The Indianapolis journal., 1885-10-11
I. o. 0. F. ITEMS.

j. F. Wildman Grand Master, was in the city
on Wednesday.
Grand Master Phelps, OF Illinois, is on a visit
to the Pacific coast
AS story tellers Grand Representatives Oyler
and Mccoy are success
A very successful convention of the Daughters
Of Rebekah was held at Omaha Sept IL
Indianapolis Lodge visited Irvington Lodge
last Saturday night and initiatedtwo candidates
Fidelity Lodge. d. of r., will meet o-morrow
night. The degree will be conferred in beautifed
form.
The meeting Of Olive Brarch Lodge, D. of r..
last night, was we'll attended. The degree was
conferred in costume.
John w. Stokes P. G.. S. entertained Bunker
Hill Encampment at his residence in Philadel-
phia on their return from Baltimore.
The Odd-fellows' Mutual Aid Association has
paid So, 500 each to the heirs of Matthew Dun
gan of Huntington, and W. b. Minch, or Ev
ansville.
Two temples of the Patriarchal Circle of Ohio
have applied to the Sovereign Grand Lodge for
charters for cantons Of the degree of Patriarchs
Militant.
The two lodges of Waterbury, Conn, have re-
Gently moved into new quarters which were pub
hcly dedicated on the Sd inst, j. w. Smith, P.
u. H., delivering the address.
The degree staff of Peoria Lodge, D. of r., will
exemplifv the beautifed work before the conven-
tion of the Rebekah Degree Lodge at Spring
field, Ill.,, on the evening of Nov. 16.
The degree staff of Metropolitan Encampment
have commenced rehearsas, and will prepare for
an exemplifcation of the degrees before the
Grand Encampment, Nov 16, in Grand Lodge
Hall.
The Odd fellows Review, Springfield HTll,
says that the Sovereign Grand Lodge adopted
the resolution favoring separate grand lodges for
the Rebekah Degree. This is mistake. The
resolution was lost by vote of Al to 81.
A lodge that charges its members So year
dues should not pay more than 81 per week
benefits, nor more than $40 for funeral benefits
Ii this rule was more generally observed there
would be fewer defunct lodges.
Next Thursday Grand Patriarch Porter will
institute new encampment at Shelbyville The
staff of Metropolitan Encampment will assist in
the floor work. There will be thirty five or forty
persons initiated. Work will commence at 2
o'clock P. NJ
What inducement can Indianapolis extend to
get the permanent location of the Office of the
Sovereign Grand Lodge. 1t was demonstrated
In 1879, when that body met in this city, that it
cost less per capita to meet in this city than any
place in the country where the meetings had
been held. Chicago, St Louis and Cincinnati
had higher averages.
Martin Kruger supreme oracle of the Patri-
archal Circle, has issued a call convening the
Supreme Temple of that order in Chicago, Nov.
ii, 1t is believed to take into consideration the
recent legislation of the Sovereign Grand Lodge
as a settlement of the difficulties between the
two bodies, and which has created no little dis
turbance in the order for several years past.
Two important decisions of the grand sire were
approved by the Sovereign Grand Lodge at its
recent session, to-wit: ''Tnat the recording
secretary of lodge and he alone. can officially
attest anything for and in behalf of lodge"
1T is not only legal for subordinate lodge to
entertain, permit, or allow charges to be brought
against member who has an application for dis.
missal certificate before it, after FIVE years from
date of suspension. but it is the duty of the
lodge to allow and try such charges"