The Bennington banner. [volume] (Bennington, Vt.) 1858-1894, 1892-05-20
VERMONT ODD FELLOWS.
The 22nd Annual Grand Encampment at
Montpelier the Forty-Sixth Annual
Session of the Grand Lodge.

The 22nd Annual Grand Encampment at
Montpelier the FOrty-Sixth Annual
Session of the Grand Lodge.
The 22nd annual session of the Grand
Encampment was held at Montpelier,
Tuesday. About 70 officers and members
were present. The Grand Ene9mpment
Degree was conferred ON Is candidates.
The officers appeared in handsome new
set of regalia, the property of the grand
encampment. Reports showed 10S net
gain in the II encampmeRts, making
total membership of 100S and emitting
this body to- two Grand Representatives,
for the first time. Officers elected are:
l.. G. Burnham, Grand Patriarch, Bur
lington; c. Parmenter, Grand High
Priest, Rutland; David L. Saunders,
Grand Senior Warden, Montpelier;
Charles w. Farr, Grand Scribe, ST. Johns
bury; L. V. Green, Grand Junior Warden,
Rutland;D w. Dudley, Grand Treasurer,
Montpelier; D. o. Wallace, Grand
Marshal, St. Albans; L. j. Brown, Grand
Sentinel, Bradford; E. F. Smith, Grand
Outside Sentinel, Barre; j. X. Egerton,
Northfield and N. NJ. Puffer, Benning
ton, Grand Representatives. Major l..
S. Frost is the Deputy for Bennington
district.
The 10th annual session of the Grand
Lodge was held Wednesday. The num-
Der present was 106, and the Grand
Lo 1ge Degree was conferred on 80.
The report of the committee in regard
to an Odd Fellows Home was accepted.
The same committee of five was con-
tinued until the next session, with the
addition of a subcommittee of one from
each Subordinate Lodge, to be appointed
by the incoming Grand Master.
The Grand Masters report showed
that during the past year three new
Lodges had been instituted-Beaver, No.
Al at Proctor; Randolph, No. AS, at West
Randolph, and Cabot, No. 40, at Cabot.
One was reinstated, making total of
AS lodges, with membership of about
3600
Five new Rebekah Lodges were insti-
tuted-Sunbeam Lodge, No. II, Barton;
Bright Star Lodge, No. IS, Barre; Maple
Leaf Lodge, No. 10, Derby Line;
Arbutus Lodge, No. 20, Wells River, and
Myrtle Lodge, No. 6, Proctorsville. This
makes total of 20 Rebekah Lodges,
with 1900 members. The total number
of Subordinate and Rebekah Lodges is
6S, with a membership of over 4S00
gain of over 81 per cent. within the past
five years.
The Grand Secretary's report showed
a gain of 347 members during the year.
Three Lodges have over 200 members
each, and seven over 100 each. The
largest Lodge, Wastastiquet No. 5,
Brattleboro, has 354 members; SO Lodges
make a gain, while six show loss; the
greatest gain in any one Lodge is so;
the gain in receipts is S2,51l.63, and in
regalia, furniture, jewels, ETC., Sl2,01S.44.
The amount paid out for relief and
burying the dead amounts to S6,552.73,
and the financial valuation of property
and funds, less all Indebtedness, S72,-
66l.37.
The report of the Grand Representa-
tives showed that there were in the
United States on December 81, 1890, 50
Grand Lodges, As Grand Encampments,
9l36 Subordinate Lodges, 2l9l Subordi-
nate Encampments, 2214 Rebekah
Lodges, and that during that year
s., ,9l7, ,6SS. 13 had been used by them for
relief.
An amendment was made to the by
laws to the effect that Montpelier would
still be the home of the Grand Lodge,
but that by voting so to do. they could
occasionally meet in other towns, and it
was voted to hold the next annual session
at Burlington.
The salary of the Grand Secretary was
raised from $3.50 to S400.
The officers for the ensuing year are
as follows:
L. j. Retting, Grand Master, Brattle-
boro; II. G. Farrar, Deputy Grand Mas
ter, Rutland; F. II. Hyde, Grand Warden,