The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1892-01-19


lows Relief Will BE of Importance :
A Venerable Maine Odd FelIow-Good
Record of Iyanhoe--Maine Lodges
Yearly Expenditures for Beoefits.
Last evening, Maine Lodge, I. o. 0. f.,
held a special meeting to see about q
change in it's benefits. The annual dues
of Maine Lodge are S. and its benefits
for the sick s. week to the extent OF
| two years continuous sickness, and at
! the end of that time $3.50 continuously.
| This rate of benefits has been kept up
through the Al years of the long and
honorable life Of Maine Lodge. For the
last few years about $4,000 have been
paid out yearly in relief. Some OF the
members have felt that this rate was
more than the lodge could stand, especi-
| ally as the amount of reserve fund had
diminished slightly. But it was shown
last evening that the reserve fund now
amounts to about AZ cents more per capita
than it ever did before. Tho decrease in
membership has been in greater proper
ton than the decrease in the fund. The
membership is now 493. 1t was pro-
posed last evening that the rate of bene-
fit should be So per week for six months
of continuous sickness, So for the next
six months, and after that 81 a week
continuously. This proposition was
considered and laid aside for one week.
Ivanhoe's Eleventh Anniversary,
This evening, Ivanhoe Lodge, Knights
Of Pythias, will celebrate the eleventh
anniversary of their organization. The
occasion will undoubtedly be one of in
terest, as Ivanhoe is one of the largest,
most active and wealthiest in the coun-
try 1t was established in 1881, with 65
charter members. 1t was the 25th in the
state, and the third in the city, Bram-
hall and Munjoy having preceded it in
the order named. Ivanhoe has now 3S2
members, and is the largest lodge in the
state, and probably in the United States.
1t has an invested fund of the par value
of $12, 5S5 and the market value of S14,
400. This fund would, if divided,
amount to per capita sum of 1892.
Pine Tree Lodge, with a per capita of
S34sO is the only lodge of this order in
the city with larger proportionate fund.
Ivanhoe's benefits are S. for the first six
months, 81 for the next, and 81 a week
thereafter.
The programme this evening will in
clude dancing, whist, a supper and the
following musical programme:
Quartette-The Rustic Dance. ReSch
The Cecilian Quartette.
Solo-The Merry PoStillion. Franz Abt
Miss Lizzie NJ Brown.
Duet-M0rning'S Rays. .kucken
Miss Merrill and Mrs. Morrison.
Solo--Garden Of Sleep. ........D eLara
Miss Nettie Morrison.
Quartette-Spanish Dance. Lacome
The Cecian Quartette.
Solo-Gavotte from Mignon. ........ Thomas
Mrs. Morrison.
Piano SOlO-MInuet. .PadereWSk1
Miss Mamie L. Jones.
Trio-Three Little Maids ... From Mikado
Misses Brown and Morrison and Mrs Morrison
Solo-The Bells OF Seville ..::,;..... Tude
TIE Cecilian Quartette
Odd Fellows Mutual Relief.
This evening the Odd Fellows Mutual
Relief of the city will hold it's annual
meeting. The meeting will undoubtedly
be one of great interest. The PRESS has
already related the situations in which
these fraternal relief societies are finding
themselves. The young men are not
coming in to keep them up, and they are
left, doomed to slow but certain extinc-
ton The Relief, which meets tonight,
has been established for quarter of
century, and has DONE and still is doing,
much good. 1t now has 347 members.
Its annual dues are 81, its death assess
ment from IS cents to $1.35, according to
age at joining, and the initiation fee
from 81 to So according to age. 1t for
merly had a large reserve fnnd; but this
has been gradually used, until now little
or nothing is left. What to do ? will be
the question Of the hour this evening.
An Aged Odd Fellow.
David Robinson, the first Noble Grand
of Maine Lodge, /. 0. 0. f., is still liv-
ing at a great age in Boston. The lodge
was instituted August 25, 1913.
The Foresters' Ball Tonight.