The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1870-11-15 00:00:00

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Irving one another, and doing to ether, " y
wed 4
they should do to us- (applame).
The Cneirmen then gave the " Army, Navy
th of
—(applause).
Song by Mr. Smythe : "Red, Whir, "4
Mr. Charles, on behalf of the VOlUUteent,
Addressing them as his brother Oddfellowa,-,
by shistat"ts:rm", melts wichaanty strange
dairot toknthowean to tie
Grand of their Order, but to some of those pre.o4-wke
was known by that name. Ho was pleued to
many of them present that sight, around hi„:".
hoped Oddfellowship would prneper. He jeiZi lie
Great Eastern Lodge in 11.57, and filled the ehei.l6l
that lodge. He made thin remark, bey., 'oft af
them looked as if they did not know bin, es at nal
fellow. He would say little with remeet to the
Wigan be had been talking for three or four h
is sale in Portland. As be had remarked, he mu
he hoped the 011/14 of Oddlellowship would ee'os;
prosper.
could be said; they did not want to be called sent to
to
meet
them
emi
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kintati 11:3iu ee:b elath Chairmanr
Lbe a
representation,y'P e kf
w the
iAtothluieti7ydgownia respect
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L Drew: "Beautiful Ids of tio
hac°l:betaiittayshimis:okremanbc.tidnhaiineiHe.mial
Sea."
The Chairman said he now came to that part2f wag
programme Which was the Canoe of their being
l
together that evening. Their object was tht:
e 1
Oddfellows cf Weymouth, they might show the"
gratitude to • gentleman who had always ititmeeeed
himself in their kwhalf —(applause). From the dos
formation of an oddlellows' Lodge in Weymouth, my.
Howard had taken a great interest in that lodge. eel
tpogionhill:7l:;:yhtahisee fhinmoweifidhnitugduota sohn
shit
sawonunad.
they
imee fete:he.; adottiyehy:
de,
71 Trir
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leare ;4_7
when be was elected by the Town Councji 6, m:aarn.
They looked upon that app iintruent with some sexist,
to see whether the office smut.' suffer anythj" ia
hands of • gentleman who had identified hiresslf with
the working classes ef the town. lame, at the ea,„_
, tion of the yeon office, they could truly gey
! had not sullied that office, but he was Mewed as
' return the insignia to his successor as unsullied ris as
received them. They thought it fittio rmeorta-'
! to show him their gratitu e—oa s ear . f7f
a rem
his own experiense, the speaker said that am,
they had had had to do with Oddfellowship, he
I had frequently had to ask the ambiance of geg
to preside at festal gatherings, or for sukecriptual.
but the request .8,4 respectfully declined, and b. hal
I to fall hack upon Mr. Howard. On every ocuiejoo 0655
it had been his privilege to wait upon Mr. Hour', is
favour of the o.l.lfellows of Weymouth, In, Ob.
Howard) had received the request more as a farm:
than as demand made upon hire, They hay
fore, taken the opportunity to give him 'meth:4
permanently to remember the Oddfellon of Woe.
mouth, and in ord, r that the expression of their leek 4,
I snict4 bo made a, public as possible, they hat Led tau
aildreee written and printed that it might be pubb*
known that the Oldfellows of Weymouth appe,eieted
the servicA Mr. Howard had cooferrad up,
thern. He could scarcely do juatice to hit • Howani
the kiuini ea he bad always shown towards them, lie
only ha.' he become is subscriber; bet he had elute.
initiated as a ',idoliser, and it was for want of Use
more than in divation that they did not see him Amer
at their lodge gatherings. The members had km
celled together that night that they might paha*
convey their acknowledgments to him and Mr. Ruud
hal been invited that they might have the privilege d
presenting the address. The rpeaker hoped that else
' Mr. Howard entered the room they would sums
their feelings towards him as • friend of the verbs/
men, and especially of the Friendly Societies a
Weymouth.
The invitation of the Odd Fellows was tine seemed
to Mr. Howard, and on his approach the mem*
welcomed him with musical honours. Ms hod
played "Sec the Conquering Hero comes!" As li,
Howard enteredj the company gave three cheers for the
Mayor, which were loud and long.repeeted, sad rely
ceased to give place to fresh musical honours.
