Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1882-10-01
SECRET SOCIETIES.
Our Weekly Budget Of Local News.
Masonic Mattefs-Grand Army Notes-Odd
Fellow IBriefs-knlghts Of La
Dor Gossip-knights7 Of
s Neas NPythias Points.
KNIGHTS OF HONOR HAPPENINGS.

1t has not yet been determined how del
egates from this end of the State will reach
Charleston There is some talk OF bhar-
tering boat, and all delegates will live on
it until they return home.
Grand Treasurer Seamon, OF this city, is
a mode. officer. He has held the position
for several years, and his accounts are pro,
nounced by The auditors to be the most
neatly and simply arranged OF any ofhcer
heretofore holding the position.
Work on the renovation OF the walls IN
Odd Fellows building goes on slowly, ana
it will be fully month yet before the nails
are ready for occupancy.
1t is said that the friends OF Mr.. s. +;
Faris will press his claim for the Grand
Secretaryship at the approaching meeting
of the Grand Lodge. Mr.. Faris has already
held the position and filled it with distln-
guished success.
There is some talk of establishinga lodge
OF Odd Fellows at Point mills, the lodge
room to be the old Granger hall at that
place.
Frank Maiilton, Esq, will represent Lin
coin Lodge OF Benwood at Charleston.
The true spirit Of Odd Fellowship .forbids
the too common habit of saying unkind
aud uncharitable things about our breth-
rem. 1t teaches US to be generous In our
Judgment Of one another's faults, proud ot
one another's excellencies, and happy In
the knowledge of one another's success
Monitor.
Persons in the military service were de-
cided to be eligible to membership in the
order upon a residence of six months where
application is made to the nearest lodge.
At funeral or other procession the Grand
Lodge or a subordinate lodge shall have
precedence. The matter OF appointing
committee to prepare a system of endow-
menI, national in character, was laid on the
table. Six hundred dollars were appropria-
ted to afford the Grand Treasurer assist
ance in the discharge Of his duties. An ap,
preparation was made to print the revised
ritual of the degree of Rebekah. The Grand
Sire was instructed to issue circular call
ing attention of enCampments to the new
degree adopted at this session for Uniform
ed Patriarchs; Grand Encampments were
authorized to institute uniform degree
camps, and laws providing for their gov
eminent were adopted. The charter and
book are to be furnished for five dollars,
and the work to be communicated to Grand
Patriarchs and Grand Scribes only. At noon
the Grand Lodge went into secret session,
from which il receded at two o'clock, when
the following officers were installed: Eric
]. Leecb, of Iowa, Grand Sire; Henry +.
Carey, OF Maryland, Deputy Grand Sire;
Theo. A. Ross, of New Jersey, Grand Secre-
tary; Joshua Vansant, of Maryland, Grand
Treasurer; J. w. Venable, OF Kentucky,
Grand Chaplain; J. w. McQuiddy, of In
diana, Grand Marshal; Joshua Davis, OF
Maine, Grand Guardian; \. c. Thurman, OF
Minnesota, Grand Messenger. The Sover-
eigm Grand Lodge adjourned to meet in
Providence, r. l., on the third Monday in
September 1888.
Hebron Encampment NJ. 40 Of Martins
.,,sk Nl,,S- IN, a rn
next Friday night.
Hon. r. s. Brown has returned home to
Jackson county from the sessions OF the
Sovereign Grand Lodge at Baltimore.
Odd Fellowship is in a most flOurishing
and satisfactory condition in Wheeling.
Tit sessions of the Sovereign Grand Lodge
OF Odd Fellows were concluded last Satur-
day, Grand Sire Luther J. Glenn in the
chair. J. W. Venable was appointed to pre-
pare q prayer for the opening and closing
Of lodges. An elaborate report from the
committee on dues and benefits, fixing
ratio of dues to benefits at one half the
yearly dues for weekly benefits and provid-
ing Jor several funds to meet the various
necessities OF the Order, was adopted. Con-
sideration OF the reports on the
following subjects were dis
posed of affirmatively. When a battalion
of Uniformed Patriarchs visit an encamp-
ment in a body in uniform: theX are
deemed to be in proper reSalia Past officers
of any description, and members in posses
sion Of the encampment degrees and all
other members of the order, when visiting
grand or subordinate lodges and when at
tending their lodges are entitled to wear
the regalia and jewel OF the highest degree
they have attained. The Noble Grand and
Vice Grand of new lodges are entitled to
the past official degrees. To permit five
encsm pment member to form an encamp-
ment; recommending the adjustment Of
prefXes to titles Of State Grand officers.
The action of the Grand Sire in granting
dispensations for lodges at Gladstone, Man
itoba, AtOka Indian Territory, and char
tiers for lodges at Globe, Arizona; Bellevue,
idaho, and Odense, Denmark, was approved.
Suitable Jewels were adopted for officers OF
Rebekah degree lodges.
The lodges |. o. o. +. of Wheeling will
be represented in the Grand Lodge meet
ing, at Charleston on the fourth Tuesday
this month, by the following brethren:
Virsinius Lodge No. ,, George Matthews;
Franklin Lodge No. 8, c. h. Smith; Will
lam Tell, No 6, H. Koerner; Wheeling,
No O. William dillingham;; Pamela, No II,
Ed. f. Hay; Lincold, Bellaire, L. Majilton.
ODD FELLOWS FAMILIES.
NCne are more benefited by the Order
Of Odd Fellows than the lady members of
the family. Though the brother is bene-
fitted during health by the social advant-
ages of the order, when he is taken sick, the
kindly offices OF the,brother are a great re-
lief to the burdens With which the COOL wife
finds herself surrounded, and at death she
is relieved of muchIof that care that would
otherwise devolve uponpher. The Order
also promises protecting care to the wid.1
ow and the fatherless, and none such need
practical sympathy. No widow OF 49,
ceased member OF the Order need ey.r snfI
fer for the necessities Of life. n9p viii her
children grow up in ignoransSo ~ anncared
for. The command OF oysIsw x IN care
for and protect the widSSW ana educate the
orphan. In,c'',i 10
Why should we Pot tbsn sxpect the cor.
dial support OF he iadiesand be aided by
~ Z " cement and assistance? The
~ receive ii where the true objects
- known to them, and where
,,&skrn % 3eport themselves in accord
f3!th rrtncfples of the Order, as to cause no
'NeQtcNch upon 1t 6Y their acts Let
ereHiSf effort be made to enlist the support
81 our wives in the noble work OF Odd
Rellowship.-Gude.
MASONIC MATTERS.
The members of the Masonic fraternity
in Pensacola, Fla. who are suffering from
yellow fever, have made an appeal for aid
to the lodges OF New York and the neigh
borbood, through st. Johns Lodge, No. l,
and the officers OF St. Johns lodge having
put themselves together in communication
with lodge there, are prepared to receive
and forward subscriptions to help Masonic
brethren who are in distress from yellow
fever. Subscriptions may be sent to
Worthy Brother A. r. Corbet Master, No.
50 Broadway, or W. II. McDongall, Senior
Warden, No. Is Cortlandt street New York,
or to the Office of the New York World,
from whence it will be sent to the officers
of ST. Johns Lodge. The Work. will also
acknowledge any subscriptions sent to the
fund.
The Grand Commandery Of Ohio will
hold its annual conclave at GAINESVILLE on
October 18th and 18th. Cincinnnti Com
mandry will attend in q body and act as
escort TO r. E., Sir H. II. Tatem, Grand
Commander of the State. Cyprus Com
p,ap1ry Of Zappsvilla will antortain the