sisters in Dallas and points in Missouri are expected to arrive.

More that a hundred telegrams of condolence were received by Mrs. Scherubel during Friday, notably from managers of famous hotels in Chicago , Philadelphia , Washington , New York , Cincinnati , St. Louis , New Orleans , and elsewhere. Sam Dutton, manager of the Albany hotel in Denver , president of the National Association of Hotel Managers, and a close personal friend of the deceased, sent a long message of sympathy and paid Mr. Scherubel a high compliment as a manager and a man. Editors of the Hotel World and Tavern Talk publications devoted to the interests of hotel management, also wired expressions of sympathy. An unusual eulogy was from the management of the Gayoso in Memphis, as were also messages from managers and owners of hotels in Muskogee , Tulsa , Guthrie and other points within the state. Congressman Scot Ferris wired from Washington , as did other public men in various sections, including a high tribute from the officers of the Elks’ lodge at Joplin , Mo. , 501, of which Mr. Scherubel was a charter member.

It was announced Friday afternoon by Prof. Kaheiski, the director, that the Skirvin hotel orchestra will render favorite sacred selection of Mr. Scherubel at the Christina church services.

Scherubel, Frederick W.

Scherubel, Frederick W.