The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1892-05-19
THE BIG / di0. Z. DAY.
A Great Celebration Of the Orders
73d Anniversary.
HUNDREDS OF MENIN THE PARADE,
And other Enjoyable and Memorable
Features rromlscd---Partioulars OF
tho Exercises and tic officers who
will Marshal tho Procession...All
tho Surrounding Towns Will DO Hep.
resented,

Itis evident from tho interest mani.
tested in tho celebration to-day by tho
Wheeling Odd Fellows Of tho seventy.
third anniversary OF tho formation OF
tl,oir order that 1t will BIO one Of tho
biggest things Of the kind ever witnessed
in Wheeling, Tho local lodges Of tho
order never do things by halvea and
to-day they propose to mako a demon
s~tration worthy Of the occasion. Tho
arrangements drc In the hands OF com
mitteos whose competence and activity
have been tested before with good re.
suits, and the affair to-day will DO a suc-
cess II the weather is at all suitable.
Tho Darlington lodge will come up on
tho Liberty and the Bellairo lodge on
the r. i. Phillips, accompanied by q
band. Denwood will send up a big dele
CATION OH tho Ohio River railroad, and
Cameron on tho Baltimore & Ohio, nc.
c%ompanied by a bands Monndsville
will be m tho same train. Triadclphia
will be in on tho Baltimore 4 Ohio's
Pittsburgh train. Stcubenville. East.
Liverpool and Toronto will eend Can
tons and encampments, as will also
Wclloville and Wollsburg. Martins
Ferry will come over on the Terminal
road.
There will BIO not less than 1000 men
in line, from present promise, and from
six to ten bands. TheySwill come not
only from the towns named, but from.
Pennsylvania. Ohio and West Virginia
as lar as they can get here from.
The officers Of the procession will be:
Chief marshal, Godfrey Schul, past
grand master; assistants-Henry Sea.
mon, of Nircinius lodge No. 9; Louis
Huffman, Of Franklin No. 3; Fred
HAPPIER, of William Tell, No. 6; D. W..
Martin, OF Wheeling, No. 0; W. A..
Schul, OF Pamela, No. u; August Goetze,
OF Concord, No. 10; Joseph Purcell, Of
Excelsior, No. 40.
The procession will start at l D. M,
sharp, from Odd Fellows hall, where it
will form on Chapline, right resting on
Twelfth street, and will move over the
following route: Down Twelfth street
to Market; up Market to Tenth; on
Tenth to Main; down Main3to Twenty
seventh; on Twenty.seventh t. Chap
line; down Chupline obsTlfirty-third;
up T%hirty-third to Eoff;. on Eoif to
Thirty-ninth; on Thirtv-ninth to Jacob;
on Jacob to Thirty-third; down Thirty
third to Eoff; up Eof to Twenty-soventh;
on Twenty-sevcnth to Chapline; north
on Chaplineto Twenty-irst on Twenty
first to Market; north on Market TO
Twelfth; or Twelfth to Ghapline and
.disband.
This evening an entertainment, ban
quot and ball will be. given at |. o. @. Il.
hall: The following programme will be
rendered:
Recitation. ........ Miss Cunningham
Solo......"""........... ....... Mr.. H. C. Crummit
puet...;. :. .:.......- Miss Harris andA. G. Keys
hccllatlon MiSs Reitch
:.....Mlss Robinson
Hilton,
Bradshaw
Messrs. Ross and Carson
After the banquet the guests will
dance or otherwise pass the hour in
social diversion, and'this feature bids
fair to be a worthy wind uptof a fitting
Observance of anotable anniversary.
The Odd Fellows claim that to-day
their order is the most numerous and
the richest in the world, and recent
statistics show that it is growing at tho