The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1890-08-14
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an End-SOme PRICE Winners.
CHICAGO, Aug. 9.-The Odd-Fellows'
gathering is practically over. 1t is truc
the exercises do not formally close until
tonight, but nearly every body who came
here to attend it, except sundry Major
and rigadier-Generals and those Pa
triarchs or Odd-Fellows who have en-
tered for prizes, has gone home. Numer-
ically the cantonment has not been
any thing like the success the public
was led to expect. The man who has
charge of the stamping of railroad tick
cts, making them good for return pas
sage, said that up to o'clock yesterday
afternoon between 10000 and $4,000
tickets had been presented. This rep
resents pretty closely the number
Of strangers the cantonment has
brought to the city. General Under
wood said he could give no esti-
mate of the probable receipts of the en-
terprise. If there is an excess of re-
ceipts over expenditures part of it is to
be turned into the treasury of the Sow
ereign Grand Lodge and the rem mainder
is to be divided among a number of Odd
Fellow charities.
Friday evening was set apart for the
Generalissimos reception, grand ball
and promenade concert in Battery D.
1t was 10 o'clock when the grand march
was formed. After few numb of
the dance programme General Under
wood presented the cash prizes for the
best exemplitication of the work of sub
ordinate and Rebekah degree lodges.
The committee of judges handed in the
following report of awards:
For Subordinate Lodges-First prize, North
Star Lodge, No. 6, Minneapolis 500; second
prize. Wicker Park Lodge, No. 2Sl, Chicago,
$500; third prize. Fort Dearborn Lodge No. 214,
Chicago, 800.
For Rebekah Degree Lodges-First prize,
Naomi Lodge, No. 8, Columbus, O., $50 sec
ond prize. E ite Lodge, No. g Chicago $500;
third prize, American Lodge, No lGa Chicago,
$500; Fourth prize, Ruth Lodge, No 1, Omaha,
Neb set of regalia and jewels, special prize by
Roundy Company, Chicago.
A special prize of silk plush robe
was given Mrs. Anna R. Aston, of Ma
omi Lodge. The committee made
special mention of the work of Mrs.
Berger, of Flora Lodge, No. 152, of Chi
eago, and upon recommendation of the
Generalissimo special prize of $50 was
awarded to her.
The drills on the Lake Front in .the
afternoon were meagerly attended. The
cantons participating were Marion, of
Marion, Ind, the present holders of the
first prize in class A; Wichita, of Wich-
ita. Kan; indianapolis No. g. of In
dianapolis, Ind; Ann Arbor, of Ann
Arbor, Mich; Elwood, of Elwocd, Ind,
and Amsterdam, of Amsterdam N. Y.
Following the canton drills came the
individual contest for the best-Grilled
chevalier in the sword manual This
afforded lots of sport. There were
three prizes offered--S75, $50 and
$25 There were fifty.fve con-
testants. When chevalier made a
mistake, he left the line. Tho last
three to drop out of the line were w. s.
Winters, of Canton indianapolis, No. Q;
r. H. Campbell, of Canton Van Vert,
and P. Morrison, of Canton Occidental,
No. l, Chicago, and they were awarded
the prizes in the order named.
The individual contest for line off,
GERS in the sword manual followed i'm
mediately after that of the chevaliers.
The prizes were of the same amount as
for chevaliers. The first prize was
awarded to Captain j. H. Wise, Of
Canton Logansport, Logansport, Ind. !;
the second to Ensign A. T. Wolcott, of
Grand Canton Excelsior, of Chicago,
and the third to Captain E. Rott, of
Canton Frank, Germantown, O.