The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1889-04-15
AMONG TIE SOCIETIES.
CoUBT GR0VE, OF THE F0REsTERs,
rs GETTING ON ITS FEET.


Three months ago the Foresters
came within an ace Of losing of
their best courts in this city. Court
Grove, A. o. F., was organized in Oc-
tober, 1887, and consequently is not
yet two years old. 1t had quite a
large membership, but the majority OF
the members paid their dues and OBJ
legations whenever they felt SO dis
posed, and when they did not feel SO
the treasury was the loser.
1t became only a question of time
when the members would become so
few, and the funds so low, that the
charter would have to be surrendered.
About the first of last January a
number of active members with
Thomas b. Crotty at their head, con
cluded to make a change and thus
save the court. They sent a communi-
cation to the High Court and that
body sent word to depose Chief
Ranger Garvey. Thomas B. Crotty
was elected in his place. He com
menced by suspending Financial Sec
rotary Bartholomew O'Connell, and
charges will be brought against him
and Garvey. Whatever may be the
merits of the controversy, it is certain
that the condition of the court is much
improved. A set of bylaws has been
made and the Court has been incor-
porated by MI. Crotty, chief ranger;
Joseph F1aherty, treasurer; Thomas
Collin, financial secretary ; James
Trudell, recording secretary; Michael
BRASIL, senior woodward Dennis
Mullary, junior woodward; Richard
Allen, senior beadle. and James Nc
Cormick, junior beadle.
The Court is now on a firm basis,
and is growing. Three months ago,
had all the debt been paid, not much
money would have been left in the
treasury; since then the membership
has increased to the neighborhood of
n hundred and fifty, and the sun in
the treasury has increased about $400.
Seven candidates will be initiated at
the meeting next Thursday night.
The physicians of the Foresters'
courts in this county do not feel very
happy when they think of the next
session of the High Court, which will
take place next fall. An effort will at
that time be made to induce the High
Court to curtail their privileges ONE
what. The doctor receives from the
court to which he is attached So per
year for each member-the larger the
court the more he charges. He is paid
the none whether he attends the
members or not. Some of the mem
bers of the order claim that the
doctors have too much power and
that in some cases they abuse it. 1t is
possible that they may lose the 50 fee
and receive nothing from the courts
except the examination fee for cam
didates.
Three candidates were initiated in
Court Damon, A.. O. f., last Thursday
night.
At the meeting of Court Hamilton,
A. O. f., tomorrow night, twenty-five
candidates will be initiated. Among
them will be Fire Commissioner John
Guiton.
Court Ashley, A. o. f., isprospering
under the new officers.
Since assuming his new office, Chief
Ranger Thomas Ramsey, of Court
Jersey City, has surprised even his
friends by his ability and thorough
knowledge of parliamentary rules.
Many of the prominent Foresters of
this city met at the residence of Past
O1l0l INdfi2GG JdlliGS hlGClld Oh Sdu-
urday night, to help Mr.. and Mrs.
O'MeaIia to celebrate the tenth ami
versary of their wedding. Numerous
presents, not all of tin, were received.
Among the guests were Mr.. and Mrs.
Thomas Holmes, Mr.. and Mrs. j.
Wheelen, Mr.. and Mrs. j. III. O'Neil,
Mr.. and Mrs. J. T. Rickard, MI. and
Mrs. G. Rikeman, MI. and Mrs. G. d.
J.. Noelke, Mr.. and Mrs. Charles
O'Conner, Mr.. and Mrs, M. McCreery,
Mr.. and Mrs. j. Harris, Mr.. and Mrs.
j. G. Hughes, Mr.. and Mrs. George
Dougherty, Mr.. James Ownes,
Miss Annie Hughes, Mr.. James
Kelly, Miss Nellie Graham, Mr.. f.
L.. Herrick, Miss May Holmes,
Mr.. H. Grohen, Miss Schannessy, Mr..
F. Murray, Miss O'Melia, Mr.. Thomas
Lynch, Miss Nellie Holmes, Mr.. w. A.
Ferguson, Miss Maggie Holmes, MI.
and Mrs. William Leslie, Mr.. and Mrs.
j. Graham, Mr.. and Mrs. Thomas
Graham, Mr.. and Mrs. J.. Mahoney, MI.
and Mrs. Charles Hermann, Mr.. I'll.
Clayton. Miss Nellie Collins, Mr. John
Sutherland, Miss Wallie, Mr.. James
Degman, Miss Kane, MI. John Muir
ray, Mr.. A. J.. Kachlee and Mr.. John
Moran.
The members of Courts Paulus
Hook and General Lafayette, A. O. F.,
are firm friends.
Court Bergen, A. 0. F., is the only
court in the county that works under
the English d~ispensation.
Although politics is prohibited in
all Courts OF Foresters, yet the order
is full of politicians. A Forester was
elected to some office in nearly every