The Chairman, addressing Mr. Howard, rid he had
the pleasure to mend for him, and the occasion vi, this
—that the Odd fellows of Weymouth bad for a lead
time past wished to give him some expressicie of their
feelings of gratitude. They thought it a finial has
on, the expiration of his year of office, and tkey bed
this addles' written and printed on Waif of the
Old Fellows of Weymouth. They hoped be mid
lice many years to look upon the address, aid
remember that be at least bad the sympathy sad
gratitude of one class--the working moo of this
town. They returcvd him thanks far the kinder
he had shown to them daring the year of his elks
as Mayor and for many your previously, and they hoped
he would not forget the Odelfellowe of Wernontiia
the year 1870. In subscribing for this address, they tail
had many imoseriptions offered, both by hinorary toes.
berg and by ninny gentlemen not connected with the
Order, lent they wished rather to present it from the
sub,eribing members themselves—(bear). This eddies
had therefore been purchased entirely by them, enry
farthing being raid from the poor man'. Pocket.
Farwell then presented the address, and at the request
of some of the members read it aloud (applause).
The Mayor, addressing the company IS brother
Oddfellows, assured them he never in his life felt mare
unequal than at the present moment to utter a word
of thanks. Ile felt entirely overpowered by this greet
kindness at their hands, which he so little expected.
He c told scirooly, so to speak, string balfiedosen wards
together, to thank Mr. Farwell and the brethren of the
Order, so little did he deserve it at their bands—(hl
no). He Gould ware them that looking at this bow
tiful and elegant testhuonial, which they had gives
him, would be, as long as he was spared to live In this
world, the greatest pleasure be could have. Whee he
looked at the language it expressed, be felt Italy err
worthy of what they had conveyed to him—(No, so).
He lacked language to convey his thoughts, bat be
would assure them that she. be looked at it, be world
not think only of the !address, but of thews who
had given it. To think that his brethren—the
Oddfellows—that the men of this town, with who
he hid lived for tinny years, with wham he end
mixed rot only in the affairs of the town, but
In the society of Oddfellowe, had given it him, would
be an additional plesure and gratification, Not only
that—he trusted it would teach him another lesion—
to make more use vi his time and his energies forothera
to learn that on” is not meant to live for oneelf done.
Memory goes beat and recalls the time when he fird
took an interest in the scciety. He thought wsfl it
the principles on which it was founded, and the 010111
he analysed those principles, the more his mind eas
satisfied with them, and from that time —many yews
ago—when he took a prominent part in showing his
interest in the society every
start sosietY
year had strengthened kb
principle,be
lidin them
moreidmdthemureit: He
eing thefeltthhilimi.
wered
heelss good, that it wasuwutldnever formedbeshaken
upoeninnanitOOy
shvbsedsor--enedi a
form_
(oPPlouse). He considered the benefit societies of tils
eountrylone of the brightest jewels in its oonstitutien,
and this ono wets started by them from • feeling of lw
dependence', such as we see in no other nation Rader
, the inn, but our own happy England. It was to Arm
, that whatever position they may hold they believed is
independence, they believed in themselves, that they
, ought to sustain themselves In the hour of sicknon
poverty, and distress—that they did not went the at
of those above them, but mad take sum of their
river. The English workman had gone
all kinds of sorrows and trials within the
memory of those is this room. We nave sees
famine. distress and other trials, &fillet them in auto°
parts of England, but the English workman has come
out brightly, and has stood the trials as Englishmen
should atand. He had stood to his teat and has let
said one word against his Sovereign or &est the Cap
stitution, he ham mot talked of rebellion t hes 'kaiak,
submitted, with that endorsor, and faith which s't
far more sublinie than the eourage of the soldier else
may meet his death on the battlefield. Wine °,...th"
nations have been attacked in like manner. we ""
seen 'evolution; eovereigns have been hulled fro•
their thrones and thoes who may have lard
Positions this; the working sea have Name to tow
themselves from infuriated madmen. Bat the UO4
workman has done nothing of that kind • he Ms
thought that Providenee brought it, and that it
his duty to bear it, and as thee one word "dw't
sounded in his oar, be has been ready to bOat
(Kr. Howard) respected theta glaciate itasars,.ll"
are the fined 1161 ft of humanity. YOU 'say edsestes
man, and botch him Mile and that, but if be has not
_e4
aloriour feeling of indepsndirws is their arcistri
founded on nobility of thought, be ever unlit resPA....
and he wondered how any man mild nalp coming ward and aiding such • society. Instead of resstivww
aving
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any man taking a public poalticat has duties and relic"'
juatin
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some years le this town or not, daring tbe whole of ids life among them, he should cyst resasraber the mew
hers of the (Hag of Oddlellows, sad u
would be regarded as • bright pegs of blatc.%:l
Velours a,
Boots Brother Eagles : "Ivy end Odds;
The Mayor next gays " Sunsee he the Wlnneherer
Unity of Otkifellows, and sepenhily the PUsueDia•
'dot:- nu Worship remarked oath, hPI oid
vs
WAS breams •vartwhafa, mad he wished sash
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