Morning journal and courier., 1880-01-14
Odd Fellows.

Odd Fellows. The Mutual Aid AssOciatiOn-Odd Fei- IOwss Hall-The work of the Body | for the Year Past. The legislative body of the Connecticut l Odd Fellows Mutual Aid Association held heir annual meeting yesterday at Odd Fellows Hall. The attendance was large, considering she stormy weather. The meeting opened at ? p. m.
 President J. K. Bundy, Vice President Samuel Tolles, Secretary George N. Moses, and Treasurer Thomas 0. Hollis were the full board of officers present, and with representa- lives of some thirty lodges composed the leg islative body. :. The report of the president gave brief re- glance at the history of the asso- citation, which has now been organized twelve years and has had very successful existence. The mortality has not averaged one per cent. As relic the president submitted to the meeting, to be placed in the archives of the association, the paper containing the names of the original fifty mine Odd Fellows who signed call for meeting to found the Mutual Aid Association Of the fifty nine but thirty
 
 have since died, the others still remaining members.
 The association was organized November 16, 1867. At the close of the first year two assessments had been paid and there were 172 members. At the close of 69 seven assess ments had been paid and there were 204 members. At the close of "A there had been paid thirty-one assessments and there were 1867 members. In closing the president gave his hearty approval to the idea favoring an increase of the contingent fund.
 The report of the secretary, Mir. George N. Moses, Grand Master of the Grand Lodge I. O. O. F., covers only eight months owing to the time of the change of the annual meet ing from May to January.
 FIRST CLASS,
 Number of members reported May l. 1879 ,492 Died during past eight months. ................18 Dropped for non-payment of assessments. .....11 Dropped for other causes ses...................1 1-30
 ,4e2 New members received d........................ 10l Present membership, frst-c!ass ,5ss
 SECOND GLASS.
 Number of members reported May l. 1879 ,09e Dropped for non-paynent of assessments ...6 Dropped for other causes. .....3-14 i,Os1 Present membership second class. ,ls$
 Total membership of the association 3, 696 "a gain since the last report of 1O8.
 In the first class there have been sixteen deaths the past eight months, and the families of each of the deceased have been paid $1 500, making SPA, ,OOO in all. Two more death ben efits remain to be paid during the present month.
 In the second class there have been five deaths, the benefit paid in each class being $500, making total of $2, 500. The follow ing is 8 summary:
 Total benefits first class. .$24, ,OO Total benefits second class. 2,5O Paid all told in past eight months .$26, ,50 Of this sum $17, ,OOO were paid by assess ments and $1O, 800 from the association' ! surplus. In the first class it appears that be cause of the sixteen deaths each member oi l the association paid on account of each deatl | an assessment of sixty two and half cents a slight increase from last years report. II each member on account of each death wa forty cents, decrease of five and half cent | from last year.
 The aggregate amount of benefits paid t. | the families of deceased members to the pres l ent time reaches the sum of $154, 739. Thi has been distributed among the families o 113 members in sums varying from $9 to $2,O00, and for which said members hay paid into the association the sum total O | $4, 437.15. A section was voted amended, S | that the admission fees in both classes for al | persons aged forty years and upwards be a l follows:
 From 4o to 4s From 4S to 4s seszs From 45 to 47 years... ss From 45 to 47 years... From AT to 50 years... 55 From 47 to 50 years...
 And that no one shall be admitted to men bership who is over fifty years of age. Tn original limit was sixty years Of age.