The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-04-19
I. O. O. II.

L. -. ~. Il.
Germania Lodge lost three of her members by
death last week.
The Patriarchial degree will be conferred to-
morrow night by Metropolitan Encampment
Manchester Lodge No 6l3 was instituted at
Manchester, Dearborn county, April 4, by d. d.
g. M. Baker.
Rev s. A. Bright of Grace NJ e. Church,
has accepted an invitation to preach sermon
on Oddfellowship, next Sunday, at his church.
The degree staff of Olive Branch Lodge will
soon receive an invitation to visit Delphi, and
confer the degree in beautified form in the hall
OF Adina Lodge ID. of E.
Knightsville Lodge, No. 6l2, has purchased a
handsome OUTFIT including degree paraphernalia
and initatory. The lodge now has all the tools
necessary to make Odd-fellows.
Wilson r. Smith, killed at Muncie during the
thunder storm, by lightning, Friday afternoon,
was member Of Muncie Lodge. No. "a, and Of
the State Mutual Aid Association.
The members of Olive Branch Lodge, d. of
B., on Thursday night were entertained by Mr..
and Mrs. James Shea, the occasion being the
birthday of the head of the family.
r. G. Beharrell, p G. r. was in the city
Wednesday. He returned to New Albany by the
evening train. He will deliver his lecture on
Colfax, at Franklin, at an early date.
The festival given by Fidelity Lodge, d. of
R., at the hall, foot of Virginia avenue, on Mon
filed to overfiowing and the entertainment very
interesting.
The initiatorv and first degree was conferred
in Corinthian Lodge, Friday night, and next
Friday night the initiatory second and third de-
grees will be conferred. Wednesday night next
the members are requested to meet forrehearsal.
The Grand Encampment of Ohio will meet at
Newark on May 5. The degree staff of Akron
Encampment will be present and confer the
three degrees in dramatic form. The Grand
Lodge of Ohio will meet at GAINESVILLE on the
10TH
In recognition of the cordial reception extend
ed to him last winter by Morning Star Lodge
p. Ct. M, has presented that lodge with an ee
gantly framed large sized photograph of the late
Schuyler Cofax P. G. r.
Visitors can hardly 60 amiss for work in Indi-
annapolis Lodge. There are limitations almost
every night, and any amount of degree work
The degree staff will render the three degrees on
Wednesday night during the Grand Lodge SEES
sion, and perfecting themselves by re-
hearsals.
The managers of the New Orleans exhibition
have set apart Monday April a. as Odd-fellows'
day and the lodges of Memphis have arranged
for an excursion to leave on the Gath inst. They
extend their invitation to the members of the
order in Tennessee Arkansas, Kansas and
northern Mississippi, who are expected to join
them.
The lodges of Danville. III. will celebrate the
sixty-sxth anniversary Monday April q. Hons.
George r. Vending. j. H. Oberly, j. Ward
Ellis and others will deliver addresses At
night an entertainment will be given, when the
Leon Bailey Opera Company, of this city, will
render some of their finest music. Quite num-
Der from this city will attend
Next Sunday is the sxty-sixth anniversary of
the institution of the order in America, and re-
ligious services appropriate to the occasion will
be held under the auspices of Corinthian Lodge
at the Central avenue NJ e. Church. DR.. Marine
will deliver discourse on the subject of Odd
fellowship. Members of other lodges in the city
and the public are invited to attend. A brief re
view of the history of the order will also appear
in tD;s column.
From a letter ffessseived from Thee. A. Ross,
grand secretary of the sovereign Grand Lodge,
we learn that the foundation OF Inc Rldgely
monument will be completed in re" Gays, and
the stone will be laid on fiiSsk TN INST
with appropriate ceremonies. Grana SIRE Narey
officiating. The monument@s.1i oe comn,et -
by September, and will be unveiled on the o2a
of that month, during the session of the Sow.
ereign Grand Lodge at Baltimore. We We o aIso
learn from the same source that at the
meeting of the Grand Lodge of Maryland. to be
held on the Goth inst, an effort will be made to
adopt the degree of Rebekah, with indications
of success. This is indeed a triumph for Re
bekah, for that State has, for thirty three years,
steadily refused to have anything to do with
the Rebekah degree. This has proved to the
detriment of the jurisdiction
RAILWAY GOSSIP.