Morning journal and courier., 1890-05-22
CoNNHorICUr ODD FELLows.

CONNECTICUT ODD FELLOWS. i 3oings of the Fifsy-Firss Annual ses- sion of the Grand Lodge Yesserday- Short Retrospective view-Bcneh- cent work-LArgo Increase Of Odd Fellowshlp-Election Of Omcers-The Grand Lodge Votes in Favor or Establishing an Odd Fellow" Home.
 Yesterday the annual meeting of the grand lodge. I. O. O. F., of Connecticut was held in this city at the I. O. o. F. lodge room in Sassaous armory. Fully $50 representatives of the order were present. Two hundred new members were admitted. Grand Master James Bishop called the convention to order at 10 o'clock. The first business was con- fsrring the grand lodge degree upon the new members. Past. Grand Master Lloyd E. Baldwin of willimsntio, who was grand master forty years ago lacking one year, was among the Odd Fellow Nsstors present and received special attention and honors. Grand Master Bishops annual report was, of course, ono of tho chief features of the days pro- ceedings. He spoke of the fact that the grand lodge has now held 6fty-one annual
 
 the order in Connections hos expended for the relief of Odd Fellows $7s2. .334- over three-quarters of O million dollars. Beside this, the Odd Fellows Mutual Aid association of this state has paid in the twenty-two years of it's existence to the widows and orphans of 611 deceased brothers y820, ,7S8. Grand Master Bishop oongratu- lated the order also on the fact that its mem bership in this state Ia now 2,300, gain of nnae1 all i port of Mir. Bishop next spoke of his depu- ties, giving list of their names, and re-. counted various matters that he had acted upon officially during the year, such as 0 question of appeal from Montowese lodge, the granting of various dispensations for public installation, parades, fairs and festi- vals, hrd on brotherhood requests from grand masters of neighboring states concerns ing recognition of members; also, the grant, ing of dispensation last August for . re- convening of the degree of Rebekah to elect delegates; and permission for e state convention of the degree last February, the issuing of proclamation regard ing the Johnstown flood, the response from Connecticut Odd Fellows being $60, 900 for relief for the sufferers, The grand master also spoke of the granting permission to aid | da, the institution of new lodge each in | Willmsntio, Manchester and Putnam, and l of the gratifying progress of Odd Fellowship In Windham county, where there are now | four lodges, and where for thirty.hvs year. prior to July 27, 1888, Odd Fellowship had had no foothold whatever. The report fur ther recounted the many official visits ts lodges made by the grand master, and thu many notable Odd Fellow events in the stat, during the year, including the big Odd Eel. | low parade and celebration in New Haven and Quinnipiso lodges celebration the night previous. In closing Mir. Bishop com | mended warmly the project of erecting ar r Odd Follows building in this city by tn, three oldest lodges, Quinnipiao. Harmon, The report of Grand Secretary Bo.sfort | shows that there are seventy lodges in tn, state, @ gain of three. Paid for relief durini the year, $51, ,509, and for expenses, $48, ,7SS total fund of subordinates as per last report | $306, ,761. The number of weeks' sioknes for the year was 0,528. "With benefits at {. per week 1t Is an average disburse | ment for relief of $40 per member This is Q fact which all lodges witi dues at $5 DOT annum should seriously con all" V The death rate ia larger than for the yeal | 1888 by about one eighth of one per cent. Of Daughters of Rebsckah there are 2( lodges. The membership as per last repor was 1,026 brothers and 475 sisters, tota | 2,301, gain of 371, to offset against whiof there was loaa of 115. The total member | ship last January was 9, 1S3, a net gain oi 262. For relief of members there was paid $931 for relief of widowed families $414; fol lodge expenses $2. .6SS. The grand lodge re- ceipts for the year were $2,679.
 Past Grand Sire James F. Sanders, Pas Grand Master John H. Medall and Pas
 Grand Master Whittoek were present at tn,
 session ss fraternal guests from the Nev
 York grand ledge. One of the most promi
 nent representatives present was s. A. Gran
 dall, mayor of Norwich. While in this cit,
 he was the guest of General 0. B. Foster O
 the Pstriarchs Militant of the state.
 An adjournment was taken at o'clock fo
 dinner. At the afternoon session thes
 officers were elected: Grand master, Fred
 erick s. Hunt of Bridgeport; deputy grsnt
 master, George H. Cowell of Waterbury
 grand warden, Charles D. Ware of Nev
 London; grand secretary, Frederick Botsfort
 of New Haven; grand treasurer, John M
 Smith of Waterbury, and grand representa-
 tive, James Bishop of New Haven.
 Officers appointed were: E.. G.. Ashley! grand chaplain; W. H. Marigold, grand W. W. Johnson, grand guardian; R. H. Johnson. grand herald.
 Probably the most important bushes, transacted yesterday by the grand lodge wal with regard to establishing an Odd Fellows home in this state. In several other statel | such homes have been established and th, plan found to work well. A committee re. | ported In favor of founding one In Connecti- | cut and 1t was voted to accept the report and | to establish Q home. No sits has been de. | cided on nor any definite plans made.